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SOC 312 Child, Family and Society

SOC 312 Child, Family and Society

SOC 312 Week 1 DQ 1
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model
Bronfenbrenner’s
Ecological Model. Your text uses
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model to explain how children’s development is
affected by different groups within their world. Using this theory, we can
understand how children are socialized both intentionally and unintentionally.
You must understand how this theory applies to your own upbringing as well as a
young child’s upbringing in order to truly comprehend the concept. After
reading the text and the “Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory” article,
use your understanding of this theory to respond to the questions below.
Using Bronbenbrenner’s ecological model, respond to the
following questions:
a. How did the microsystem that you grew up in differ from your
parents’ or grandparents’ microsystems? Do you think this is a detrimental or
an affirmative change to society as a whole?
b. How do you think technology, specifically social media,
influences a child’s mesosystems?

SOC 312 Week 1 DQ 2
Agents of Socialization
Agents of Socialization. Agents of socialization include parents, siblings, extended
family, community, culture, economic environment, religion, child care, school,
teachers, peers, formal organizations, sports, mass media, and technology. In
an ideal world, these agents would complement one another in order to best
influence a child’s development. Choose three of the above agents and discuss
how these agents can have both a positive and negative influence on a child’s
development. Include examples from your own experience and share ways that you
believe the agents of socialization could be improved.

SOC 312 Week 1
Journal Socialization
Socialization.If you could change any of the major agents of socialization in
your own upbringing, what would you change and why? Do you think this change
would have altered the course of your life? If so, why? If not, why not?

SOC 312 Week 1 Quiz
1. Technology has not
had a big impact on children growing up today.

2. During WWII, women
were still viewed in their “traditional” roles such as teachers, nurses, and
seamstresses.

3. _________is defined
as a learning theory that emphasizes the predictable role of environment in
causing observable behavior.

4. Which of the
following is an example of positive punishment?

5. Self Esteem is
defined as the confidence in one’s abilities or characteristics required to succeed
in a given task.

6. As a result of the
catastrophe in 2001, children are growing up in a different world today.

7. According to
America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, which of the
following indicators looks at family structure and children’s living
arrangements, births to unmarried woman, child care, children of at least one
foreign-born parent, language spoken at home and difficulty speaking English,
adolescent births, and child maltreatment?

8. Impacts of social policies
represent the __________________ in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model.

9. Peers are part of the
__________________ in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model.

10.Culture is part of the __________________ in Bronfenbrenner’s
ecological model.

SOC 312 Week 2 DQ 1
The Theory of Mind
The Theory of Mind. Watch the following short film, theory of mind.mov,
which demonstrates the theory of mind using a juice box experiment.
At around four years of age, a fundamental change occurs in
children’s understanding of others’ behaviors or what is also called theory
of mind. Using your knowledge from our readings, watch the video to
determine which stage both Jacob and Patrick are currently in respectively.
Discuss both Jacob’s and Patrick’s reaction to the “mean
monkey.” What stage would Erickson say each child is in? How do these
different stages influence their values and attitudes? Do you think it is
possible for a child over the age of three to have trouble understanding that
his or her beliefs can be false? Explain your reasoning

SOC 312 Week 2 DQ 2
Self-Regulation
Self-Regulation. Regardless of a child’s unique qualities, one thing remains
the same; to improve learning and behavior, children must develop strong
self-regulation skills. Read the article from the National Association for the
Education of Young Children (NAEYC), “Developing Young Children’s
Self-Regulation Through Everyday Experiences.”
The marshmallow experiment is a famous test conducted by Walter
Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Daniel Goleman in his popular
work. In the 1960s, a group of four-year-olds were given a marshmallow and
promised another only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first
one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then
followed the progress of each child into adolescence, and demonstrated that
those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable
(determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average
of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Watch the video, The
Marshmallow Test.
Reflect on the information in the NAEYC article, the video, and
your text and explain how toddlers with better self-regulation skills are less
likely to demonstrate behavior problems in preschool. Explain why these
self-regulation skills are so important and how you will promote the learning
of self-regulation. How will you deliberately teach self-regulation as part of
everyday experience? Share an example of your own self-regulation skills that
you can model for others.

SOC 312 Week 2
Journal Gender Issues
Gender Issues. Consider the anecdote of “Elena” in your text book.
Obviously, Elena’s mother prefers that her daughter participates in more
feminine activities. What is your opinion? Do you think that young children
should be guided toward gender specific toys? Why or why not?

