Please read “The Discovery of the Asylum” by David J. Rothman beginning on page 17 of your Latessa/Holsinger text (or under the resources tab above). Answer the following questions accordingly. Your responses should be based on what you have read. Please include citations throughout, as well as references in APA format. Your response is worth 20 points and should be thorough.

1) Discuss social changes occurring at the turn of the 19th century that would change Americans’ thoughts on crime and punishment within the following 10 to 30 years. 

2) Do we still base any current laws and/or punishments in religion? If so, what? Explain. 

3) Consider what you have read on page 21. If professionals and the community were unconcerned with prisons and their purpose, were they really a better alternative to capital punishment?

Book: C.J Pascoe Dude, You’re a Fag, Masculinity and Sexuality in High School 

3 Pages, double-spaced. No quotes. Just answer the questions below. 

1. Explain hegemonic masculinity and its connection to the fag discourse.

2. How was hegemonic masculinity and the fag discourse made manifest in your high school? Were you subject to it either directly (by being expected to enact it) or indirectly (by being the target of it)? You will be analyzing your own experiences in light of course material. An analysis requires an application of the course material that leads to insights about your real life experiences. An insight should be a conclusion or realization that is illuminated through the application of concepts or theories. In other words, you are using sociological concepts to make sense of your life.

3. How was the school as an institution implicated in either reproducing or challenging the fag discourse? How so?