In this section, please watch the following two videos detailing controversies with Rio de Janeiro's hosting of the Olympic Games (2016) and the World Cup in 2014.As you watch the short films, use the lens of the sociological imagination to identify the Macro level issues, the Micro level issues and the historical linkages between the two (if applicable).
After screening the clips and identifying these issues, you will move on to Discussion #1.
Discussion of the Sociological Imagination
This week we have discussed the Sociological Imagination and Sociological Perspectives (frameworks for understanding the social world).
Instructions:
Student's initial posts are due by Saturday at 5 PM. This allows for peers to have content to respond to. The response posts are due by Sunday at 11:59PM.
The receive full credit, students must post and respond.
Students are required to respond to at least one other student in the class, but you are not limited to only one response! To receive credit, students must respond to one other student.
Students must write at least one paragraph (you are not limited to one paragraph), answering at least one of the prompts with thoughtful and substantive content and application to the sociological concepts or theories we have discussed this current week. Response posts should be at least one paragraph of substantive content, addressing your peer's post(s).
Prompt:
- Identify a social issue or concern that you are concerned about or that has 'grabbed' your attention.
- Use the sociological imagination to discuss this issue at the Micro and Macro level and be certain to include Historical issues if they apply.
Evalution
You will be evaluated based upon the quality of your post.
- Has the student identified and considered the social issue?
- Student has linked their issue and analyzed using to the course content and applied the concepts.
- Student both posted and replied for full credit.
This discussion meets our weekly objectives of:
- Demonstrate comprehension of what the Sociological imagination is
- Applying the sociological imagination to 'real world' situations we encounter or we learn about.
- Learning about the 3 main sociological perspectives for understanding and analyzing society.
- Analyzing the sociological perspectives and understand their application to concrete'real'world' and current events.
We are analyzing, demonstrating understanding and applying our understand to 'real world' current issues in this Discussion.