Socs185n - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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 5, 6 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Social psychologist Irving Janis coined the term groupthink to describe how people often respond differently in a group context than they might if they were alone. Another interesting topic of sociological study is the area of deviance and social control. The textbook provides multiples examples from history wher...

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 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 outsid...

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: • 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: Chapter 11, 12, 14 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions For this discussion we will consider if the social world can be bad for your health and/or if social institutions can improve your health. For the initial post, examine ways that some of the social institutions studied this week (the family, the educational system, or religions) might affect the health of ...

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: 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...