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Below you will find eight questions. They constitute your mid-term evaluation. You are being asked to completetwoshort XXXXXXXXXXword essays - you may choose anytwoof the eight questions.The essays assume that you have read the pertinent chapters the "free textbook" (notably 1, 9-12 & 15 as well as parts 1-4 and 7-11 ofSoft Science.Those who may have forgotten can find the "free textbook" at .The "textbooks" contain background information that may assist you to formulate your answers. Most of what you put into them, however, will depend on how wellyouthink about the issues raised in the questions themselves.Each question is intended to encourage you tothinkseriouslyabout a topic and to present an answer which reflects your ownthoughtfulandinformedview on the matter. Each question can be answered in what is known as a standard “five paragraph essay” format if that is your preference—though that kind of stricture isnota requirement and you are at liberty to experiment as you see fit. As well, even if you do stick to the standard format (Introduction, Point 1, Point 2, Point 3, Conclusion), I suspect that you may need more than a mere three "body" paragraphs to make your case).Anyway, you should present your argument in a logical, concise, coherent fashion, but more than that—I would like you to offer an opinion that expresses your own perspective because itmattersto you—as a person, as an aspirant contributor to society, and as a responsible human being in the world as it is.
And remember again to choose onlytwo(but two different) questions from the following list and write one short essay oneachof your choices.

Read the opening section on “the sociological imagination,” consult the pertinent parts of the “free” textbook and explain how you would translate the personal experience ofoneof the following: poverty, racism, or misogyny into a social problem that could be solved to your benefit. What are the social determinants of the unhappiness people in that situation have and whatpracticalmeasures could be taken to deal with them?
Read the section called “Education” in the ebook. Think about what it would mean to be a teacher in an Ontario college today. Then, with the examples provided in mind, explain whether the task of education is to train young people to be efficient consumers and compliant citizens in contemporary society and, if so, whether any of the teachers whose ideas are presented here in fact or in fiction would be able to fulfill those tasks to the satisfaction of either their students or the authorities whose responsibility it is to manage the schools.
When we listen to people discussing major social, economic, and political issues today, they are often expressing a particular view of “human nature.” Read the section on “Human Nature” inSoft Scienceand in particular the accounts of encounters with aboriginal peoples presented by Melville and Mowat. Then briefly describe and explain whether aspects of their cultures couldrealisticallybe adopted and adapted to the benefit of contemporary society.
Read the section “Comments” on capitalism and reflect on the importance of religion and technology in terms of the ways in which modern society organizes itself and the production and distribution of goods and services. Then, write discuss whether you think that Marx’s explanation of human unhappiness is more or less convincing thaneitherWeber’s (which emphasizes “religion”)orKroker’s (which emphasizes “technology.”
Setting aside your own religious beliefs (if any) consider the treatment of religion in either or both of the standard texts and then discuss whether or not you think thateitherSafire and Dershowitz (with regard toThe Book of Job)orThiering (with regard to the Christian “gospels”) present a credible account of the “stories” that are told. Both tie the content of the narratives to stages in human cultural development and make the case that religious belief is a reflection of cultural evolution. Are these narrative persuasive asexplanationsfor why the stories have been so widely and so long believed?
Read Part 9 on reproduction, sex, and gender as well as its counterparts in the "free" text, and construct an argument for or against the proposition that sexual morality, the structure of the “traditional family,” etc. werenecessarylimitations on human sexual activityas long aseconomic scarcity required that people attend to winning the necessities of life in order to survive and bend to what Freud called the “reality principle,” but that modern technology has made it possible to live well with neither poverty nor sexual repression and overcome the “primacy of repression” (Marcuse).
Read the selections by Lawrence, Sartre, Fanon, and Le Carré in Section 11 ofSoft Scienceand compare them to the proposition advanced by Goldschmidt concerning “affect hunger.” Then, construct an argument for or against the proposition thatpessimismconcerning the moral quality of “human nature” is more plausible than “optimism”—especially with regard tothisquestion, you may wish to include some reference to other parts of the ebook.
Earlier this year, a 22-year-old baseball player named Fernando Tatis, Jr. signed a contract to play with the San Diego Padres of the National Baseball League. He will receive $340 million over the next 14 years. Outline the basic elements of an explanation for why such a lucrative deal has been offered using the method of “cultural materialism” as outlined in the “Introduction” toSoft Science.

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Title: Social Problems and Human Unhappiness
Contents
1.	3
Introduction	3
Social Problem	3
Social Determinants of Unhappiness	3
Practical Measures to Deal the Social Determinants of Unhappiness	4
Conclusion	5
2.	6
Introduction	6
Marx’s Views of Human Unhappiness	6
Weber’s Views of Human Unhappiness	7
Kroker’s Views of Human Unhappiness	7
Conclusion	8
Works Cited	9
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Introduction
	As the human civilizations grew the discipline of sociology diversified. The society confronted a series of conditions and behaviors that were subsequently followed by negative consequences. These became persistent as the social problems that degraded the well-being of a certain group of people in the society. What more matters is the change is the perceptions of human beings in the society. Eventually there arose groups as civilizations progressed, the dominant group, subordinate group and the minority groups. Race, gender and socio- economic status has always degraded the position of women in the jeopardy for subservience. Racism, sexism impoverishment and discrimination continue to be the major social problem even today.
Social Problem
	In this prevailing century too discrimination against race, sexual orientation and misogyny is the most popular social problems. The prejudices that still persist in the society often end up discriminating the minority section of the population. It is pertinent to the fact that minor portions of the population are dominated by the majority who forms the dominant group. It is in this context that I have experienced inception and discrimination on these grounds. Although the extent of discrimination is not as strong as it prevailed before. However, the saddest part is it still exists in twenty first century. 
Social Determinants of Unhappiness
Social determinants focus on the circumstances according to which people live and work to shape their well-being and possible social outcomes. The determinants are believed to drive many such social inequalities that drive the mental health as well as the health inequalities (Kofler). It is built upon the concept of social gradient that results in the fact of depression and unhappiness among the vast population of the society. The aspects of poverty, economic inequality, racism, discrimination and misogyny are the prime determinants of social inequality. Studies suggest that poor and disadvantaged sections of thy society suffer from severe mental health and puts stress on the physical health too. Unemployment and poverty have got high positive correlations with the increased psychological distress. Further studies confirm that lower incomes and effective financial strain are the reason for poor mental health and unhappiness among the individuals.

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