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WORKBOOK #2
I will attach attachments regarding class cources once the assignment is accepted. as well as feedback i recieved on my last one. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS VERY CAREFULLY. I have attached screenshots of the rubric. Please follow each step of the rubric.
Name & Student ID # : __________________________________________________________
Workbooks provide opportunities to relate course materials to media, experiences, and supplemental resources in a personal/reflective manner. Full credit responses meet length requirements, adhere to format/citation specifications outlined below, and sufficiently address every component of each prompt – while applying and citing at least 2 course concepts. A typical paragraph includes 4-8 sentences. Length specifications indicate the minimum expected, but you will not be marked down for exceeding limits. Insights should be original, well thought out, and supported by materials.
Responses can either be elaborated on in a short essay that is 4 paragraphs long – or as short answers which address each prompt’s components (bullet points format) within the same approximate length. Overall, Workbook #2 should come out to a total of 3 prompt responses, 12 paragraphs, and 6 cited concepts. No cover page or References section are necessary. When citing materials, only note the author(s), publication year, and relevant page numbers or resource details in the parentheses (i.e. Conley, 2015, p.209). To cite any concept from a lecture, guide, or slides – just note my surname, the course number, and resource. Examples: (Plaček, 2025 SOC 132 Recorded Lecture on Gangs); (Plaček, 2025 SOC 132 Lecture 9-29-2025); or (Plaček, 2025 SOC 132 Week #2 Guide). You can apply any relevant concept from any week's materials but do not reuse the same concepts. For example, do not cite “grounded theory" more than once. You may cite two different concepts from the same resource – hence, you can define/apply "emerging adulthood” and "principle of least interest" as two concepts for prompt #3 even though both are drawn from the same resource (Ansari & Klinenberg, 2015). Course materials are limited to slides, guides, recorded lectures, live lectures, and mandatory readings or videos. Unless it was specifically covered in a review guide or lecture, do not cite supplemental resources. No credit will be awarded for any portion that appears to be AI generated, plagiarized, your own work submitted to another class, or insights we already covered in this class. If there’s any prompt that you’re uncomfortable with, discuss alternative options with me at least one week before the deadline.
You may type responses directly in this file or onto a single-spaced standard and font size on numbered pages with 1-inch margins. List your full name and ID number at the top, followed by responses to each prompt. Make sure to follow these general directions and that components/rubrics for each prompt are removed. Upload as a doc or pdf to the allotted space in the “Assignments” tab of Canvas by Friday 12/5.
TOTAL POSSIBLE = 25 points
-0.75 points will be deducted for each missing or incorrectly applied citation;
-4.5 if there are no course materials properly cited in all 3 prompts (6 total are required)
-10% off any prompt’s total possible score for lengthy quotes, listing titles, or redundant content
-3 points from overall score for not adhering to format
(standard font and font size, numbered pages, single spaced, 1-inch margins)
Unless there are documented/exigent circumstances, 3% (-0.75) will be subtracted from the overall score for each day it’s late. ***No Coursework will be accepted beyond 12/12 @ 11:59pm***
PROMPT #1 – IDENTITY PERFORMANCE & MAINTENANCE (+7.5 points)
(#1) Describe 3 deviance neutralization or identity work strategies that you have performed at some point in your life. Why/how was each strategy advantageous within this specific time and/or context? What functions or purposes did each tactic serve?
why/how identity work strategy #1 was advantageous in a certain situation/s or context/s
purposes/functions of identity work strategy #1
what difficulties or limitations you experienced while performing strategy #1
why/how identity work strategy #2 was advantageous in a certain situation/s or context/s
purposes/functions of identity work strategy #2
what difficulties or limitations you experienced while performing strategy #2
why/how identity work strategy #3 was advantageous in a certain situation/s or context/s
purposes/functions of identity work strategy #3
what difficulties or limitations you experienced while performing strategy #3
3 tactics should be drawn from my “Handout on Identity Management & Stigma Neutralization Strategies.” Examples include: fictive storytelling, embellishing, front, cover, hiding in plain sight, stigma embracement, persona, stigma distancing, full disclosure, selective disclosure, concealment, or geographic distancing.
