I'm So Puzzled....

So while we're waiting to gather results on our theft study, we're taking a 2 day break to talk about sociological perspectives. We're going to introduce them formally tomorrow (get ready to meet the functionalist, the symbolic interactionist and the conflict theorist), we got a sneak peek at them through our puzzle activity today. Think to when you were a little kid putting a puzzle together. What was the first thing you would reach for? The edge pieces. Why? They put your picture in perspective. You know how big it is, you have an idea of what part of the picture goes where, etc. But then you didn't have any edge pieces today to start when you assembled your puzzle. A bit frustrating? I'd think so. You also didn't have the picture to start either. A bit more frustrating? You bet! How were you supposed to figure out what the picture was going to be? Well, you all came up with strategies to work through the problem. You knew to put the like-colored pieces together because those colors mean that they went together. So you figured out the FUNCTION of the different pieces, as well as the puzzle itself, you assigned SYMBOLIC meaning to the different pieces you used, and you might have felt a bit of CONFLICT between you and the puzzle. Looks like some sociology in a 100 piece puzzle box if you ask me :)