Lesson Plans for Sociology for the week of 1/25/10 – 1.29/10
Monday 1/25/10
Chapter 4 test
Tuesday 1/26/10
Warm-up: What are the different roles that you play. List the expectations that go along
with those roles. How are the different roles connected?
Activities:
1. Read pages 139 – 143.
2. Make a diagram of your roles.
3. What status do you have? Add your statuses to your diagram. Do you have more
roles or statuses? Why?
4. Create a picture montage shaped in the form of your master status’ symbol.
5. Do playing card activity.
6. What is your status set
7. What is your master status? How do you know this
8. Social structure is the underlying pattern of social relationships. It is based on
various roles and statuses. These roles and statuses can be multiple and form a
complex web of human interaction.
9. Read pages 144 – 151
Wednesday 1/27/10
Warm-up: When do you have role strain and/or role conflict? Why
Activities:
1. Write a paragraph about your most embarrassing moment.
2. Read the George Eliot quote. Go over George Eliot’s story Do you believe the
quote for yourself or other teens? Do you believe it is true for someone in their
30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s,70’s?
3. Work with a partner to create visual representations of the terms in sections one
and two.
4. Have you ever felt that you did not come off as well as you would have like in an
emotional situation.
5. Do role play on page 149.
6. Role’s definition according to the 3 perspectives:
Functionalist: social integration is promoted b culturally defined rights and
obligations honored by group members
Conflict: roles are there in part to empower and subjugate others
Symbolic interactions: the role as based on symbolic meaning of these roles.
7. Give the scenario on page 151.
8. Read pages 152 – 157.
Thursday 1/28/10
Warm-up: Why are hunting and gathering societies small?
Activities:
1. Create charts about the types of societies. Use the following areas of comparison:
tools, importance of animals, leisure time, government, living conditions
2. It is predicted that hunting and gathering societies will be a thing of the past in the
next 50 years
3. Read pages 158 – 164 and add the industrial and post industrial societies to you
chart.
4. Act out scenes getting a job according to the society assigned.
Friday
Work on chapter review on pages 165 - 166