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Prisha Jain 51649077 1. Drawing on Durkheim's study of suicide outline how you would explore the mental health of UBC students. Durkheim collected empirical evidence of suicide rates across factors such as gender, race, age etc as contrbuting social facts. Since he used inductive reasoning, an implementation of his theory could involve a survey amongst UBC students about their mental health and the factors that influence it in their experience. Then the data gathered would be assessed based on gender and race. Age may not be a suitable variable as most UBC students would fall under a similar age group. Through these classifications, one can use the data to decipher the social facts that are affecting the students. Generally males have higher suicide rates thus this hypothesis could be tested based on male UBC students’ mental health issues and their susceptibilty to self harm/suicide. Similarly, racial discrimination is a leading cause of suicide for minority race groups, the data collected can provide evidence for or against this notion. Based on which, conclusions can be made and the UBC Student Assistant Program (SAP) can be informed of the same. 2. Outline how Public Sociology aligns with Goal 2 of UBC's Indigenous Strategic Plan. Public sociology is rooted in making individuals in a society into engaged citizens to benefit society as a whole. Zygmunt Bauman, a sociologist shared his optimistic views about humans working towards a fair society by eliminating social stratification. In the context of goal 2 of UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan, opening public dialogue aligns with public sociology by helping facilitate citizenship in those who attend. It provides a means of spreading awareness about truth and reconciliation and appealing to the public about the injustices faced by the

Prisha Jain 51649077 Indigenous community. This would in turn bring us one step closer to a fairer society through the social interaction between the Indigenous people and other communities. Additionally, a public dialogue would also contribute to the nullifying overt social groups that exist in our society as it will allow all individuals to openly share their views and experiences without having to conform into a societal bubble, granting them the freedom to ask questions and gain more knowledge about the cultural and history of Indigenous people, as well as learn about the proper terminologies used by their people. 3. The McDonaldization of Education? Discuss drawing on your own experience of education. McDonaldization refers to the cultural homogeneity of big companies impacting smaller ones. Georg Ritzer theorized that McDonald’s ration system is made up of key elements such as “efficiency, calculability, predictability and control” (Nagle, 290). Drawing from my experience, my school adopted the rigid system of the IB curriculum with set exam components and course material. The educators efficiently allotted parts of the course work across the year, ensuring its completion. With that, we followed strict deadlines to submit projects and a set time table to maintain order and structure. With that, the staff followed a hierarchical system starting from the curriculum coordinators down to the teachers. Each staff member had specific responsibilities which were reflected in their interaction with the students. As a way of preserving the uniformity of our education, a class average was taken at the end of each year to be compared to the next batch and to set a standard that would be followed by all students, hence showcasing the predictability of our school’s system.

Prisha Jain 51649077 4. Outline how the experience of chronic illness may differ according to gender. Chronic illness renders an individual as an unproductive member of society thus illustrating the concept of a sick role. The sick role presents the individual with certain privileges and obligations that they abide by in society. Though the basis of features remains the same, factors such as gender, change the implication of the sick role. In society, there are gender roles in a patriarchal system where women are given the duty of a ‘caretaker’ and men, the ‘breadwinner’. If a man has a chronic illness, he would be deemed unproductive in terms of socio-economic stability given his inability to work and earn money. On the contrary, chronic illness would make a woman unproductive at home, resulting in instability in the household. Though, over the years, we have advanced as a society and social order has become more complex, where women work alongside men, in situations like those a chronic illness would impact them similarly. Unfortunately, the expectation from men to work is far greater than women, due to which men feel a greater obligation to restore their health and resume working. 5. Producing Inequality: compare schooling in Canada and South Africa. The educational systems in Canada differ greatly on the basis of the fundamental economy of the two countries where Canada is a developed country, South Africa is a developing country. Although both nations still suffer from inequalities in their educational system. The leading inequality in South Africa is a lack of quality and funding in education. Due to under qualified staff and poor infrastructure, a performance gap has been created between rich and poor students. Similarly, Canadian schooling promotes such social groups by rewarding students from high income families, more promising job opportunities. Along with that, they perpetuate institutional

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Prisha Jain 51649077 racism against Aboriginal people through the erasure of their cultural history in Canada. In turn, cultural inequalities are integrated in the schooling system. On the contrary, South Africa has introduced the study of Xhosa language instruction and Indigenous morals like Ubuntu, hence eliminating cultural inequalities like those in Canada. Mini-Essay: Construct a discussion with conclusion on either the Podcast or the Article. In this podcast episode titled ‘how much do you make?’, the hosts start a dialogue about the innate inappropriateness of this question in the workplace. They reflect upon the stigmatisation of wage transparency about which three individuals discuss the social facts; gender and race. The first speaker has a gendered discussion about the wage discrepancies between men and women. Here, she correlates men’s boastful attitude towards sharing what they make to the fact that women get paid 25% less than men, a gender inequality that reveals the hardships women face in a patriarchal world. Additionally, their discomfort with transparency can also be attributed to gender roles playing a part in a structural functionalist society (Nagle, 205). This may also explain why there hasn’t been much of a change in the wage gaps because destabilizing the very foundation of a society can be quite complex. However, in an optimistic sense, the third speaker preached for wage transparency as a progressive step in society. He explained that this may normalise this supposed taboo. With that, it may also incentivise everyone in the workplace to speak up about wage disparities through unions. Hence, making women more comfortable in making positive societal changes that would garner them equally as valuable as men. Furthermore, the second speaker reviewed the racialisation in the creative industry. As a queer

Prisha Jain 51649077 black woman, she talked about the marginalisation of literature produced by people of colour. Due to the cultural homogeneity (Nagle, 286) of most books published with caucasian characters, sales of books written from other racial perspectives are cast aside. In addition, the speaker illustrates that for a caucasian author, a book that didn’t sell is just that, but for a person of colour, a book that didn’t sell becomes a representation of their entire culture, thus corroborating the hesitation behind sharing the number of sales and the profit or loss generated by them. In conclusion, the podcast touched upon key factors affecting the reluctance in answering the “how much do you make?” question such as gender and race. The first speaker draws from her experience as an underpaid and undervalued woman in the workplace who doesn’t feel compelled to share her income status in the presence of men who have higher incomes despite doing the same work. Similarly, the second speaker illuminates the hosts about the institutional racism in the publishing industry and how little recognition people of colour get, in terms of their economic gain from their work. As a contrast, the last speaker gospelizes the normalisation of wage transparency. He states that this would greatly benefit minority social groups by spreading awareness about income gaps. Bibliography John Nagle. “Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide”. Inappropriate Questions - Should I ask my co-worker “How much do you make?”

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