What is the social movement? Why did it emerge? /What social movement framework should we use to study it and why? How did it emerge? What were some of the variables needed for it to emerge?

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Analyze a social movement that would be categorized under the broader them of ‘Women’s Liberation’ by addressing the first question of the course:

What is the social movement? (define it)/Why did it emerge? /What social movement framework should we use to study it and why? How did it emerge? (What were some of the variables needed for it to emerge? Think along the lines of emotions, deprivation, networks, resources, political opportunity, structural changes, and/or a shared collective identity.)
In writing your essay please remember that it is up to you to determine the component of the movement in question that you are talking about. For example, for women’s liberation, you could discuss the suffrage movement, the battle for reproductive justice or even the #metoo movement. For each of those social movements mentioned you could even get more specific. One example is writing about Puerto Rican women’s struggle for reproductive justice. How specific you get is up to you but I do suggest that the more specific you are, the easier the essay will be. You can use sources from class or outside sources. Please cite your sources. In exploring your social movement make sure that you are concentrating on the first analytical question of the class. However you should feel free to start exploring the other questions in this first essay as well or you can expand on a component of the social movement that you are looking at that really interest you.

Alternative Option: Write about a “counter movement” to the movements categorized under Women’s Liberation. Examples could be: The Incel Movement, Pro-life movements, or even some Men’s Rights Movements. Check out the information I have in the folder ‘Counter Movements’ in the ‘Supplemental Information’ menu tab to help you write this paper. Be sure to still answer the same analytical question.

Sociological reflection on a social problem; Identify and describe a social problem that you learned about it in the news or that is occurring in the community in which you live.

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Write a sociological reflection on a social problem using a concept or idea that you learned in this class.

Feel free to organize your writing in the following order:

  • Identify and describe a social problem that you learned about it in the news or that is occurring in the community in which you live.
  • Briefly discuss why you consider that the ‘social problem’ you have chosen is in fact a social problem and why is important that institutions and communities become aware of it. You are strongly encouraged to use the sociological criteria discussed in the session on social problems and the sociological imagination ideas discussed in the first class.
  • Chose a concept (or an idea) discussed in the readings (or in the video lectures) that you consider relevant or useful to analyze the social problem you have chosen.
  • Briefly provide a description of your chosen sociological concept or idea and reflect on why you think that concept is useful to write your reflection.
  • Write a research question and develop, on max. 3 pages, a sociological answer to it. Identify and develop your argument within the text.
  • In your conclusions include a brief statement about how the social problem that you analyzed can be changed in the benefit of the affected communities.

Examine diversity in U.S. families and study trends in marriages, remarriages, and divorce. Examine educational issues including the factors that affect the educational system in the United States.

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Analyze the history of politics, globalization, and the effects of transformation of economic systems.
Examine the role of family in socialization.
Examine diversity in U.S. families and study trends in marriages, remarriages, and divorce.
Examine educational issues including the factors that affect the educational system in the United States.
Analyze religion in the United States and other world religions.

Create blog posts, designed to inform your audience about public issues associated with the chosen topics.

Prepare blog entries that will inform your audience about public issues associated with the chosen topics. As you work to complete the blogs, you should conduct general internet searches, using terms associated with the blog topics as search criteria. Write a 500 word blog post on each of the following five topics:

An analysis of the history of politics, globalization, and the effects of transformation on society.
An examination of the role of the family in socialization.
An examination of diversity in U.S. Families and study trends in marriage, remarriage, and divorce.
An examination of the issues in education and factors that affect the educational system in the United States.
An analysis of religion in the United States and around the world.

Why do a lot of elderly patients leave the hospital worse than when they were admitted?How come the hospital staff feels because the patient is elderly that they do not have to care for them as if it was a younger patient?

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Researching elderly hospital care is important because there are too many elderly patients that do not have a voice and they need someone to speak up and fight for them in receiving proper care.

1.  Why do a lot of elderly patients leave the hospital worse than when they were admitted?

2.  How come the hospital staff feels because the patient is elderly that they do not have to care for them as if it was a younger patient?

3.  Why hospital staff does not get the elderly out of bed or turn them to prevent bed sores?

4.  Why does this country overlook the harm of elderly medical care?

5.  Are we putting the cost it would take to train hospital staff to prevent poor treatment of elderly care?

Researching police brutality is important because we need to dig deeper to find out about police corruption, misconduct and a numerous of issues about what we can do to stop all these killings in America.

1.  How can we get police better training?

2.  Was adding body cameras helpful?

3.  How do we stop raciest policing?

4.  How do we stop excessive and abusive force by the police for people of color?

5.  When will police be held accountable for their actions?

6.  Why other policeman do not report misconduct of their colleague?

Describe the socio-demographic characteristics of your priority population and setting. Identify the social and economic and other quality of life issues, as well as values, assets, and capacity in your population.

