ASSIGNMENT #1:
Select one of the following options to deliver your assignment:
Option 1
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word essay.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.
Option 2
Prepare a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation.
Include photos, illustrations, graphs, diagrams, animations, videos, or audio clips. Document the source of each media item you include.
Include the following in your paper or presentation:
Provide an introduction that defines both technology and social change, and discusses how they are related.
Discuss the impact of the personal computer, cellular phones, and the Internet on society.
Using the three major sociological perspectives, describe the equilibrium model, the digital divide, and cultural lag in relation to these technologies and social change.
Include how technology has influenced social epidemiology, health and the environment.
Explore a recent or emerging form of technology and discuss its potential benefits or consequences for society.
Provide a conclusion that summarizes key points.
Cite at least three academic, peer-reviewed sources and two popular magazines.
Format yourreferences according to appropriate course level APA guidelines. Include citations in the speaker notes or in a separate reference list.
ASSIGNMENT #2:
1. The term ______________ refers to the societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
a. Mental illness
b. Sick role
c. Morbidity
d. Mortality.
2. Epidemics, such as Ebola, are studied by social _______________, who are concerned with how diseases spread and also with the general health of a population.
a. epidemiologists
b. endocrinologists
c. hematologists
d. psychologists
3. The movement that fights against the disproportionality of environmental hazards among racial minorities and the lower class is:
a. Environmental justice
b. Ecological modernization
c. Pollutant justice
d. Gay rights
4. According to the sociological perspective, Sociologists use the term _______________ to refer to an organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
a. Pep rally
b. Social movement
c. Social economy
d. environmentalism
5. The two social explanations for why social movements emerge are relative deprivation and _______________.
a. Environmental justice
b. Social integration
c. Resource mobilization
d. Social epidemiology
6. All of the following are examples of a new social movement, except:
a. Labor movement
b. Gay rights
c. Women's movement
d. Environmental justice
7. The ________________ theory of social change sees societal progress as inevitable.
a. Functionalist
b. Conflict
c. Evolutionary
d. None of the above.
8. ________________ look at how society adjusts to changes to maintain its stability.
a. Functionalists
b. Conflict theorists
c. Biologists
d. None of the above.
9. Ogburn introduced the term ________________ to refer to the period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions.
a. Social construction
b. Resource mobilization
c. Environmental justice
d. Cultural lag
10. _______________ is one of the most important factors for global social change.
a. Labeling
b. Deviance
c. Human ecology
d. Technology