GC SOC100 Week 1 Discussion 1 & 2
Latest 2017 August
dq 1
Explain how experience shapes one’s attitude toward cultural
diversity. Give examples.
dq 2
Regarding the pioneers in sociology from Topic 1, which
theorists do you think have the most relevance for today? How do you see their
theories being applied today? Give examples.
GC SOC100 Week 2 Discussion 1 & 2
Latest 2017 August
dq 1
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
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,Race-Ethnicity
and Education, on page 276).
GC SOC100 Week 3 Discussion 1 & 2
Latest 2017 August
dq 1
How do group dynamics impact today’s workplace? Does corporate
culture and leadership come into play? How so? Discuss.
dq 2
View the videos “Classic Studies in Psychology” on the
Milgram studies in the GCU Library. Cut and paste the following URL into your
browser.
http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://digital.films.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=12129&xtid=40125
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 in Chapter 5.
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.
GC SOC100 Week 4 Discussion 1 & 2
Latest 2017 August
dq 1
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
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?
GC SOC100 Week 5 Discussion 1 & 2
Latest 2017 August
dq 1
Evaluate the positive and negative effects of Affirmative Action
in the United States. Target current issues, trends, and demographics.
dq 2
Discuss the concept of equality. Do you see equality happening
in our society? Why or why not? Describe your personal observations of
inequality.
GC SOC100 Week 6 Discussion 1 & 2
Latest 2017 August
dq 1
What global forces are affecting the U.S.
economy and politics? How do those global forces affect your own life? Discuss.
dq 2
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?
GC SOC100 Week 7 Discussion 1 & 2
Latest 2017 August
dq 1
How has technology affected your life? Be
specific as to what changes, and in what ways.
dq 2
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?
GC SOC100 Week 1 Quiz Latest 2017 August
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 1
1. Describe at least two important historical factors related to
the origins of sociology.
2. Do you think that sociologists should try to reform society
or only study society objectively? Give reasons why?
3. Describe and analyze your symbolic culture. What symbols are
the most significant for you?Give specific examples why you believe the symbols
you chose hold importance.
4. Describe an ethnocentric experience or a culturally relative
experience in which you were a participant or one that you observed.
GC SOC100 Week 2 Quiz Latest 2017 August
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 2
1. What Life Course stage are you currently in according to the
textbook? Analyze the stage based on your own experience. What are the
similarities and the differences?
2. Use the concepts of dramaturgy to analyze an everyday
situation at work, school, or family. Include the concepts of impressions
management, sign-vehicles, team-work, or face-saving behaviors.
3. From the interactionist perspective discuss how you engage in
your “personal bubble” using the four “distance zones.”
4. Give a brief discussion of three of the main agents of
socialization in your life. Which one was the most influential and why?
GC SOC100 Week 3 Quiz Latest 2017 August
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 3
1. Describe your in-groups and your out-groups. Give an example of
how your in-group has influenced the way that you see the world. Give an
example of how your out-group either changed or reinforced your view of the
world.
2. What leadership style or styles do you respond to in a
positive way? What type of leader is most effective in today’s bureaucratic
environment? As the group leader, how would you lead your team or group through
a project?
3. Select a deviant behavior with which you are personally
familiar (your behavior (s) or something that you know someone did) and choose
one of the theoretical perspectives to analyze what happened.
4. Describe a broken social rule that you observed. What was the
reaction of others? Why did people react in that manner? What was your response
to the situation and other’s reactions?
GC SOC100 Week 4 Quiz Latest 2017 August
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 4
1. How do property, power, and prestige affect your personal social
class? According to Marx’s conflict perspective in what social class do you
belong and why?
2. From your perspective, what are the current shifts in global
stratification? How does this affect the economic and political power of the
United States?
3. In the current economic situation in the United States what
do you project will happen to social mobility and the American Dream?
4. Describe the Horatio Alger myth. Based on your own experience
discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the myth for both men and women.
GC SOC100 Week 5 Quiz Latest 2017 August
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 5
1. Describe the difference between race and ethnicity. What
roles do race and social class continue to play in the United States?
2. Describe a discriminatory situation that you experienced or
witnessed. Identify the individual aspects of this discrimination. Describe any
institutionalized racism that you have observed or experienced.
3. What should society do to reduce the possibility of
discrimination in the workplace? What policies would you propose if you were
the CEO?
4. What are the current cultural trends for the elderly? How
does your personal culture influence how you will address the aging issues of
your parents?
GC SOC100 Week 6 Quiz Latest 2017 August
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 6
1. Compare and contrast the conflict and the functionalist
perspective relative to the political system in the United States. Select one
current issue such as healthcare, immigration, or one of your choosing and
discuss the issue from both perspectives.
2. Describe your family dynamics from the functionalist,
conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspectives.
