In a super-rich Texas suburb, students drive costly SUVs and sports cars to high school while their teachers commute in Toyotas and Hondas.
Organized under broad categories, each article presents the pros and cons of issues like cheating in school, legalized gambling, censorship of TV violence, affirmative action, term limits for politicians, women in combat, the morality of right-to-die laws, and more.
The Deviants expand on the theories of Weber (ideal types), Mead (symbolic interactionism), Parsons and Merton (functionalism).
After explaining the five-part research process, the Deviants take an in-depth look at culture and its reliance on symbols.
The Deviants consider the universal question "Who am I?" They show how values, norms, and roles act as socializers and review theories of selfhood advanced by Horton, Mead, and Erving Goffman.
After reviewing ways in which people are made to conform, the Deviants look at conflict, functional analysis, labeling, differential association, and Merton’s anomie theory with its manifest and latent functions.
Completing their presentation on social rankings and mobility, the Deviants move to gender-role differences and theories on why inequalities exist between the sexes.
The Deviants break down integration’s five stages (from segregation to amalgamation) then show how prejudice, discrimination, and institutionalized racism form barriers for minority groups.
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