1.For this module, you are to read Charles Frake's "How to ask for a drink in Subanun" and James Spradley and Brenda Mann's "How to ask for a drink at Brady's"Please answer TWO of the following questions about the Frake and Spradley & Mann articles. What (BESIDES the fact that they both involve alcohol) do these two types of speech events have in common?What do you think is the most striking difference between them?Based on these readings, what do you think is the most interesting difference in focusing linguistic analysis on a "speech event" rather than on a "language"?What kinds of drinking events do you participate in, and what is one function they might serve as a speech event? (Don't answer this in regard to alcoholic drinks if you are underage as I cannot guarantee who might see it and what uses they might put it to--all electronic data is forever!)2.For this module, you are supposed to read Anne-Marie Brisebarre's "The Sacrifice of 'Id al-Kabir" and Abigail Adams "Dyke to Dyke."Please answer one of the following questions on Brisebarre:Why is it difficult for French Muslims to practice the 'Id sacrifice?What do immigrant Muslims say about the differences between sacrificing in France and in their countries of origin?It is nearly 20 years since this study was done. Now that Islam is the second largest religion in France, and most Muslims are born in France rather than being immigrants, should France's laws regarding animal sacrifice be changed? Why or why not?Please answer one of the following questions on Adams:How would allowing women's participation change the nature of SEMI rites of passage?What does the SEMI alum mean when he says of the school "'The very thing that women are seeking would no longer be there' if women were admitted"? Do you agree of not? Why?Why, at a school dedicated to heterosexual men, does its major ritual recall childbirth and its central rite involve a symbolic childbirth? 3.For this module, you are supposed to read Kenneth Jost’s “Understanding Islam,” Cherry Lindholm & Cherry Lindholm’s “Life behind the Veil,” and Lila Abu-Lughod’s, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?” Please answer one study question on each reading:Please answer ONE of the following questions on Jost’s “Understanding Islam”:What are the main points of contention regarding the strained relationship between the Christian West and the Muslim World?Does Islam encourage violence? Explain.Is Islam compatible with secular, pluralist societies? Explain.Does Islam need a “Reformation”? Explain.Please answer ONE of the following questions on Lindholm & Lindholm’s “Life behind the Veil”:In Pakhtun society the chador and the concept of purdah are interrelated. What is purdah, and how is it reflected in the chador?The Lindholms discuss Pakhtun men’s dear of female sexuality and the ideology of male dominance. How is women’s sexuality viewed among the Pakhtun? How is the ideology of male dominance and the treatment of women a reflection of these fears?Despite purdah, women in urban areas have a lot of freedoms that their counterparts in rural areas do not have. What are these freedoms and how do women employ them?How are purdah, protection of the patriline, and the Pakhtun view of women interrelated?Why and how is hostility built into the institution of marriage by the structure of Pakhtun society?Please answer ONE of the following questions on Abu-Lughod’s “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?”What was “colonial feminism”? Why was it problematic?Why might some women choose to wear a veil? What do you think when you see a woman wearing a veil?In this selection, Abu-Lughod asks, “Can we only free Afghan women to be like us, or might we have to recognize that even after ‘liberation’ from the Taliban, they might want different things than we would want for them? What do we do about that?? How would you answer this question?Why is it problematic to associate feminism with the West?How might Americans try to help Afghan women in ways that do not involve ‘saving’ them?

Were the Salem witch trials a peculiar, aberrant moment in the age of superstition, or did they reflect common human psychological and social anxieties that could appear in any age? How harshly should those who prosecuted the “witches” be condemned?

One of the concepts introduced in Chapter 1 is the sociological imagination. This concept, devised by sociologist C. Wright Mills, is defined as the awareness of the relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our lives. One of the major goals of this course is for each student to develop a sociological imagination. Use of the sociological imagination requires the individual to develop the ability to see and understand the patterns that influence individual and group life and to recognize how aspects of our social selves (our social location) influence our identity, experiences, interactions, opportunities and outcomes. One of the ways to understand how people experience their society and why people behave and think the way they do is to look at their social location. Social location, discussed in Chapter 1, includes a person's social and physical traits that are deemed to be important by our society. Some of the traits of our social location in the U.S. include: race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, social class, nationality, geographic location, religion, disabilities and level of education. The social location of an individual has a profound influence on their experiences, interactions, opportunities and outcomes. For instance, the example of the disproportionate impact of Coronavirus illness and death on member of the African American and Latinx communities has demonstrated the consequences of social class inequalities, racial-ethnic discrimination and healthcare disparities that exist in the U.S.For this assignment, I would like you to reflect on your own social location and the ways in which it influences your experiences and outcomes, as well as examining the impact of social location in conjunction with a current issue. In order to do this, please complete the following (in 3 paragraphs):Generally discuss your social location, reviewing some of the aspects of your social location you see as significant to your experiences and opportunities (please only discuss that which you are comfortable revealing to other members of our class). Pick the one trait of your social location that you think is dominant and discuss how it impacts your experiences, opportunities, outcomes, social interactions and identity. Make sure to provide a few examples from your life that illustrate the impact of this aspect of your social location. Why has society defined this as an important or significant trait? What advantages or disadvantages result from having this trait?Find a news article or podcast focused on a current issue (from a high quality unbiased source) that you can relate to the topic of social location. Provide a brief summary of this article and discuss how the content of the article connects to the discussion of social location. Make sure to include a link to your resource at the end of your post. To get you started, here are a few interesting examples of the impact of social location: This recent article provides an excellent example of what it means to be in the working class in the U.S. in 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/sunday/deaths-despair-poverty.html?smid=nytcore-ios-shareThis short podcast provides a great example of the ways in which our social class status impacts our cultural traits, experiences and opportunities. It also discusses social mobility and adapting to changes in social status, culturally-speaking: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/this-is-uncomfortable-reema-khrais/i-have-class-anxiety/This podcast discusses how naming conventions differ by race and ethnicity, and what some of the consequences of these differences are for individuals. You can also check out the Census Bureau website to see which are the most popular names today and in the past. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/marijuana-pepsi/ and https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/Please make sure that your completed entry is between 350 - 500 words (use your word count tool in your word processor to do this). You are also required to read through your classmates posts and to comment substantively on 3 or moreof their posts. The responses to your classmates should be 100 - 200 words in length. ATTENTION: After you have completed this assignment and I have reviewed, I will give you the students responses to answer as stated along with this assignment