DF #5 Overview
The rationale behind DFs is to generate discussion among your classmates that would typically occur during group activities or class discussions held on-campus. Thus, students are expected to submit four of the five main posts and reply to at least two peer posts for the five weeks they select to participate in. Main posts should be about 250+ words. At the bottom of every DF post (i.e., main posts and peer responses), state your word count.
Select ONE DF option and post your response below.
Your main DF Post should be at least 3 paragraphs in length, or 250-words minimum.
Students may exceed the minimum word count; however, aim to write succinctly.
Answer your chosen prompt thoroughly, using the assigned readings to substantiate your arguments.
Be sure to indicate which option you chose by writing the option number and option title.
Your two Peer Response Posts should be at least five sentences—for each Peer Response.
Include a word count at the end of your main post and for your two Peer Response posts.
Note: There are several steps to complete your chosen DF option for this DF; therefore, please make sure to review your main post before you submit it.
Option #1: The Sociological Perspective’s View on Family Problems
Note: Due to the graphic nature of this option, if you are sensitive to violence, abuse, or the like, then it is best to choose another option. This option will discuss social problems of violence and abuse. If you are not comfortable with these topics, then select the option, or skip this discussion forum.
Overview: Social Problems: Continuity and Change (2016) discusses in the United States, the institution of the family has been changing fast enough that most of us can describe changes that have taken place over the course of a single lifetime (or even the recent decade). Whether these changes are defined as a problem or solution is, of course, related to one’s position on the political spectrum.
Social problems also can affect family life and intimate relationships in various ways. For example, domestic violence, intimate partner violence (IPV), stalking, child abuse, infidelity, and divorce.
There are several tasks to complete in this Prompt Option; therefore, please make sure to review your main post before you submit.
Task #1: Watch Leslie Morgan Steiner’s TED talk titled, “Why domestic violence victims don’t leave.”
[Tip: The video clip is closed captioned if you need to use it and its run-time is 15:59 minutes.]
Task #2: Watch Esther Perel’s TED talk titled, “Rethinking infidelity … a talk for anyone who has ever loved.”
[Tip: The video clip is closed captioned if you need to use it and its run-time is 21:30 minutes.]
Task #3: Watch The Gottman Institute YouTube Clip titled, “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”
[Tip: The video clip is closed captioned if you need to use it and its run-time is 2:12 minutes.]
Task #4 Instructions: After fully reading Chapter 10, reviewing the Chapter 10 Lecture Notes, and viewing the above clips for option #1, please fully answer the following prompt in its entirety:
Explain the sociological perspective (i.e., functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism) view of family problems. What can we gain by using each sociological perspective to study family problems?
What do we learn about family life from sociology’s major theoretical approaches, including functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism?
What is one criticism or limitation of each theoretical perspective?
What can you draw from these various types of theoretical perspectives that might help you make family life better in some ways? Be sure to cite evidence from either the text or lecture notes and all of the chosen prompt option materials to substantiate your argument
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