Required Resources • Textbook: Chapter 1 (review) • Lesson: Week 1 (review) • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source Initial Post Instructions End-of-course student surveys exist for you to share your anonymous feedback on yourcourses. The purpose of the survey is to gather data from a specific population (you, the students) to understand your experience in the course, and to determine areas of success and improvement in our courses, including this one (so hopefully you do share your f...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 15, 16 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source 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...

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: 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: 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 ...

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

Questions 1. How do food systems shape social structures (e.g. population, mobility, hierarchy, decision making, etc…)? In particular, how have changes in population size impacted social organization over time (in other words, explain the role that agriculture has in the emergence of the state (government) ascentral to socialorganization)? 2. In what ways is hegemonic “nutritionism” (Pollan) an outcome of the historical shift first toagriculture and second to industrialagriculture? 3. ...

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 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...