Sociology Assignments | Online Homework Help

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapters 10, 14
• Lesson: Week 5, 6

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

• Briefly compare and contrast structural-functionalist, social-conflict, and symbolic-interactionist approaches in their analyses of health and health care, generally, and, in particular in their analyses of disability. How do concepts such as the sick-role model, role ambiguity, and subordinate groups help sociologists understand health, health care, and disability?
• Briefly compare and contrast structural-functionalist, social-conflict, and symbolic-interactionist approaches to racial and ethnic relations. How do concepts such as assimilation, stereotyping, and economic stratification help different types of sociological theorists understand race and ethnicity?
• Briefly compare and contrast structural-functionalist, social-conflict, and symbolic-interactionist approaches in their analyses of gender stratification.

Question Set 2

• Examine divorce trends in the United States over the past several decades and discuss ways they shape family life. Also, explain factors contributing to the divorce rate in the U.S. Compare and contrast at least two U.S. subgroups in your answer.

• Define cohabitation and examine trends in cohabitation in the United States over the past several decades, and ways these trends shape family life. Also, explain factors contributing to the cohabitation rate in the U.S.  Compare and contrast at least two U.S. subgroups in your answer.
• Examine single parent trends in the United States over the past several decades and ways they shape family life. Analyze and describe most single-parent-households with children in the U.S. Compare and contrast at least two U.S. subgroups in your answer.

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)

Grading
This activity will be graded based on the Essay Grading Rubric.

Course Outcomes (CO): 3, 6, 7

Due Date: By 6:00 a.m. Eastern on Saturday