19 Jan Discussion Prompt 1:Choose a social

SOC280 Sociology

Week 1 Discussion

Discussion Prompt 1: Discuss how the sociological imagination may be helpful to someone who pursues a career in health care. Think of your current or future profession within this context and describe how your perspective may change now that you know how to use your sociological imagination to examine the workplace situation.

Discussion Prompt 2: What if you worked on research for a year and spent over a billion dollars, and then you discovered that some of the data did not support your hypotheses. Do you think it is all right to report on only the data that supports your hypotheses? Why or why not?

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Week 2 Discussion

Discussion Prompt 1: How do the concepts of role, role conflict, culture, and subculture apply to those who work in the healthcare field? Support your response with evidence from your readings or other sources.

Discussion Prompt 2: Discuss the social roles we acquire throughout our lives; be sure to differentiate between role conflict, role strain, and role exit. Explain how status relates to social roles and discuss the role examples you give in terms of ascribed, achieved, and master status.

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Week 3 Discussion

Discussion Prompt 1: Read, listen, or watch the media listed below.

Listen to the audio file, “Defending and Attacking Polygamy in Saudi Arabia.”

Read the article, “Adoptive Gay Father Families: Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Psychological Adjustment.”

Watch the clip from the movie She’s the Man.

What different interpretations of family and gender roles are voiced in the materials you reviewed?

To what extent do these differing viewpoints correspond or clash with Western notions of family?

Discussion Prompt 2: Think back on your life when you experienced a change, such as a graduation or a change of job. Discuss your experience with anticipatory socialization and resocialization. Describe how these concepts could apply to your next transition in the healthcare field.

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Week 4 Discussion

Discussion Prompt 1: Discuss social mobility in the United States. Be sure to discuss open versus closed stratification systems as well as the different types of mobility. Also, specifically think about the factors that affect occupational mobility and discuss how these may or may not affect you.

Discussion Prompt 2: Describe a highly publicized trial using the sociological concepts you studied this week.

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Week 5 Discussion

Discussion Prompt 1: In your own words, define discrimination and prejudice and provide at least two examples of each. Include both institutional discrimination and institutional racism.

Discussion Prompt 2:Review the following website, which provides statistics if the world were 100 people. http://100people.org/statistics_100stats.php?section=statistics

What is your reaction to this? Discuss this project in terms of global inequality, which you studied in this week’s materials. How could the different sociological perspectives explain global inequality?

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Week 6 Discussion

Discussion Prompt 1:Discuss how the institutions of government and economy may affect the healthcare institution. Support your response with evidence from your readings or other sources.

Discussion Prompt 2:Is it more important to focus on improving the economy or the environment? Explain your answer referencing both the conflict and functionalist perspectives.

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Week 7 Discussion

Discussion Prompt 1: Discuss how the institutions of religion, health care, and education may be intertwined. Are any of these institutions used to maintain social control? If so, how?

Discussion Prompt 2: Describe how sociologists define mental illness. Use the major theoretical perspectives in your response.

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Week 8 Discussion

Discussion Prompt 1:Choose a social movement that you are interested in researching. What was the role of communications in the movement? Which sociological theory best explains this movement: relative deprivation or resource mobilization? Would you describe the movement as a new social movement?

Discussion Prompt 2:Think about a new technology that you encountered in school or the workplace and analyze it from a sociological point of view. What do you think this technology contributes? Are there any negative effects of using the technology? Have you noticed any resistance to it? If so, why do you think this has occurred?