SOC 312 Week 2
Influence of Peers
Influence of Peers. The influence of peers during childhood can have a
long-lasting effect on a person throughout his or her life. Describe at least
three different ways in which teachers and/or parents can intervene to help
improve a child’s social skills and relationship with peers. (Keep in mind that
it is the adult’s responsibility to enhance a relationship with peers, rather
than be the relationship.)
Use the information from your text to complete a graphic
organizer that provides a succinct summary of your suggestions for
parents/educators. In addition, give a short explanation of why these
suggestions will encourage positive peer relationships. You must use at least
two scholarly sources other than the textbook and required readings to support
your suggestions.
You may download the Inspiration9 30-Day Trial or use an
application of your own to create a graphic organizer. Be sure to upload all
necessary links, images, and/or text onto a Word document. Instructions for
downloading Inspiration9 and exporting to Word can be found in the online
course.
Criteria:
Your creation must be one page using the graphic organizer of your
choice. In addition, you must create a title page and reference page formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

SOC 312 Week 2 Quiz
1. Separation anxiety is
characterized by a sense of apprehensiveness towards strange people or places.

2. A value is defined as
an individual’s positive or negative response to people, objects, places, or
situations.

3. Regardless of
environment, imprint of biology, parents, and culture, every infant is born
with a personality or temperament that guides and influences their approach to
the world.

4. Effortful control
deals with self-regulation in relation to temperament.

5. Temperament impacts
how children react to events in their environment.

6. ____________ is an inborn
motive to explore, understand, and control one’s environment.

7. ___________________
helping involves providing unrewarded Helpance with a goal in mind.

8. The ________________
contribution refers to social influences on gender development.

9. Parenting is an
example of _________________ factors that influence the development of
self-regulation.

10.Which stage of attachment is defined as an infant typically
showing a definite preference for interaction and comforting from a familiar caregiver,
usually the child’s mother, father, or other frequent caregiver?

SOC 312 Week 3 DQ 1
Motivators
Motivators. Imagine that you are a preschool teacher. Describe a situation
in which you would use an extrinsic reward to motivate a preschooler. Discuss
how these motivators could result in learned helplessness. Now, give examples
and explain how you can lead the same child to achieve intrinsic motivation by
becoming his or her own locus of control. Keep in mind that your end goal is
for the child to be intrinsically motivated so that he or she has ownership of
the behavior.

SOC 312 Week 3 DQ 2
Control
Control. The role of the microsystem in shaping children’s effortful
control is important and parents play a critical role. After reading the text
and viewing the “Life at 3: Bad Behavior” video, address the following:
a. What would you recommend to a parent who asks you what he or
she can do to promote his or her preschool child’s self-regulation skills?
b. Now turning to the mesosystem, identify examples of
influences on the child’s effortful control you can share with the parent.
c. Provide examples of influences on children’s effortful
control that you have observed in your own family and other families who are
close to you.

SOC 312 Week 3
Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies
Developmentally
Appropriate Teaching Strategies. Read the
articles “10 Effective DAP Teaching Strategies” and “Culturally Responsive
Classroom Strategies.” In addition, view the Culture in the Classroom website
and the Keynote by Lisa Delpit (Teaching Tolerance)video
After reviewing the required resources, identify and discuss
three challenges involved with ensuring that teaching strategies are
appropriate for culturally diverse children. Then, discuss these cultural
challenges in the classroom using one sociological perspective (i.e.,
functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, etc.) and another
relevant perspective, such as Piaget’s preoperational stage of development.
Finally, identify and discuss how the challenges related to differences in
culture may be addressed by a teacher in a way that increases the child’s cognitive
advancement and academic success.
You must use at least two scholarly sources other than the
textbook and required resources for this assignment. The paper must include a
summary of each of the challenges identified and each of the remedies to those challenges.
In addition, you must include an explanation of the cultural challenges in the
classroom using one of the sociological perspectives and Piaget’s theory of the
preoperational stage of cognitive development.

SOC 312 Week 3 Quiz
1. Theory of Mind has
been shown to be linked to values.

2. Intrinsic motivation
is defined as doing an activity to attain some separate outcome to get a reward
or to avoid punishment.

3. Maya’s parents
promised to buy her a new bicycle if she helped with the household chores. She
has been helping her parents by picking up her toys and putting her clothes in
the hamper. Maya’s behavior is being driven by ___________.

4. A child’s tendency to
focus on one aspect of a situation while neglecting others.

5. Once gender schema is
formed, children are expected to act in ways that conform to traditional gender
roles.

6. A term coined by
Piaget to mean the ability to use mental representations such as words,
numbers, or images to attach meaning.

7. Ryan’s parents are
teaching him to not interrupt others when they are speaking. This task will
require _______________.

8. Another name for
children’s internalized values and codes of conduct is __________________.

9. Gender schema relates
to the notion of how children develop gender _____________________.

10.When children play alongside their peers but do not directly
interact with them, this behavior is illustrative of __________________ play.

