Sociology Essay 221

Instructions Final Exam SOC221

For this exam, you will write 2 short essays (approximately 2-3 paragraphs each). Be sure to read all of the instructions carefully. Grammar and spell check your essays. This is an exam. All work must be your own; NO help from anyone. You may use the book, journal articles, and slides from Bb. Avoid plagiarism by quoting and/or citing as appropriate. Choose 1 individual and 1 group from the options below. Write a short essay for each of your 2 choices that discusses what you’ve learned about how stress affects health. Individual Group

Note to self Teacher to class Message to a loved one Attention community members Doctor to patient Dear Politician/Lawmaker

Note: Although it is sometimes easier to think about real life, I do not need to know personal details about you. You can choose to make up the scenario or blend imagination with real life information. I will assume that all information in every essay is fictional.

• Each essay needs to communicate your mastery of course lessons and use course concepts accurately and often. Do not just throw in course concepts without being as specific as social scientists need to be when they apply these concepts to conduct research; you’ll lose points for inaccurate and incorrect use course concepts.

• To ensure that you’re using course concepts throughout each essay and to focus your

essay, you should choose one item from groups A-D below to write about in each essay. Do not use the same items from groups A-D in both essays. *Bonus points if you’re able to successfully incorporate an item from group E.

A) Stressors: Chronic stressors; Daily hassles; Major (acute) life events; Role strains; Traumatic stress; Ambient strains B) Health Outcomes: Depression; Anxiety; Anger; Grief; PTSD; Birth outcomes; Suicide/Mortality risk; Heart health/blood pressure; Chronic diseases; Immune function/contagious illnesses C) Social Statuses/Demographic Factors: Race and Ethnicity; Socioeconomic status; Gender; Age; Immigrant status D) Risk/Resilience Factors: Health (unhealthy) behaviors; Personality characteristics; Coping; Social support *E) Theories and Processes: Cumulative (dis)advantage; Double jeopardy hypothesis; Blaxter hypothesis; Discrepancy theory/ies; Stress Process Theory; Spillover/Crossover; Stress Proliferation; Stress Contagion Your essays may be in the form of a letter, conversation, speech, or plain old essay. I do not care what size font, margins, or line spacing you use as long as I can read your essays. A paragraph is typically 4-6 sentences long, so the length of your essay will not depend on font, margins, etc. When you cite sources, I don’t care what citation style you use as long as it’s clear that you’re giving credit to the source of the idea. Focus on writing your ideas clearly and make it look neat (not sloppy)! You must save your file as one of the following file types before you upload it: doc, .docx, .docm, .ppt, .pptx, .odt, .txt, .rtf, .pdf