Benson Public Schools
1400 Montana Ave.
Benson, MN 56215
Sept. 2013
320-843-2710 ext. 2324
ATTC Course MN Transfer Goals #5 and 8
Introduction to Sociology
(3 credits)
Instructor: Barb Schwarz
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of society can be understood without
understanding both.” -Wright C. Mills
Course Description:
This course involves using the various sociological perspectives to examine the world around us.
It introduces sociology as a discipline and sociological ways of understanding human social
interaction and processes such as socialization, deviance, culture/society, and social change.
Major Content:
1. Understand and apply the historical and theoretical foundation of Sociology as a
discipline.
2. Understand Sociology as a social science and various research processes.
3. Identify and understand socialization processes and theories.
4. Understand and apply how inequality in society impacts individuals and groups.
5. Identify and understand how various social institutions impact society.
6. Theoretically understand and apply how people interact collectively to create social
change.
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. After reading the text, the learner will be able to think analytically and critically about the
society in which they live.
2. Given a current societal issue, learners will be able to explain it using the three various
sociological perspectives.
3. Given a description of an individual’s behavior, the learner will be able to describe various
sociological factors that may have impacted the behavior.
4. Given a sociology topic, the learner will actively participate with other group members in
discussion of topic.
Text: Sociology A Brief Introduction by Richard T. Schaefer. 8th edition.
Chapters reflect on the following topics:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Understanding Sociology
Sociological Research
Culture
Socialization and the Life Course
Social Interaction, Groups, and Social Structure
The Mass media
Deviance and Social Control
Stratification and Social Mobility in the United States
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Global Inequality
Racial and Ethnic Inequality
Stratification by Gender
The Family and Intimate Relationships
Education and Religion
Government and the Economy
Health, Medicine, and the Environment
Social Change in the Global Community
Contributions by Learner:
The learner will be expected to:
1. Attend class.
2. Participate in class projects and discussions.
3. Hand in all assignments when due.
4. Strive for your best.
Course Evaluation:
55% will be examinations/assessments.
40% will be daily work
5% will be attendance/ participation and behavior.
Grading Scale (%):
90-100
A
81-89
B
70-79
C
60-69
D
Below 59
F
Writings/Reflections:
One of the requirements for this course “should be an integration of what the students have
learned with how they act.” Therefore, you are encouraged to give voice and thought to how you
fit into the social contexts we discuss. You will have numerous points of reflections and
opportunity for expression within the structure of this course.
Classroom Rules:
1. Be in your seat, prepared for class when the bell rings. Handbook, paper, pen/pencil,
assignment.
2. Follow directions the first time they are given. This includes assignments handed in on
time.
3. Be respectful!
4. Work quietly as individuals and cooperatively in groups.
5. Do not write on the tables or in any textbook.
6. No food, beverages or candy without the teacher’s permission.
7. All Benson school handbook rules apply.
8. This is a B.Y.O.D. room. You are allowed to Bring Your Own Device and use it WITH
PERMISSION (educational use only)
Reference: Steve Ricard- Benson High, Cindy Pederson, Alex Tech. 2013
Introduction to Sociology/Sociological Videos
Introduction to Sociologynavigationsearch
Title
Description
documents Jane Elliott's
A Class
classroom experiment
Divided
illustrating discrimination
using eye colors
A Dry White
South African apartheid
Season
A map of social
recorded lecture on social
theories, 1000theories. Lecture 1 in a series
2000 by Alan
of 9.
Macfarlane
Indian independence from
A Passage to
Great Britain and ethnic
India
relations
depicts a black family trying to
A Raisin in the move out of their run-down
Sun
tenement apartment and into a
white neighborhood
A World Apart South African apartheid
Adam Smith
(1733-1790),
recorded lecture on Smith.
by Alan
Lecture 3 in a series of 9.
Macfarlane
a despondent Vietnam veteran
in danger of losing his
livelihood is pushed to the
Alamo Bay
edge when he sees Vietnamese
immigrants moving into the
fishing industry in a Texas bay
town
Alexis de
Tocqueville
recorded lecture on de
(1805-1850),
Tocqueville. Lecture 4 in a
by Alan
series of 9.