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Describe the socio-demographic characteristics of your priority population and setting.
Identify the social and economic and other quality of life issues, as well as values, assets, and capacity in your population.
Explain how you will engage project stakeholders as active partners in the planning, assessment, implementation, and evaluation processes.
You are not required to collect primary data for this project; however, you are welcome to include discussions with community representatives or other key informants.
Describe what information is missing and include a plan to collect secondary data to address these identified gaps.
Include at least one quality of life goal and associated objective related to your plan. If appropriate, provide a rationale for the goal(s) and objective(s) selected. Make sure that the goal(s) and objective(s) are linked.
Identify indicators related to the identified quality of life outcome(s) that can be used in the baseline assessment and for evaluation. Describe how and when you will collect the secondary data.

Who are you? How do you know? How do you know you are really who you say you are? How do you describe yourself?What outside influences do you understand that have contributed to shape your life?

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Who are you? How do you know? How do you know you are really who you say you are? How do you
describe yourself? Describe yourself in 6 words. That’s all you have. What was the first term that you used to describe yourself and why?
The sociological imagination paper is a two-part assignment that you will work on over the course of the semester. The first part will ask you to reflect on who you are and how you become you? What outside influences do you understand that have contributed to shape your life? Over the course of the semester, you will be developing your sociological imagination. C. Wright Mills helps us to understand that the sociological imagination is “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society” (Mills, 1960).
This process will involve you not to think about yourself in a paper about yourself. Complicated right? Not really.

What forces drove changes in dating conventions between 1900 and the 1960s? Your response should identify at least three ways dating changed (from three different chapters), explain what prompted the change, and reflect on the larger meaning or significance of the change.

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What forces drove changes in dating conventions between 1900 and the 1960s? Your response should identify at least three ways dating changed (from three different chapters), explain what prompted the change, and reflect on the larger meaning or significance of the change.
Early in her book, Bailey observes that the transition from courtship to dating “changed the distribution of control and power in courtship” (20). Power and control fluctuated with the subsequent changes in dating conventions. Identify three dating conventions discussed in the book (from three different chapters) and analyze who you believe had the power and control in each situation and what the implications of the power dynamics were.

Read a book on the history of lesbians in twentieth century America. Provide a mini review of you book that identifies the book’s scope and arguments and the parts you found most illuminating or interesting.

If you read Faderman: Briefly discuss three significant turning points in lesbian life in the United States (discussed in three different chapters in the book) that affected how women loving women lived or saw themselves and their relationships.

The second book to be used is Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman.

Reflect on and assess the role played by the professional in the scenario and one-to-one working skills, identifying ways to improve future practice

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Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding of explanations for the distribution of health and differential access to health care in the UK and account for the health and care outcomes of differing social groups.

One-to-one working skills required to work with individual clients within a case study scenario interaction and reflect on and assess the role played by the professional in the scenario and one-to-one working skills, identifying ways to improve future practice

For assessment two, you will be given examples of case studies (see case study underneath!) that outline a short interaction between a professional and a client requiring health or social care services. You will need to pick ONE of these example interactions and reflect on the one-to-one communication skills and what the professional did or did not do well in the scenario and what values or ethical issues may potentially arise from the interaction.

Pick one of these example interactions and reflect on the one-to-one communication skills and what the professional did or did not do well in the scenario and what values or ethical issues may potentially arise from the interaction. 

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Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding of explanations for the distribution of health and differential access to health care in the UK and account for the health and care outcomes of differing social groups.

One-to-one working skills required to work with individual clients within a case study scenario interaction and reflect on and assess the role played by the professional in the scenario and one-to-one working skills, identifying ways to improve future practice

For assessment two, you will be given examples of case studies (see case study underneath!) that outline a short interaction between a professional and a client requiring health or social care services. You will need to pick ONE of these example interactions and reflect on the one-to-one communication skills and what the professional did or did not do well in the scenario and what values or ethical issues may potentially arise from the interaction.

Your 1000 reflective essay will therefore be an analysis of the interaction.

What relevance does social class have for the study of social movements? What is power? Why is it important to analyze power when looking at social movements?

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What relevance does social class have for the study of social movements? (400)
2. What is power? Why is it important to analyse power when looking at social movements? (800)
3. Use the Internet to research the women’s suffrage movement. Why is the suffrage movement a good example of a social movement? What arguments did men used to resist the women’s suffrage movement? Why couldn’t women have the vote? What arguments did women use to support their position? How was the movement mobilized? (800)
Reference:
Staggenborg, S. (2008). Social movements. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada.
Wikipedia. (2010, December 6). Women’s suffrage in the United States.