Devry SOCS185 Week 8 Assignment Latest 2019 MAY

SOCS185 Culture and Society

Week 8 Assignment Population & Social Change

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: Chapters 15, 16

Lesson: Week 7

Instructions

Choose one question from each of the question sets below (2 sets total). In other words, you will be answering two questions total (1 from each set).

Question Set 1

Compare and contrast how structural-functionalists, symbolic-interactionists, and social-conflict theorists examine urban growth.

Propose and analyze some potential best-case scenarios and worst-case scenarios for population and urban growth in the United States and globally over the next hundred years.

Compare and contrast how immigration affects the United States with how immigration is affecting other nations. Also, compare and contrast how the United States is responding to immigration with ways other nations are responding to migration to their respective countries.

Question Set 2

How do deprivation theory and resource mobilization theory explain social movements?

Define collective behavior from a sociological perspective and explain the difference between collective behavior and mass behavior, specifically. Share examples of mass behavior.

Define collective behavior from a sociological perspective and explain the relationship between collective behavior and social change.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

Length: 1-2 pages (not including References page)

1-inch margins

Double spaced

12-point Times New Roman font

Running header in the upper left of all pages

Page number in the upper right of all pages

Parenthetical in-text citations included and formatted in APA style

References page (at the very least the textbook and/or online lessons should be cited)