Sociology DB Questions

Please read both questions and answer in two separate paragraphs with at least a 150 words each. Powerpoints are attached for question 1.

1. This chapter covers a range of violent criminal behaviors. The power points focus on two different types of homicide suggesting the complexity of explaining even one violent crime. Considering the information that you have learned in this chapter, how would society create social policy that would best reduce the number of violent crime victims, especially homicide?  Explain.  The issue of guns is open for discussion.

2. Choose a concept -- such as Goffman's notion of stigma, Arlie Russel Hoschild: Emotional labor, or Patricia Hill Collins: Black feminist thought -- that you found particularly interesting from parts 3 and 4 in Chapter 5. Describe this concept. Now, apply this concept to a concrete example. Explain.