Provsions and Critical Thinking Stephanie A. Bennett

Overview of Year-long Fellowship Meet Bi-weekly Providing Biography and other resources for faculty Read several text and articles on the subject Bean, 3 other common texts, variety of our own interest. Just a beginning of understanding the topic and how to incorporate it into our classes.

“Change Just One Thing” “Less is More” Our Motos “Change Just One Thing” “Less is More”

Collaborative work environment Makes skills transferable OUr Similar Findings Questions important Collaborative work environment Makes skills transferable

BINGO My Class Project B I N G O Symbolic Interaction George Herbert Mead W.E.B. Du Bois Conflict Functionalism Jane Addams Howard Becker Bellamy Foster Sociology Is Fun Harriet Martineau Herbert Spencer Talcott Parsons Karl Marx Erving Goffman Emile Durkheim Robert Merton BINGO

Functionalism Views society as a system of interrelated parts Is a macro orientation because it studies how social structures affect how a society works Homeless shelters aid local communities and work with governments to help the homeless. Functionalists Emile Durkheim Solidarity integrates, or holds society together, because people see themselves as unified. Talcott Parsons Society was much like a bicycle wheel, made up of independent yet interdependent parts. Conflict Theory Studies issues such as race, gender, social class, criminal justice, and international relations Is a macro orientation because it studies how the struggle for resources holds society together Homelessness as a sign of inequality in society. Conflict Theorists Karl Marx Capitalism corrupted human nature. Jane Addams Hull- House workers need to live in the slums to better understand the problems there. Symbolic Interaction focuses on how people interact in their everyday lives with their society’s symbols is a micro orientation on the individual and how he or she interacts with the social environment Criminal, alcoholic, and/or mentally ill are negative labels associated with Homelessness. Symbolic Interactionists George Herbert Mead To know a society is to understand its symbols Erving Goffman Dramaturgy is a theory of interaction in which all life is like acting.

What I found Good Start – Collaboration Need to start with this and institute more transferable techniques in class.