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Part 1: Social Stratification
Instructions
Consider this week’s discussion on Social Stratification and how your place in the social strata determines the opportunities you are afforded. After viewing the video link below, compose a response answering the following questions:
You have be given the task of selecting 3 people from the list below to receive a heart transplant. Who will you choose, why?
Directions: First, you are to select 3 people from the list below that you would award a heart transplant. Secondly, rank from 1 to 3 who will be awarded the transplant with 1 being most important, 2 being less important, and 3 being least important. Third, provide a simple rationale as to why you selected each person. Fourth, post your ranking and rationale on the course’s discussion board under Week 5 content. Lastly, you should comment on at least 3 of your classmates rankings.
65 year old, 1st generation Asian-American, male, minister
40 year old, Anglo, female, homemaker
30 year old, Anglo, male, gay, physicist
35 year old, Anglo, Marxist, professor
16 year old, African-American, female
60 year old, Latin, female, physician
55 years old, male, Governor of a State
20 year old, disabled, son of wealthy parents
12 year old, Amish male
68 year old, your grandmother, retired
23 year old, non-verbal male with autism
Review the link as needed in order to:
Answer the questions using at least 150 words
Include 3 quotes (at least 5 words) from the videos bellow and 1 from the textbook. (I will provide the one from the textbook)
Support your position with the concepts found in the textbook and cite the page number where your supporting evidence can be found
Note: You must have 4 citations in all (3 from from the videos and one from the textbook)
quote: “Social stratification is a system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative property, power, and prestige” page 184
Link:
No Cash, No Heart!
Who Gets a Heart Transplant? (Copy and paste the link in a different browser if it does not open in Chrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oXLx1GPL9s)
Part 2: Obedience to Authority
Instructions
Watch the link below that are related to Obedience to Authority. After viewing them, compose a response answering the following questions:
After viewing the link below, consider Stanley Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority figures and discuss how, sociologically, the McDonald strip search became possible.
What social factors contributed to this incident? Why did all of the individuals behave the way they did? Why did some comply with the caller’s orders while others did not? (You are encouraged to use your critical thinking skills here.)
Why did it take the employees so long to realize they were the victims of a hoax?
Why did some comply with the voice on the phone while others did not?
Did anyone use “common sense” in this situation? If so, who? If not, why not?
Make sure that you reference the “Groups Within Society-Group Dynamics” link in your answer(s).
Review the links as needed in order to:
Answer the questions using at least 150 words
Include 3 quotes (at least 5 words) from the videos
Support your position with the concepts found in the textbook and cite the page number where your supporting evidence can be found
Note: You must have 4 citations in all (3 from from the videos and one from the textbook)
Quote: “Marx did not consider these groups social classes, however, for they lack class consciousness—a shared identity based on their position in the means of production”. Page 190
Link:
McDonald’s Strip Search
Groups Within Society – Group Dynamics
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