Need school work help...

[USMCSS]

Ok, I slammed with midterm school work and can barely think right now. I have some questions that I have to answer in essay form for a Sociology class and was hoping some of you high IQ people on here could help me answer them or at least give me some ideas. I'm just too damn busy...

Questions:
1. Using the ideas of culture, socialization and structure (roles/status), compare the behavior of customers in a fast food restaurant with the customers in an expensive, elegant restaurant. How are these behaviors learned?? What symbols are used in each place to indicate how one is supposed to behave??

2. Why do Americans seem more concerned about being overweight now than in the past?? What part does media play?? Using the World Construction theory of Externalization, Objectification, and Internalization, explain the phenomena.

3. From a functionalist perspective, how does deviance function to maintain society?

PLEASE keep thread serious and thanks for the help.

[RuhlFreak55]

sociology is the most useless subject i have ever been exposed to.......and jesus what level is that class? i don't recall learning any of that in my intro to sociology class that i hated SOOOOO much.....

[Bojangles69]

ill be breif..
1. behavoirs are learned through social conditioning and observational learning. We all form "shemas" in our head or shortcuts off how were suppose to act in a given situation through social conditioning.
2. well media play a large role but its society as a whole that has the most impact, cause society reacts to the media and conforms to a given image. Once the majority of society hosts this image, the influence for members of that soceity to resist conforming to that image is rather difficult due to punishment for noncomformity. gi-joes for instance in the past 20 years went from a little twigs to juiced up roid heads.
3. Deviance from a functional perspective serves society from setting examples of criminals who do break the law, members of society gain the benefit of realizing the law is real and to be taken seriously. Prostitution in a functional perspective would be viewed as something good for society because its preventing more serious crimes from being commitied, ie (i can rob a bank or go stand on a corner, i can rape this chick or pay her 20 bucks for a blow job) not saying i agree but its functionalists perspective not mine.
ive took like a million of these classes btw but forgot a lot of those phenomenas listed above.

[stunner5000pt]

why couldnt u be in physics or math... something that i am currently doing?

[USMCSS]

ill be breif..
1. behavoirs are learned through social conditioning and observational learning. We all form "shemas" in our head or shortcuts off how were suppose to act in a given situation through social conditioning.
2. well media play a large role but its society as a whole that has the most impact, cause society reacts to the media and conforms to a given image. Once the majority of society hosts this image, the influence for members of that soceity to resist conforming to that image is rather difficult due to punishment for noncomformity. gi-joes for instance in the past 20 years went from a little twigs to juiced up roid heads.
3. Deviance from a functional perspective serves society from setting examples of criminals who do break the law, members of society gain the benefit of realizing the law is real and to be taken seriously. Prostitution in a functional perspective would be viewed as something good for society because its preventing more serious crimes from being commitied, ie (i can rob a bank or go stand on a corner, i can rape this chick or pay her 20 bucks for a blow job) not saying i agree but its functionalists perspective not mine.
ive took like a million of these classes btw but forgot a lot of those phenomenas listed above.

Holy shit Bo!!! Are you a fvcking Sociology professor or something? That's some good stuff. Thanks!

Sorry stunner, I took physics a while back and have complete all my math requirements.