Socs 185n assignment Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Instructions In this week’s lesson, you learned about the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent racial and ethnic categories. For this assignment, consider the racial and ethnic categories used i n the 2010 Census with the four racial, ethnic, and gender categories used in the 1790 Census: Free white males, free white females, all other free persons, slaves (Pew Research Center, 2015). Analyze the concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender as social constructs, just as sociologists do, by addressing...

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 following or a topic of your own: Homelessness Veteran homelessness Domestic violence Addiction Obesity In an essay, address the following: Determine how the ...

Instructions Choose one question from each of the question sets below (2 sets total). In other words, you will … 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 racial wealth gap. What is social stratification? Examine four common ways or systems in which groups have become stratified. How does race or ethnicity play a role in the stratification? Briefly compare and contrast...

Sociological Imagination: Perspective on Domestic Violence Chamberlain University College of Nursing SOCS 185 Introduction Dome stic violence involves abuse or violence by someone against another person in a familial or intimate relationship such as a spouse or a family member. Domestic violence is not discriminatory and can occur in any race, social class, age group, and gender. According to the National Domestic Violence Statistics, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men will experience severe physical a...

Week 6 Assignment: Sociological Theory & Trends in Family Life Chamberlain College of Nursing SOCS 185: Culture and Society 1. Briefly compare and contrast structural-functionalist, social-co nflict, and symbolic- interactionist approaches in their analyses of gender stratification. Various perspectives are presented by the sociologists in order to explain the role of the gender and inequalities in the society. Gender stratification studies the inequality in terms of wealth, authority and freedo...

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: 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...