Definitions of Normality

What are you? Deaf? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhB6vAoziNQ

Murderball Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-JRUkG_6w

Support group for women with infertility - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMYNRrTba6c&feature=related

Coping Strategies

1. Hide - MTV True Life – I Stutter - http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/190038/tim-23.jhtml#id=1574617

2. Selective Disclosure - Transgeneration – Raci - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPXDmMbSjs

3. Minimise the intrusion

using humor – Josh Blue @ LSC- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMSrpZi_6WM

Josh Blue answers audience questions – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tck4WU4b9mg

focus on attributes unrelated – Polygamists - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLBqwlau6k0

4. Boldly call attention – See what I’m saying - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve24kXu1LTg

This website was sent to me by one of your classmates.  It highlights several terms that were historically used as racial/ethnic slurs that have become a part of everyday language.  Check it out.  I think you’ll be surprised.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16967_8-racist-words-you-use-every-day.html

Dr. McLaren questions the authority of psyschiatry

A former pharmaceuticals rep discusses the practices of the industry

Dr. Griffin discusses the use of psychiatric diagnoses to suppress dissidents

The project 8 students respond to be isolated/labeled by acting out more aggressively

Labeling Begins – The students are selected and called out in their regular classrooms

The program is explained – the students realize they are being isolated (Namond claims that the program is preparation for prison life)

Their “special curriculum” involves learning manners – rather than the standard school curriculum

As a reward for doing well, the students are taken out to dinner at a high-end restaurant. The students struggle with feeling like they don’t fit in.

Types of deviance depicted in film clips

1. Innovation – From The Wire (corner kids talk about how the man who invented McNuggets is probably not rich)

2. Ritualism – Tammy talks about working hard but still being poor

3. Retreatism – Living off the grid

4. Rebellion – The Weather Underground

General Comparisons

Positivist 

• Deviants

• Different

• Serious

• Cause

Constructionist

• The people who label them

• Similar

• Minor

• Describe

Ignoring Embarrassing parents commercial - http://www.dhadm.com/content/verizon-embarrassing-80s-parents/

Using humor after being Rick Rolled – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/19/christian-tv-show-gets-ri_n_428764.html

Helping a model who fell – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHzH5cJnFZ8&feature=related

The clips used in today’s class are available under the Passing link (on the right of this page).

More information about the test: http://www.angelfire.com/or3/tss2/tst.html