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Week 1 Discussion: Social Causes of Suicide Initial Post Instructions Sociologist C. Wright Mills preferred to call the sociological perspective the sociological imagination, and he saw it transform ing personal troubles into public issues. Let us begin our discussion this week by considering suicide, which is thoroughly explored in Chapter 1 of the textbook. For the initial post, address the following: • How does the sociological imagination help to examine private acts such as suicide within...

Required Resources • Textbook: Chapter 1 (review) • Lesson: Week 1 (review) • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions End-of-course student surveys exist for you to share your anonymous feedback on yourcourses. The purpose of the survey is to gather data from a specific population (you, the students) to understand your experience in the course, and to determine areas of success and improvement in our courses, including this one (so hopefully you do share your f...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 15, 16 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions For the initial post, address the following: • What items that you frequently use do you think have the greatest negative impact on the environment? • Explain how the use of the item impacts the environment and the people in your community? • What steps do you or your family members take to lessen your...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 9, 10 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions The lesson and textbook readings for this week emphasize that race, ethnicity, and gender are all socialconstructs. For the initial post, address the following: • Compare and contrast what is meant by the social construction of race with what is meant by the social construction of ethnicity and what is ...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 2, 3, 4 • Lesson • Link (library article): Games Children Play: An Exercise Illustrating Agents of Socialization (Links to anexternal site.)Links to an external site. • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions In the article noted in this activity, the authors point out that most introductory sociology textbooks identify the main socialization agents as family, pee...

Week 7 Discussion: Think Globally, Act Locally: In 1907 Leo Baekeland invented the first plastic called Bakelite that contained no molecules that existed in nature. It was 100% synthetic. Bakelite was invented to meet the demands of a rapidly growing electrical industry in the U.S. Many were excited about the invention because it didn’t only serve as a good insulator, but it was also durable, heat resistant and at the same time flexible enough to be shaped in many other products. It was m...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 7,8 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook/lesson) Initial Post Instructions Think of a person you know (either yourself, someone you know, or even a famous person with, perhaps a "rags to riches" story) who has experienced significant upward or downward mobility over the past three or four generations. For the initial post, respond to one of the foll...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 9, 10 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions The lesson and textbook readings for this week emphasize that race, ethnicity, and gender are all socialconstructs. For the initial post, address the following: • Compare and contrast what is meant by the social construction of race with what is meant by the social construction of ethnicity and what is ...