- •3D year
- •3.1 Lead-in
- •3.2 Language input
- •3.2.1 Consult a dictionary and practice the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations, quote the sentences in which they are used in the text or submit the examples of your own.
- •3.3 Background information Human Rights
- •3.4 Comprehension
- •3.4.1 Give extensive answers to the questions. Use the following expressions to present your answers:
- •3.4.3 Develop the following ideas. Make use of the active vocabulary and helpful phrases given in brackets:
- •3.4.4 Match the sentences in the left-hand column with proper ending from the right-hand column. Use background information from ex.3.3.
- •3.4.5 Scan the text again and find the English equivalents for the following:
- •3.5 Practice
- •3.5.1 Read the extract and fill in prepositions or conjunctions wherever necessary. Translate the text. Give the text the appropriate heading.
- •3.5.2 A) Read the text and fill in the gaps with the suitable items (a-g) given below.
- •Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights
- •3.7 Case study & role play
- •3.8 Grammar back up
- •If he has bought 250 shares in the company, he will postpone the possibility of a takeover.
- •I’ll come back later if you’re working at budgetary control now.
- •I won’t attend the Board meeting unless you go to.
- •If I knew the head office address, I would contact them.
- •If I had the full name of the bank, I would execute payment.
- •If I earned a lot of money, I’d started my own business.
- •If I were at the Board of Directors, I would support you.
- •I’d investigate the matter without any delay, if I weren’t so busy.
- •If I were you, I’d buy extra shares.
- •If I earned a lot of money, I might start my own business.
- •I could lend money to you, if you needed it.
- •4.1 Lead-in
- •4.2 Language input
- •Inherently selfless behavior –
- •4.2.1 Consult a dictionary and practice the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations, quote the sentences in which they are used in the text or submit the examples of your own.
- •4.2.2 Match the English word combinations in the left-hand column with the Russian equivalents in the right-hand column:
- •4.3 Background information Social Control
- •4.4 Comprehension
- •4.4.1 Give extensive answers to the questions. Use the following expressions to present your answers:
- •4.4.2 Scan the text to determine whether these statements are true of false. If they are false, explain why.
- •4.4.3 Develop the following ideas. Make use of the active vocabulary given in the brackets.
- •4.4.4 Scan the text and find the information to complete the following lists.
- •4.4.5 Scan the text again and find the English equivalents for the following.
- •4.5 Practice
- •4.5.1 Consult a dictionary: practice the pronunciation, define parts of speech and translate the following words and word combinations.
- •4.5.2 Read the extract and fill in the prepositions wherever necessary. Discuss the text. Provide the extract with an appropriate title.
- •4.5.3 Complete the text by using the following word combinations from the box and fill in the grid. Discuss the text.
- •4.5.4 Read the text ignoring the missing parts.
- •4.5.5 Look at the missing parts and fill them in the gaps. There is one extra you do not need.
- •4.5.6 Writing argumentative essays
- •4.6 Dialogue
- •Sociological Theories to Explain Deviance
- •4.7 Reading for cross-cultural associations
- •4.7.1 Read the text below.
- •4.8 Case-study & role-play
- •4.8.1 Develop the following ideas. Make use of the expressions in brackets.
- •4.8.2 Critical Thinking Tasks.
- •4.9 Grammar back up The Infinitive, Past Participle and the “-ing” form (Revision)
- •Review of Conditionals
- •Appendix 1
- •Appendix 2
4.4 Comprehension
Understanding the reading
4.4.1 Give extensive answers to the questions. Use the following expressions to present your answers:
It is arguable that …
It is generally accepted that …
One of the most controversial issues today is …
Another misconception is that …
The argument goes that …
It is worth mentioning that …
As far as I can judge, …
It seems convincing to me that…
1. How can social control be defined? What processes does it entail?
2. What forms of social control may be identified?
3. What is understood by internal control? What basis does it operate on?
4. What agents of socialization can be singled out? What function do later agents perform?
5. In what case are existing social norms internalized by the members of a society?
6. When does an individual experience sense of guilt?
7. Are socially desirable rules of behavior necessarily compulsory for all the public members?
8. What process is referred to as external social control? What tools does it utilize?
9. What is the essence of informal social control?
10. Why is informal control sometimes insufficient in complex large-scale societies?
11. What action does formal control encompass? Who are formal social agents?
12. Can any forms of social control operate simultaneously?
13. Who are “semiformal” agents of social control? What are their functions?
14. In what way does the authority of “semiformal” agents differ from that of formal agents?
Scanning
4.4.2 Scan the text to determine whether these statements are true of false. If they are false, explain why.
Social control is aimed at ensuring conformity to a norm; it comprises an array of processes by which society members define and respond to deviant behavior.
Internal social control operates through the process of socialization, which is learning how to violate long-established rules of behavior accepted by a society.
External social control comprises positive and negative sanctions and mainly relies on controlling individuals by using violence or laws that limit people’s freedom.
Continuing troublesome or offensive behavior, ignoring the disapproval of others a person seeks to avoid informal social control.
Professional controllers, i.e. police, courts and correctional institutions, try to bring people back into line with the rules by exercising their power of incarceration.
4.4.3 Develop the following ideas. Make use of the active vocabulary given in the brackets.
1. Social control entails rules of behavior that should be followed by the members of society.
( efforts to ensure conformity to a norm, to define and respond to deviant behavior, forms of social control).
2. Internal social control is the process of internalizing the norms of society and accepting them as valid.
( to operate through the process, to learn and adopt the norms of a particular group, an earliest agent of socialization, primary function, to be internalized, to fell guilty, a minority, not to accept legitimacy).
3. External social control is aimed at bringing wrongdoers back into the line with the rules.
( to step outside the lines, a system of rewards and punishments, to induce somebody to conform to a norm, a positive/negative sanction, to be noteworthy, to be coercive and repressive, to rely on force).
4. Informal social control encompasses interpersonal actions.
( to upset or please somebody, an unofficial capacity, to seek the approval, to adjust the behavior, to avoid disapproval, to discontinue the behavior, to ignore the disapproval, to be no longer sufficient).
5. Formal social control is an effort to bring about conformity to the law.
( to become necessary, agents of the Criminal Justice System, to have legitimate power, to occupy a special status, to sanction wrongdoers, to violate the formal code).
6. “Semiformal” social control deals with noncriminal social control.
( to cover a territory, nonpenal bureaucratic control, to be administered by the government, troublesome behavior, under somebody’s authority, an array of, to step in, to handle or control a person, to bring into the line, professional controllers, to possess the power of arrest or incarceration, to make recommendations, to have bearing on).