Overview 120

What's up sociology? 1 20. Welcome back to a great week.

During the spring semester of 2022

we are going to be moving into section two of unit

one this court in the course and onto social theory.

Um I think the big thing that a lot of you want

to know for this week is what's our modality gonna be,

especially for those of you who elected to uh

select the flip class option, which means you'll be on your own on Tuesdays.

But then in the classroom on Thursdays

uh so far it looks like we are going to be in

the classroom on thursday for those of you that selected that option.

So I'll tell you a little bit about what that's going

to be like a little bit later in the video.

Did you need to say hi before I throw you off the table?

Hello again, everybody that's all year.

Alright, okay. Alright. So what are we going to be doing this week?

We are going to be jumping into social theory.

So,

social theory is such a cool part of sociology because what it

really helps us look at is look through the lens of how

different people have made these big kind of claims about what society looks like.

Now,

the neat thing about sociology because it's a social

science is that we're not just thinking about things.

We take these kinds of theories and then go test them out

in the world right by doing the kind of social research.

The social theory is such an integral part of that because what it helps us do

when we're doing that research is anchor those

research questions that we develop and that we have

to get us to ask those kinds of questions about, you know,

what's the orientation that we're having for asking

the kind of questions that we're asking,

right?

And people get a little bit overwhelmed by this

chapter because it is a lot of information,

it kind of opens our eyes to a lot of things for the first time.

But the thing that I want to tell you as a person with three degrees in sociology is

that you're not going to get all elements of

social theory the first time that you study it.

Alright, so don't feel that pressure to really memorize everything,

feel like you have to know things backwards and forwards,

but really take this time in this particular week

to kind of just get a sense of what social theory is,

which is explained a little bit more down below.

Uh and the kind of major theoretical orientations that are in sociology,

which we'll see here even on this tiny table or is going to

be helpful symbolic interaction of symbolic interaction

is um uh functional ism and conflict

theory are a real big anchored sociological perspectives now.

Of course there's other theories like feminist theory, queer theory.

Um even subsets of these different kind of fields that

really help us understand society and anchor our social research.

But these big main three are what are really the kind of

introduction that you're going to get to social theory this week.

Okay.

So what I'm encouraging you to do is don't

be too like hung up on memorizing everything.

But really what you're looking for in this particular section is

to just get an understanding of what social theory even is.

All right.

So what's gonna be helpful with that then,

is that we're gonna have a chapter assignment, right?

Uh So regardless of whether or not you

you picked flipped or asynchronous for the course,

you're Tuesdays are gonna look the same regardless of what you've

selected because Tuesdays are always going to be on your own.

So on Tuesday you're gonna watch a short lecture video below.

Or by Tuesday, watch the lecture video below. Read the chapter of the text.

Take the little quizzes that are embedded within the text. All by 11:59 p. m.

on Tuesday evening.

So um some people have been asking me if the end of chapter quizzes necessary.

No, it's not. I don't know why it's popping up.

Pearson kind of changed the platform on us so I don't know why it's popping up still.

But the only thing that you have to complete for a grade in

there are gonna be those chapter quizzes that pop up for you.

Okay.

Um And those are gonna be sinking to canvass all semester.

And if you don't see them sink right away. Don't panic, they're there, I promise.

And if they don't sink because sometimes technology is the worst.

Uh don't panic because I'll be able to always see them in the Pearson platform to.

Alright,

okay. So by Tuesday, that's what you need to do regardless of your mortality.

And this week we're gonna be doing something similar to what we did last week,

which is a reading discussion.

So uh just as a reminder of what we're really trying to go after these

questions is really to take a sociological

approach to understanding these kinds of things.

These types of

articles or videos that we have assigned for this week

are a little bit different because they're really focusing on the overview

of what these different kind of orientations and perspectives are in sociology.

So,

you know, be creative in your questions.

Uh you know, the thing that we're not looking for with these are things like,

you know,

what was seen on page 57 or something like that and avoid super broad questions like,

you know, and and show me,

show me that you watch this is what I'm really trying to get you to to show.

And the kind of questions that we have.

And it's always nice to, you know, ask and pose questions to your group mates

to uh see questions that you would like to answer yourself to.

Things that got you curious when you

were reviewing these different articles and videos.

So the nice thing is that you've done this before,

I've looked briefly over most of everybody's

pieces and and they look they look good. Okay.

And the good thing to this week is that today, Tuesday and Wednesday,

I'm gonna be grading.

