All posts tagged "sociology homework"

  • Global Stratification Assignment Guide

    Stratification is like a ladder.  We see lower rungs and higher rungs.  To get up the ladder one often climbs on the lower to get the higher.  Make sense?   In a nutshell, stratification is the tiers of...

    • Posted February 12, 2014
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  • Vitual Environments Assignment Guide

    When we hear the term “virtual reality” we often think of someone in a darkened room, reaching out into space, with mechanical devices attached from them.  This has changed greatly.  Today we see that virtual reality can...

    • Posted February 12, 2014
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  • Cultural Relativism Assignment Guide

    There’s a great teaching antidote that I’d like to share with you.  A Professor asked his students to define the Ignorance and Apathy.  One student replied with “I don’t know and I don’t care”.  The point?  We...

    • Posted January 29, 2014
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  • Diversity Training Assignment Guide

    Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right”.  Why are these words important to you?  As we move throughout the term you’ll want to be your own biggest...

    • Posted January 29, 2014
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  • Lecture Notes on Culture

    Our culture is a major part of our socialization. Our specific culture, whether it be the American culture or ethnic culture teaches us norms, values, and beliefs. The most prominent aspect of our culture is language. For,...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • The Family, Work and Roles

    AMERICAN FAMILY TODAY 2000 Census – typical American family is now a dual-earner family 58.6% of children under 6 – both parents working 55% of mothers with children under 1 year old were working or looking for...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • Social Stratification

      Do you think we can predict what social class a person is in by his or her appearance? The house he or she lives in?  What about if the person has a big screen television? Actually...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • Sexual Orientation and Social Inequality

    Most of our social institutions do not support homosexuals: politics (law: in some states to engage in homosexual conduct is a crime, same-sex marriages are not legal, and benefits to domestic partners is not universal), education (school...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Marriage, Family, and Kinship Organization Notes

    Family as a Social Institution Organized Essential tasks Institution: system of norms, values, statuses, and roles Perform certain functions Marriage, business, the media, medicine, law, science, and recreation are also institutions Activity becomes institutionalized when accepted by...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Health and Illness

    Health risks are unevenly distributed in the United States and around the world. Social factors play a major role in our individual health. The social factors that affect our health are associated with specific characteristic including: race,...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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