Assignment task:
1. Share one scholarly source explaining loneliness in the United States today. Briefly summarize the source you find, and include an parenthetical in-text citation and a full reference entry citation for the source you locate.
2. Next, choose one of the social-integration techniques described in the textbook that are used by tribes and/or in chiefdoms and explain why that technique successfully encourages solidarity and social connection between people.
3. Finally, analyze whether or not such techniques or similar approaches might encourage social integration in your own community.
4. Could such techniques address the loneliness concerns you identify in your scholarly research? Why or why not?
5. Could such techniques address the loneliness you and your peers may experience in this course/program?