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Religion Class (REL 270) Prompt/Answer

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Why is it important to study religion and drugs? What scholarly approach would you take if you were doing research on the intersections on religion and drugs (e.g., study from a medical point of view, or ethnographic, or legal, or historical)? Religion itself has a limiting connotation, but in actuality anything can be religious depending on the context. A few of the key ideas of a religious culture include ritual activities, transcendence, cosmic revelation, and transformation, and in the practice of religion, the use of drugs can lead to a sacred experience for the adherents. Sacredness is one of the factors that differentiates religious groups because the idea of a sacred experience is always contested. It is important to study the use of drugs in achieving a sacred religious experience in order to see the effect of the drugs on the mental and emotional state of the adherents and how that shapes human behavior. From a medical point of view, drugs and religious cultures are he...
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Nacirema Analysis

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Body Ritual Among the Nacirema                   Having gone over this piece in my sociology 101 class, I had prior knowledge that nacirema is American spelled backwards and that this is a satirical piece about us. This piece shows the analysis of our society through a non-native, outside or ethnocentric perspective. The “body rituals and medical beliefs” that we do are made out to seem unreasonable and questionable.  For example,
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Soc 101 frq answer

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How does the movie 13th characterize criminal justice system and political systems? How are discrimination and mass incarceration related? How is this different from Feigen? Give summary of the film. Give definition of discrimination. · Discrimination: actions or practices carried out by members of dominant racial or ethnic groups that have a differential and negative impact on members of subordinate racial and ethnic groups
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Soc 101 free response answer

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A student remarked isn’t a child’s death horrible. Explain the cultural shift from useful to useless child and the moral justifications that come along to both sides. 
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Soc 101 free response answers

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A politician recently said: “The American Dream is real. In the U.S., every child is born with the same opportunities for economic success.” How would Robert Reich (in the film Inequality for All) critique this statement? In support of your answer: a) Describe the social structural realities discussed in the film. OR b) Describe the “model of society” Reich offers. Is it more in line with Marx’s model or Weber’s model? Explain each model and defend your opinion with examples from the film.
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Sociology 101 Free Response answers

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A politician recently said: “The American Dream is real. In the U.S., every child is born with the same opportunities for economic success.” How would Annette Lareau (Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families) critique this statement? In support of your answer: a) Describe the different childrearing strategies of the two social class groups. b) Discuss what effects these strategies have on interactions outside the home. Discuss the overall consequences for the two social class groups.
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“How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Analysis

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In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Anzaldua experiences a “contact zone”, a meeting of different cultures on uneven terms due to a power difference, with the intermixing of her American and Mexican cultures (Pratt 34). Because of the existing nature of dominant and subordinate roles within this contact zone, Anzaldua incorporates both Chicano Spanish and English into her daily life as an act to lessen the power difference, allowing her Mexican culture to take a more influential part in her life.  
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