…up to 7.5 points (+0.5 x 3 correctly defines/applies each identity work strategy; +0.5 x 3 how each strategy was beneficial in that context; +1 x 3 functions/purposes of each tactic; +0.5 x 3 limitations/difficulties with these strategies)
PROMPT #2 – ORGANIZATIONS (+9.5 points)
FILMS: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Don’t Look Up, Glengarry Glen Ross, Office Space, The Devil Wears Prada,
The Social Network, Sorry to Bother You, Waiting, The Wolf of Wall Street, Wall Street
TV SHOWS:
30 Rock (2006 – Peacock, Hulu/Disney+, Amazon); Better Off Ted (2009 – Amazon); Billions (2016 – Paramount+); Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013 – Netflix, Peacock); DMV (2022 – Hulu/Disney+, Paramount+);
Grey’s Anatomy (2005 – Netflix, Amazon, Apple+, Hulu/Disney+); House (2009 – Hulu/Disney+, Amazon, Apple+, Peacock); Industry (2020 – HBO Max); Inside Job (2021 – Netflix); Mad Men (2007 – Apple+, AMC+); Mythic Quest (2020 – Apple+); The Bear (2022 – Hulu/Disney+); The Office (2005 – Peacock, Hulu/Disney+); The Pitt (2025 – HBO Max); The Practice (1997 – Amazon); The Studio (2025 – Apple+); Parks & Recreation (2009 – Peacock, Amazon); Scrubs (2001 – Hulu/Disney+, Amazon, Apple+); Severance (2022 – Apple+); Silicon Valley (2022 – HBO Max); Suits (2011 – Netflix, Peacock);
Superstore (2015 – Peacock, Hulu/Disney+); Veep (2012 – HBO Max, Amazon)
(#2) Watch a film or TV show which is centered around people interacting within the workplace (examples are listed above). Do not analyze Big Bang Theory, Ugly Betty, The Rehearsal, or any other portrayals that are covered in this class. If a TV show is chosen, then you may reflect on either just one episode or more.
Describe the occupation/s being presented, and the demographics of employees
How would you characterize the workplace’s environment/culture, and relationships among employees?
Explain how 3 “organizational concepts” were reflected within this workplace
How does each of these concepts impact one or more of the employees – and contribute to inequalities or negative/unequal outcomes more broadly?
How this portrayal reflects organizational theory #1
Effects of organizational theory #1 on employees
Ways that organizational theory #1 contributes to inequalities
How this portrayal reflects organizational theory #2
Effects of organizational theory #2 on employees
Ways that organizational theory #2 contributes to inequalities
How this portrayal reflects organizational theory #3
Effects of organizational theory #3 on employees
Ways that organizational theory #3 contributes to inequalities
3 concepts should be drawn from the Week #9 Review Guide section titled “Organizational Theories.” Some examples include: occupational segregation, devalued labor, social closure processes, hostile environment, glass escalators, glass ceiling, nepotism, tokenization, cumulative advantage etc.
…up to +9.5 points (+0.5 portrayal of occupation; +0.5 demographics of employees; +0.5 culture/ environment; +0.5 relationships among coworkers; +1 x 3 depiction of each occupational concept; +0.75 x 3 effects of each theory on workers; +0.75 x 3 how each concept contributes to inequalities
***RESPOND TO EITHER PROMPT #3 OR ALTERNATE PROMPT #3B –
YOU DO NOT NEED TO COMPLETE BOTH PROMPTS BELOW***
PROMPT #3 – RELATIONSHIPS (+8 points)
(#3) Share what you’ve learned from Modern Romance with a consenting friend or family member who is 10+ years older than you. Ask them to describe their experiences with related topics like relationship types (i.e. companionate, soulmate, financial), dating, selecting partners, marriage, parenting, or narratives about love. How do they feel about today’s dating contexts, technologies, and norms? Please also protect the anonymity of anyone mentioned by avoiding identifiers and using pseudonyms (not their real names).
Describe some of your interviewee’s experiences with how they would meet potential love interests and what the norms or practices were like with dating
What kinds of factors influenced your interviewee’s decisions about who they wanted for a partner – or what traits did they look for in a partner?
What are some of your interviewee’s understandings about love, marriage, and/or parenthood? Do they regard partnership as more about companionship, soulmates, financial stability, creating a family etc.?
What does your interviewee think of today’s technologies & contexts related to dating?
…up to 8 points (+2 dating experiences; +2 factors/traits regarding partner selection;
+2 understandings about love, marriage or parenthood; +2 views on current techs & contexts)
OR●
ALTERNATE PROMPT #3B – TOTAL/HIGH CONTROL & SELF-SEALING INSTITUTIONS (+8 pts)
AMAZON PRIME: The Source Family; Seduced - Inside the NXIVM Cult (also on Starz)
NETFLIX: Dancing for the Devil; Wild Wild Country; Keep Sweet Pray & Obey; Escaping Twin Flames;
Waco - American Apocalypse; Orgasm Inc. – The Story of One Taste; Raël, Sins of Our Mother; Trainwreck – The Cult of American Apparel; The Doomsday Cult of Antares de la Luz
HULU/DISNEY+: Stolen Youth - Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence; Jonestown - The Women Behind the Massacre; Cult Massacre - One Day in Jonestown
HBO MAX: The Way Down - God, Greed & the Cult of Gwen Shamblin; The Synanon Fix; The Vow;
Love Has Won - The Cult of Mother of God; Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence; The Radical Story of Patty Hearst; People Investigates Cults (2 seasons of episodes featuring different groups)
(#3B) Watch a documentary film or series about a group which could be described as a total/high control organization with a self-sealing belief system (examples are noted above). Do not write about Heaven’s Gate, Manson Family, gangs, prisons, or any other totalizing groups that were already covered in this class.
