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The Social Contract

• If you... You will...

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Outcomes

• 3.1 explain the process of socialization
• Define socialization.
• Identify various agents of socialization (e.g.,
  media, family, peers, education, religion, work)
  and describe their role in the socialization
  process.
• Relate the impact of agents of socialization to
  their behaviour and own socialization.
• 3.2 investigate the relationship between
  socialization and the development of individual
  personality
• Identify connections between society and the
  development of self-image and personality.

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The Social Contract

• Are there social contracts that just should not
  be kept?
• Can promises be too great? Not realistic?
• Funny Car Commercial Parody

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Social Contract Terms

• Agreements are not written
• Assumed you want to have the advantages and
  benefits of the contract if you attend or if you
  participate
• Assumed if you break contracts consequences are
  understood even if they are not spelled out
• Social contracts can be renegotiated
• Can be renegotiated through successful completion
  or through breaking the contract
• People can break the social contract with
  institutions but it is rare for institutions to
  break the social contract with the individual
• If a social contract is put in place, it is rigid
  not flexible

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Our Social Contract

• If You
• Go to nstu.ca, watch the video again concerning
  Teachers Make a Difference and nominate a
  teacher any teacher.
• Send welcher an e-mail once completed.
• Have 90 class participation in this.

• I Will
• ???

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Dangling Carrots
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Components of a social contract

• Short Term Advantages and disadvantages
• Long Term Benefits and Boundaries
• Advantages Disadvantages Immediate, good and
  bad components of the experience
• Benefits and Boundaries Long term, promises or
  guarantees if you buy in or break

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Deconstructing The Social ContractSociology 12
Advantages Learning something Being with your peers Being with Welcher ? Being away from parents/Home ? Intelligent conversation Something to do Disadvantages Away from parents/Home ? Note taking Immaturity Opportunity cost No snacks provided in class Picked on/harassed Reading complicated or non-choice texts Homework
Benefits Education Credit High School diploma Knowledge Help with employment Social savyness Learning how to deal with difficult people Boundaries Stressed relationships Other opinions Follow expectations class, school, legal, interpersonal Participate Early mornings General class attendance
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Deconstructing The Social Contract
Advantages Disadvantages
Benefits Boundaries
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Deconstructing The Social Contract
Advantages Disadvantages
Benefits Boundaries
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Examining the Social Contract

• The CIC approach
• (Collectively, Individually, Collectively)
• C Sociology 12 (Whole Group)
• I A member of your family
• C
• 1) Part time employment
• 2) Pet parent
• 3) In a Relationship
• 4) Friend (Alternate Facebook Friend)
• 5) Fan
• 6) Babysitter/caregiver (temporary)

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Can society renegotiate the social contract?

• Occupy Wall Street Too Big to Ignore
• Ready to Occupy Canada

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What happens when the social contract keeps
getting broken?

• A new one will be negotiated for you with harsher
  and harsher conditions, none of which you have
  any control over.