Avant-Garde Sociology Workbook: (Creative Ideas and Lessons for Instructors and Compelling Analytical Exercises for Students)

By Thomas D. Sharts M.Ed

The purpose of this book is to illuminate the multitudinous opportunities for students to comprehend the versatile and diverse ways that sociological knowledge can be applied and analyzed in reference to the areas of multiple social problems and life-at-stake issues. Moreover, in reference to student learning, this workbook underscores the profound and pervasive relevance of sociology as an academic discipline, along with providing any sociology instructor with a plethora of ideas regarding how to teach sociological knowledge through various pedagogical methods and exercises.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543457681

Thomas D. Sharts M.Ed

Thomas D. Sharts is Department Chair of Social Sciences and Fine Arts with Northern Marianas College. Also he has authored the following books: The American Deception; The Poor Man’s Bible A-Z; Avant-Garde Sociology; The Five Areas of Being Human; Sunday School Lessons and Sermon Topics for Real Faith in the Real World; Building a NonProfit Entity, Organization or Agency; The Science and Art of Effective Secondary and Post-Secondary Classroom Teaching; Shartsy’s Artsy Sayings; Bipolar Sagacity; Factual Wisdom for the Age of Apostasy; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 2; Understanding the Heart Origins and Some Relevant Explanations for Male Pornography Addiction; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 3; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 4; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 5; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 6; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 7; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 8 and Shartsy’s Artsy Sayings Volume 2. Mr. Sharts has twenty three years college teaching experience and has taught in higher education in both the United States and overseas. From 1999 to 2007, he was the Founder and Executive Director of Friendship Helping Ministries in Charlotte, NC. In 2019, Mr. Sharts received first prize with the Beverly Hills Book Awards for Bipolar Sagacity Volume 6 in the category of Philosophy; and in 2017, Mr. Sharts was the winner of the National Indie Excellence Book Award for the book Bipolar Sagacity. Also in 2017, he was recognized with a finalist distinction for the Montaigne Medal with the Eric Hoffer Book Awards for Thought-Provoking prose in reference to the book Factual Wisdom for the Age of Apostasy. Mr. Sharts interests are reading, writing, sports, and the visual and dramatic arts. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Community Quarterback Award for Human Services Leadership as designated by the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers. Mr. Sharts is also available for public speaking engagements or educational seminars in reference to sociological analysis on identified specific topics, business analysis, nonprofit creation and development, self-help analysis, etc. He may be contacted at [e-mail]

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Contents

Some Self-Assessment Criteria

Resume of Failure Exercise

General Sociological Questions

Lifestyle Behavior Assessment

Research Design Exercises

Content Analysis Television

Cultural Questions

Artistic Cultural Exercise

American Cultural Analysis Group Exercise

Culture (Tools of Technology) Individual Assignment

Self-Definition Assignment (Content Analysis)

Self-Definition Exercise

Sociology and Art as an Assessment Tool

Sociology and Music Special Assignment

Assessing your Social Structural Interactions

Socialization Media Tools and Learning about Historical Social Events

Print Media Examination Activity (Social Structures)

Movie Examination Activity (Social Structures)

Environment and Social Structures Activity

An American Societal Question

Social Status Criteria Activities

Elephant Man Film: Special Assignment

Social Economic Class, Status, Prestige and Economic Questions

Social Structures and Methods of Power Questions

Social Structures and Newsprint Assignment #2

General Questions Regarding Behavioral and Relational Deviance

Social Change Questions

Special Assignment in Reference to Social Change

Graffiti Assignment

Individual Assignment (Social Change)

Dead Poets Movie Review Key Areas of Sociological Analysis

RFK Assassination Image Assignment (Dichotomy View)

Rod Serling’s 1959 Interview with Mike Wallace

Sociological Questions in Relation to Love and Intimacy

Deviant Sexual Behaviors Activities and Questions

Relational Conflict, Stake Issues and Crisis

Marriage Divorce Questions

Love and Social Reality Analysis

Love and the Five Areas of Being Human

Dating Involvement

Arthur (1981 Movie Version) Analysis

Human Sexuality Group Assignment

Marriage Questions

Group Assignment What is a Home?