SOC 312 Week 4 DQ 1
Cultural and Linguistic Differences
Cultural and Linguistic
Differences. Listen to the Cultural
and Linguistic Differencespodcast from The IRIS Center, or read the
transcript. Consider what Donna Ford has to say about prejudice and
stereotyping. Then, read the “Culture-Based Education and Its Relationship to
Student Outcomes” article.
Discuss how educators can positively influence a school-age
child to not hold biases or prejudices against others. Give an example of how a
teacher can create a community of learners who support one another by fostering
positive attitudes. Give an example of how an educator could teach his or her
students the importance of acceptance. Your post must address the children in
the concrete operational stage.

SOC 312 Week 4 DQ 2
Bullying
Bullying. Bullying is a prevalent issue during middle childhood.
Watch The Power of One – School Video Sample.Choose one of
the situations presented: Diego, Timmy, or Kendra Briefly describe the
situation. Offer suggestions that can be put into place by the teacher, school,
and the parents (at least one for each). Use the following sources to support
your response:
a. Bullies: What is Bullying
b. Stopbullying
You must address what should be said to the child who is
targeted and to the child exhibiting the bullying behavior. You must include
what should not be said as well. Include at least one suggestion to be used in
the classroom and one suggestion that can be reinforced at home.

SOC 312 Week 4
Journal Private or Public Bully
Private or Public
Bully.Think about bullying and
young children. Do you think that bullying is more apt to happen in a public
school setting or a private school setting? Do you think the setting has any
effect on bullying, or is it primarily the child’s age? Reflect on a bullying
incident that you are aware of. The incident can include you as the victim, the
bully, or a bystander. This may even be an incident that was reported in the
news of which you are aware. Alternatively, you may share an incident that
occurred with your own child or a child who is close to you. How could the
situation have been changed or avoided?

SOC 312 Week 4
Bullying…Change
Bullying…Change. Read the following essay, written by Antonio, a fourth-grade
student.
The Bully in the Mirror
Antonio, 4th Grade
Mirror Mirror on the
wall why must I be the
Bully that has to fall.
I beat on kids around the school
The mirror told me it
wasn’t cool. The mirror told me to change.
My ways I have beat up
kids all by days. I have no friends.
It’s just not right.
The mirror said cause you like to fight.
I am a bully how could
this be. The mirror is starting to
Change me. Reflections
are now flashing back to me.
Someone plant the seed
inside of me. Now the mirror has
shown me poor. I’ll
change my ways and start
new days the bully is
no more part of me.
Any bully can change
Imagine that you are Antonio’s teacher. Antonio obviously wants
to make a change. As a fourth grader, it is almost impossible to do this alone.
Therefore, he has handed this writing piece to you, his teacher. Understanding
that this transformation involves far more than you and Antonio, you will
devise a plan to help him change his history and be a good person.
First, read the Kenny (2007) article and discuss how Antonio’s
“looking glass self” has been influenced by the agents of socialization. Be
sure to explain how this looking glass self is related to his “answerability”
and what role that has in his desire to change his behavior.
Next, devise a game plan for Antonio’s change:
a. Share one lesson or activity that can be completed with the
whole class. The lesson or activity should focus on the importance of awareness
and bully prevention. Describe the lesson or activity and how it will benefit
the class as a whole.
b. List one idea showing how the class can support Antonio’s
change. Explain how you would help your students support their former
tormentor.
c. List one strategy that you can help Antonio implement in
order for him to stay on the right path (e.g., literature, a check list, or a
change in routine).
d. Provide one suggestion you would share with Antonio’s
parents, so that this change in behavior is a true partnership between you (the
teacher), the child, and the parents.
Use the information from your text and the Pacer’s National
Bullying Prevention Center website to create your plan. You must include two
scholarly sources in addition to the two given.

SOC 312 Week 4 Quiz
1. Question : Concrete
operations is defined as stage in which children can use mental operations to
solve concrete or actual problems.
Student Answer:

2. Question: Family
plays a small role in the development of a school-aged child’s self-esteem.
Student Answer:

3. Question: Children
who have secure relationships with their parents are likely to make friends
more easily at school.

4. Question: Babak is
ten years old, and most of his friends are girls. Babak’s choice of friends
would tend to make him less popular with his male peers.

5. Question:
Collaboration has little impact on a child’s ability to solve problems.

6. Question: Children
generally describe females in action-related terms, and males in
appearance-related terms.

7. Question : Lee is
playing with blocks at school. He is dividing them up based on their color.
This is an example of_______.

8. Question : According
to Bronfenbrenner, children’s _____________ have a great impact on their
development.

9. Question : Sonja loves
to wear her pink tutu every day. She refuses to take it off, even at bed or
when it is snowing. Sonja is demonstrating what?

