Category: Sociology

What is the difference between race and ethnicity? How could these two sociological concepts factor into present-day issues for minorities? Do you think these present-day issues are indicative of systemic racism?

What is the difference between race and ethnicity? How could these two sociological concepts factor into present-day issues for minorities? Do you think these present-day issues are indicative of systemic racism?

How can we ensure safe public schools while respecting all students’ right to education? What steps can you as an individual and we as a society take to make sure that all young people have access to quality education?

Criminal justice

Activity #3 is an excellent way to consider the relationship between the criminal justice system (the topic for this week) and education (the topic for last week). Read all assigned readings for this week BEFORE you complete this assignment. Folks tend to have very strong opinions about both of these subjects. Your task, as always, is to attempt to see these things from a sociological perspective, relying on research rather than opinions & emotions.

Go to : http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/school-prison-pipeline (Links to an external site.)

Scroll down to click on:

1) Infographic – to get statistics about zero tolerance policies, and your choice of either a video or one of the other short articles about zero tolerance policies and/or school discipline.

2) Answer the following:

Keeping in mind the week’s information about education, what may be contributing to the increase in suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests in schools across the country?

How can we ensure safe public schools while respecting all students’ right to education?

What steps can you as an individual and we as a society take to make sure that all young people have access to quality education?

(hint: at some point in your answers, you need to discuss the role of race, class, and/or gender)

How do you think the COVID-19 pandemic and the related changes may affect the accuracy of exit polls? How do you think people can improve the sampling of exit polls given the changes in voting behavior? Do you trust the results of exit polls you see? Why and why not? Why do you think we need exit polls to begin with?

It is just a discussion. Write a response

Nov 2 was the election date in many states in the United States. If you read the newspapers today (and maybe the next several days), you will find some discussion about exit polls. Last week we talked about sampling.

Exit polls are polls taken as voters exit the voting places. For exit polls to be accurate, getting the right sample is very important.

How do you think the COVID-19 pandemic and the related changes may affect the accuracy of exit polls? How do you think people can improve the sampling of exit polls given the changes in voting behavior? Do you trust the results of exit polls you see? Why and why not? Why do you think we need exit polls to begin with?

How has COVID-19″ affected your life?Since the pandemic started, what do you do for fun?How is that different from before the pandemic started?

How has COVID-19″ affected your life?”, your interviewee is probably going to stare blankly for a while and then do their best to try and come up with something to tell you. That question is broad that it would be hard to even know where to begin.

It’s your job as the interviewer to guide the interviewee’s thought process and help them make sense of their experiences. So, you might ask something like “Since the pandemic started, what do you do for fun?” You could follow up with a question like, “How is that different from before the pandemic started?”

What evidence does the pdf source, ‘Girls Finishing Last’, present for the lack of access to opportunities for African-American girls in school sports?How is racial inequality in sports perpetuated in college sports, according to the article?

Address the following in this essay:

How does a family’s income affect the likelihood its child will play organized sports such as tennis?

How are historical racial inequalities reflected in the rates at which children drown in swimming pools?

How has a Supreme Court decision from 1973 affected inequalities in school funding?

What evidence does the pdf source, ‘Girls Finishing Last’, present for the lack of access to opportunities for African-American girls in school sports?

How is racial inequality in sports perpetuated in college sports, according to the article?

What are the basic concepts in the study of race and ethnicity? How do sociologists think about racism?Discuss the realities of gender inequality in the workplace. Why do women earn less than men?

Exam 2 Questions

Answer 3 of 4 questions in essay format. The answer should be submitted in a typed, double-spaced format, in a MS Word document. Each answer should be 250 to 500 words in length (1 to 2 pages).

The answered question is worth up to 25 points. You may use any source available to you. However, all answers can be done utilizing your textbook and/or the PowerPoints. make sure to cite your sources AND make sure they are ACCURATE AND CREDIBLE. Good luck.

1. How does the United States structure class today?

2. Describe Robert Merton’s theory of deviance.

3.Discuss the realities of gender inequality in the workplace. Why do women earn less than men?

4. What are the basic concepts in the study of race and ethnicity? How do sociologists think about racism?

 

Do you believe that asking about gender pronouns is helpful?Should trans women athletes be allowed to compete unrestricted with other women?

Writers Choice

Answer both of the following questions separately .

1. Gender Pronouns:

Do you believe that asking about gender pronouns is helpful? Read the related article The Inclusivity Trap. Provide some reasons for or against language changes to accommodate non-binary options in other social contexts (college, work environment, etc.).
READING
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12JuMVPiy4H6kCmqZV9dxfXH5b8cYp5v-/view?usp=sharing

2. Trans Athletes

Should trans women athletes be allowed to compete unrestricted with other women?

USA Today, Sept 2019, Transgender Athletes Deserve Compassion but not the Right to Transform Women’s Sports

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/09/27/transgender-athletes-supreme-court-sex-equality-column/2421776001/

ACLU Four Myths about Trans Athletes Debunked

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/four-myths-about-trans-athletes-debunked/

ABC News Video, April 2021, Inclusion or Unfair Advantage?

A FEW SENTENCES FOR EACH IS PERFECT.

What are “categorical” measurements and how do they limit the ability to measure gender on surveys?hat do the researchers do to go “beyond” categorical measurements of gender? How do they measure gender?

Indexes and Scales

To what extent is one’s gendered self-concept a cause or a consequence of one’s self-rated health? Does the relationship between gender iden-tification and health hold when health is operation-alized using specific health behaviors or medical diagnoses?

Do these patterns apply to both trans-gender and cisgender people and children as well asadults? How would studies of structural determi-nants of health also benefit from a gradational.
What are “categorical” measurements and how do they limit the ability to measure gender on surveys?

What do the researchers do to go “beyond” categorical measurements of gender? How do they measure gender?

What is the “reflected appraisal gender scale” that the researchers use?

How did the researchers measure health?