Sep 1: Read The Stick Up Kids reading by sociologist Dr. Randol Contreras (click the link below)
Contreras_Stickup Kids.pdf
Sep 1: Read The Stick Up Kids reading by sociologist Dr. Randol Contreras (click the link below)
Contreras_Stickup Kids.pdf
Step 2: Read ” The Truly Disadvantaged.docx ” reading by sociologist William Julius Wilson and derives from chapter 6 of the required reading.
Step 3: Click the link below to visit the “Inequality is real” simulation. Explore some of the options and outcomes based on your selections. You will include your views on the experience with the simulation and how you think it applicable to Social Structure Theory.
http://inequality.is/real
Step 4: Click the link below to visit the “playspent.org” simulation. Explore some of the options and outcomes based on your selections. You will include your views on the experience with the simulation in this week’s discussion and how it applicable to Social Structure Theory.
https://playspent.org/
Step 5. Considering the major principles of social structure theory respond to the following questions:
Q1. Is income inequality the key to understanding the racialized nature of crime rates? Explain your answer? (Use examples from the readings and video clips” and provide a reflection on the two simulation activities that you completed in your discussion).
If you answered yes to Q1 do you think this is a social justice issue? How can it be mitigated and eradicated?
If you answered no to Q1, what factor(s) do you think explain the racialized nature of crime rates?
Q2. Which sociological explanation (theory) of crime and delinquency, covered in chapter 6, helps you understand the trajectory of the stick-up kids?
Q3. How do the social conditions, like those illustrated in the “Covid-19 Eviction Crisis” video clip from this week, perpetuate and maintain the social structural elements of crime? (use examples from the video)
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Submitting your post
Demonstrate your understanding by,
first, identifying an applicable social structure theory from chapter 6.
second, discuss the tenets and principles of the theory you select in your own words
third, follow your discussion of the theory with relative examples from the reading, video lessons, and/or supplemental readings.
Step 2: Read ” The Truly Disadvantaged.docx ” reading by sociologist William Julius Wilson and derives from chapter 6 of the required reading.
Step 3: Click the link below to visit the “Inequality is real” simulation. Explore some of the options and outcomes based on your selections. You will include your views on the experience with the simulation and how you think it applicable to Social Structure Theory.
http://inequality.is/real
Step 4: Click the link below to visit the “playspent.org” simulation. Explore some of the options and outcomes based on your selections. You will include your views on the experience with the simulation in this week’s discussion and how it applicable to Social Structure Theory.
https://playspent.org/
Step 5. Considering the major principles of social structure theory respond to the following questions:
Q1. Is income inequality the key to understanding the racialized nature of crime rates? Explain your answer? (Use examples from the readings and video clips” and provide a reflection on the two simulation activities that you completed in your discussion).
If you answered yes to Q1 do you think this is a social justice issue? How can it be mitigated and eradicated?
If you answered no to Q1, what factor(s) do you think explain the racialized nature of crime rates?
Q2. Which sociological explanation (theory) of crime and delinquency, covered in chapter 6, helps you understand the trajectory of the stick-up kids?
Q3. How do the social conditions, like those illustrated in the “Covid-19 Eviction Crisis” video clip from this week, perpetuate and maintain the social structural elements of crime? (use examples from the video)
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Submitting your post
Demonstrate your understanding by,
first, identifying an applicable social structure theory from chapter 6.
second, discuss the tenets and principles of the theory you select in your own words
third, follow your discussion of the theory with relative examples from the reading, video lessons, and/or supplemental readings.
