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Assignment:

1. Discuss the various dress styles that students observe on campus. What do students consider to be the norm for class attendance? At one extreme, what do they consider to be "underdressed"? At the other, what would characterize being "overdressed"? What sanctions, both formal and informal, accompany being "underdressed" or "overdressed"?

2. Discuss the sanctions, both positive and negative, that professors use to maintain social control of their classrooms. Of the various methods identified, discuss the specific purpose behind the sanction and its effectiveness. What is the best method of social control a professor can use to ensure students arrive to class on time? What is the most appropriate sanction a professor can use to encourage students who are not doing well in a course to improve? What is the best sanction a professor can use to see that his or her class remains orderly?

3. What is deviance? Who gets to define deviance? What gives certain people the authority and/or power to define deviance? How do definitions of deviance differ from culture to culture, group to group, and time period to time period?

4. Should the U.S government be responsible for providing all citizens with access to the Internet? Or is gaining Internet access an individual responsibility?

5. How have digital media changed social interactions? Do you believe it has deepened or weakened human connections? Defend your answer.

6. Where and how do you get your news? Do you watch network television? Read the newspaper? Go online? How about your parents or grandparents? Do you think it matters where you seek out information? Why, or why not?