Part 1 -
Select a television program that you know contains a social inequality or social class theme (e.g. racism, sexism, social class categories).
Write a 700- to 1,050-word analysis.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.
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Part 2 - Answer each with 50+ words
1. As of 2017, the United States has never had a female president. Nations throughout the world have had powerful queens and elected leaders. How might you explain the fact that the United States has never elected a woman to be president?
2. Most of the United Nation's member countries have at least fledgling women's movements fighting for the improved status of women and their families. The movements attempt to change laws that result in discrimination, poverty, abuse, and low levels of education and occupational status. Other movements push for the complete overhauling of existing systems to bring about a new order that would ignore sex as a variable in assigning power. Is this possible? Should one's gender be ignored when assigning power?
3. It would be great if there was a place where gender discrimination did not exist. Gender roles today are more flexible than they were in the past. While many traditional conceptions of gender roles persist, considerable variation is permitted and even encouraged. With that being said, It is usually expected that males will be more aggressive. When females are assertive or aggressive they are often labeled as being less than feminine or called by derogatory terms such as the b... word. Why?
4. Social stratification is a system in which people are divided into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige. The nations of the world, as well as people within a nation, are stratified into groups based on relative power, prestige, and property. In society men, as a group, are placed above women as a group. Why? Will this ever change?
5. W. E. B. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard University. For most of his career, he taught sociology at Atlanta University. He was concerned about social injustice, wrote about race relations, and was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). DuBois saw the color line as the foremost problem of the 20th century. What did he mean by the color line? In your opinion, is the color line still the foremost problem in our society? Why or why not?
6. Racial group or category designations refer mainly to aspects of a person's physical heritage, whereas ethnic group or category designations refer mainly to aspects of a person's sociocultural heritage. People tend to assume that groups based on physical and social inheritance are natural and of special importance. Is this true? This view is held primarily because of centuries old observation that family members usually resemble one another more in appearance and behavior than do unrelated individuals.