Sociology

Activity #1:  Answer the following questions in 2-3 sentences, maximum 200 words. Do consider yourself a sports fan,? If so, what kind of fan: social, focused or vested? If you don’t consider yourself a sports fan, identify someone who falls into one of the fan categories. Justify your answer, and include an example to support your answer. Activity #2:  Watch the ad “We The North” promoting the Toronto Raptors In 2-3 sentences (max. 200 words), describe two to three features of the ad that create a dynamic of inclusion and exclusion.   Alternatively, you can click this link to view it:                                                                                            https://youtu.be/59bBWXFMmUo

Assignment, DeYoung #2. REMEMBER THAT I AM ASKING FOR YOUR INTERPRETATION OF DEYOUNG’S TEXT, NOT WHAT YOUR OPINION MIGHT BE.  Textual analysis is the game. So it might be a good idea to cite the text (DeYoung p. 12) in each answer of 5-10 sentences. 1. What is envy?  (5 sentences) / 2. What are its ‘ugly cousins’? (1 sentence) 3. In what is it rooted? (5 sentences) 4. In what way does envy lack love? (10 sentences) 5. How does envy arise from vainglory? (10 sentences) 6. What is vainglory? (5 sentences) 7. How is it different from ambition? (10 sentences) 9. How is magnanimity opposed to vainglory? (10 sentences) DO NOT USE OUTSIDE SOURCES!!!!

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus is presented as the fulfillment of the promises given to the children of Israel. Three specific promises that Jesus fulfilled are the offices of prophet, priest, and king. During the Old Testament, each of these three offices had specific roles and responsibilities to be fulfilled by an appointed member of Israel. With their roles and responsibilities, these offices looked forward to Jesus. Jesus is the perfect and eternal Prophet, Priest, and King, who faithfully fulfills the roles and responsibilities of each office.  Here are your goals for this project: Choose one of the three offices of Christ and write no less than 250 words, explaining what the passages say about Jesus fulfilling that office and how it impacts your life today. Questions to answer: What do the Old Testament passages say about the office you have chosen? What do the New Testament passages say about Jesus fulfilling that office? Why is this fulfillment important? How does this impact your life today? Sources to use: Jesus’ Threefold Office as Prophet, Priest, and King Prophet: Deuteronomy 18:15-22; Matthew 21:10; Mark 1:14-15, 38; John 1:1-2, 14; 6:1-15 Priest: Leviticus 21; Numbers 18; Deuteronomy 16; Matthew 9:1-8; Mark 2:1-12; John 1:14, 18-29; 14:6; 17 King: 2 Samuel 7:1-18; Psalm 2-12; 110:1; Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:1-6; 12:15-32; 21:1-9; Mark 12:35; 15:2; Luke 1:32-33; John 6:15; 7:25-52

Activity: Social Media: What’s Your Algorithm? Social media can be considered anti-social in that it promotes highly differentiated monolithic social groups rather than broader socialities like a city-wide community. Open a social media app or site that you use often (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit etc.). What are the top items in your feed? What ads are you being fed? Take a screenshot from your feed and plop it into a Word doc (it’s ok if the feed is in another language other than English). Then write a paragraph about how someone might interpret your feed and ads through a racial lens. How does race show up in your feed if at all? What does it mean if race doesn’t show up at all when it’s so prevalent in the current news? What are other ways that race/ethnicity are not depicted but connoted in things like food, music, and clothing in your feed? If you are not based in the US, what are the other ways that racial/ethnic difference can be interpreted in your feed?

