sociology milestone 3

Milestone 3 Instructions

Answer each of the following questions.  Each of your answers should be a 150-200 words, be double spaced and have direct reference (quotes) to section content with proper in-text citations*

NO OUTSIDE SOURCES ARE TO BE USED

1) How has technology changed your primary groups and secondary groups? Do you have more (and separate) primary groups due to online connectivity? Do you believe that someone can have a true primary group made up of people they have never met? Why, or why not?

2) Do you consider today’s large companies like General Motors, Amazon, or Facebook to be bureaucracies? Why, or why not? Which of the main characteristics of bureaucracies do you see in them? Which are absent?

3) Which of the three theoretical perspectives best explains Deviance?  Why

*For this course you can reference the text as
(Griffiths et al 2015)

All text excerpts are from Griffiths et al (2015). If there is a quote or reference within a text excerpt; you include both the original author and year and the author and year of the work where quote/idea was found in the in-text reference. Add "as cited in" before the author in the in-text reference. For example - (Mills, 1955, as cited in Griffiths et al 2015). 

Mini lectures like this:
(Leduc, Fall 2025)

And videos like this
(Title of Video, Youtube 2025)