Sociology In Our Times…Chapters 4-6

Sociology in our times – the Essentials ..Kendall

Chapter 4

 

1. Think of a person you know well who often irritates you or whose behavior grates on your nerves (it could be a parent, friend, relative, teacher).

First, list that person’s statuses and roles. Then analyze the person’s possible role expectations, role performance, role conflicts, and role strains.

Does anything you find in your analysis help to explain the irritating behavior? How helpful are the concepts of social structure in analyzing individual behavior?

 

2. You are conducting field research on gender differences in nonverbal communication styles.

How are you going to account for variations among age, race, and social class?

 

3. When communicating with other genders, races, and ages, is it better to express and acknowledge different styles or to develop a common, uniform style?

 

Chapter 5

 

1. Who might be more likely to conform in a bureaucracy, those with power or those wanting more power?

 

2. Do the insights gained from Milgram’s research on obedience outweigh the elements

of deception and stress that were forced on its subjects?

 

3. How would you organize a large-scale organization or company for the twenty-fi rst century?

 

Chapter 6

 

1. Does public toleration of deviance lead to increased crime rates? If people were forced to

conform to stricter standards of behavior, would there be less crime in the United States?

 

2. Should so-called victimless crimes, such as prostitution and recreational drug use, be decriminalized? Do these crimes harm society?

 

3. As a sociologist armed with a sociological imagination, how would you propose to deal

with the problem of crime in the United States and around the world?

 

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