SOC401 Identity and Social Change

soc401 Identity and Social Change

First, turn to the Needs-Based Assessments and Community Outreach discussion from Week 2, and choose your community and issue or a colleague’s community and issue to focus on for this assignment. Then, describe your social identity from an intersectional perspective and discuss how your social identity may benefit or hinder the community you have chosen to write about. Include any of the following social markers of identity: 

race

• ethnicity

gender

• sexuality
• religion
• military or veteran status
• family (single parent, co-parent, adoption, etc.)
• anything else you want to include
• According to the reading, what is the cognitive model of social rupture? In your own words, how does it apply to the community (or one of the communities) you chose to focus on this term?
• According to the reading, why do economists need to refer to social analytical concepts to understand and work to improve inequalities through wealth redistribution policies?
• How does an intersectional approach to social change benefit using civic engagement to effect social change?
• Overall, engage critically and avoid an editorial stance. Demonstrate your understanding of the week’s material and include your sources from the course material or elsewhere if you do any outside research.