Provide citation(s) for any resource/s that you used (citing two course materials is still required)
What are some traits which renders this group a “totalizing organization” (i.e. use of isolation, uniforms, routinization, strict diets, group-centric identities, deindividuation tactics)?
What is the main feature of a “self-sealing belief system”?
Describe one example which reflects why this group’s ideology could be characterized as self-sealing.
What does “bounded choice theory” suggest? Why might the sense of free will/choice of a member within this group be limited or bounded?
What are 3 informal sanctions/control methods used by this group, and what purposes does each serve?
control method #1 & its purposes/functions
control method #2 & its purposes/functions
control method #3 & its purposes/functions
Describe 3 long-term effects that involvement may have on a participant, their wellbeing, and/or life-course outcomes.
effect/outcome #1
effect/outcome #2
effect/outcome #3
Control Methods/Informal Sanctions should be unique from totalizing traits. Examples include moral injury, kompromat, mutually assured destruction, chemical influence/restraint, financial controls (i.e. debt, taxing, pyramid structures, jobs), depatterning methods, psychic driving tactics, demotion, humiliation, excommunication, ejection). These are practices that amplify compliance via mechanisms of discipline, regulation, incrimination, complicity, punishment, or debt.
…up to +8 points (+0.25 cite resource/s; +1 traits as totalizing; +0.25 main feature of self-sealing belief system; +0.75 example of why this group is self-sealing; +0.25 defines bounded choice;
+1 why a member’s choices may be limited/bounded; +0.25 x 3 correctly identifies each informal sanction/control method; +0.75 x 3 functions/purposes of each method; +0.5 x 3 effects on a participant, their wellbeing, and/or outcomes)
WORKBOOK #2 RUBRIC
PROMPT #1 (TOTAL + / 7.5)
/+0.5 correctly applies identity work tactic #1
/+0.5 what specific time/context identity work tactic #1was useful for
/+1 functions/purposes of strategy #1
/+0.5 difficulties or limitations with performing strategy #1
/+0.5 correctly applies identity work tactic #2
/+0.5 what specific time/context identity work tactic #2 was useful for
/+1 functions/purposes of strategy #2
/+0.5 difficulties or limitations with performing strategy #2
/+0.5 correctly applies identity work tactic #3
/+0.5 what specific time/context identity work tactic #3 was useful for
/+1 functions/purposes of strategy #3
/+0.5 difficulties or limitations with performing strategy #3
PROMPT #2 (TOTAL /+9.5)
/+0.5 portrayal of occupation
/+0.5 demographics of employees
/+0.5 workplace environment/culture
/+0.5 relationships among coworkers
/+1 depiction of organizational concept #1
/+0.75 effects of organizational concept #1 on employees
/+0.75 how organizational concept #1 contributes to inequalities
/+1 depiction of organizational concept #2
/+0.75 effects of organizational concept #2 on employees
/+0.75 how organizational concept #2 contributes to inequalities
/+1 depiction of organizational concept #3
/+0.75 effects of organizational concept #3 on employees
/+0.75 how organizational concept #3 contributes to inequalities
PROMPT #3 (TOTAL /+8)
/+2 interviewee’s experiences with meeting people & dating
/+2 factors pertaining to partner selection & desired traits
/+2 understandings/narratives about love, marriage and/or parenthood
/+2 views on current technologies & contexts
OR●
ALTERNATE PROMPT #3B (TOTAL / +8)
/+0.25 lists citations for materials which covered the high control group analyzed
/+1 group’s traits as a totalizing institution
/+0.25 main feature of self-sealing belief system
/+0.75 example of how this group reflects a self-sealing system
/+0.25 definition of bounded choice
/+1 why a member’s sense of free will/choice might be regarded as limited/bounded
/+0.25 x 3 correctly identifies informal sanctions/control methods used
/+0.75 x 3 functions/purpose of each method
/+0.5 x 3 effects on a participant, their wellbeing, and/or life-course outcomes
____citation penalties (-0.75 for each missing or incorrect citation; -4.5 if none; 6 total required)
____late penalties (-0.75 per day late; no coursework will be accepted beyond 12/12)
_____ formatting penalties (-3)
_____-10% off any prompt’s total possible score for lengthy quotes, listing titles, or redundant content format