Sociol334 Contemporary Society|Literature Assessment Answer

Essay Questions You will be required to write an essay from a selection of titles based on lectures 3, 4, 5 and 6. It will draw on a wide range of literature and also will have bibliography (not included in word length). You may use either the Harvard or APA method of referencing. A good essay will answer the question set and show, through engaging with a broad range of literature, why you make the conclusions you do. A weak essay will be more descriptive and fail to engage with the relevant literature leaving uncertainty over your conclusions. 1. Is getting a university education a great social leveller? 2. What impact has the ‘gender revolution’ in Higher Education had on gender equality? 3. What is meant by the term ‘precarious work’ and what impacts is it having on young people’s transitions into adulthood? 4. What is the ‘gig economy’ and should we be worried by its growth in the youth labour market? 5. Analyse the usefulness of sub-cultural theory to explain contemporary youth cultural practice 6. Do you think young people are discriminating consumers, able to articulate what they like about some things, and what they dislike about others? Discuss 7. Analysis how digital social media might be changing what it means to be young today? 8. Do you agree that “the obese can be slender, the beautiful can be plain on social media?” (Turkle 1996: 158) Explain your answer with examples from research. 9. Do you think 16 and 17 year olds should be allowed to vote in New Zealand? 10. Should New Zealand legalise Cannabis use and what impact might it have on the young? 11. Discuss the following statement; ‘the problem with youth sociology is that it is anglocentric and unable to capture the diverse experiences of young people from around the globe’. Do you agree?