Tag Archives: Sociology

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the author’s arguments and their contemporary relevance.

For this extra credit option, read one of the books below and provide a thoughtful reaction to the ideas shared by the author. This should be a critical analysis in which you first summarize the views presented by the author and then critique them based on your own knowledge, personal experience, and course readings. For […]

What are the similarities/differences between King and Thoreau’s approaches to civil disobedience?Discuss

1. If you saw a man walk up to someone sitting in their car and open their door, pull them out of the car, and proceed to hit and kick them with force as the victim tries to defend themselves – would you be justified in intervening with force to stop the attacker? 2. Are […]

How should governments go about limiting consumable items people like to use? Should it even be the government’s role to do so?

1. Do you think there are generational differences between how older versus younger people interact with the outdoors? Why or why not? 2. The commercial indicates that the older parents and grandparents are saddened because the children wanted to stay indoors. Do you see the children’s responses as problematic (something to be sad about) or […]

Discuss on the Blacks Lives Matter movement. What are the primary reasons provided for this movement; how valid are those reasons? What are the criticisms? What are the reasons (or fallacies) provoking these criticisms?

Write an essay on the Blacks Lives Matter movement. What are the primary reasons provided for this movement; how valid are those reasons? What are the criticisms? What are the reasons (or fallacies) provoking these criticisms? Just as for the other prompts, you must engage course materials and concepts in your essay.

Determine how to assess the assimilation progress of workers to different people and cultures. Is there acceptance? What are possible roadblocks and obstacles (e.g., language, common terminology, customs, and work ethics). As a consultant, how would you complete this assessment and report results?

Your objective is to determine how to assess the assimilation progress of workers to different people and cultures. Is there acceptance? What are possible roadblocks and obstacles (e.g., language, common terminology, customs, and work ethics). As a consultant, how would you complete this assessment and report results?

Choose the claim you think is the strongest and explain why you think it is the strongest claim AND chose the one you think is the weakest claim.

On page three of James Rachel’s the Challenge of Cultural Relativism, he lists six claims made by cultural relativists to support the concept of cultural relativism. Choose the claim you think is the strongest and explain why you think it is the strongest claim AND chose the one you think is the weakest claim. So, […]

Summarize the inequality and abuse single mothers face on both a micro and macro level.

  Step 1: Open up the paper with a summary of the inequality and abuse single mothers face on both a micro and macro level. By doing this, you will clearly be introducing the social inequality and the specific real examples that illustrates that inequality at the beginning of the paper. Step 2: You will […]

Discuss Based on the concepts from Chapter 10 in your text, what research method did Becker utilize for his study?What did he hypothesize about why individuals become marijuana users? What were the backgrounds of the individuals Becker interviewed for his study? How many interviews did he conduct?

1) Review the article “Becoming a Marihuana User” attached below. Answer the following questions and number your responses. 2) Based on the concepts from Chapter 10 in your text, what research method did Becker utilize for his study? What did he hypothesize about why individuals become marijuana users? What were the backgrounds of the individuals […]