LBSU 304 Week 4 Social Sciences

5:30-5:40	Welcome Week 4-Read Aloud ·       Feedback/comments for DB, Writing Task # 3, or class participation.
5:40-6:20	1.   “A Few Ideas” The power of social media today video 5:43     "A Few Ideas" 5:43 (A Student Created Video) 2.   Part 1=Think Pair Share about: How has the use of social media (ex. Campaigns using social media, etc.) given unprecedented power to the individual via Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and other social media along with ever improving media technology capabilities? 3.   Part 2=Think Pair Share about: We live in a world full of challenges.  In many places people are experiencing rising unemployment, political violence, poverty, and looming ecological disasters related to all the other issues mentioned on this short list of problems.  As individuals living in a free society, we are also free to pursue our private satisfactions independently of others.  Yet we are also embedded in a broader society that includes our family, our communities, and our nation-not to mention that it is common to day to speak of an even wider global community.  With the media conversation still in mind, Choose one problem (as a class) and consider the following questions: ·       In your opinion, what is the role of the individual in helping to solve this problem? ·       Are we more likely to solve the problem if we embrace a sense of common purpose and public spirit focused on the collective good? Or ·       Should we focus on our private pursuits and a market mentality that says our consumption is what makes the world go round? ·       Is there a balance between what the individual is responsible for and what our role should be in the public sphere? 4.   Answer one of the questions listed above in about a paragraph.
6:20-6:30	Week 4 Writing Prompt
6:30-6:45	Animated Social Science Video 4:36 Robert Lancey Video 11:43
6:45-7:25	The readings and videos for this week discuss how traits can be either biological or socially constructed.  Form an opinion about whether you think race and gender are biological traits or socially constructed traits.  In other words which do you think determines our behavior more, biology or society? Class Debate Put aside your true feelings about this subject and participate in the debate portraying the beliefs of the role you have been assigned. Class T Chart Answer the following question: Your company has just hired an attractive new employee.  A long-time employee seems infatuated with the new employee.  S/he cannot stop staring and finds every opportunity to make contact with the new employee.  Finally, the new employee is forced to approach an immediate supervisor to stop the annoying behavior.  HR calls the long-time employee in for a meeting and the long-time employee offers this unexpected defense: “My Mediterranean ancestry and natural biological impulses make it virtually impossible for me to stop trying to court the new employee.  It is perfectly normal behavior and a natural biological trait found in all humans my gender and my age.” Does the long-term employee have a valid point? Why or why not?
7:25-7:45	Review of Week 3 Readings ·         Jacob Bronowski, The Nature of Scientific Reasoning(886) ·           ·         Edward O. Wilson, Intelligent Evolution (949) ·           ·         William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness (533) ·           ·         Sandra Steingraber, Tune of the Tuna Fish (540) ·           ·         Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of the One-Breasted Women (543)
7:45-8:05	Week 4 Discussion Board Explanation Kurth Scarf Example
8:05-8:20	What is due for week 5? Access all of the work due this week below.  Three items are due. 1. Review the instructions about your Individual in Society writing assignment and submit it.  It is DUE Sunday at midnight and worth 75 points.  2. Click on the "Discussion Board" link below to participate in your discussion worth 25 points.  Your main post is DUE Wednesday at midnight, and your responses to others are DUE Sunday at midnight. 3. Your in-class participation in discussions and activities is worth 25 points.

Challenges Our World Faces Today:

Health Care System

The Drought in California

Wider Gap between Rich and Poor
Shootings in Public Places/Vegas/Paris

High School Violence/Shootings

Obesity in our youth

Toxins in our food

Shrinking middle class

Endangered Species

Bullying in person and Cyber bullying

Unnecessary police shootings /Racial issues

Isis/Terrorism Attacks