So you also have some feedback coming soon on those.

But remember there's also that little link at the top

of your discussion boards that are going to give you some

previous examples of these,

which are going to be super useful for you to generate your own questions.

Okay.

But also you can always email me if you're like, I'm struggling,

let me show you what I got and I'll be like, you're doing it,

you're killing it because you're really smart and I love to see it.

All right,

okay, so now because we have a flipped class asynchronous class,

we're gonna have a few different things that people are doing.

If you sign up to be an asynchronous student,

what you're going to be doing is the same kind of thing that everybody did last week,

complete your prompts by thursday at 11 59 PM and

complete your responses by saturday at 11:59 p.m. Alright,

so again, remember that

uh due dates are not completion dates,

due dates are the last time that you can turn something in.

So if you get your discussion questions done

on Wednesday, great, you're done,

you don't have to complete your responses until saturday.

Uh So, you know, remember that you're not if you're running up against that,

you're gonna have to put some time and prior to actually doing the activity.

So make sure to go through and do that. All right.

So the change though is for those of you that elected to be flipped class students,

we've got a little bit different things that you're going to be doing this week.

You're still going to read the articles.

Actually, I think there are two videos for this week.

So you're gonna be watching them.

Uh So read the assigned, read or watch the assigned pieces that we have this week.

And the thing that's different for y'all that are flipped class students,

you need to have your discussion prompts and by class time on thursday.

So if you're one of my

ADM 8 10

a am classes, get your prompts in by hmm.

If you're my 1:10 p.m. Class,

get your prompts in by 1:10 p.m. If you're in my 2 50 class,

get your prompts in by 2:50 p.m. On thursday.

Okay. And so the reason that we need to get the prompts in

before class starts is because we're gonna be using your

questions to really guide our in person discussion in class.

Sorry, for the shaky screen. Cat is back there.

So that's what we're going to be doing in class

on the days that we have reading discussions assigned.

Is that instead of doing responses on your discussion board,

you're gonna be doing them in class with your group mates.

Okay.

Uh So the other thing that will do for those of

you that would like to do to do flip class,

you'll get a little bit more face time with me.

Um

Where you know what, I'll usually introduce the topic that we're talking.

We'll do a little activity.

We'll answer questions about what we found in the chapter.

So it's not just gonna be discussion.

We're gonna have a little bit more time to do to do some stuff together too.

All right, so the big difference here,

get them in my class time and you don't have to respond on the boards.

Okay? Because you're going to be doing the responses

in class with us in our in our physical classroom.

Alright. So um other big thing too for you flip class students and I'm gonna take

this part off really quickly. Oops. No, let me come back there. I am.

I know that, you know, masks suck and they're the worst sometimes.

But again, the circumstances for me are a little bit different.

I do have a four year old. They're not able to be vaccinated yet.

So I'm taking every precaution that I can

to be safe.

So if you wouldn't mind uh wearing a mask in my class,

it would really do me a solid to feel more

comfortable and to be able to spend uh you know,

a good time with you guys.

Okay.

Um

you know, I know that I can't force you to wear it,

but I would hope that we respect each other enough that you do.

Alright.

I'll always have masks on me as well if you don't carry them anymore,

I you can come and get one from me at the beginning of class.

We're for that hour or so that were together and then go on with your life.

Alright, Okay, so my little spiel about that

and I'm back. Okay, So,

uh so I'll send a reminder on Wednesday.

I don't anticipate us not being in person on thursday

for those of you that are fit flip class students,

but if anything changes at all, I will make sure to let you know as soon as possible.

If for some reason or if I get my full accommodation to be online,

then I'll let you know as soon as possible.

Okay,

so big thing too is that you can schedule me for one on one

during my office hours on Wednesdays or

on Tuesdays during what's isolated class time,

you can always find that uh in the email announcements that we get sent out

and again, if you're ever feeling ever lost in our class

modules are your friends.

Okay,

so go to the modules tab and go to the tab on the same or the

part on the front page and you'll see which module we're currently in for the week.

All right. Okay. So long video and for some introductions.

But really looking forward to seeing you all, uh,

for those of you that are flipped class students

wear a mask, please. But if you have any questions for me, please don't email me.

I'm very available for you

and really looking forward to getting into

this particular week with social theory.

Alright. Usually these won't be so long, but they were today.

Hopefully my cat was a nice surprise and that makes it better. Okay. I'm going to go by

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