Socs185n Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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 1 • Lesson • Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources Instructions The textbook reading for the week explores social forces that can affect the seemingly private act of suicide. For this assignment, conduct scholarly research on a different private or individualistic act that could be regarded as a broader social problem or social issue, something other than suicide. You may choose one of the ...

SOCS185N Week 5 Assignment; Essay - You Decide; U.S. Census

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Sociologist C. Wright Mills preferred to call the sociological perspective the sociological imagination, and he saw it transforming 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: • ...

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: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 • Lesson: Week 1, 2 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 • Arty Fischel is a veteran and just found himself homeless. Examine and explain some of the broad social forces that may have contributed to his homelessness. How will the sociologic...

Required Resources • Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 10, 14 • Lesson: Week 5, 6 Instructions Choose one question from each of the question sets below (2 sets total). In other words, you will beanswering two questions total (1 from each set). Question Set 1 • Briefly compare and contrast structural-functionalist, social-conflict, and symbolic-interactionist approaches intheir analyses of health and health care, generally, and, in particul...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 7, 8 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source 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, address the following: • Option 1:Briefly describe the per...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 9 • Lesson • Link (website): Pew Research Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. • Click on the Social Trends tab. • Click on the Interactives tab. • Locate the following link: How Census Race Categories Have Changed Over Time • Click on "1790" to see two columns comparing the 1790 Census categories with the 2010 Census categories. • Minimum of 4 outside...