SOC 203 Week 4 DQ 2 Reinventing Healthcare

SOC 203 Week 4 DQ 2 Reinventing Healthcare

SOC 203 Week 4 DQ 2 Reinventing Healthcare

While we do not want to replicate our Week One discussion of obesity,  this issue certainly overlaps with the growing healthcare challenge. Remember that the focus of the previous discussion was on our sociological imaginations. Keep your imaginations going, but we will shift gears a bit for this discussion with a focus on solutions. 

In addition to the required video and text, please complete a web search for additional information. All sources should be authoritative, so your search should focus on scholarly papers, government reports, and other expert sources. After reviewing all of these resources, please discuss the all of the following: 

a. According to experts on all sides, does the government have the right to enforce, legislate, or regulate behaviors such as obesity, health, and nutritious eating? 

b. Are these expert opinions biased in any way? Provide examples.

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c. Now that we have heard from the experts, do you personally believe the government has a right to enforce, legislate, or regulate behaviors such as obesity, health, and nutritious eating? Why or why not?

Review the article, Race, poverty and punishment: The impact of criminal sanctions on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequality, as you to prepare for this paper. As Wheelock and Uggen (2006) point out, “the association between crime, punishment, and poverty has long been the subject of sociological and criminological investigation” (p. 1). This assignment is intended illustrate the interconnection of social problems. 

Write a paper discussing the overlap of crime, punishment, and poverty. In your paper, please elaborate on the following points raised by the authors:

a. Criminal sanctions and victimization work to form a system of disadvantage that perpetuates stratification and poverty. 

b. Punishment impacts individuals convicted of felonies, as well as their families, peer groups, neighborhoods, and racial group. 

c. After controlling for population differences, African Americans are incarcerated approximately seven times as often as Whites. 

d. Variation in criminal punishment is linked to economic deprivation. 

e. As the number of felons and former felons rises, collateral sanctions play an ever-larger role in racial and ethnic stratification, operating as an interconnected system of disadvantage.