Unit VI Advocacy for Change Worksheet
Unit VI Advocacy for Change Worksheet: Introduction to Sociology 6.For this assignment, you will conduct Internet research about a significant person that was or is an advocate against inequality. Choose a person who has had an impact on promoting equality whether through philanthropy, civil rights, teaching, or lifestyle. Then, download and complete the worksheet by clicking here. Save all of your work directly to the worksheet, and submit it in Blackboard for grading. WORKSHEET WAS ATTACHED
Unit VI Advocacy for Change Worksheet
- Introduce the person. Discuss what led him or her to become an advocate.
- Discuss which of the sociological views (i.e., conflict, interactionism, or functionalism) help explain the type of inequality being addressed by the advocate.
- Did his or her advocacy invoke a change and/or influence others? Discuss why or why not.
- What lessons do you believe we can take away from this person and apply today?
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Unit VI Advocacy for Change Worksheet
- Introduce the person. Discuss what led him or her to become an advocate.
Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 in Dorchester county Maryland, United States. She was born into a family where her parents were enslaved (Nielson, 2002). She, too, became a slave since her childhood, and she was subjected to beatings and whippings by her masters. One day a heavy metal that was meant to hit another slave hit her head, and she was no longer the same. She started experiencing dizziness, hypersomnia, and pain all through her life. She would…
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