Sociology Answers

Discuss the view that the South (less developed countries) lags behind the North (developed countries) due to indigenous factors/causes. Illustrate with examples.

You have been made the leader of a group of people who advocate for environmental cleanliness. During the handing over ceremony, the minister for sanitation mandated you to Walk the talk?? and not Talk the walk. What did the minister mean by that? With clear examples, briefly explain what these two phraseologies mean

Karl marx divided the modern era in

discuss in detail three biological and three sociological age theories of your choice

1. How does a student contribute to teachers practices daily

2. How does curriculum and resources contribute to teachers practices daily

3. How does behaviour, learning and teaching contribute to teachers practices daily

Briefly state what sociology of education as discipline entails

Check on how the availability of finances may influence one in choosing a career

Give a practical example of each stage of the diffusion of innovation you will go through in the

process of getting a vaccine.

Consider a current social trend that you have witnessed, perhaps situated around family, education, transportation, or finances. For example, many veterans of the Armed Forces, after completing tours of duty in the Middle East, are returning to college rather than entering jobs as previous generations did. Choose a sociological approach—functionalism, conflict theory, or symbolic interactionism—to describe, explain, and analyze the social issue you choose. Afterward, determine why you chose the approach you did. Does it suit your own way of thinking? Or does it offer the most relevant method of illuminating the social issue?

9 identify which Point is not one Blumer's basic principles of symbolic interactionism

a. Human beings have the capacity for thought

b. Human beings are passive

c. The capacity for thought is shaped by social interaction

d. Meanings and symbol allow people to carry on distinctively human action and interaction

10. The economy and schools are

a. Interlinked

b. Separate

c. Capitalist

d. Socialist

11. The chronosystem is associated with

a. The family

b. Religion

c. The dimension of time

d. The role of the government

12. Constructivists contend that knowledge

a. Is personally constructed but socially mediated

b. Is individually constructed without the help of others

c. Is absorbed from the environment

d. Is learnt from one's peers