Why do you think females make up such a small percentage of individuals in politics? Do you think one day there will be a female President of the United States? Why or why not?

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Females in Politics

Watch the video about Females in Politics(15 minutes) and answer the following questions:
1. Why do you think females make up such a small percentage of individuals in politics?
2. Do you think one day there will be a female President of the United States? Why or why not?
3. How do you think having Kamala Harris as the first female Vice-president will impact female participation in politics in the future?

You Tube Video
Someday: The long fight for a female president.

Write a brief reflection, about what she presents and the possible solutions.

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Family Income and Children Brain Development

Watch Ted talk with Kimberly Noble, a neuroscientist who studied how family income affects the brain development.
Specifically she address how poverty affects learning capabilities in children, from a very young age.
This video highlights the intersection of family , socioeconomic status/SES, poverty, education, social safety net program, and overall life chances of children who are born in poverty.
Write a brief reflection, about what she presents and the possible solutions.

TED Talk-Kimberly Noble- Poverty& Brain Development of Children.

Explain why some people are far more susceptible to addiction than others as the author illuminates striking neural similarities between drugs and other pleasures potentially capable of causing abuse or addiction.

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The Addicted Brain: Why We Abuse Drugs, Alcohol, and Nicotine

Addiction destroys lives. In The Addicted Brain, leading neuroscientist Michael Kuhar, Ph.D., explains how and why this happens–and presents advances in drug addiction treatment and prevention. Using breathtaking brain imagery and other research, Kuhar shows the powerful, long-term brain changes that drugs can cause, revealing why it can be so difficult for addicts to escape their grip.

Discover why some people are far more susceptible to addiction than others as the author illuminates striking neural similarities between drugs and other pleasures potentially capable of causing abuse or addiction–including alcohol, gambling, sex, caffeine, and even Internet overuse. Kuhar concludes by outlining the 12 characteristics most often associated with successful drug addiction treatment.

Authoritative and easy to understand, The Addicted Brain offers today’s most up-to-date scientific explanation of addiction–and what addicts, their families, and society can do about it.

Outline the basic concepts in family sociology. Include marriage partnerships as well as the patterns of residence. Discuss the major sociological theories on education according to your textbook. Can these be connected to the paradigms in sociology?

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Exam 3 questions

Answer 3 of 5 questions in essay format. Each question should be submitted in a typed, double-spaced format, preferably in a MS Word document. Think of each answer as a short paper that is 250 to 500 words in length (3 to 4 pages). Each answered question is worth up to 25 points. Make sure you elaborate with detail in your answers and make citations where appropriate. You may use any source available to you. However, all answers can be done utilizing your textbook. If you choose to use online sources make sure they accurate and credible.

1. Outline the basic concepts in family sociology. Include marriage partnerships as well as the patterns of residence.

2. Discuss the major sociological theories on education according to your textbook. Can these be connected to the paradigms in sociology?

3. Outline the different kinds of organized religion. What are the characteristics of these groups? Discuss New Religious Movements.

4. How does your textbook conceptualize globalization? Discuss the three tendencies.

5. Explain the social patterning of health and illness in the United States.

How do you know which items are intended for girls and which for boys? Are there gender-neutral items or non-gendered items?

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Module 4 Essay

Objective:

This assignment is designed to provide students with the opportunity to investigate the social world around them using a sociological lens and to apply the course concepts and readings to better understand
social issues. Introduction: Gender Socialization In a general sense the term socialization refers to the process whereby an individual learns and acquires the value systems, beliefs, behavioral norms and personality attitudes of a specific culture. How we interact with our environment and other individuals, and how we view ourselves within our
immediate context, often reflects the socialization processes that we have experienced. Gender socialization is one aspect of the socialization process in which boys and girls learn about being masculine or feminine in their society. In the U.S. one way in which we experience and express gender is through consumer items. From early ages, girls and boys learn about gender through consumer items such as toys, clothes, and even furniture that is marketed to them and their parents, and which they come to desire.

Assignment Questions:

Based on first-hand observations, discuss how consumer culture acts as secondary agent of socialization. For your observations, you are required to visit a children’s clothing and/or toy store stores. There are still some children’s stores at the mall like OshKosh/Carters that will work. You may also do this based on online data. Pay attention and take notes as to how the clothing, toys and other consumer items are organized. Your response should be at least 750 words – this generally translates to 3 pages (double-spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 point font). DO NOT include any identifying information you put at the top of your assignment in your word count or page count. Essay grading guidelines are posted to Cobra with this assignment. You will need to use connect your observations to course readings and materials. Your response should be organized as follows: brief introduction to the assignment, a body that discusses your observations, analysis of observations connected to course concepts, and a short conclusion.

Some questions to consider:
How do you know which items are intended for girls and which for boys? Are there gender-neutral items or non-gendered items?