Macfarlane
FRONTLINE documentary on
Al Qaeda's evolution: Madrid
Al Qaeda's new bombings, ideological base,
front
transatlantic differences.
Divided into 4 sections;
approx. 1h total
Year Type
1985
Topic
nonDiscrimination
Fiction
Online
Yes
1989 Fiction Race
2007 Lecture Theory
Yes
1984 Fiction Ethnicity
1961 Fiction Race
1988 Fiction Race
2007 Lecture Theory
Yes
1985 Fiction Ethnicity
2007 Lecture Theory
?
nonterrorism, Al
Fiction Qaeda
Yes
Yes
Title
Description
Year
a variation of the Romeo and
Juliet theme with the twist of
Amar Te Duele
2002
social class differences
between the families
American
racism in the U.S.
1998
History X
An
an American documentary film
Inconvenient
about global warming by Al
2006
Truth
Gore.
Angels &
movie about incest and the
1996
Insects
incest taboo
tells the story of a family of
Avalon (1990
Eastern European Jews who
1990
film)
immigrate to the United States
illustrates racism and
Bad Day at
discrimination in a small town 1954
Black Rock
in the U.S. post WWII
The Baron de
Montesquieu
recorded lecture on de
(1689-1755),
Montesquieu. Lecture 2 in a
2007
by Alan
series of 9.
Macfarlane
describes Griffin's a six-week
experience of a white man
disguised as a black man
traveling throughout the
Black Like Me
1964
racially segregated states of
Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama and Georgia in the
1950s
a short film illustrating the
The Blonde and
basic concepts of Durkheim's 2009
I
"Suicide"
documents Jane Elliott's
classroom experiment
Blue Eyed
1996
illustrating discrimination
using eye colors
depicts the life of a black
Bopha!
police officer in South Africa 1994
during the apartheid era
tells the story of a corrupt
Born Yesterday tycoon with a underclass
1958
girlfriend who requires re-
Type
Topic
Fiction
Economic
Stratification
Online
Fiction Race
NonEcology
Fiction
Fiction Sexuality
Fiction Migration
Fiction Race
Lecture Theory
Yes
Fiction Race
Fiction Theory
nonDiscrimination
Fiction
Fiction Race
Fiction
Economic
Stratification
Yes & Yes
Title
Description
Year
education to be a member of
the upper class
based on the true story of a
young transman who was
raped and murdered in 1993 by
Boys Don’t Cry
1999
his male friends after they
found out he had female
genitalia
ethnic discrimination and
Braveheart
1995
stratification
deals with the struggle of
poorly paid janitorial workers
Bread and
in Los Angeles and their fight 2000
Roses
for better working conditions
and the right to unionize
tells the story of two gay
Brokeback
cowboys who hide their
2005
Mountain
relationship because it is not
accepted by those around them
tells the story of a migrant
worker in apartheid South
Come Back,
Africa who does not have a
1959
Africa
work permit and as such is
open to exploitation, arbitrary
dismissal and sudden arrest
depicts the treatment of U.S.
citizens of Japanese descent
Come See the following the attack on Pearl
1990
Paradise
Harbor, and the subsequent
loss of civil liberties within the
framework of a love story
follows a young teacher
assigned to an isolated island
off the coast of South Carolina
Conrack
populated mostly by poor
1974
black families who have been
isolated from the rest of the
world
follows two young men in
rural Kentucky in the early
Country Boys 2000s growing up with serious 2002
disadvantages, both
educationally and financially
Cry, the
South African apartheid and
1951
Type
Topic
Online
Fiction Sexuality
Fiction Ethnicity
Fiction Unionizing
Fiction Sexuality
Fiction Race
Fiction Ethnicity
Fiction Race
Non- Economic
Fiction Stratification
Fiction Race
Yes
Title
Beloved
Country
Cry, the
Beloved
Country
Description
race relations
South African apartheid and
race relations
Year Type
Topic
Online
1995 Fiction Race
depicts a charismatic South
African Black Consciousness
Movement leader in apartheid
South Africa and the liberal
Cry Freedom
1987
white editor of a newspaper
who exposes police complicity
in the death of the movement
leader
documents the exploitation of
Darwin's
fishing resources in Africa by
2004
Nightmare
European businesses and
consumers
tells the story of two escaped
prisoners who are shackled
Defiant Ones,
together, one white and one
1958
The
black, who must co-operate in
order to survive
a motion picture based on the
book The Diary of a Young
Girl describing the life of
Diary of Anne
Anne Frank while in hiding for 1959
Frank, The
two years with her family
during the Nazi occupation of
The Netherlands
The results of an experiment to
share the experiences of people
devoted to endless digital
communication are presented
Digital Nomads
2008
as online videos by The
Economist. Two vidoes:
Jonathan Schwartz - 05:25; Jan
Chipchase - 09:18
Dirty Pretty
depicts the lives of two illegal
2003
Things
immigrants in the U.K.
