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Kinship & Family

Using the key below, construct a kinship diagram for your (extended) family showing AT LEAST 10 relationships. Analyze your diagram, and explain what is present and what is missing.

Chapter 10 Quiz & Fieldwork Due Sun 4/14 @ 11:59 pm

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Social Class & Inequality

Find a news story that illustrates either Marx, Weber, or Bourdieu’s theory of social class. Post a link to the story and do a brief write up (multiple paragraphs) that explains how the story illustrates social class using the selected theorist’s concepts.

***Be sure to focus on social class, not race! Race may play a role, but I want you to focus on social class primarily.

Due Sun 11/11 @ 11:59 pm

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Concept Map

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Gender : Just be a man about it

- Own up to what you’ve done and be a man about his actions

Power : I think you deserve somebody better than me

- You should be with someone that knows your worth

Dialect : Now you're swearing up and down that it ain't me

- It’s not her fault that things aren’t working out

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Fieldwork Assignment #2

While doing this assignment, I realized that I spend way too much money. Most of my needs are definitely needs but the quantity of the item ends up being a want. Most of the things that I spend my money on are very materialistic and social media influenced because I really don't have to have these things, I just get them because they fill a void.

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Extra Credit Opportunity

If anyone is free from 5:30-8:30PM today, dm me!

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Fieldwork Assignment #1

What is the item and what is it made of?

- Hot Tools Professional flatirons are made out of titanium material.

What is the history of the item?

- “Hair straighteners” is what they used to call them and have become popular in the early 1960s and have been in use ever since. In 1872, Marcel Grateau  used heated rods to straighten her hair. In 1906, Simon E. Monroe patented a hair straightener that was like a metal comb. In 1909, Issac K. Shero patented a hair straightener made of two irons that are heated and put together around the hair. A few years later, Sharrell made heated metal tools. The hot metal straightener went easily through the hair, making less damage and dryness than the way things were done before. Later, ceramic and titanium straighteners were made, meaning people could adjust the heat settings and straightener size.

Where was your item made or manufactured?

- The flatiron was manufactured in Texas.

What impact does the item have on your life?

- If I didn't have a flat iron it would be hard for me to straighten my hair on a day to day basis.

Who are the people directly involved with making or manufacturing this item? What is life like for them?

- The workers in Texas work long hours to create these flatirons. They create some flatirons with ceramic, titanium, or tourmaline ceramic plates so choosing the right one and making sure it is stable is a lengthy process.

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Can of Coke

After reading Chapter 1 of your textbook, along with the box “Your Turn: Fieldwork: Making a Can of Coke Unfamiliar,” you know just how unfamiliar a regular object from your day-to-day life can be.

For this exercise, look through your home (dorm) and find another familiar yet unfamiliar object.

Where was this object made? How did it make its way into your home? What kind of impact has this object had on other people’s lives?

1. Take an picture of YOUR item (do not use google images) and answer the following questions in your post.

2. What is the history of the item?

3. Where was your item made or manufactured?

4. What impact does the item have on your life?

5. Who are the people directly involved with making or manufacturing this item? What is life like for them?

Fieldwork & Chapter 1 Quiz Due 2/3 @ 11:59 pm

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Flexible Accumulation

Flexible Accumulation is when businesses try to expand by advertising and marketing. Apple makes its money by marketing and targeting an audience that they know will buy there product. They come out with new features that they know people would draw closer to them. Apple is essentially in completion with Samsung because they make their products more people friendly.

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Uneven Development

Uneven Development is unequal distribution of people, resources, and wealth in human geography. Uneven developmental is based upon the global, regional, national, and urban scales. If you go in most areas you would see that some are finer than others. Unfortunately, the amount of resources are scarce even if the areas are right next to each other. 

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Time Space Compression

Time Space Compression often occurs as a result of technological innovations including technology of communication and economics. When traveling it used to take a few days in order to get everything settled but now it is much easier because everything is literally at our fingertips and you can make a flight just by a click of a button. 

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Increasing Migration

Increasing migration is basically the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions on settling either permanently or temporarily. In the photo above it shows how the population in Canada increased rapidly over the past 100+ years. The reason for the increase could've been because of scarcity of resources in other areas of the world or better living conditions in Canada.