Definitions of Normality

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

The article I mentioned from New York Magazine on young children acing intelligence tests
http://nymag.com/news/features/63427/

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Here is the clip we watched from What Not to Wear…

The Fun Theory – http://www.thefuntheory.com/

Here are the clips that we watched in class along with a few extras:

Interview with Sandy Allen

This article appeared in the NY Times soon after Sandy died.  I think it is a lovely tribute to her.

The world’s tallest man (Bao Xishun) meets the world’s shortest man (He Pingping).

Smallest man (He Pingping) meets woman with the longest legs (Svetlana Pankratova)

I mentioned this video in class.  It is of Leonid Stadnyk who recently surpassed Bao Xishun as the world’s tallest man.  He is the one who developed frostbite because he didn’t have shoes and also has to stoop to get around his own house.

Lastly, I am also including two videos on racial/ethnic profiling.  This first video is the one we watched in class on “Flying while Muslim”:

And, also here is an old episode of ABC’s Primetime on “Driving While Black.”  The quality of this video is poor (which is why I did not show it in class).  But the content is helpful for illustrating racist profiling by police of African Americans.

Here is  a link to the film clip we watched today in class. (The documentary is called People Like Us & is available in the IC Library.)

What are examples of norms that help us maintain distinctions between people of different social statuses?

Friday, May 8

7:30 AM

101 Textor

Don’t be late!  No make-up exams will be given without prior approval.

After reading Overseers, many of you have wondered how else we could approach welfare.  This article profiles the practice of a “welfare state” in the Netherlands – in which people are entitled to pay for children, vacation, etc.  This is one alternative framework for imagining how things could be different.  This article is good too because it offers a balanced approach – considering both the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03european-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Norms can change depending on your location and situation (Baker, 1/23). When I traveled to Germany, I entered a new group with a whole new set of norms completely different from the ones I had grown accustomed to throughout my life.