3. What are the sociological characteristics of religion in the
United States? Build an argument that religion is likely to remain a strong feature
of life in the United States or why religion may not remain a strong feature in
the lives of Americans.
4. Select one of the sociological perspectives, the
functionalist, conflict, or symbolic interactionist, and analyze the problems
facing K-12 education in the United States. Describe three or four solutions
that you would like to present to your local school board to improve the
educational system.
GC SOC100 Week 7 Quiz Latest 2017 August
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 7
1. Describe the Malthusian debate relative to food in the United
States today. What are the major contributing factors to the lack of food?
Propose both private and governmental solutions to the lack of food issues in
the United States.
2. What are the challenges for citizens of both urbanization and
suburbanization?
3. Examine how social change has affected at least two
generations in your family. Give examples of societal changes such as
technology, media, or social movements that may have had a major impact. This
could include you, your parents, grandparents, children, relatives etc.
4. What environmental issues do you view as significant for your
generation? What steps need to occur to support a sustainable environment?
GC
SOC100 Week 2 Assignment Latest 2017 August
SOC-100
Social Media and Socialization Survey and Analysis
Part 1
– Survey
Instructions:
Complete the survey by filling in the first column of the table below.
Additionally, survey three people in various age groups, and note their
responses in the corresponding columns. Use this data to complete the analysis
in Part 2 of this worksheet.
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Social media survey |
Self |
Interviewee # 1 |
Interviewee # 2 |
Interviewee # 3 |
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List Demographic Information – age, sex, race/ethnicity, and |
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What type(s) of phone(s) do you have? What features? Daily |
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Do you use email? How many email addresses do you have? Daily |
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Do you use the Internet? Why? 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? |
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Out of all the social interactions you typically have in an |
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Do you value the social interactions you have through social |
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Why do you use social media? (List purpose and/or results.) |
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Part 2
– Analysis
Instructions:
Once you have completed the table above and reviewed the results, answer the
questions below. Each response should be three to five sentences in length.
1.)How
much of an impact does social media have on the socialization of people that
completed the survey?
2.)How did
the impact differ among the various age groups? Why do you think that this is
the case? Explain.
3.)Explain
how social media affected the people’s social interaction. Why is social
interaction important to humans? Explain.
SOC100
Week 3 Assignment Latest 2017 August
Details:
Choose a deviant behavior to research. Locate references
(e.g., current news stories, pop culture, and reality TV shows) that convey
deviant behavior being accepted or rejected/scorned.
Write an essay of 500-750 words, summarizing
your findings. Include the following:
1. What was the deviant behavior?
2. What were the demographics of the group
that witnessed the behavior?
3. How did the group react to the behavior?
4. Did the group attempt to control this
deviant behavior? How?
Use the GCU Library to locate one to two
academic sources to support your content.
SOC100
Week 5 Assignment Latest 2017 August
Details:
Search the GCU Library for articles that
describe incidents of gender, age, racial, and ethnic discrimination.
Choose two incidents of discrimination. Be
sure each is of a different type of discrimination (age, gender, race, and/or
ethnicity, etc.).
Complete the “Incidents of
Inequality” worksheet and submit it to your instructor.
SOC-100
Incidents of Inequality
Instructions:
After researching the GCU library to find articles that describe incidents of
gender, age, racial, and ethnic discrimination, please answer the questions for
each scenario.Write your response as a full paragraph using a minimum of 200
words 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?
Write
your 200 word paragraph for scenario 1 below:
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?
Write
your 200 word paragraph for scenario 2 below:
SOC100
Week 6 Assignment Latest 2017 August
Details:
Target a multinational
corporation/international company and the practice of “outsourcing”
to third world countries. Some examples of MNCs (multinational corporations)
would be Nike, General Motors, Ford, Qwest, and Fender Music. Research its
effects on local culture. Write a summary and analysis of 500-750 words and
include the following:
1. How
does global stratification impact local culture? What are the positive and
negative effects?
2. How
does global stratification impact the United States? What are the positive and
negative effects?
3. Who is
the biggest “winner” in this situation? Explain.
Use the GCU Library to locate two to three
academic sources to support your content.
SOC100
Week 7 Assignment Latest 2017 August
Details:
Complete the “Pillars of Society
Matrix” worksheet.
Use your assigned Readings and the GCU Library
for research support.
While GCU style format is not required for the
body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text
citations and references should be presented using GCU documentation
guidelines, which can be found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student
Success Center.
SOC-100 Pillars of Society Matrix
Part 1: Matrix
Instructions: Complete the
matrixbelow. Each cell/cube of the matrix needs to have a three- to
five-sentence response.
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Pillars |
What have youread about |
What have youobservedabout how |
How does your community impact the |
How has technology impacted each |
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Politics |
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Marriage and Family |
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Religion |
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Education |
Part 2: Summary
Instructions:Write a 100-150-word
summary of your matrix. Cite one to two resources you used to complete the
matrix.
