Apply your sociological imaginations to the issue of gender inequality, that is, the unequal distribution of social resources and rewards (like wealth, power, autonomy, etc) based on gender (i.e., standards of femininity and masculinity). Please view any of these materials and then share your thoughts on what you have just read or viewed. Please specify which materials here you examined. How might the sociological imagination apply?
Gender_expectations_socioecono.PDF
Society_Reinforces_Violence_Ag.pdf
Preface_to_What_Policies_Would (1).pdf
A_human_rights_issue_the_Unite.pdf
Speaking_of_sex_the_denial_of_.pdf
part 2) For this week’s discussion, please indicate your thoughts as to how language, power and politics might connect. This is a good opportunity to further apply the sociological imagination. To help you with this, you can make use of the following resources, Please also respond to one or two of your classmates’s postings
some further resources
video: idea framing, metaphor and your brain.
video: How language and politics are inextricably linked
reading:https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/what-politics/content-section-2.1
scholarly article: political correctness.pdf
article iink ‘Woke’ is being used to describe everything and nothing. What does it actually mean?
news article: The big lie, loyalty to Trump, and the defense of democracy
link: Jon Stewart Shreds Media for Stirring Up ‘Conflict’
video: Conflict in Israel and Palestine through 2015: Crash Course World History #223 (youtube.com)
Review: Framing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Religion to Attitudes to Justice on JSTOR
Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent (youtube.com)
The words used often by Republicans and Democrats at the conventions – The Washington Post
How to Talk Like a Democrat (or a Republican) | Chicago Booth Review
Part 3) The sociological imagination – according to Mills – is about imaginaing and contextualizing “concreteness” (e.g, our own personal experiences) within broader social, historical, structural and institutional contexts. What stands out for you about what Mills says about this? And how do the materials that you have viewed help to illustrate this point? Feel freeto share any additional thoughts that you may have to this discussion forum and to offer any comments that you would like to make to others in the forum.
