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SOCS185N Week 5 Assignment; Essay - You Decide; U.S. Census

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 • Lesson: Week 3, 4 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 Explain the difference between income inequality and wealth inequality in the United States. Explain the racialwealth gap.What is social stratification? Examine four common ways or syst...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 1 • Lesson • Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources 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 ...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 1-6 • Lesson: Week 1, 2, 3 • Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources • One personal interview of another person Introduction There is a strong tradition of writing both sociologically-informed biographies and sociologically-informedautobiographies in the discipline of sociology. For this assignment, you will be doing a bit of both of those. Youwill both reflect on your own life story, mak...

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 outside...

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: • Textbook: Chapter 1 • Lesson • Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources 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 ...

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 outside...

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...