Category: Sociology

 How typical is this family’s experience for the ethnic group in the city or metropolitan region? Note and explain any discrepancies.

Sociology case study..

What is assimilation? Why is it important 1) for the host society and 2) for the immigrant population?

Where did they come from? [be as specific as possible] Why did they leave? When did they arrive? What determined where they settled? Did they arrive as a family or in a “chain”? What resources, or “capital(s)”, did they bring with them that shaped the direction and pace of their assimilation?

Is there still meaningful ethnic persistence (i.e., partial assimilation) in regard to culture, social relationships, and marital choice? Does this slow or even oppose assimilation?

Is there evidence of a “new” ethnicity (e.g., Latinos, Desi, Chicano) that limits assimilation?

How typical is this family’s experience for the ethnic group in the city or metropolitan region? Note and explain any discrepancies.

With your case study in mind, is there political resistance to the group’s assimilation? Is the group assimilating in a position of inequality and subordination?

Discuss some of the structural changes and workforce changes that organizations have had to make in the last 5 years to account for advancements in technology? How has this impacted society?

Technology

Using material from the lecture as well as additional resources, and in 3-5 pages  do the following:

How has having access to digital technology positively contributed to increasing employment?

What role has digital technology played in increasing levels of unemployment?

Discuss some of the structural changes and workforce changes that organizations have had to make in the last 5 years to account for advancements in technology? How has this impacted society?

Describe how they offer new ways of approaching and understnading the workings of contemporary society.In what important and interesting ways do these approaches and understandings of social phenomena overlap, extend and/or diverge from one another? Do you find anything compelling or problematic in their appraisals of socail reality?

Drawing on these theories: Regimes of Truth, Disciplinary Societies, Surveillance Capitalism.

Describe how they offer new ways of approaching and understnading the workings of contemporary society.

In what important and interesting ways do these approaches and understandings of social phenomena overlap, extend and/or diverge from one another? Do you find anything compelling or problematic in their appraisals of socail reality? Critically assess with use of your own examples.

Demonstrate extensive knowledge of classical and contemporary empirical sociological perspectives and theories in making critical sense of the social world and lived experience.

Critically evaluate the diversity and complexity of modern and contemporary orientations within sociological theory

Evaluate and critique a range of such theoretical resources within the discipline

Reason critically about the key concepts and ideological emphasis of a range of contemporary theoretical viewpoints

Construct critical and informed arguments about their strengths and limitations

Evaluate contemporary sociological perspectives and theories in making critical sense of the social world and lived experience.

Drawing on your understanding and knowledge of the duties and powers contained in Children Acts 1989 & 2004, describe how you would approach this scenario if you were the social worker. Consider the situation both before and after the new information contained in the final paragraph.

Drawing on your understanding and knowledge of the duties and powers contained in Children Acts 1989 & 2004, describe how you would approach this scenario if you were the social worker. Consider the situation both before and after the new information contained in the final paragraph.

How might you apply what you’ve learned thus far in the course about the development of the modern food system to explain the global economic factors shaping labor exploitation in Thailand and the United States?

Labor and the Food System

In a minimum of two single-spaced pages, respond to the following questions:

First, what is a commodity chain, and how does this conceptual device help us to better understand the social relations that undergird our food system?
Second, compare and contrast the experiences of workers in the Thai shrimp industry with those in fruit and vegetable production in the United States.

What similarities and differences do you see in their experiences?
Third, while this week’s materials focused on two different sets of workers in two different countries, their experiences cannot be explained in national terms alone.

How might you apply what you’ve learned thus far in the course about the development of the modern food system to explain the global economic factors shaping labor exploitation in Thailand and the United States?

Finally, who do you think bears responsibility for the plight of the workers in the global south, and why?

 

 

Discuss the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.Discuss the general history of feminist movements in the United States.

Human Agency – Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures

Discuss the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

Discuss the general history of feminist movements in the United States.

Discuss the general history of the gay rights movement in the United States.

 Discuss with your peers (each 150 words) whether you agree or disagree with Mouffe’s approach to gaining political power for social change.

DQ 13: Hegemony & War of Position

Summarize (a minimum of 300 words) Chantel Mouffe’s argument on hegemony, war of position, and agonistic politics. (Lecture Notes/videos).

Discuss with your peers (each 150 words) whether you agree or disagree with Mouffe’s approach to gaining political power for social change.