Sociology = Given Circumstances

Oct 9, 2010

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Agenda Aug 18

Gender exercises - stereotypical and reversing it
"Big" or "bureaucratic" GC
GC: Grounded Unity - Postmodern relativism
Emovare - emotional zone
Premise exercises

Assignment Week 8 for 9

Time to get what there is to get out of the journals.

B: List of entries - "type" or "key word" them
Look over list/keywords: Summarize what has caught your attention
M: Pick out ONE in particular: flesh it out
E: Summarize the value of capturing your own musings

Agenda Week 8

Guest
Papers back: peer reviewed mid term written work Aug 6-8
Catch up w your written work!
Evals next week

Next week -Journal focus. bring your journals - and the paper that flowed from them
Today: "Big"
Bureaucracy
MMedia - including last night's concert
Big Govt

Assignment Wk 7 for 8

Take the same role you used this week.
Divide monologue (or lines) into 3 beats.
Find sound - gestur for each beat.

one page

Agenda Week 7

1. BIG: Bur, Mass Media, Big Gov't. How do we "sensorialize" it?
2. BACK TO BASICS: Gesture

Assignment Wk 6 for Wk 7

TABOR has to post terms Goffman book
TABOR has to preview readings TNH book on power

ACTORS: take one character and sensorialize the sociology. Write about three major elements of this character, sensorialized: 1. GC 2. Objective (not plot) 3. Spine.

Keep it under 2 pages.
Essay: introduce, develop, sum (beginning, middle, end). This means at least 3 PARAGRAPHS.

Assignment Week 5 for Week 6

"Deference and Demeanor" is chapter 2 of Goffman. I'll point out some good concepts in it - next week.

Attend to JOURNAL: look for breakdowns in D and D in our era: woman to man, white to black, youth to age, poor to rich, student to teacher: differential ritual standards, and standards breaking down. JOURNALS will be checked! Now's the time to catch up!

Assignment Week 4 for Week 5

ERIKSON STAGES: READ this marked up link
Contemplate a character on whom you are or have worked.
Select a significant "stage" in his or her life - and write (no more than) 1 page on whether the character "Passed" or "Failed" the stage and the impact it had.
The video you watched might also help: Children See, Children Do.

3 assignments Wk 3 for Wk 4

1. Narcerima- "get" the subtlety the insight in this essay. WRITE one page: At what point did you "get it?" - What entry in your journal this week picks up on this insight: what ritual did you see? here is a marked up link of "Narcerima"
2. Improv a Goffman section
group 1 (p. 20-23) Abu, Dano, Denise, James
group 2 (p. 30-31) Momo, Kris, Jon, Jeffrey
Leader: _____
Creator: ______
Procedure: ___ ___ ____
Supporter: _____
3. complete your "stereotypes" sheets - bring to class

Assign Wk 2 for Wk 3

1 page contemplation of how the topic of Socy has (gently) shifted your view of social life. Of what have you become aware? Take your three journal entries. Take Goffman. Take class discussion. Take acting jobs - sociology (GC) and sensorial. Even if you are not yet aware of this shift of p.o.v., use this assignment to create this shift. One page.
Three paragraphs.
May certainly include a "critique" of class style.

Assignment due Week 2

read “Interaction Ritual” p 5-26 (ends before section called “the Choice of Appropriate Face Work.”

MULT-CHOICE QUESTION: To maintain face is

1. an action
2. a condition (GC)
3. an objective
Choose one. Write one paragraph about what it means, i.e., “defend your choice”

Watch short video - On same page as above, write one paragraph about what you see.

Watch "Boys will be girls" and "Girls will be boys" this week to be prepared to answer questions about it next week.

Agenda Wk 6

Really turn GCs into sensations: all of today
1 Papers: EXERCISE Celestina's feet. Your character's what?
now ... re-write this paper for better grade?
B R E A K
2 Other GCs: EXERCISE on stereotypes. How can we?
B R E A K
Monologues - sensorialize GCs
Goffman point abt today's deference & "class"
Observations about class & deference: 3 extremes "Knockout Game", girls to boys, some sexual abuse claims...other examples?
45 min JOURNALS - 3 by 3 by 2: 15, 15, 15
B A C K TOGETHER TIME
Prepare for next week: see "assignment" section
NEXT WEEK WE WILL INTRODUCE SOUND

Agenda Wk 5

Who am I? Verbs.
Exercise 1 & 2 & 3
B R E A K
Eugenics or Macro (differences in eras rather than differences in individuals)
Animism
B R E A K
Stereotypes (wait)
Assignment: journal musing about "status relationships"
Critique
NEXT WEEK! Speech and social organization

Agenda Week 4

Stereotypes ("confirmation bias")
see this on Dems Reps
Meaning making
make verbs, not nouns
Bumper cars at Disneyland
Improvisations
8 stages and A little video I made on Erikson's Stages

Agenda Wk 3

Socialization: Chldren See, Children Do - 3 parenting styles
10 aspects - fold into four quads
your "type" - hand out charts
B R E A K
3 "theories" (not theories, but ...)
assignment "do" Goffman
****OBEDIENCE group 20-23 Abu, James, Dano, Denise
****DISOBEDIENCE GROUP 30-31 Momo, Kris, Jon, Jeffrey
"Leader": _____
Procedures: ___ ___ ___
Support: ________
Create: _____

Agenda Week 2

Collect papers: check Journal assignment.
3 types of people - n., p., c
6 Key Stanislavsky terms: O, S, A, a, GC - adj
WRITING EXERCISE: GCs for one character
B R E A K
back to geese - remember? what is our Q?
10 things "always true" - 10 aspects
Stereotypes sheets
B R E A K
Assignment for next week.


  • Boys will be girls
  • Girls will be boys

Collecting - terms and observations

4 aspects of all groups
4 types
group v. aggregate
language and gesture
Stanislavsky GC (also O, S, A, a, a)
geese: why fly in "V"
corresponding question about humans
sensorial adjustment to GC
Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive
Confirmation Bias
Stereotype (prejudice) vs. Generalization (open)
animism
frescoes
fictive language

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