In about 2 double-spaced pages, answer one of the following questions. For this kind of brief response, full citations are not necessary. Parenthetical citations with the author’s or translator’s last name and page number or verse number (for example, Patanjali 45) are fine. Your response paper is due Nov. 6 by 5pm. Since you have very limited space, it is best to skip a conventional introduction. Focus on answering the question(s).    Remember you need to do three of the four response paper assignments.  To submit your essay, click the assignment link. Attach your essay as a Word or RTF document (ODT, PDF, Pages, and Google Docs formats are not acceptable). Then click the “Submit” button. Do not paste it in the “Comments” box as text. You must click “Submit,” not “Save as Draft.” If you click “Save as Draft,” I will not be able to access your paper. You cannot make any changes once you have submitted your paper, so make sure you have read it over before doing so. Title your file (not your paper) with your last name. 1. According to Nyaya thought, perception, inference, comparison, and verbal testimony are valid ways of attaining knowledge (pramanas). Explain what knowledge means in Nyaya philosophy and how one of the pramanas works to produce knowledge. How does Nyaya deal with the problem of error? What is one argument or reason a Naiyayaka (a follower of Nyaya philosophy) could give in favor of their definition of knowledge?  2. Carvaka philosophy denies that inference is a possible source of knowledge. Why do they claim that inference is not a source of knowledge? Are there some doctrines in Carvaka that appeal to inference, even when they claim that it is not knowledge?  3. What is the Yoga conception of personhood and how do they use this view to explain the causes of suffering in the Yoga Sutra (particularly part two)? What is wrong with the way most people live their lives, such that it results in suffering? How should people live instead?

Explain in your own words what hedonism is as a theory of welfare and identify and present an objection to it, either the objection that it is “a doctrine worthy only of swine” or Nozick’s experience machine objection.  If you choose the first objection, explain Mill’s answer to it and evaluate whether this answer is successful.  If you choose the second objection, evaluate whether it is decisive. The paper should be 400-600 words. It should have a title, centered at the top, and be double-spaced. Papers will be graded on quality of exposition: accuracy, logic, organization, conciseness, comprehensiveness, spelling and grammar.

3 pages and it is supposed to be written from a book Essay 2 Summary: comparing yourself to the 1) upbringing; 2) values; and 3) rituals of Chinese Americans in Jeung’s book. How are you similar or different from the respondents in terms of (pick 4 key concepts –at least one from each category–to define, explain and apply)? Address these questions: 1. How were raised religiously and how did that affect your value system? Compare to CAs 2. What are your highest values and why? Compare to CAs 3. What are your most cherished rituals and why? Compare to CAs 1. Upbringing (ch. 1-4) The liyi outlook on religiosity Religious skepticism Religious pluralism Chinese Popular Religion Confucianism Dissonant acculturation 2. Values (ch. 5) Chinese American familism Maximizing World Changers Expressive Balancers Life narrative Paying it Back; Paying it Forward 3. Rituals (ch. 6) Rites of Passage Rituals of Belonging Table Traditions Norms of reciprocity or hospitality Marketable, consumable ethnicity You must define key concepts, explain, and apply them to your own life and that of your classmates. here is the guideline

After re-reading Chapters 8, 9, 10 in Kraybill’s The Upside-Down Kingdom, answer the folowing questions in 300-325 Words: (NOTE-This forum is NOT for discussing questions posed in your Kraybill paper) “In what sense might Christians today be Sadducees?  Pharisees?” “What types of persons in our contemporary world might represent the Samaritan in the parable of the Good Samaritan?” “In what ways does the “birds of a common feather” principle operate in your own life?”

This homework is for my discussion board has to be 150-300 words. Reference some of the articles in the discussion please.  How would you define rape culture? Which social institutions promote and maintain it? After reading all the sources, think about how and where you see examples of rape cultures around you. Conversely, how and where have you seen rape culture being challenged, if at all?  In your opinion and based on the sources, how can we create a change in rape culture? Read these links attached to answer this discussion https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/opinion/metoo-law-legal-system.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-sexual-violence-20160405-story.html https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/13/yale-saifullah-khan-criminal-justice https://www.jstor.org/stable/26638128?seq=5#metadata_info_tab_contents

explains and contrasts the pluralist and power-elite model of political power.  Who (what social actors/collective) hold and exercise political power?  How widespread or narrow is the distribution of power in each model?  How is that power channeled or exercised?  For whose interests’ is power exercised in each model?  In what ways, if any, does the power-elite model of political power differ from the Marxist political-economy model of political power?