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Students are to find an older person, either an acquaintance of the student or someone at a nearby nursing home, with whom to conduct weekly interviews for a period of four weeks. Interview questions will be decided upon by students in class each week. Interview questions and answers, any observations the student considers pertinent, and how the elder’s response reflects class material should be written up and turned in weekly. These reports will constitute your primary research report for the term. Grading will be based on your ability to demonstrate understanding and critical thinking regarding the subject matter. By “critical thinking” I mean that you should be able to tie your observations in with the materials and theories we are learning about in class. References to the text are appropriate.

Students are to shop in a store in which sales staff interact with customers and observe shoppers of different ethnic groups, races, social classes, or appearance are waited upon to determine if members of different groups experience prejudice or discrimination. They will analyze observations, quantify data to create objective scores of observations, interpret data to draw conclusions regarding whether or not discrimination or prejudice was evident at this location. Students must then utilize sociological theories and concepts to explain the likely reasons for the presence or absence of prejudice and discrimination in their observational location.

Students are to shop in a store in which sales staff interact with customers and observe shoppers of different ethnic groups, races, social classes, or appearance are waited upon to determine if members of different groups experience prejudice or discrimination.

Students are to take a threat situation and evaluate its seriousness using the criteria developed in The Gift of Fear. Students are also to profile the threat maker and discuss how the social context exacerbated or mitigated the situation, using concepts from the sociology textbook for the term.

Evaluation of a research project on whether or not the school campus provides an atmosphere that accommodates those with disabilities.