Subject: Sociology Text Book: You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking
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Question
Subject: Sociology
Text Book: You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a ...by Dalton Conley
1. What does the social construction of reality mean? Use your sociological imagination to describe t least one aspect of your life you NOW consider to be socially constructed.
2.What are social integration and social regulation? Describe how these concepts relate to Durkheim's theory of suicide and give one example.
3.In what ways are societies stratified? How is the U.S. stratified?
4.Describe how socialization constructs and establishes gender roles in the workplace. Relate this to the glass ceiling and glass escalator concepts.
5. Describe three ways the legacy of institutional racism is apparent in the U.S. justice system.
6.Name three policy responses to poverty (U.S. and/or global) and describe the results.
7. Describe and critique two theoretical explanations for poverty (and cite).
8. Compare and contrast the institutions of public education and charter schools.
9. Describe three ways women are oppressed under modern day capitalism.
10. How has history fostered the process of capitalism?
11. Describe the three faces of power, according to Lukes.
12.Describe at least four characteristics of a bureaucracy and give one example.
13.Compare/contrast churches, sects and cults.
14. Describe the three stages of social movements and explain why social movements might stall.
15. Describe the four types of social movements.
Explanation / Answer
1. It is a simple theory of how we interact with others, how we present ourselves, how we perceive others and how others perceive us. Its not from a single person point of view. If multiple people are there in the group then all their views towards each other will count and also their behaviour counts.
Almost everyone will be in such a situation even we not knowing that it is social constructed. One of my aunties has become financially more stable than what she was previously. She has 2 sisters whose position is not at all good. My aunty will buy all the things to her home more than required sometimes a gradual upgradation of things she have longing for better and better. I always think she never helps her sisters who are deprived of basic needs also. And yes she don't help them. She feels proud for having all those and boast herself. But her sisters will have a feeling like she can feed dogs in her home more better why can't she help us. Apart from all these, i talk to her good. Her sisters too. My aunt also will speak well to us. These kind of situations are all social constructed.
2. Social integration is nothing but how an individual is integrated in a social group or society like political, religious etc with his beliefs. Regulation is something that defines how his actions are regulated by the social group. Durkheim Starts SUICIDE by pointing out that suicide is, within a general range, a fairly stable fact of societies. If you plot the suicide rate (that is, the number of suicide per 100,000 inhabitants) of any society over time shows a remarkable stability of the number of people committing suicide each year. In fact, the suicide number is more stable (that is, has fewer fluctuations over time) than the mortality rate (see figure.) However, in all societies, as well as in the U.S., there is a slow linear increase in the suicide rate over time.
3. Social stratification is the classufication of society based on occupation, income, wealth, power or status of the people.
Usually its classified as :
1. Upper class
2. Middle class
3. Lower class.
These are the major classes which inturn has other classes like the upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum.
American society is also similarly stratified but then into social classes based on wealth, income, educational attainment, occupation, and social networks