1. Using the picture I took of you, and sent you via email, create your own web page in WebCT. Import the picture. Add any other information you want to include about yourself. You may include other photos. Thiswill be what other students use to identify you throughout the course.
2. Answer the following using The SociologyPage Site ( http://www.thesociologypage.com).It is found on the Prentice Hall Study Site - under Sites to See.
QUESTIONS
1. What is John Macionis' answer to What is Sociology?
2. What characteristics do sociologists have?
3. What kind of jobs do sociologist have?
4. Use Talking Head Links to answer these questions: (I think these are also in the WebCT course)
What is culture?
What is the Information Revolution?
What is Sociological and Cultural Relativity?
5. How many different countries are represented in the student replies? List them.
How many different countries are represented in the teacher replies? List them.
6. Use Sociologists Links to answer these questions:
When did August Comte live? What did he invent?
What % of humanity live in societies that are considered Marxist (in 1983)?
Why did Weber think politics was incompatible with scholarly work?
Why was Durkheima controversial person?
Which famous phrase, normally associated with Darwin, originally came from Spencer? What wereSpencer's ideas called?
What aspect of modern society bothered Toennies?
What group did DuBois study scientifically?
What did Park study? Where was he based?
How did Mead's sociology differ from Durkheim?
What was Colley's major contribution to sociology?
Accordint to C.Wright Mills, what is responsible for many of our problems?
Why did Sociology ignore women, according to Bernard?
7. Use Stuff to Read to answer these questions:
What makes people happy?
In February 2000how much time do most people spend on the Internet?
Which group of college students are less likely to use email and the Internet?
What is the email address of the author of the textbook Sociology?
8. Who created the Sociological Tour of CyberSpace?
9. What is the weather in Hawaii?
10. What is the American Sociological Association? When was it founded?
11. What is General Social Survey? How often is the study done?
12. Go to Reports under General Social Survey, then to Social Change Reports, then to #5 "Age and Social Change…" What change in attitude did the authors find in this study? (Hint: go to the secondparagraph.)
13. Click on US Census, then Poverty. How does the census measure poverty?
14. On US Census, Poverty - go to Poverty Statistics.In the document that comes up, go to page one, where it says Highlights.What happened to the poverty rate in 2000? What previous year does it comparewith?
15. Go to Preventing Teen Pregnancy, then Stats. Which country has the highest rate of teen pregnancy and births in the westernindustrialized world? How much does it cost the government annually?
16. Go to the Featured site. What % of college women experience a completed or attempted rape during a typical college year?