Sociological Imagination

Soc 1033 – Spring 2008

Assignment #4

Due: Tuesday, March 11 (in class)

One letter grade is deducted for each day the assignment is late, therefore, if it is not turned

 in by Friday, March 14, the grade will automatically be an F

Complete the Individual Writing Exercise on p. 195-197

·        The assignment you turn in should be 2-3 typed (and stapled) pages analyzing your own consumption practices from a sociological perspective. (You do not need to turn in your notes). Rather than responding point by point to the instructions in the textbook, the main focus of your paper should be to connect what you observe to the concepts and ideas we’ve been reading about and discussing in class. 

·        Some concepts and questions to consider:

·  human ecology

·  environmental justice

·  bureaucracy

·  individual explanations and solutions versus structural explanations and solutions

·  models of government

·  political/environmental socialization

·  What role do various social institutions play in our understanding and experience of the environment and our responsibility to it?

·  Family

·  Schools

·  Churches

·  Government

·  Health care

Be sure to use your sociological imagination.  If you were visiting from another planet and the only clues to our culture were the data you have before you, how would you describe the values, attitudes, practices and beliefs of our society?

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