Discreet Charm
The film is about a group of
of the
upper middle-class people
1973
Bourgeoisie,
attempting to dine together
The
Do the Right
The film tells a tale of bigotry 1989
Fiction Race
nonGlobalization
Fiction
Fiction Race
Fiction Ethnicity
Non- Communication,
Fiction Internet
Fiction Migration
Fiction
Economic
Stratification
Fiction Race
Yes
Title
Thing
Description
and racial conflict in a multiethnic community in the
Bedford-Stuyvesant
neighborhood of Brooklyn,
New York, on the hottest day
of the year
tells the story of an artistic
young woman struggling to
Double
assert her independence from
Happiness
the expectations of her
Chinese Canadian family
an English working-class girl
Educating Rita wants to better herself by
studying literature
Emile
Durkheim
recorded lecture on Durkheim.
(1858-1917),
Lecture 6 in a series of 9.
by Alan
Macfarlane
depicts Guatemalan peasants
El Norte
and migrants
looks at life in the U.S. from
El Super
the perspective of frustrated
Cuban exiles
tells the story of a Swedish
Emigrants, The group who emigrate to the
U.S. in the 19th century
Ernest Gellner
(1925-1995),
recorded lecture on Gellner.
by Alan
Lecture 8 in a series of 9.
Macfarlane
traces deep-rooted stereotypes
Ethnic Notions which have fueled anti-black
prejudice
Europa Europa Antisemitism in Germany
tells the story of a 1950s
housewife living in suburban
Hartford as she sees her
Far From
seemingly perfect life begin to
Heaven
fall apart; deals with complex
contemporary issues such as
race, sexuality, and class
F.W. Maitland recorded lecture on Maitland.
Year Type
Topic
Online
1994 Fiction Gender
1983 Fiction
Economic
Stratification
2007 Lecture Theory
Yes
1983 Fiction Migration
1978 Fiction Migration
1971 Fiction Migration
2007 Lecture Theory
1988
Yes
nonRace
Fiction
1990 Fiction Ethnicity
2002 Fiction Sexuality
2007 Lecture Theory
Yes
Title
(1850-1906),
by Alan
Macfarlane
Description
Lecture 9 in a series of 9.
Year Type
depicts the struggles of
Japanese immigrants who
1980
traveled to and settled in Brazil
looking for a better life
non-violent social activism,
Gandhi
1982
religion, ethnic relations
chronicles the relationships
between the narrator, an Italian
Garden of the
Jew, and the children of the
Finzi-Continis,
1970
Finzi-Contini family from the
The
rise of Mussolini until the start
of World War II
describes the efforts of a
journalist who falsely
Gentleman’s
represents himself as a Jew to 1947
Agreement
research antisemitism in New
York City in the 1940s
tells the story of an upper class
Guess Who’s white woman who becomes
Coming to
engaged to a black doctor then 1967
Dinner
brings him home to meet her
parents
Hester Street tells the story of
Jewish immigrants who come
Hester Street
to the Lower East side of New 1975
York City in 1896 from
Europe
High Hopes
pro-socialism in the U.K.