Group Exercise Family Behavioral Life

Family and Conflict Analysis

Separation and Divorce Writing Analysis Assignment for Marriage and Family

Various Dating, Love Relationship, Marriage and Family Questions, etc.

Losing Love

Love and the Five Areas of Being Human

Pre-Marital and Marriage Counseling Group Assignment

Family Conflict Analysis

Separation and Divorce Group Assignment

Social Problems Questions

Healthcare Social Policy Formulation Exercise

Group Assignment Medical Healthcare Social Problems

Healthcare Assignment

Group Assignment Drugs and Alcohol Abuse

Writing Assignment: Processes for Alleviating a Social Problem

Lifestyle Routine Writing Assignment

Preliminary Rudimentary Personality Composition Assessment Tool

Group Assignment Beliefs and Values (Personality Composition)

Wizard of Oz Personality Analysis

Movie Analysis (DUEL) Anomie, Nihilism and Criminality

Library Assignment: Criminal Biographical Behavior Assignment

Group Assignment Addictions

Memory Exercise

Assignment/Photographic Snapshot or Portrait

Deviance Movie Analysis First-Blood

Dreams Assignment

Accounting for Adult Human Behavior

Adult Behavior and Psychological and Sociological Adult Theories

Written Biographical Analysis of a Successful/Achieving Person

Give some Examples regarding how a Successful Individual You Know has Behaviorally Modeled the 11 traits of a Successful Achieving (Confident) Person:

Criminal Biography Assignment

Critical and Creative Thinking Group Assignment

Critical Thinking Assignment (Out-of Classroom Experience) (Extra Credit Assignment)

Relationship Building: Initiation, Dating and Texting

Deviance Movie Analysis: Dog Day Afternoon

Extra Credit Assignment for Chapter 13 The American Deception (book)

Extra Credit Assignment (Individual Behavioral Analysis)

Group Assignment Dating Choices

Movie Analysis: Goodwill Hunting

Journal Assignments In Reference to Social Problems

Multicultural Diversity Analysis

Small Business Issue

Love Assignment

Memory Analysis Assignment

Movie Analysis: Rudy

Parenting and Children Questions

Personality Criteria Evaluation

Move Analysis: Planet of the Apes (1968 version)

The Poor Man’s Bible A-Z Book Assignment Personal Health

Pre-Teaching Questions (Creativity)

Pre-Teacher Questions (Cognitive Thinking Skills)

Pre-Teacher Questions (Physiological Being)

Pre-Teacher Questions (Psychological Being)

Pre-Teacher Questions (Social Being)

Pre-Teacher Questions (Vocational Being)

Process of Falling in Love Assignment

Questions That Remain Unanswered

Movie Analysis: Raging Bull

Research Design Group Exercise

Self-Definition Analysis

Self-Perception and Social Perception

Sexual Deviant Behaviors and Relationships

Social Status Movie Analysis Rain Man

Social Structure News Print Analysis

Work Skills Analysis

Movie Analysis: What’s Up Doc? Social Structural Reality

SO 222 Movie Course Writing/Oral Presentation Assignment

Sociology Writing and Class Presentation Assignment The American Deception Book

Group Assignment Social Change

Political Reality: Individual Analysis

Group Exercise Social Economic Class, Status and Prestige

Group Lesson Social Reality’s Affect upon Lifestyle Behavior

The 7 Primary Areas of Social Reality Analyzing Global Conflict

Sociology Perspective Group Assignment

Group Assignment Analyzing How Some Cultural Variables Might Explain Why Conflict Exists in Dyadic Social Structural Relationships

