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Sociology Matters

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Two part assignment   Part 1 - Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: Describe the health of the people in your community. ·         Do you think it is better than average, average, or worse than average? ·         Is access to healthcare something you feel requires a change at a societal level? If so, how can you leverage what you have learned over the last five weeks to enact that type of change? If not, how can you leverage what you have learned over the last five weeks to explain why the change is unnecessary?   Part 2 - Sociology Matters - Assignment Content   Review the Sociology Matters prompt at the end of Ch. 11. -below   Write a 700-word response to one bullet at the end of the chapter.   Sociology matters because it helps you to understand the social change you encounter. ·         Have you had any experience working in a social movement? If so, what kind of social change were you hoping to support? What resources did the movement try to mobilize? Who were the vested interests who opposed the movement? ·         Have you yourself experienced culture lag, or have you observed it in others? If so, what kind of   change caused the lag—was it a new technology, or some other kind of change? Did you notice a generational difference in the way people responded to the change? Did you see any open resistance to it? Have new technologies helped you in any significant way, and if so, how? On balance, do you see new technologies as a benefit or a threat to society? Explain.
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