Select and Respond to ONE of the following two writing prompts. Your response should be approximately 500 words and include specific examples (e.g., from your experiences or research). Be sure to cite any material that you have used from another source.

Work must be original. Submissions that are copied from other sources (not including appropriately cited quotes) will receive a grade of 0/10. Late submissions will receive a deduction of 2 points per day.

Writing Prompts:

1. Use some of the concepts of C. Wright Mills and Peter Berger to explain who you are and why you see the world the way you do. Working through this process will help you to understand that while we are all individuals, we are also the culmination of many social forces. Your investigation should include a discussion of SOME of the following five social factors that were most influential in defining the person you have become: minority status, gender, socioeconomic status, family structure, and urban-rural differences. (Ravelli, pp. 9 -11).
2. Design an ethical research project that investigates obedience and people’s responses to authority (like Stanley Milgrim’s did). Describe your: purpose, hypothesis, method, participants, and potential results. Do you think it would have the ability to yield similar results to Milgram’s experiment? Explain why or why not? (Ravelli, chapter 4)

Interview 4 people. 2 peer aged and 2 parent aged. Ask them, “Who rules America?” Use probes (like, “say more about that,” “what exactly do you mean?”, “How so?” etc.) to get them to elaborate. But do NOT lead them with questions that suggest your own views, give the “hints” as to sociological views, etc. Write up their responses (NOT verbatim) in about 2 pages. Tie your analysis of their responses into our course material where appropriate. 

Write 100 words EACH on THREE of the following theorists (for a total of 300 words) 

1- Talcott Parsons

2- C. Wright Mills

3- Jane Addams

In Chapter 7, we are told that Social Exchange Theory essentially entails a weighing of the costs and rewards in a given relationship. Rewards are outcomes that we get from a relationship that benefit us in some way, while costs range from granting favors to providing emotional support. When we do not receive the outcomes or rewards that we think we deserve, then we may negatively evaluate the relationship, or at least a given exchange or moment in the relationship, and view ourselves as being under-benefited. In an equitable relationship, costs and rewards are balanced, which usually leads to a positive evaluation of the relationship and satisfaction.Write about a friendship situation where the balance was uneven.How did you feel?What went on in the relationship and were the emotional outcomes?What did you do in the end or are you still in this friendship?Use one of the videos linked in the content area as well as your textbook to respond to the topic questions. Remember to cite the video and your text using either MLA or APA style. If you have a hard copy of the Flat World book, then cite using page numbers. If you use a digital copy, then cite using chapter and section numbers. If you do not cite, your posting will not be graded.All Work must be citedBookTitle: Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies, v. 1.0Author: Richard G. Jones, Jr.ISBN 13: 978-1-4533-5202-1VideosTed Talks: The mothers who found forgiveness, friendship (9:54)Ted Talks: Why veterans miss war (13:08):