Song Class Presentation for Analyzing a Love Relationship, Marriage or Family

Social Structural Reality Questions Movie Analysis: Jaws

Special Assignment: Song Analysis

Cultural Division in the USA

Group Exercise Self-Definition and Presentation

Social Change Group Exercise

Group Assignment Stake Issues and Methods of Power

Deviance Group Assignment

Group Activity Social Status and Prestige Criteria

Social Structural Assignment

Biographical Analysis and Life Plan Assignment

Life Plan Analysis

Sociological Analysis Biography of Failure

Sociological Analysis Biography of Success

Social Resources Identification

Identifying Personal Short and Long-Term Goals

Time Management Exercise Sociological /Psychological Analysis

Critical Thinking Exercise

Personal Motivation Sources for Achieving Success in Life

Personal Well-Being Survey Exercise

Personal Health Assessment

Oral Speaking Exercise

Steps to Goal-Setting

Areas that Might Apply Toward Goal-Setting

Motto or Life Philosophy Assignment

Long-Term Memory Biographical Evaluation

Game Group Assignment Knowledge-Linking

Social Interpersonal Skills Questions

Interpersonal Communication Exercise

Audiovisual Fact-Finding, Personal Inference and Thesis Analysis Exercise Movie: Duel

Video Summation of Attendance Assignment

Audiovisual Communication Analysis President Nixon’s Farwell Address to White House Staff

Poor Man’s Bible A-Z Life Analysis Assignment

Group Assignment Self-Assessment

Poor Man’s Bible A-Z Work Behaviors Assessment

Vocational Actualization Assignment

Identifying a Strategic Plan for the Realization of Your Long-Term Vocational Career Goal

Love Assignment

Defining Love

Movie Analysis: Legends of the Fall

Group Assignment Intimacy and Sexuality

Group Assignment Human Sexual Behaviors and Marriage

Divorce Group Assignment

Group Exercise: Psychological Being

Movie Analysis: Network (Character Analysis)

Types of Mental Illness Research Group Assignment

Social Psychology Writing Assignment

Extra Credit Assignment

Autobiographical Beliefs

Adult Behavior and Sociological and Psychological Theories

Lifestyle Routine Assignment

Psychological Crisis Stages Exercise Self and Social Evaluation

Self-Perception and Social Perception

Assignment Psychological Theory and Lifestyle Behavior

Individual Assignment Social Reality Areas and Lifestyle Behavior

Movie Analysis: Ordinary People

Content Analysis (MTV Video)

Socialization Group Exercise

Culture Group Exercises

The Scientific Method Group Exercise

Sociological and Psychological Theories Applicable to Historical Relationships

The 7 Primary Areas of Social Reality Analyzing Global Conflict

Group Assignment Beliefs and Values (Personality Composition)

Move Analysis: The Exorcist

Stress and Anxiety

Mental Illness Analysis Exercise

Countercultural Individuals

Special Assignment: Song Analysis

Group Exercise Social Economic Class, Status and Prestige

Social Policy for Outlawing Homosexual Unions

Children Adapting to New Parental Caregiver: An Andy Griffith Show Episode

Personal and Family Crisis (A Honeymooners Episode)

Identify and Explain Some Sociological Reasons for Pornography Use and Abuse in American Culture

Group Assignment Expressing Love

Social Problems Wasteful Government Spending in the USA

Environmental Social Problems Group Exercise

Group Assignment Medical Healthcare Social Problems

Library Research: Pornography Abuse

Personal Irrational Beliefs and Lifestyle Behavior

Irrational World Beliefs

Sociology and Visual Arts Exercise

Sociology and Visual Arts

Visual Art and Socialization Goals

Motion Picture Analysis: Socialization Goals

Political Behavior in Institutions

Sociological Analysis and Musical Lyrical Content

Sociological Analysis of Books in the Old Testament Bible

Sociological Analysis of Books in the New Testament Bible

Sociological Analysis of Cultural Practices Associated with Yahweh’s Favor

Sociological Analysis of Some Beliefs and/or Laws As Cited in the New Testament

Sociological Analysis and Old Testament Biblical Characters

Sociological Analysis and New Testament Biblical Characters

Analyzing American Societal Laws in Relation to Christian Religion

Analyzing a Social Interaction Experience in the Bible

Catastrophe and Social Change

Analysis of a Victim’s Terror

Composite Drawing of a Criminal Movie: Duel

Law Enforcement Factual Response and Field Errors (Movie: Dog Day Afternoon)

Art Exercise and Mainstream Cultural Variables

Law and Justice Assignment

Movie Analysis: Duel

Criminal Behavior Case Scenario Analysis

Culture: Religion Analysis Assignment

Patrol Styles and Institutional Culture

Criminal Biographical Analysis Assignment In Reference to the Criminal Justice Experience

Poverty Case