Discussion Addresses Module Outcome Consequences
A – The Blurring Lines…Leisure and Work Or, B – The Affordable Care Act. After identifying which discussion prompt you are responding to and making your initial post, be sure to make at least one of your response posts to the other discussion question prompt.
A – The Blurring Lines…Leisure and Work:
This discussion addresses module outcome 1. You will apply key sociological concepts to a discussion of the relationship between leisure and work. You will be asked to assess the relationship between leisure and technology and between work and technology. You will discuss how these lines get blurred. You will be asked to critically assess the potential harm that the blurring of this line has on society.
Before beginning this activity, be sure to read the Module Notes and the assigned readings and viewings. Use as much detail from the readings and other learning materials in the module as possible to answer the following questions.
- How have leisure and work changed over the last few decades? Use specific examples from your readings and the assigned videos for the module in your answer.
- Sociologists argue that the line between work and leisure has blurred due to advances in technology. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer.
- Discuss the consequences, if any, that the blurring of this line has on society at large. These can be negative, positive or both. Use specific examples to support your answer.
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B – The Affordable Care Act.
This discussion addresses module outcome 2. In this module you learned about the consequences of race, class and gender to health care access and outcomes. You learned about the creation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from its first iteration by President Harry Truman through its implementation by President Barack Obama. Key Features of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Links to an external site.) are reviewable in this link, and you could consider the optional articles by Brill, Gawande, and McDonough.
You learned theories of how medicine functions as a social institution and how inequality creates dysfunction. You will be asked to discuss the ACA and critically assess it from the perspective of social theory.
Before beginning this activity, be sure to read the Module Notes and the assigned readings and viewings. Use as much detail from the readings and other learning materials in the module as possible to answer the following questions.
- Briefly summarize the ACA as described in the textbook. Be sure to include, briefly, key aspects of the health care measures that were passed into law as well as the history of the development of the act as outlined in your module readings.
- Apply either structural functionalism or conflict theory to a critical discussion of the ACA. Does it help or impede health care access or outcomes in the US? You can use both theoretical approaches if you feel they both apply.
- Finally, if you had an hour with the President to make recommendations on how to improve the ACA, what would you suggest? Be specific.
Your initial post should be at least 250 words and must substantively integrate the assigned readings with proper APA (Links to an external site.) style formatting.