Assignment: Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying

Bullying is a difficult concept to understand and reconcile the consequences. This assignment focuses on the critical thinking skills that are needed to analyze an emotionally charged topic.

Watch the video titled, "From school yard bullying to genocide: Barbara Coloroso at TEDxCalgary" (19 min 5 s) located below. You may also view the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkG0nssouFg.

Write a one to two (1-2) page essay in which you:

1. Identify the most important step in the student's guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.

2. Define the identified critical step of research in your words.

3. Explain how bullying relates to one (1) of the following topics:

1. the agents of socialization (i.e., family, teachers and school, peers),

2. formal organizations (i.e., conformity to groups),

3. different types of deviance (i.e., everyday deviance, sexual deviance, or criminal deviance).

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Define the basic concepts used in the discipline of sociology.
• Define the various methodologies for sociological research.
• Identify the sociological perspective to the inequalities of class, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomics, and political aspects.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology.
• Write clearly and concisely about sociology using proper writing mechanics.