Film Analysis - Freakonomics & reading assignment

Assignment 1

Watch the film 'Freakanomics', you can find it on a variety of places - Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, etc or you can go to YouTube and find it in sections.

· How does this relate to why we need to do sociological research?

· Overall, what did you find the most significant

· the most surprising

· the most relevant

· You need to include vocabulary and concepts from the Chapter that deals with Sociological Research in your work.

 

Assignment 2

Students are expected to read relevant academic and non-academic materials (articles/news reports/videos/blogs, interviews and/or observations) assigned for each topic on a weekly basis. 

You can complete this 'Reading' by reading the Introduction to Sociology chapter in your textbook and/or  by using any of the materials listed above to read something on socialization and answer the following (please note your sources).

· What new idea did you learn from the assigned readings/topic?

· What sentence, phase, observation, etc. do you consider the most significant? Why?

· Was there anything that you did not agree with? Why?

· Sources? (2 pts)