Choose ONE prompt to answer:
One of the things a college professor once told me was “If you say anything is due to culture you might well say it is due to it being it. In other words, explaining anything by culture is like saying nothing at all.” What do you think he meant by this? Was he right, or wrong and why?
As many of you know, the online sections of Sociology 1 are among the most popular that we offer here at CCSF. This is not unusual in that schools around the country and throughout the world are finding out that people like online classes perhaps more than face-to-face classes judging from the rate at which they sign up for them. How would sociology explain this popularity and how would it go about coming up with an explanation for this?
Which one of the major sociological perspectives we have covered thus far in class (i.e. Functionalism, Conflict or Interactionism) is more beneficial to women? Please explain your answer.