• Who is/are the author(s) (what is their background – look them up!)
• What theoretical perspectives are being used in this reading?
• How is this a social problem? (use our core theoretical frameworks)
• What research methods are being used in this piece?
• What are the findings of the study?
• What are the main arguments being made by the author(s)?
• How does this fit within our overall discussions in class (that week and/or more broadly)?
• Does the reading talk about social action/social change – if so, how?
• Points for clarification
• Personal Reflection
• Discussion questions (at least 2) – cannot be clarification, yes/no, definition.
• Critiques
Answer each question with at least 5 sentences.
For your information,
to answer the second and the third question, the frameworks/perspectives are the four as below:
Framework:
1. Crenshaw – Intersectionality: identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage.
2. Blumer – Social problems as collective behavior: the course of the process of collective definition: (1) the emergence of a social problem, (2) the legitimation of the problem, (3) the mobilization of action with regard to the problem, (4) the formation of an official plan of action, (5) the transformation of the official plan in its empirical implementation.
3. Mills – Sociological Imagination: the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society.
4. Anderson & Snow – Symbolic interactionism: Symbolic Interactionism is a theoretical framework in sociology that describes how societies are created and maintained through the repeated actions of individuals. In simple terms, people in society understand their social worlds through communication — the exchange of meaning through language and symbols. Instead of addressing how institutions objectively define and affect individuals, symbolic interactionism pays attention to these individuals’ subjective viewpoints and how they make sense of the world from their own perspective.
to answer the seventh question, our discussion in class was mainly on the inequality in America and the four frameworks
The reading is on https://brytewave.redshelf.com/app/ecom/shelf, and the email and password are: liruotong@wustl.edu; 2001324lRt
The reflection will be addressed on “Mechanisms By Which Anti-Immigrant Stigma Exacerbates Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities”. You can search the title and chekc the article.
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