Category: Social Sciences

Write a reading reflection while connecting to this weeks readings.
Please use the following questions as guiding questions while reading. You can use them to guide your reading reflections, or go beyond them if you find that helpful to your learning.

What is social construction? Have you learned about social construction in other courses? How is it discussed differently in the context of nature?

What is critical materialism? How does it compare to social construction?

How do Bruningham and Cooper present Bruno Latour? Does the excerpt from Latours Laboratory Life support or contradict this characterization?

What in the readings was surprising or unexpected to you?

What questions remain for you after discussion this week?

Write a reading reflection while connecting to this weeks readings.
Please use the following questions as guiding questions while reading. You can use them to guide your reading reflections, or go beyond them if you find that helpful to your learning.

What is social construction? Have you learned about social construction in other courses? How is it discussed differently in the context of nature?

What is critical materialism? How does it compare to social construction?

How do Bruningham and Cooper present Bruno Latour? Does the excerpt from Latours Laboratory Life support or contradict this characterization?

What in the readings was surprising or unexpected to you?

What questions remain for you after discussion this week?

Write a reading reflection while connecting to this weeks readings.
Please use the following questions as guiding questions while reading. You can use them to guide your reading reflections, or go beyond them if you find that helpful to your learning.

What is social construction? Have you learned about social construction in other courses? How is it discussed differently in the context of nature?

What is critical materialism? How does it compare to social construction?

How do Bruningham and Cooper present Bruno Latour? Does the excerpt from Latours Laboratory Life support or contradict this characterization?

What in the readings was surprising or unexpected to you?

What questions remain for you after discussion this week?

Write a reading reflection while connecting to this weeks readings.
Please use the following questions as guiding questions while reading. You can use them to guide your reading reflections, or go beyond them if you find that helpful to your learning.

What is social construction? Have you learned about social construction in other courses? How is it discussed differently in the context of nature?

What is critical materialism? How does it compare to social construction?

How do Bruningham and Cooper present Bruno Latour? Does the excerpt from Latours Laboratory Life support or contradict this characterization?

What in the readings was surprising or unexpected to you?

What questions remain for you after discussion this week?

(1) Functionalism, Anomie and General Strain Theory; (2) Labeling, Resistance and Edgework; and (3) Stigma, Carnival and the Grotesque). Use ONE of these theories and investigate a current related issue.

Also please refer to the attachment for specific details. Please make sure you pick a topic from Google Scholar initially then branch out to other sources. NO Conspiracy theories, NO Plagiarism. WEBQUEST 1 only.

For this unit, you read “The Promises” from C. Wright Mills 1959 book, The Sociological Imagination. In this book, Mills conceives of the sociological imagination as a quality of mind (or way of viewing and interacting with the world) and “the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society”–the relationship between your biography and history. 

As you now know, Mills argues that the greatest contribution sociology can make is to help the public find/see connections between and make sense of the various ways in which their personal lives are shaped by public issues. These public issues, broadly conceived, include history, technology, politics, culture, the economy, laws, the nation into which one is born, the neighborhoods in which we are raised and many other social forces beyond our individual and personal control.

For this reflection and application assignment, I would like you to employ the sociological imagination to examine the lives of millennials and how their individual/personal biographies and/or their personal “troubles” have been shaped by the public “milieu” in which they have grown up and lived. I asked you to read “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation” to provide you with the “data” from which to draw for this analysis.

Your essay should be 2-3 pages in length (double-spaced, 12 point font, 1″ margins).

Please remember to use your own words and not present others’ words as your own. I would prefer that you avoid quoting Mills’ or the author of the Time piece on Millennials. Instead, practice paraphrasing (translate his ideas in your own words) when relevant. Some rely too heavily on quoted material resulting in a paper that is light on their own ideas and thoughts.