Day: December 22, 2021

How does your life, career, choices, obligations compare to those of your parents or grandparents?

Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills coined the phase “the Sociological Imagination” and discussed it as helping us understand “the Intersection of Biography and History”. This is powerful stuff! The understanding of our individual lives within the context of large historical, social and economic factors. Here we are in 2021/22, in the midst of the first […]

What insights does sociology have to offer about what is happening in America relative to these issues?

Health and Wellness While the United States is a wealthy nation and spends vast resources on healthcare services, Americans overall are not so healthy and in fact, our life expectancy is decreasing. Chapter 18 in the text discusses Health, Healthcare and Disability. While the covid crisis has created a health crisis, we have to understand […]

How did you view social class and how has that changed over time and recently after reading the course materials?

Thoughts of Social Stratification. Sociologists talk a lot about wealth, poverty, social class, upward and downward mobility, social status…we are quite fixated on these topics, they are at the core of our discipline to some extent. Prior to this class, how did you view social class and how has that changed over time and recently […]

Discuss a leader that you admire and what has made that person effective within this context.

Leadership and Authority The topic of great or not so great leaders is the stuff that floods newspapers, best selling book lists, the History Channel, social media, college courses… we talk about it alot. According to the text, authority or leadership comes down to this: 1) Authority refers to power that people accept as legitimate […]

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