Imagine you are caught in the middle of a terrible snowstorm. You become lost, find yourself trapped, and several hours later, are unable to move. You have been frozen to death…or have you? One thousand years pass before you are discovered, quite unexpectedly, by a group of scientists. Advanced modern technology allows them to release you from your cryogenically suspended state. After several days you regain full consciousness. The world you once knew in 2024 no longer exists. The year is 3024; it is exactly 1,000 years ahead in the future…in planet Earth’s future.
Everything seems foreign to you. Your former life is forever gone. Your family, friends, loved ones—they are long gone. In your new world, you make the following observations about the physique of the people around you:
1) Neither the men nor the women have any hair on their bodies whatsoever. Their faces all seem to be altered in some way similar to the way plastic surgery procedures looked during 2024 but even more unnatural.
2) It appears that humans have grown a bit taller in size. The men you come in contact with have an average height of about 6’ 5” and women appear to have an average height of 5’ 11”.
3) Obesity is non-existent. Both men and women have a slender build. Men appear to weigh about 200 pounds and women about 120 pounds with quite a bit of muscle tone.
For weeks on end, you are examined daily by dozens of scientists. They are as much amazed by you as you are by them. They seem to have some type of computer chip in their brains that allow them to communicate by thoughts without uttering any words. You attempt to analyze their facial gestures and body language to figure out what they are saying to each other. An escort is by your side every moment. You are never alone. You have no privacy. You make more observations about your surroundings:
4) The food is salmon colored and looks like glue. It is “eaten” out of little containers which evaporate in water after being emptied.
5) Reading is not easy for you. It is extremely difficult to read signs because many letters of the alphabet have been replaced by Egyptian-looking symbols. Some symbols seem oddly like your texting emojis from back in 2024; however, most of this is confusing to you. You ask for paper and pen to write a message down with, but the lab workers are confused by your request.
One thing is for certain: you have a lot of adjustments to make. First, you would have to figure out how you were going to sociologically adapt to your new environment. You would experience a great deal of stress in your transition from 2024 to 3024. Physical survival is not a problem. Emotional survival is another issue. You worry that you will always be an outsider…always different, never belonging.
Realistically, this may not be something we need to worry ourselves about; however, if you think about it, we truly are products of our culture. We feel most comfortable around familiar surroundings. Take us outside of our comfort zones, and we start to become very uncomfortable. If you’ve ever traveled abroad then you know what it feels like to be outside of your comfort zone. Imagine on a smaller scale how different groups of immigrants felt when they came to the United States 150 or 75 years ago or even today. Think about how foreign and different things must have seemed to them.
Use the following questions below to help you brainstorm your essay. But do not simply regurgitate the information I just gave you. Be sure to use as many sociological perspectives, theories, and models that we have learned so far from your textbook as possible to back up your conclusions. If you basically just summarize the points I shared about this future society earlier in the prompt, you will lose major points. I want to see how you would apply your newly gained knowledge about sociology from this class to this certain situation. Use proper APA format and correct grammar.
Questions to get you brainstorming:
How do you feel about today’s culture when contrasted with the culture of 3024?
What theories from your textbook could help you adapt to living in this futuristic society?
What kind of insights about social institutions from 2024 could you share with people of this new world?
Which of the three main sociological perspectives (from this class) would most help you with adaptation to your new world and why?
Do you feel you would ever be socially accepted in this advanced society? What have you learned in this sociology course that could be used to help you assimilate to society 1,000 years ahead of today?
How would you adjust to the limited food offerings?
If the concept of money is no longer existent in this futuristic society, how would you describe this new economic system and what would you name it?
*** Directs quotes shouls be limited to no more than 10% of the essay***
No more than two consecutive words from the original source should appear in the paraphease
Please rephrase paraphrases and cite and quotations
My teacher is a big mean person and wont look it over for me so please help me.
Pleases look over the files.
