Definitions of Normality

Spring 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

Sound and Fury

The DVD is available in the IC Library (DVD 5082) – viewing guide under assignments

Here’s the the clip we watched on the follow up six years later

 

posted by Prof. Baker at 12:36 pm  

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Dr. Phil

PA Tax Ad – We Know Who You Are

Frontline – Are We Safer?

Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.

posted by Prof. Baker at 10:24 am  

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Notes on the Final Paper

1. The data you collected should be used often in your paper. Use direct quotes, summaries of patterns, and interpretations of data throughout! You are welcome to do additional research too, but the additional research you do should not overwhelm your actual data.

2. Evidence, Evidence, Evidence! Back up your assertions with evidence. Avoid to the temptation to make broad claims like “people say…” or “society thinks…” without offering evidence to show that this assertion is true.

3. Cite your own data.

If you are using fieldnotes, then you can cite your data in the text like this:

xxxxxxx (Fieldnotes, 4/15/2010).

In the works cited page, your fieldnotes should be cited as follows
MLA – Your Last Name, Your First Name. Fieldnotes. (Date).
APA – Your Last Name, Your First Initial. (Date). Fieldnotes.

If you are using websites, use the standard citation format for websites/electronic sources:
MLA – http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
APA – http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

4. You must describe how you collected your data. For those of you doing field notes, you need to tell me where you went, how long you were there each time, and describe some general patterns of what you observed. For those of you doing content analysis, you need to describe your sites and summarize the data you found. If it does not work to list all of the websites in the body of your paper, you can use a footnote or appendix to give me a complete list.

5. Be sure to vary the data that you use. I will be checking to make sure you use field notes from multiple occasions or multiple websites throughout your paper.

6. When you write about “who benefits” – think big. Who are the major stakeholders in the situation you describe?

7. Two sample papers (one good, one not so good) are available on Blackboard.

8. I have extended the due date by one week (Friday, 5/6 at 1 PM). You are welcome to submit your paper earlier if you wish.  Any paper submitted after 1 PM will receive a 10-point penalty per day.

posted by Prof. Baker at 1:08 pm  

Monday, April 11, 2011

Clips/Films from discussion of extreme conformity

Heaven’s Gate Initiation Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqSZhwu1Rwo&feature=related

David Koresh and the Branch Davidians – Documentary is called Waco: The Rules of Engagement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdrpHaFT1Bc&feature=related

Jim Jones – Documentary is called Jonestown: The Life and Death of the People’s Temple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7IxGGfpSWk

FLDS – Documentary is called Banking on Heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI6pBftroEc

posted by Prof. Baker at 8:59 pm  

Friday, March 25, 2011

Links for Sex Crime Panic (1980s to present)

The Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic

The Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic

Oprah Episode – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRYm5YtaCQo

Geraldo – Exposing Satan’s Underground – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-K_B3Ull3Y&feature=related

A Brief Overview of Daycare Scandals - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/etc/other.html#7

Other links of interest:

Dateline – To Catch a Predator episode – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaOm7QepDM8

Dateline – Online Safety Kit for parents to protect children from online predators- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15162866/

Focus on the Family – The Making of a Monster – http://www2.focusonthefamily.com/docstudy/newsletters/A000000761.cfm

Frontline – Hand of God (about priest scandal) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/handofgod/

posted by Prof. Baker at 10:17 am  

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

A cautionary video on sex predators

“Boys Beware” – a film from the 1950s warning boys to avoid the homosexual predator

posted by Prof. Baker at 11:45 am  

Friday, March 11, 2011

Updated Reading Schedule for Moral Panics & Sex Crimes

Week 9: Mar 21-25 – Moral Panics & Sex Crimes

3/21: CP – Traffic in Girls

3/25: CP – Sex Crime Panic

Week 10: Mar 28-Apr 1 – Sex Crimes

3/28: CP – Nightmare at the Day Care & NYState Sex Offender Registry

4/1: NCUR – No Class - Stigma Assignment – Part 1 Due – Submit on Blackboard before the beginning of class

posted by Prof. Baker at 12:15 pm  

Friday, March 11, 2011

Medicalization

-DSM-IV - http://psyweb.com/Mdisord/DSM_IV/jsp/dsm_iv.jsp

-AntiSocial Personality Disorder - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/antisocial-personality-disorder/DS00829

-Oppositional Defiant Disorder - http://www.myoutofcontrolteen.com/sl7?gclid=CJue1Napi5YCFQECGgod30InDw

-You may also enjoy this site – Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher - http://gwenolsen.com/

-Here is a link to the article I mentioned today from the NY Times on psychiatry’s move toward prescriptions rather than talk therapy – http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/health/policy/06doctors.html?_r=2&hp

-And here is an older article from the NY Times that argues that depression may have benefits - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.html?scp=1&sq=Depressions%20upside&st=cse

posted by Prof. Baker at 10:48 am  

Friday, March 11, 2011

Video from class

posted by Prof. Baker at 10:44 am  

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Medicalization

Here are the film clips we watched in class.  Download the viewing guide HERE

Medicating Kids – watch beginning to 29:54

Frontline Watch Online:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/watch/

Google Videos: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9055413814104510828#

The Medicated Child (Watch beginning to 18:52)

Frontline Watch Online -http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/view/

VEOH online -http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/technology/watch/v12662795WQ3mqjz6– may require you to download a plugin

posted by Prof. Baker at 11:31 am  
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