Question 1
In your own words, describe three different issues surrounding U.S. education, and provide solutions to each.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Question 2
Compare and contrast some of the issues regarding health in the United States. Provide three examples of and create solutions on how these can be prevented/resolved.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Question 3
Examine different sociologists’ accounts of the effect of urbanism. Describe how urbanization has changed the interaction of people within society. Provide examples.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Question 4
Examine the different types of medical care in high-income nations around the world. Describe which is most beneficial for a country with a population over 300 million. What are some solutions to the problem of healthcare?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Question 5
Describe the schooling in India and Japan. How does it relate to the schooling children receive in the United States?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Question 6
According to Macionis, “I = PAT, where environmental impact (I) reflects a society’s population (P), its level of affluence (A), and its level of technology (T)” (2011, p. 463). In other words, the higher the population, the richer the country, and the higher level of technology, causes a greater impact upon the environment of that society. In your own words, describe the term environmental deficit, and discuss the effects a rising global population has upon the environment.
Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Question 7
Roughly 112,000 people die each year from diseases related to which epidemic. It has become a cause for national concern as the proportion of people is increasing.
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Sexually transmitted diseases
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Obesity
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Eating disorders
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Cigarette smoking
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2 points
Question 8
Which of the following is considered a trait of functional illiteracy?
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Roughly 14% of total U.S. adults lack basic skills in reading and writing
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8% of the people between the ages of 16 and 24
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Grade inflation
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A movement among parents to begin homeschooling their children; roughly 3% of school-aged children
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2 points
Question 9
Socialization is considered an important aspect of schooling within more developed countries. In lesser-developed countries, the family is considered to be an agent of socialization from which culture and ways of life are passed down from one generation to the next. What approach does this thought follow?
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Social-conflict analysis
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Symbolic-interaction approach
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Sociological schooling
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Structural-functional analysis
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2 points
Question 10
With regards to the ratio between crude birth and crude death rates, which of the following has the highest ratio of births to deaths?
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Africa
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Asia
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Latin America and the Caribbean
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Oceania
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2 points
Question 11
Who speculated the theory that urbanization erodes social bonds based on common sentiments and shared moral values and lends to a new type of social bond based on specialization and interdependence?
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Emile Durkheim
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Robert Park and Louis Wirth
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Georg Simmel
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Ferdinand Tonnes
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