• chart - for those of you who left early on Monday
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  • Let's say your data looks like this (either the blue, simple, or the pink, more complex)
  0 1 2 to 3 4 +  
men 4 2 2 2 10
women 2 2 4 2 10
           
setting A A B B C C
  boy girl boy girl boy girl
stereotype 9 9 8 6 5 4
not stereotype 1 1 2 4 5 6
  10 10 10 10 10 10
             

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Click the Icon with the little chart - Insert Chart

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Right click the chart and Copy

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Creative Sociology for Social Responsibility and Understanding
by

Anonymous
 

             On the web is a short video called “Children See, Children Do,” (2006) which calls our attention to a problem in which we all participate, know it or not.  The genre of video that it represents could be called Creative Sociology because it takes a well known Sociological concept, behavior modeling, and creates scenarios to make that concept very clear.  In so doing, this glimpse at human behavior makes all viewers stop and take a look in the mirror. 

           What we do when children are around is the makings of socialization.  We are walking mirrors; in the reflection lies our responsibility to humanity.  The reflection is taken and carried on by little ones coming after us, and in this sense we all have children.

            Most Sociology takes behavior and tries to shape it into concepts so that students of Sociology can make sense of the people and groups around them.  This video works in the opposite direction:  it takes a concept of Sociology and superimposes it with actors who act out the mirroring process that is behavior modeling.  We usually idealize children in images depicting socialization:  the happy child and glowing parents, radiating social values; the obedient child approaching a hop-scotch game; the alert one in the center of the desks in the classroom with her hand up; the pledge of allegiance to the flag--this is what we like to think of as socialization.  Typically these child-rearing images are positive.  In this video, it is the reverse.  All the children learn our nasty ways.

            While effective, this is not an image we wish to see, and this is the very power of the video.  The not-wanting to see that we can make a child smoke, litter, curse, discriminate, accuse, and ultimately brutalize is the very power that delivers the opposition to our hearts.  This is the power of Creative Sociology.

            Another popular video on the web is of an acceptance speech for an award is Pangea (2006).  In it, a woman award recipient speaks nervously about the power of video.  It is as if the power of video is in her very excitement which makes her nervous.  The power of video is exciting.  It belongs not to the woman receiving the award; it remains, as she says, to the subjects of the video, the life of whom is the dynamic of any sociological video. 

            Video is a powerful form of Sociology, whether it conveys details and reality of humans in our world, as this woman advocates and delivers, or whether it takes one concept, like behavior modeling, and conveys it better and more quickly than a dozen text books.  Anyone who views Children See, Children Do (2006) gets a good dose of what behavior modeling means and its disastrous effect when the model is of fear, small mindedness, and negativity.

            To test people's awareness of their responsibility to children, I created a brief survey that ... then data, finding, and conclusion-solution.

 

        Citation: 
        Children See, Children Do. http://youtube.com/watch?v=6JfHB2cruJU  (2006)
        Pangea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkWHsoR33sA (2006)