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Applications and Exercises

Applications and Exercises

This activity contains 4 questions.

	Write down the first ten words that come to your mind when you hear the word "elderly". Now ask an elderly person the first ten words that come to his or her mind. What differences do you find? Where do you get your conceptions of the elderly?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Debate in class the issue of how a finite amount of health care dollars should be spent. Weigh the issues related to spending health care dollars on increasing the years of life among the elderly, or on other costly health care expenditures such as organ replacement and neonatal care.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	For the above debate, discuss how sociologists from a structural-functionalist, social-conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspective might approach the issues   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Using the Internet "Sites to See" as a starting point, research the issue of euthanasia. From a societal perspective, what functions might euthanasia serve? What conflicts might arise? Identify how the structural-functional approach, together with the conflict perspective, help to identify key points in the debate.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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