DQ 1
Max Points: 7.0
Explain how experience shapes one’s attitude toward cultural diversity. Give examples.
DQ 2
Max Points: 7.0
Regarding the pioneers in sociology from Module 1, which theorists do you think have the most relevance for today? How do you see their theories being applied today? Give examples.
week 2
Max Points: 7.0
Some typical agents of socialization are: family, school, religion, friends, relatives, and mass media. What agents of socialization have influenced you the most? Describe their influence on your attitudes, beliefs, values, or other orientations to life. How have they made you the person that you are today?
DQ 2
Max Points: 7.0
The major components of social structure are culture, social class, social status, roles, groups, and social institutions. Use social structure to explain why some Americans have such a low rate of college graduation. (See Table 9.3 on page 261).
week 3
DQ 1
Max Points: 7.0
How do group dynamics impact today’s workplace? Does corporate culture and leadership come into play? How so? Discuss.
DQ 2
Max Points: 7.0
View the videos “Classic Studies in Psychology” on the Milgram studies in the GCU e-Library at this link. Scroll down to videos 12, 13, 14, and 15: “Justification?” “Milgram’s Study of Obedience,” “The Results,” and “Milgram’s Conclusions.” Review the story in the text on p. 128.
Stanley Milgram’s classic experiment of obedience focuses on social control and social conformity. Review Milgram’s experiment. If you were King or Queen of your kingdom, what behaviors would you classify as deviant? How would you make your populace obey and conform? Think about it and formulate a response.
week 4
DQ 1
Max Points: 7.0
What are some ways in which our American culture stratifies people? See how long of a list you can come up with. Why do societies stratify? What do you think are the functions of stratification?
DQ 2
Max Points: 7.0
How do we in the United States measure social mobility? How does social class and life chance play out in social mobility? Where do you see yourself 10 years from now regarding your place in society? Why?
week 5
Max Points: 7.0
Evaluate the positive and negative effects of Affirmative Action in the United States. Target current issues, trends, and demographics.
DQ 2
Max Points: 7.0
Discuss the concept of equality. Do you see equality happening in our society? Why or why not? Describe your personal observations of inequality.
week 6DQ 1
Max Points: 7.0
What global forces are affecting the U.S. economy and politics? How do those global forces affect your own life? Discuss.
DQ 2
Max Points: 7.0
Does “Gene Simmons Family Jewels” depict a typical U.S. family? Why or why not? What is going on with the American family today? What historical events have played a role in shaping U.S. family life? What do you see for the future of the U.S. family? How do religion and education impact the future of the U.S. family?
week 7
DQ 1
Max Points: 7.0
How has technology affected your life? Be specific as to what changes, and in what ways.
DQ 2
Max Points: 7.0
Do you believe the long-term consequences of increased technological dependence are going to be good or bad? Explain. How do you see technology’s effect on society 20 years from now?
Instructions: Complete the survey by answering the questions that follow. Additionally, survey three people in various age groups. Use this data to complete the analysis.
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List Demographic Information – age, sex, race/ethnicity, and income. |
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What types of phones do you have? What features? Daily usage? |
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Do you have a cell phone? What features? Text? Daily usage? |
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Do you use email? How many email addresses do you have? Daily usage? |
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Do you use the Internet? Why? For what? Daily usage? |
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Do you blog? What types of blogs? Why? Daily usage? |
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Do you use Facebook? Twitter or other social networking? Why? Daily usage?
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Out of all the social interactions you typically have in an average day, what percentage are through the use of social media? |
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Do you value the social interactions you have through social media the same as those that are not through social media? Why or why not? |
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Why do you use social media? (List purpose and/or results.) |
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How do you see social media impacting your life? Society? |
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How do you see social media impacting the socialization of this generation? |
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Details:
Access the “Social Media and Socialization Survey” and “Social Media and Socialization Survey Matrix.”
1. Use the “Social Media and Socialization Survey Matrix” to take the survey yourself and ask three people in various age groups to take the survey.
2. Use the “Social Media and Socialization Survey” worksheet to analyze the findings on how social media impacts socialization.
GCU style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
Submit both the survey matrix and the analysis worksheet to the instructor.
SOC 100 Incidents of Inequality
Instructions: After researching the incidents of inequality, please answer the following questions for each scenario.
Scenario #1: _______________ discrimination.
1)Summarize the incident.
2)How might this situation affect the victim?
3)How might it affect the offending person or institution?
4)How do situations like this affect society as a whole?
Scenario # 2: __________________ discrimination.
1)Summarize the incident.
2)How might this situation affect the victim?
3)How might it affect the offending person or institution?
4)How do situations like this affect society as a whole?
week 7
SOC 100 Pillars of Society Matrix
Instructions: Complete the matrix by comparing what you have read with what you have observed in your own experience regarding the how the economy impactssociety’s pillarstoday. Additionally, describe how your community impacts all of the pillars.
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* Module 7 is targeting the technological impact on all pillars. Be sure to complete the last column during Module 7 before you submit the assignment to the instructor. For the “impact of technology” column, please explain how technology has impacted each of the four pillars on the matrix.
