Voter Registration

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Voter Registration

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  the form. (Do not work ahead.)
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Dorm Addresses

• Bridgman Hall 610 Hilltop Circle
• Chancellors 820 University Drive
• Sutherland 620 Hilltop Circle
• Governors 640 Hilltop Circle
• Horan 651 Hilltop Circle
• KT 101 Garfield Avenue
• Murray 11 Garfield Avenue
• Putnam 99 Garfield Avenue
• Oak Ridge 810 University Drive
• Towers 642 University Drive

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Culture

• Culture the material and nonmaterial attributes
  that the members of an organization or a society
  have created and use to carry out the tasks
  necessary to collective life.

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SMS Acronyms

• 4yeo
• CYR OFIS
• PRW
• RINGL8
• SWG
• WTMPI

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Text Messages

• 4 w_at_ its wrth, i rly lk U
• 2 D wrld U may B 1 persn , bt 2 1 persn U may B D
  wrld
• 4 evry minit UR angry U lose 6T 2nds of
• WotU up2 2nite ? CNI treat U 2 lt) or smt ?

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Cultural Variance

• Ethnocentrism tendency to evaluate other
  cultures in terms of our own norms, values,
  beliefs, etc., usually with the presumption that
  our culture is superior
• Cultural Relativity notion that other peoples
  behavior should be interpreted in terms of their
  own culture.

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Cultural Relativity/Ethnocentrism

• In Denmark, parents leave children
• unattended while they shop or dine.
• In New York, people chain up outdoor
• garbage cans and flower pots if they
• want to keep them (AP May 14, 1997)
• Danes respond, They must be crazy over thereWe
  do this all the time.
• Danish headline, Dane in grotesque nightmare in
  New York Police stole my baby

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Your Turn Chapter 1Sociological Imagination

• Major social/political concerns (1988-1990)
• Tiananmen Square
• Fall of Berlin Wall
• Gulf War
• Freeing of Nelson Mandela
• Major Technology Changes
• Increased Awareness of AIDS

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Norms

• Folkways
• Mores
• Taboos
• Sanctions
• Formal/Informal
• Positive/Negative

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Culture

• Subculture unit of a larger culture that shares
  many characteristics of the larger culture but
  differs in some important ways.
• Counterculture unit within the larger culture
  which has norms and values which are in conflict
  with the dominant culture.

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Cultural Analysis

• Goths
• Gamers
• Skaters
• Trekkers/SciFi Ethusiasts
• Millennials
• Include description of norms, values, language,
  rituals, etc.