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SOC280 Sociology

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss how the sociological imagination may be helpful to someone who pursues a career in health care. Think of your current or future profession within this context and describe how your perspective may change now that you know how to use your sociological imagination to examine the workplace situation.

DQ2 What if you worked on research for a year and spent over a billion dollars, and then you discovered that some of the data did not support your hypotheses. Do you think it is all right to report on only the data that supports your hypotheses? Why or why not?

SOC280 Sociology

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 How do the concepts of role, role conflict, culture, and subculture apply to those who work in the healthcare field? Support your response with evidence from your readings or other sources.

DQ2 Discuss the social roles we acquire throughout our lives; be sure to differentiate between role conflict, role strain, and role exit. Explain how status relates to social roles and discuss the role examples you give in terms of ascribed, achieved, and master status.

SOC280 Sociology

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 Discussion Prompt 1:

Read, listen, or watch the media listed below.

Listen to the audio file, “Defending and Attacking Polygamy in Saudi Arabia (Links to an external site.).”

Read the article, “Adoptive Gay Father Families: Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Psychological Adjustment.”

Watch the clip from the movie

She’s the Man. (Links to an external site.)

What different interpretations of family and gender roles are voiced in the materials you reviewed?

To what extent do these differing viewpoints correspond or clash with Western notions of family?

DQ2 Think back on your life when you experienced a change, such as a graduation or a change of job. Discuss your experience with anticipatory socialization and resocialization. Describe how these concepts could apply to your next transition in the healthcare field.

SOC280 Sociology

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss social mobility in the United States. Be sure to discuss open versus closed stratification systems as well as the different types of mobility. Also, specifically think about the factors that affect occupational mobility and discuss how these may or may not affect you.

DQ2 Describe a highly publicized trial using the sociological concepts you studied this week.

SOC280 Sociology

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 In your own words, define discrimination and prejudice and provide at least two examples of each. Include both institutional discrimination and institutional racism.

DQ2 Read the following

What is your reaction to this? Discuss this project in terms of global inequality, which you studied in this week’s materials.

How could the different sociological perspectives explain global inequality?

 If the World Were 100 People

Sometimes it is hard to understand how big, complicated, and interconnected the world is.

In the early 1990’s, Donella Meadows presented a framework for understanding the world as a fabric of physical, economic, or social relationships that determine world development. If we look at the world population as a village of 100 people, it is easier to know our world neighbors and we can often gain a greater understanding of some of the issues that affect the planet we all share, as well as learn more about what it means to be a global citizen.

The world population has now reached 7 billion people and the statistics have been updated from the original. The changes over the past five years are remarkable. In 2006, only 1 person out of 100 would have had a college education - today that number has jumped to 7 thanks in part to advances in higher education in Asia.

If we look at the world population as a village of 100 people, today:

50 would be female 50 would be male

26 would be children There would be 74 adults,

8 of whom would be 65 and older

There would be:

60 Asians

15 Africans

14 people from the Americas 11 Europeans

33 Christians 22 Muslims 14 Hindus

7 Buddhists

12 people who practice other religions 12 people who would not be aligned with

a religion

7 would have a college degree 22 would own or share a computer

Resources:

· 100 People: A World Portrait

12 would speak Chinese 5 would speak Spanish 5 would speak English 3 would speak Arabic 3 would speak Hindi

3 would speak Bengali

3 would speak Portuguese 2 would speak Russian

2 would speak Japanese

62 would speak other languages

77 people would have a place to shelter them from the wind and the rain, but 23 would not

87 would have access to safe drinking water 13 people would have no clean, safe water to drink

1 would be dying of starvation 15 would be undernourished 21 would be overweight

83 would be able to read and write; 17 would not

SOC280 Sociology

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss how the institutions of government and economy may affect the healthcare institution. Support your response with evidence from your readings or other sources.

DQ2 Is it more important to focus on improving the economy or the environment? Explain your answer referencing both the conflict and functionalist perspectives.

SOC280 Sociology

Week 7 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss how the institutions of religion, health care, and education may be intertwined. Are any of these institutions used to maintain social control? If so, how?

DQ2 Describe how sociologists define mental illness. Use the major theoretical perspectives in your response.

SOC280 Sociology

Week 8 Discussion

DQ1 Choose a social movement that you are interested in researching. What was the role of communications in the movement? Which sociological theory best explains this movement: relative deprivation or resource mobilization? Would you describe the movement as a new social movement?

DQ2 Think about a new technology that you encountered in school or the workplace and analyze it from a sociological point of view. What do you think this technology contributes? Are there any negative effects of using the technology? Have you noticed any resistance to it? If so, why do you think this has occurred?