1. Find two photos of a deviant act. Explain which of Merton’s Deviance categories they are and why. Do not use robbery, homelessness or drugs/alcohol in your example.

Here is my example:

This student is cheating. He has accepted the cultural goal of gaining a college degree but rejected the institutional means of learning. This cheating is a form of deviance Merton would categorize as innovation.

2. Respond to the film, Born Rich by analyzing the difference between your socializing process and theirs — how are we stratified differently? Specifically, address 2 socialization institutes: Family, School, or Peers.

3. Find and post two commercial images that are examples of women being unequal to men. In your discussion talk about the theory the Beauty Myth.

Here are mine:

My first image is a disturbing ad – we do not know what they are selling, other than rape culture and male domination. Even when a woman is being abused, she is expected to look beautiful.

My second image is one I see all around Southern California. This Boot store is objectifying women to sell boots.

Each of these ads treats women as objects and not humans. The Beauty Myth argues that in our culture, women are valued only for their appearance. Each of these ads shows how the Beauty Myth is created in modern advertisements.

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links

Deviance:

https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/behavior#normative-and-non-normative-behavior (Links to an external site.)

Stratification:

https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/social-inequality/social-class/v/overview-of-social-inequality (Links to an external site.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/income-inequality-continues-to-grow-in-the-united-states.html (Links to an external site.)