SMC The Sociological Imagination and the Coronavirus Journals

Analytic Sociological Journal             

Sociological Journal Guidelines and Instructions

the Sociological Journal offers students the opportunity to write about connections between their own lives and sociological concepts. Students write a total of THREE responses to the prompts below. Please address the entire prompt and thoroughly elaborate on the examples discussed. Your journal entries should be well organized, well-structured, and well-written. College-level writing is expected for this assignment. Make sure to use paragraph breaks in your journals.

Journal Prompts

Journal #1: The Sociological Imagination and the Coronavirus: Drawing from Chapter 1, define and describe the sociological imagination. Using the concept of the sociological imagination, discuss how our society’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic is shaping your life (remember, it is society’s response to the Coronavirus that is shaping our lives, not only the virus itself*). Please address the economy, education, media, and/or family (choose two).

Journal #2, Theory and Coronavirus: Drawing from any chapter you would like, discuss the major tenets of functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Discuss which theory you find the most helpful in understanding the spread of the Coronavirus and our society’s response to the virus? *Hint: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the three theories. Also, in most chapters, there are examples of how the theories are applied to various social issues.

Journal #3, Race-Ethnicity and Coronavirus: Drawing from Chapter 8, Chapter 14, AND a newspaper article* of your choice discuss how racial-ethnic inequality is shaping the spread of the Coronavirus itself (i.e., the epidemiology of the virus) in the U.S. You may focus on a specific U.S. city or state or the entire U.S. The newspaper article must be from a credible source like the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Fox, CNN, etc.

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