Socs185n Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 • Lesson: Week 3, 4 Instructions Choose one question from each of the question sets below (2 sets total). In other words, you will be answering two questions total (1 from each set). Question Set 1 Explain the difference between income inequality and wealth inequality in the United States. Explain the racialwealth gap.What is social stratification? Examine four common ways or syst...

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: Chapters 1-6 • Lesson: Week 1, 2, 3 • Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources • One personal interview of another person Introduction There is a strong tradition of writing both sociologically-informed biographies and sociologically-informedautobiographies in the discipline of sociology. For this assignment, you will be doing a bit of both of those. Youwill both reflect on your own life story, mak...

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...

SOCS 185N Week 4 Quiz-Exam 2 Study Guide

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...

1. Question:The basic idea behind demographic transition theory is 2. Question: ------- crowds provide opportunities for the expression of some strong emotion such as joy, excitement, or grief. 3. Question: Which English clergyman and economist warned that rapid population increase would lead to problems with the food supply and to social chaos? 4. Question: Zero population growth is the point at which _____ 5. Question: The environmental racism thesis falls within which theoretical approa...

Questions 1. How do food systems shape social structures (e.g. population, mobility, hierarchy, decision making, etc…)? In particular, how have changes in population size impacted social organization over time (in other words, explain the role that agriculture has in the emergence of the state (government) ascentral to socialorganization)? 2. In what ways is hegemonic “nutritionism” (Pollan) an outcome of the historical shift first toagriculture and second to industrialagriculture? 3. ...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 • Lesson: Week 3, 4 Instructions Choose one question from each of the question sets below (2 sets total). In other words, you will be answering two questions total (1 from each set). Question Set 1 Explain the difference between income inequality and wealth inequality in the United States. Explain the racialwealth gap.What is social stratification? Examine four common ways or syst...