10.Question : Gender differences in school-aged children’s
_________ have been well documented.

SOC 312 Week 5 DQ 1
Technology
Technology. Your text shares many negative effects of technology and the
media’s influence on children. Regardless, technology is increasing rapidly and
is only becoming a larger portion of our children’s lives. After reading “Mass
Media, Television, and Children’s Socialization,” choose an age level (toddler,
preschool, or elementary age) upon which to focus in this discussion. Then,
list three positive examples of how technology has enhanced socialization for
children in that age group. Give two additional examples of how
parents/educators can use technology to further enhance a child’s
socialization.

SOC 312 Week 5 DQ 2
Nonparental Care
Nonparental Care. Choose one of the three nonparental care choices: nannies,
center-based, or family-based care. Imagine that you are trying to sell your
chosen method of care to a prospective client who is a parent of a toddler.
Share the advantages of your childcare setting so that the parent chooses your
method to care for their child. Address the following in your post:
socialization, cost, turnover, and any other points that you believe are
necessary to sell your childcare option.

SOC 312 Week 5
Journal Self-Assessment
Self-Assessment. Reflect on your coursework so far. Which assignment was the
most engaging? Why? Have you learned anything new? How will you use your new
knowledge? Evaluate your work so far. Which assignments and/or activities did
you excel in? What could you have improved?
Journal response options:
a. Written reflection journal
b. Jing reflection with visuals
c. Peer dialogue reflection (where you discuss the questions
above with a peer or colleague and write a reflection based on your
discussion).

SOC 312 Week 5 Quiz
1. Young people use
music to help regulate and express their feelings.

2. Approximately 30
percent of four month olds in the United States watch some form of television
on a regular basis.
3. Children who are
exposed to childcare centers for more hours and at an earlier age are more
likely to demonstrate behavioral problems in kindergarten.
4. About ___ percent of
three month olds in the United States regularly watch TV, videos, or DVDs, and
that number only rises as the children get older.

5. Enrollment in
universal prekindergarten programs is voluntary.

6. The social networks
of low-income parents are more likely to include professionals like teachers
compared to middle-income parents.

7. ______ are different
than printed media, audio media, and screen media because it enables the active
participation.

8. A large number of
education apps for smart phones target children between the ages of
____________.

9. Which of the
following is not discussed as a form of nonparental child care?

10.A focus on interdependence between group members is reflective
of the _________________ cultural framework.

SOC 312 Week 5 Final Project
Focus of the Final
Project
Your good friends have just adopted a four-year-old child. At
this point, the only socialization decision they have made is that the child is
going to preschool. Imagine that you are an expert in your chosen field. Your
friends have come to you for advice and to devise a plan to raise their child.
They ask you to be frank with them and give them specific examples to support
your opinions. They are determined to raise this child to the best of their
ability. Since they are new parents, they need advice on everything!
The summative assignment is to develop a user-friendly
PowerPoint handbook of suggestions. The handbook will demonstrate your
understanding of the material by applying the major topics discussed in the
course to a real situation.
Writing the PowerPoint
Presentation of the Final Project
1. Summarize Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model and describe why
it is important for them to be aware of this theory (one to two slides).
2. Suggest and explain a parenting style/philosophy
(authoritarian, authoritative, or permissive) that you believe will be most
beneficial for the child and the family (one to two slides).
3. Explain which childcare (nanny, center-based, or family-based
care) option (before/during/after preschool) you think is best for the child
and why (one to two slides). Be sure to include discussion of the social
factors that influence the likelihood of the family selecting a particular form
of childcare.
4. Share specific suggestions, including at least two to
implement safe technology use in the home. Explain how the media can (both
positively and negatively) influence the child (one to two slides).
5. Discuss the importance of culture and ethnicity in the
development of the self-concept. Share your ideas of ways that the new parents
can create opportunities for the child to learn about his or her culture (one
to two slides).
6. Describe at least two researched methods to increase the
child’s self-esteem and positive attitude (one to two slides).
7. Differentiate between the importance of socialization that
occurs in the home and at school. Explain the importance of each venue as a
positive haven for the child (one to two slides).
8. Explain the importance of the teacher’s role in the child’s
life. Give examples of how the school and the teacher will affect the child’s
socialization (one to two slides).
9. Share the importance of positive peer interactions. Give two
examples for the parents to implement at home to foster friendships (one to two
slides).
The PowerPoint presentation must include a minimum of 15 slides
(not including the title slide and reference slide). Students are encouraged to
creatively address the material and include graphics, visuals, charts, graphs,
and/or sound. Slides should be designed to clearly and concisely address the
material. The PowerPoint presentation must be formatted according to APA style as
outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Include a title slide, reference slide,
and citations within the slides when appropriate. Students must use at least
five scholarly sources and the course text.

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