Socs 185n - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

SOCS-185N Week 7 Discussion: Think Globally, Act Locally (GRADED A) Course SOCS 185 Institution Chamberlain College Of Nursing 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 impact on the environment? What are some app...

SOCS-185N Week 6 Discussion: Social Institutions and Health Initial Post Instructions For this discussion we will consider if the social world can be bad for your health and/or if social instituti ons 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 the people in the institution. Address the following: What are some effects of family life on health? How ...

SOCS-185N Week 2 Discussion: The Games Children Play 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, peers, schools, media, work, and religion. “…[W]hat is far less often acknowledged is the contribution that children’s toys and games play in representing and reinforcing dominant conceptions of ‘appropriate’ social identities found in social discourse and ...

SOCS-185N Week 5 Assignment: Pre-Writing Map for the You Decide Census Paper

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 following or a topic of your own: Homelessness Veteran homelessness Domestic violence Addiction Obesity In an essay, address the following: Determine how the ...

Initial Post Instructions The lesson and textbook readings for this week emphasize that race, ethnicity, and gender are all social constructs. For the initial post, address the following: Compar e and contrast what is meant by the social construction of race with what is meant by the social construction of ethnicity and what is meant by the social construction of gender. How or why is it beneficial to view these as social constructs? For you personally, are your racial, ethnic, and/or gender ide...

SOCS 185N Week 3 Discussion: Conformity and Deviance (Option 1 and 2)/ Download To Score An A

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: Briefly describe the person (and be sure to respect confidentiality of others and, as always, remember to be respectful of potentially sensitive information, and remember there is no guarantee of p...

Week 6 Assignment: Sociological Theory & Trends in Family Life Chamberlain College of Nursing SOCS 185: Culture and Society 1. Briefly compare and contrast structural-functionalist, social-co nflict, and symbolic- interactionist approaches in their analyses of gender stratification. Various perspectives are presented by the sociologists in order to explain the role of the gender and inequalities in the society. Gender stratification studies the inequality in terms of wealth, authority and freedo...