MOD 3 ASSIGNMENT 2 SOC FOR KIM WOODS

This assignment, Project 2, addresses course outcomes 5 and 6. This assignment will require you to think about key sociological concepts, such as race, gender, and social class. You will need to think about the way social groups develop and enforce rules. Specifically, you will be asked to reflect on whether or not social rules are effective in controlling social deviance. You will be asked to think carefully about current policies for deviance prevention and to make suggestions for how these policies can be improved. You will need to think about key sociological theories that are used to analyze how and why deviant behavior is defined and sanctioned. Deviance can be criminal or non-criminal. It can have negative or positive consequences for society. Punishment can be focused on retribution or rehabilitation, or both. For this project, you will select a current event from a local or national news source that covers a deviant act. You will describe the event that you have selected. You will need to apply a theory to explain why this act happened. This explanation can focus on the social structure, the individual or both. The theory that you apply will be the one that fits best with your interpretation of group life. You will also discuss the type of punishment that was used to address this act. Finally, you will discuss policy changes that you think would be beneficial to controlling this type of deviance. How can the system be changed to make society function better?