What kinds of things do you think clothes and toys teach children about being a boy or a girl, end eventually a man or a woman? For example, think about how the clothes might affect a child’s movements, the messages/images on the packaging or clothing, and how the toys might affect a child’s interests both now and later in life. What beliefs, values, etc. are boys/girls and men/women supposed to like/dislike?

Are there any ways in which toys, clothing or other children’s consumer items encourage boys and girls to be similar to one another? Explain.

How do children’s clothing and toys perpetuate or challenge inequality, stereotypes, or other gender-related social phenomenon?

Describe any patterns you observed as well as anything you saw that was unusual or unexpected.

What is it that you don’t know that you don’t already know?

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Research and writing assignment

The major research and writing assignment is a 2,000-2500 word independent research paper. Here is the question you should ask yourself: What is it that you don’t know that you don’t already know? That is what research is about.

The education system in the United States is still separate and unequal. In your own opinion why is this still an issue (segregation) in 2021? What consequences do segregated schools have for students and society at large?

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Black Sociology

The education system in the United States is still separate and unequal. In your own opinion why is this still an issue (segregation) in 2021? What consequences do segregated schools have for students and society at large? In your opinion, what are potential remedies to address school segregation?

How does the dog, as a thinking, feeling, socially-complex being, interact with humans in a shared environment? Is the dog’s subjective agency recognized and allowed to flourish? Is the dog an object, symbol, clown, prisoner, slave, tool, property, friend, family member, something else?

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SOCIOLOGY OF DOGS & OTHER CANIDS

In this essay, we will do as Marie Fox suggests in her article and take dogs seriously, as part of our efforts to understand social life in a more complex, less-anthropocentric way that recognizes the affective entanglements of cross-species encounters. This essay will take the form of a multispecies ethnography in which you will reflect on the world of an individual dog who you know personally and your interactions with that individual being, using the course material as well as your own experience and other additional sources that you find are useful. This assignment asks you to make an effort to gain an intimate understanding of another individual’s life, to pay attention to someone else and to try to understand how that individual participates in a multispecies community.

First, your paper should say who this dog is and give some biographical information. But your paper should go beyond description to create some serious and critically-informed reflections on how this dog maneouvres in an interspecies social world and the roles and restrictions imposed upon this particular being. Questions to consider:

How does the dog, as a thinking, feeling, socially-complex being, interact with humans in a shared environment?

Is the dog’s subjective agency recognized and allowed to flourish?

Is the dog an object, symbol, clown, prisoner, slave, tool, property, friend, family member, something else?

What is it like to be this particular dog and how might this dog’s experiences be typical or abnormal?

How is the dog’s lifeworld coproduced through interactions and relations with humans?

How is this dog’s existence and status determined by institutional conditions and cultural practices?

What can your observations tell you about nonhuman personhood?

Much of our readings and discussions will consider our ethical relations with other animals and you should address those ethical concerns in your paper.

What are our ethical obligations to companion animals and are they being met in the case you consider?

In her book, Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz suggests that by paying attention to dogs, we may gain some new sensory experiences of the world. What else might we learn from taking dogs seriously?

What does it mean to pay attention to a dog? What have you learned from this dog?

Has the course material helped you to understand dogs in a different way? How? What is significant about such an understanding? What are the broader implications?

What ethical obligations do you have toward this dog and what obligations do we have towards dogs in general?

What does it mean to care for an animal? What moral responsibilities do we have to (nonhuman) others?

What kind of moral situation do we place ourselves in when we decide to own a pet? How does this alter our own positionality?

How does attentiveness to animals allow & encourage us to rethink our own lives and what it is to be human?

How does your investigation of an individual dog’s life inform your thoughts on how animals should be treated generally?

Should we give equal moral weight to their interests? What would this entail?

Your paper should not simply be descriptive but should place your reflections on an individual dog in the context of theories about our relations with other species. As well as making sure that your paper is explicitly linked to course themes raised in lectures and course readings, refer to at least 6 additional academic sources (Will add multiple readings from class, be sure to use them) to support the points you make.

Use social structure to explain why some Americans have such a low rate of college graduation.

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The major Components of social structure are culture, social class, social status, rolls, groups, and social institutions. Use social structure to explain why some Americans have such a low rate of college graduation.

Explain the processes by which inequalities are sustained between different groups in society according to (sexuality).

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Sexuality

Explain the processes by which inequalities are sustained between different groups in society according to (sexuality).
Make sure you use both (theoretical and empirical) studies and data to support your answer.

What they look for:

• Clarity of expression and presentation of work

• Content (including use of academic studies, evidence, academic referencing, understanding of key concepts)

• Analysis and critique of the theories/data.

• Evaluation of academic arguments

• Referencing and use of appropriate sources.