1988
depicts the stereotyping of
Hollywood
African Americans in both
1987
Shuffle
film and television
A paralyzed African-American
war veteran begins to walk
Home of the
again only when he confronts 1949
Brave
his fear of being an "outsider"
and minority
Gaijin - Os
Caminhos da
Liberdade
Holy Innocents poverty in Spain in the 1960s
Topic
Fiction Migration
nonSocial Movements
Fiction
Fiction Ethnicity
Fiction Ethnicity
Fiction Race
Fiction Migration
Fiction Economic Systems
Fiction Race
Fiction Race
1984 Fiction
Economic
Stratification
How Tasty Was tells the story of a Frenchman
1971 Fiction Culture
My Little
captured by Brazilian natives
Online
Title
Frenchman
Intruder in the
Dust
Description
Year Type
Topic
who adopt him but constantly
threaten to eat him
deals with the trial of a black
farmer accused of murdering a
white man in the 1940s; he is
cleared through the efforts of 1949 Fiction Race
black and white teenagers and
a spinster from a longestablished southern family
Is Wal-Mart
Good for
America?
Documentary on Wal-Mart
Jungle Fever
centers on the interracial
romance between a successful
married African American
1991 Fiction Race
architect and an ItalianAmerican woman
Karl Marx
(1818-1883),
by Alan
Macfarlane
Killing Us
Softly 3, by
Jean Kilbourne
Live Nude
Girls Unite!
Losing Isaiah
Mandela
Max Weber
(1864-1920),
by Alan
Macfarlane
McLibel
Metropolitan
Mission, The
recorded lecture on Marx.
Lecture 5 in a series of 9.
A documentary about
advertising's image of women.
Studyguide. 35m
documents the efforts of
strippers in San Francisco to
unionize
black motherhood, custody
issues, and drug addiction
documentary of the life of
Nelson Mandela
recorded lecture on Weber.
Lecture 7 in a series of 9.
2005
NonEconomy
Fiction
Online
Yes
2007 Lecture Theory
Yes
1999
NonGender
fiction
Yes
2000
nonUnionizing
Fiction
Yes
1995 Fiction Race
1987
nonRace
Fiction
2007 Lecture Theory
documents the McDonald's
Restaurants v Morris & Steel 2005
case in the U.K.
haute bourgeoisie culture of
1990
New York City
depicts the Jesuit Reductions, a
programme by which Jesuit
1986
missionaries set up missions
nonCorporations
Fiction
Fiction
Economic
Stratification
Fiction Culture
Yes
Title
Mississippi
Burning
Description
independent of the Spanish
state to teach Christianity to
the natives
Year Type
racism in the U.S.
1988 Fiction Race
inter-racial and inter-ethnic
marriage as well as cultural
1991 Fiction
diversity
depicts a Russian circus
musician who defects from the
Moscow on the Soviet Union while on a visit
1984 Fiction
Hudson
to the United States and finds
that living in America isn't as
easy as he thought
My Beautiful
ethnic relations in London
1985 Fiction
Laundrette
tracks three generations of a
My Family/Mi Mexican-American family that
1995 Fiction
Familia
emigrated from Mexico and
settled in East Los Angeles
depicts an African American
doctor tending to slum
residents whose ethics are put
No Way Out
1950 Fiction
to the test when confronted
with blind racism in patients
and community members
Nothing But a race relations in the U.S. in the
1964 Fiction
Man
1960s
Panther
Black Panthers in the U.S.
1995 Fiction
Barry Schwartz is a sociology
professor at Swarthmore
Paradox of
College and author of The
Choice: Why Paradox of Choice. In this talk,
2008 lecture
More is Less, he explains how and why the
The
abundance of choice in
modern society is actually
making us miserable (20m)
tells the story of a Senior
Associate at a large corporate
law firm in Philadelphia who
Philadelphia
1993 Fiction
attempts to hides his
homosexuality and his status
as an AIDS patient from the
Mississippi
Masala
Topic
Online
Race
Politics
Ethnicity
Migration
Race
Race
Race
Yes
Sexuality
Title
Description
Year
other members of the law firm
tells the story of Cockney
Pygmalion
flower girl becoming a refined 1938
society lady as a result of a bet
depicts the conquest of a
Quilombo
1983
Brazilian tribe
tells the story of two young,
mixed-race Aboriginal girls
Rabbit-Proof
who run away from a white
2002
Fence
settlement in order to return to
their Aboriginal families
A documentary on stereotypes,
Race and Sex particularly related to race and
What We Think
2002
gender. ABCNews
But Can't Say
production?
