Would you be willing to move into an area of high crime in order to get a good housing bargain? How do you think the current residents of an area being gentrified can be protected from rising rents and allowed to continue to live in the area? Should they be?

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Chapter 20 Discussion: Gentrification

Gentrification, the movement of middle-class people into rundown areas of a city. As a consequence of gentrification, the poor are often displaced from their neighborhoods.

Would you be willing to move into an area of high crime in order to get a good housing bargain? How do you think the current residents of an area being gentrified can be protected from rising rents and allowed to continue to live in the area? Should they be?

Think about impacts of earlier reform movements on your life today. How is it different because of earlier labor, feminist, civil rights, environmental, and educational or political reform movements?

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Reform Movements: Then and Now-How have they Impacted Modern Life?

Think about impacts of earlier reform movements on your life today. How is it different because of earlier labor, feminist, civil rights, environmental, and educational or political reform movements? Consider some movements that are not too old as well, such as movements to reform drunk-driving policies, to create an awareness of domestic violence as a problem, to provide access for handicapped persons, or to change laws to prevent discrimination against gay people. When you start thinking about them, you should be able to think of quite a few. You probably experience these movement consequences in a mixture of positive and negative ways. Discuss these consequences

After reading the required resources, explain why Emile Durkheim alleges that if we did not have deviants, we would create them. In other words, Durkheim is making an argument that having a group of people society considers deviant serves broader functions for society. What are these functions?

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Introduction to Sociology: 06 Socialization

Deviant Behavior

For this discussion, you must read Chapter 6 of the text, Introduction to Sociology: 06 Socialization o , the article, The Anomie Tradition: Explaining Rates of Deviant Behavior, Durkheim’s classic contribution o , and the Anomie theory reading from Key Perspectives in Criminology, found in the ebrary database. After reading the required resources, explain why Emile Durkheim alleges that if we did not have deviants, we would create them. In other words, Durkheim is making an argument that having a group of people society considers deviant serves broader functions for society. What are these functions? Support your answer with detailed examples.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

Using the Internet, find policy statements related to home birth and midwifery from two organizations. How do their positions differ? What evidence do they use to justify their positions?

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Policy statements

1. Using the Internet, find policy statements related to home birth and midwifery from two organizations (such as the World Health Organization, the Midwives Alliance of North America, the American College of Obstetricians-Gynecologists, and the American College of Nurse-Midwives). How do their positions differ? What evidence do they use to justify their positions?

2. From a medical sociology view, write an essay on the topic, which includes an analysis and a conclusion of your findings and your position.

3. Make sure to cite your sources.

Select a current bioethical issue you are interested in, search for an article on that topic from the last three years, print out a copy of the article, and write a summary of the article in your own words, but include an analysis and a conclusion of your findings and your position.

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Bioethical issue

1. Go to nytimes.com. Select a current bioethical issue you are interested in, search for an article on that topic from the last three years, print out a copy of the article, and write a summary of the article in your own words, but include an analysis and a conclusion of your findings and your position.

 

2. Make sure to cite your sources.

Would you be willing to move into an area of high crime in order to get a good housing bargain? How do you think the current residents of an area being gentrified can be protected from rising rents and allowed to continue to live in the area? Should they be?

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Chapter 20 Discussion: Gentrification

Gentrification, the movement of middle-class people into rundown areas of a city. As a consequence of gentrification, the poor are often displaced from their neighborhoods.

Would you be willing to move into an area of high crime in order to get a good housing bargain? How do you think the current residents of an area being gentrified can be protected from rising rents and allowed to continue to live in the area? Should they be?

Using information from William C. Cockerham, Sociology of Mental Disorder along with outside reading, discuss the topic from both a public perspective and a clinical one.

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Mental Disorder Analytical Paper

Select any are surrounding mental disorder – a class of disorders, our understanding of mental illness throughout history, your own personal experiences, etc. – and write about it. Using information from William C. Cockerham, Sociology of Mental Disorder along with outside reading, discuss the topic from both a public perspective and a clinical one. Address issues such as public acceptance, family support, the medicalization, pharmaceuticalization of mental illness, or any other aspect of that advanced your knowledge and understanding of this complicated topic.

Create a 15 min. to 20min. infomercial on the significance of the discipline of Sociology to the Social Sciences. In addition to discussing the significance to the social sciences provide detail on the relativity of the term, topic or theorist.

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Infomercials

Sociology Projects: Infomercial

Instructions:
Students are required to work in groups of three, students are responsible for developing their groups with their peers for this project.
Task: Students are responsible for creating an infomercial using a multimedia tool. Examples of multimedia presentation tool include the following:
· VOKI speaking avatars,
· Prezi Presentations, Voice Thread collaborative multimedia slide shows,
· Digital StoryTeller movies
· Glogster , interactive posters, websites

Students are required to create a 15 min. to 20min. infomercial on the significance of the discipline of Sociology to the Social Sciences. In addition to discussing the significance to the social sciences students should provide detail on the relativity of the term, topic or theorist, Students should consider these ideas for discussion, pick one!
· Discussion of Paradigm and their relevance to the sociological imagination.
· Important concepts in Sociology, for example: Gender, Institutions, Race and Ethnicity, Relativity of Deviance, Social Change, Sexual Orientation, and Crime.
· Sociological research, Qualitative, Quantitative, Mixed Method, and Research designs: Experiment, Participant Observation, and Surveys.
· Pioneers in Sociology, Classical and contemporary.
· Birth Date of Sociology
· Key contributions to the social sciences
· Discussion of Gender, Race, Stratification, Deviance, Crime, Poverty, etc.
· Students should tie in a picture and or a visual of themselves in the infomercial, Mandatory!
· Students are required to implement at least four references in their infomercials: Bar charts, graphs, histograms, YouTube, Music, etc… Please cite references for infomercial, within the infomercial presentation, Mandatory!!!

Based on what you have learned in class so far, coupled with your own research, write a 1-2 page paper discussing what Criminalization of Blackness means to you. Do you feel it is a legitimate issue, and if so, what do you think are the solutions to this social and human challenge?

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Criminalization of Blackness

Based on what you have learned in class so far, coupled with your own research, write a 1-2 page paper discussing what Criminalization of Blackness means to you. Do you feel it is a legitimate issue, and if so, what do you think are the solutions to this social and human challenge? Provide specific examples to support your stance or position. Use APA citations.

Write a properly organized essay on what is a Climate Refugee and how do you see this as a social problem? Use at least 5 examples from the video.

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Climate Refugees

Use examples from the Video:

Write a properly organized essay on what is a Climate Refugee and how do you see this as a social problem? Use at least 5 examples from the video.

Use Key Terms Provide
Link: https://tubitv.com/movies/463799/climate-refugees?tracked=1

Key Terms: Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Urban Sprawl, Suburbanization, Hybridity
Each logical point is backed up with examples. Evidence is strong and sufficient to advance the argument.
Thesis is clearly presented in the opening and concluding sections of the paper.

Clear organization with natural flow. Includes an introduction, transition sentences to connect major ideas, and conclusion Proper use of APA, including but not limited to, intent citations & a reference page. Each logical point is backed up by one or more examples. Evidence is strong and sufficient to advance the argument.