Critically and objectively at the argument put forth in the article “Fighting Constantly After Baby? Read This” by Jessica Grose.
Fighting Constantly After Baby? Read This (https://www.nytimes.com/article/fighting-after-baby-guide.html#:~:text=Sociologists%20theorize%20that%2C%20in%20heterosexual,relationships%20are%20no%20longer%20fi)
Chapter 20 deals with the issue of social change. Sociologists tell us that social change is created by a) new technologies and or b) new or shifting ideas or beliefs. Maybe it’s both, but we have to understand it is generally one or the other that leads the way. For example – from the 1940’s until the 1990’s China did not accept the idea that Capitalism was or could be a useful way to organize their economy. In the 1990’s, China got rid of its Soviet-style, state run, planned economy. In less than 3 decades, the nation was transformed from a impoverished third-world nation to the number 2 economy in the world. It was an idea that made this happen, not a particular technology.
So here we are in 2021, we are always on the threshold of change in America. What big ideas or big technological changes do you see in the years ahead? Is change something we manage well? What happens when we resist change?
In this discussion, you get to practice being a Sociologists by using Theoretical perspectives to explain what is happening in society with what is supposed to happen in society.
More importantly, you get to do so through a case that is currently happening and unresolved, which means you are doing the very work that sociologists are doing as we speak!
Write a three paragraph discussion based on the following
Identify two specific changes in social norms which occurred because of COVID-19 that will likely continue after the in the “reopening of the US.”
Use at least one theoretical perspective to explain how those changes impact particular social institutions.
In your answer, consider polices and processes at the national (and international) level and how that has impacted specific changes in norms and behaviors that have changed for you.
While you may consider values and beliefs, the focus of this discussion is on behavior.
Be sure to include concepts and theory/theoretical perspectives from the modules and also focus on the chapters that address social institutions.
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