Take notes on the reading that are organized in a visually memorable way. Your notes must define key concepts and capture key points from the reading. You can just note the main point of those pages and a very short summary with bullet point.
I’m trying to study for my Sociology course and I need some help to understand this question. In three to four sentences summarize the main argument of Weber’s theory. In what ways were Protestant beliefs amenable to the development of a capitalist economy? Use your sociological imagination to develop your own summary of the “spirit” […]
I want you to read “Men and Jobs,” which is a chapter from a 1960s social study about unemployed men in Washington, DC. (Yes, I am assigning you reading that is more than 50 years old. It’s not a painful read. I promise. It is located on our course website). The chapter “Men and Jobs” […]
You will focus on developing a narrative using the document, Narrative Writing, as a guide. Choose a “life challenge” that is problematic (yet not overwhelming). Construct your challenge in a narrative/storied format. Then describe two different meanings that readers could find in your story (i.e., how you felt and how someone else might have felt […]
ASSIGNMENT: find an article in a scholarly journal on the topic of a social problem viewed from the perspective of aging. E.g. seniors and addiction; poverty and the aged; crimes by or against seniors; elder abuse; etc. etc. Then review the article. ? The topic I have given for the article is quite broad, but […]
Final Integration Essay: Integrate Becker, Sogyal Rinpoche, Thich Nhat Hahn,Levine, Castaneda and the other materials addressed during this section of the course around a core theme.
Choose two topics to discuss–one from Group A and one from Group B. Explain why (in your opinion) each concept is important for understanding racial and ethnic relations in the U.S. Research and find an example of each concept, then explain how each example relates to the concept. Group A Subsistence Technology Ethnocentrism (Noel hypothesis) Group Competition (Noel hypothesis) Differential in Power (Noel hypothesis) Group B Intersectionality Assimilation Pluralism. Then I will need to do a response afterwards.
Read the excerpt from C. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination. Then answer the following questions in one essay: What is the sociological imagination? Why might it be useful? How does Mills differentiate between personal trouble and a public issue? Why is this distinction important? Using your sociological imagination, explain how personal trouble from your own life could actually be part of a public issue. Be sure to support your position that the problem is indeed a public issue by citing either a newspaper article or a peer-reviewed article that reinforces the public nature of the problem.
Answer each of the questions below in short-answer format. Write your responses in complete sentences. Your answers to each question should include two to three paragraphs (125 – 250 words). What is the cult of the virgin, and what problems are associated with it? Name three ways sexuality is racialized in the United States. Look […]
