Social Class and Deviance Blog 8 Due Dec. 9

For this post, you are required to apply both Deviance and Social Class.

For this post, explain the concept of deviance and how it is relative.  Discuss the unjust problems that relativity in deviances causes.  You may also explain how deviance labels people and creates a stigma as well as how it is connected to social class. How is deviance positive and negative.  Can you relate to being positively deviant?  Examples? Reflections on the action?  Some sources we looked at that must be included are Saints and Roughnecks.

 You must reflect on the movies The Line and People Like Us.  Please explain the dynamics of social class in the United States.  Explain how The Line and People Like Us contribute to our understanding of Social Class.  You should also discuss The Coin Flipping game and how it represents America.  Also watch and reflect on the TED TALK at the end of the monopoly post. For the sociological content, some of the concepts that were a part of this unit are:  income, wealth, prestige, power, social mobility, poverty and life chances. 

Explain how social class and socio-economic status affects this community.Do you see how social class is played out at SHS? Where do you see class conflicts in the community? How do you see social class playing a role in your own life? How has your family's mobility been? Are you growing up in the same social class as your parents? 

DUE FRIDAY Dec 9