Socs 185n discussion Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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 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: 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 ...

Week 7 Discussion: Think Globally, Act Locally: In 1907 Leo Baekeland invented the first plastic called Bakelite that contained no molecules that existed in nature. It was 100% synthetic. Bakelite was invented to meet the demands of a rapidly growing electrical industry in the U.S. Many were excited about the invention because it didn’t only serve as a good insulator, but it was also durable, heat resistant and at the same time flexible enough to be shaped in many other products. It was m...

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...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 7,8 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook/lesson) 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, respond to one of the foll...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 5,6 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) 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...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 9, 10 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions The lesson and textbook readings for this week emphasize that race, ethnicity, and gender are all socialconstructs. For the initial post, address the following: • Compare and contrast what is meant by the social construction of race with what is meant by the social construction of ethnicity and what is ...

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...