Room at the
reflects social class issues in
1958
Top
the U.K. in the 1950s
tells the story of a young
Roots
African sold into slavery in the 1977
1700s in the U.S.
continues the story of the
Roots: The
African slave in Roots to his
Next
1979
eventual descendant, Alex
Generation
Haley
Rules of the
satire of the French upper
1939
Game, The
classes prior to WWII
Salaam
kids in poverty in Mumbai
1988
Bombay!
poverty and homelessness in
Sammy and
the U.K.; also deals with
1987
Rosie Get Laid
ethnicity and sexuality
tells the story of Oskar
Schindler a German
businessman who saved the
Schindler’s List
1993
lives of over one thousand
Polish Jews during the
Holocaust
Secrets & Lies race issues in the U.K.
1996
tells the story of Shaka, king of
Shaka Zulu
the Zulu nation from 1816 to 1986
1828
The Social
a short film illustrating some
2009
Construction of of the ideas in Berger and
Type
Topic
Fiction
Economic
Stratification
Online
Fiction Ethnicity
Fiction Ethnicity
NonGender and Race
Fiction
Fiction
Economic
Stratification
Fiction Race
Fiction Race
Economic
Stratification
Economic
Fiction
Stratification
Fiction
Fiction
Economic
Stratification
Fiction Ethnicity
Fiction Race
Fiction Culture
Fiction Theory
Yes & Yes
Title
Reality
Description
Year Type
Topic
Luckmann's "The Social
Construction of Reality
Stand and
education in predominantly
1988 Fiction Education
Deliver
minority schools
thematic exploration of
suburban America, especially
Economic
Swimmer, The
1968 Fiction
the relationship between
Stratification
wealth and happiness
The Way We
Live:
Introduction to
Sociology
Advertised as "a
comprehensive introduction to
?
Sociology on 22 half-hour
videos".
FRONTLINE documentary on
the Tiananmen Square
Massacre, The Tankman,
The Tank Man
information control in China
and so on. Divided into 6
sections; approx. 1h40m total
FRONTLINE documentary on
the psychological impact of
The Soldier's
warfare, based on the modern
Heart
War in Iraq. Divided into 4
sections; approx. 45m total
tells the story of the trial of a
To Kill a
black man on trial in the South
Mockingbird
for rape
tells the story of filmmaker
Katrina Browne and nine
cousins who discover that their
Traces of the
New England ancestors were
Trade: A Story
the largest slave-trading family
from the Deep
in U.S. history. They retrace
North
the Triangle Trade and gain a
powerful new perspective on
the black/white divide.
Trading Places social class in the U.S.
Up Series
?
nonEconomy (and
Fiction other offline)
Online
Partial:
Chapter 14 14. Working
World: The
Economy
and Work
Yes (RM
China, repressions, stream may be
nonresistance,
broken, switch
Fiction
to WMP
information
stream)
?
psychological
nonbreakdown, impact
Yes
Fiction of warfare, War in
Iraq
1962 Fiction Race
2008
nonRace
Fiction
1983 Fiction
Economic
Stratification
documents the lives of a dozen
or so children over the course
1964- nonEconomic
of nearly 50 years in the U.K.
2000 Fiction Stratification
to illustrate the effects of
social class on life outcomes
Title
Wedding, The
Wedding
Banquet, The
Description
Year Type
Topic
interracial marriage in the U.S. 1998 Fiction Race
tells the story of a gay
Taiwanese immigrant man
who marries a mainland
Chinese woman to placate his
1993 Fiction Sexuality
parents and get her a green
card; his plan backfires when
his parents arrive in America
to plan his wedding banquet
White Man’s
Burden
race in the U.S.
Zebrahead
describes an interracial
romance between a white man
and a black woman and the
1992 Fiction Race
resulting tensions among the
characters
Online
1995 Fiction Race
A new website with video clips in Sociology, The Sociological Cinema, has some video clips
available as well: http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/index.html
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