Has your family experienced significant upward or downward mobility over the past three or four generations? How do you think your values and behavior might differ had you experienced the opposite pattern of mobility? How might it have been different had your family been of a different ethnic or racial origin?
Questions.
2. As we look at this
mobility trend in the United States, is there any way this can be turned around? For example, are there any new sectors of the economy that are growing which may help people earn more money?
Deviance.
3. Ultimately, how has our viewpoint toward deviance changed over time? For example,
does the sociological viewpoint substantiate that a definition of deviant behavior is situated within a cultural and historical context?
Football should be discouraged for the reason that it makes people aggressive, and any activity that makes people aggressive should be discouraged. No one should get married. If you get married, you promise to stay with the person for life, but no one can safely predict whether or not he or she will remain compatible with some other person for life. Evaluate these statements based on this week’s content and provide a critique in your discussion posts.
Questions.
5. Class, many of you will have a strong opinion about one or both of the fields from which our current examples are taken.
Class, did YOU get side-tracked by the topic of one of the two arguments?
What I mean is do you have a strong opinion about either football or marriage and because of your interest you felt compelled to talk about your opinion rather than to conduct the analysis?
6. The average American family has 3.2 members.
In this examples analyze the vague or ambiguous terms. |
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No one should get married. If you get married, you promise to stay with the person for life, but no one can safely predict whether or not he or she will remain compatible with some other person for life.
Class, one fallacy that is related to our current discussion is called equivocation.
In an equivocation, the writer is using language in a way that implies a connection that is not logical. I found a website with some humorous examples that you may like: https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;;–?+of+Equivocation+Fallacy&-mozilla-001&&-001 [Class, in order to get to the above website, please copy the URL and paste it into your browser.]
8. Can you come up with your own examples of equivocations? |