SOCW6002 Social Science Myths About Great Depression

SOCW 6002 ACU Social Science Myths About Great Depression Discussion

• Comment on availability of birth control in U.S. schools, family planning programs in school, the ethics of forced birth control, or how education can affect a woman’s childbearing, etc. 
• Recent economic historians point to FDR's New Deal as prolonging the Depression and not solving the problem. Some political historians have gone so far as to claim that the New Deal was designed to create a permanent socialist state controlled by the Democratic Party.True/False or sour grapes from the Republicans who did the same thing during Reconstruction? 
• Review Andrew Wilson's article 'Five Myths About the Great Depression 
• How did consumerism, new technology and advertising change American culture in the 1920s? 
• Do you think it is potentially beneficial to provide very young children with computers? Proponents argue that the earlier we start children out using technology, the better for them, as we are living in a technological society. Opponents say it is detrimental because it deprives a child of social interaction in his/her early years. 
• After defining what an agent of socialization  give specific examples of how each of the  family, school, peer groups, mass media, gender has influenced you to be the person who you are today