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The document outlines the instructions and requirements for a take-home midterm exam for a sociology course at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. It includes three questions that students must answer, focusing on cultural norms, the life-course, and issues of inequality faced by Indigenous people in Canada. The exam emphasizes the importance of original thought, the use of course materials, and prohibits outside research or collaboration.

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Soci 1125_Midterm Two

The document outlines the instructions and requirements for a take-home midterm exam for a sociology course at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. It includes three questions that students must answer, focusing on cultural norms, the life-course, and issues of inequality faced by Indigenous people in Canada. The exam emphasizes the importance of original thought, the use of course materials, and prohibits outside research or collaboration.

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Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Department of Sociology

SOCI 1125
Take-Home
Midterm 2

2022

Name:

Date Written:

Directions:

1. Read the questions carefully.

2. Answer all questions.

3. When complete, submit in Moodle dropbox, under Nov 7-11th week, in PDF
format.

Total Marks: 30
% of Final Grade: 20%
Please carefully read and review the following statements. Beginning your exam
will be interpreted as your acknowledgement and agreement to these statements:
This is an open book exam so students can use the textbook, PowerPoints, recorded lectures,
and course notes to help guide their answers. Students are required to write in their own words
and use original thoughts.
Do not use or include outside research. Students are not permitted to google or search the
internet. Answers are to be based on course materials alone and personal insights.
The material in this exam is the product of a student’s own work and was not obtained from a
prior or current student or third party.
Students will not collaborate with other students in completing this exam.
Students will not directly quote from any course materials. The exam must be written in your
own words. This means that referencing is not required.

Compromising any of the above statements will result in a grade of 0 on the exam.
Answer all 3 of the following questions.
Each is worth 10 marks (30 marks total).

These answers should be approximately 1-2 paragraphs.


Question One: Provide two examples of cultural norms that you might
encounter/adhere to when planning and hosting a birthday party. Are these norms
folkways, mores, or taboos? Remember to define any key terms. (10 marks)
ANSWER-

Birthday celebrations in countries such as India have become a ritual in which family and friends
gather to commemorate an individual's happiest day. Hindus celebrate birthdays completely
differently than Westerners do. Being from an Indian family, we light lamps while candles are
blown out in the West. Additionally, we believe it is unlucky to give the other person a knife,
weapon, or anything else sharp. Lighting a lamp serves as a reminder to the youngster to follow
the right way, to pray for enlightenment, and to emphasise the value of blazing a light for others.
We commemorate and give thanks to the star, which serves as the person's compass, as well as
the lunar month in the south. A lavish vegetarian meal is set up to feed the needy and close
family members. Food is served to the child while a leaf is held perpendicular to the child with
samkalpa that is intended for Ganapathi (the goddess). All of the household's elders visit the
child while they are eating and bless him or her with flowers and akshatha. Everyone offers
prayers to the light while sweet ghee is being cooked for the child's health and long life. I merely
brought up children, but this is done so long as the parents are alive to bless their offspring.

These cultural norms that are too strictly followed in my family, especially on my birthday, are
basically the cultural norms that take place in my family. These are folkways because these are
norms that we practise but that are frequently not documented. As we get older, we discover
them through intuition. The above-mentioned rituals are not written anywhere, but as I get older,
these norms are the ones that have been followed since my childhood through practice.
Question Two: Describe the life-course. For each stage of the life-course, choose one
agent of socialization and describe how that agent may socialize a person into norms,
beliefs, or ways of living. Remember to define any key terms. (10 marks)
ANSWER-
According to the definition of a life course, it is "a series of socially prescribed experiences and
responsibilities that the individuals enacts across time." Particular attention is given to the
relationship between people and the political and socioeconomic environments in which they
lived. There the 4 phases of the life course described hereunder. Throughout each of these
stages, socialization is ongoing.

YOUND ADULTHOOD-I guess in childhood, family is the agent of socialization. In family,


the parenting styles and the child's biological sex both play a role in how parents socialize their
offspring. These then becomes into a norm, which then helps in upbringing of the children.

ADULTHOOD- I guess in adulthood, school is the agent of socialization. In Schools, kids get
socialize by teaching them both the official curriculum and a secret curriculum.

MIDDLE AGE- I guess in Middle age, Peers are best the agent of socialization. Peers are a
significant wellspring of profound assistance and companionship, yet peer pressure can lead individuals
to act in manners they would ordinarily consider improper.

Question Three: Choose and explain one of the current issues of inequality Indigenous
people face in Canada as discussed in lecture. Explain how colonialism led to this issue.
What do you think needs to be done to address or resolve this issue? Remember to
define any key terms. (10 marks)
Due to the results of colonization, including the removal of Native individuals from their homes
and networks, Native or Indigenous individuals in Canada experience critical financial disparity
contrasted with non-Native Canadians. Socio-economic inequality is inequalities between groups
of kids, young adults, and families in terms of social status, educational attainment, and/or
household income.

Various Native children have lost their lives in modern or private schools. The purpose of the
residential school programme, which frequently required removing children against their will
from their villages, was to integrate Indigenous children into settler culture with the ultimate aim
of eradicating Indigenous people as a distinct cultural group in Canada. Indigenous communities
in Canada have experienced significant trauma as a result of residential schools, and this trauma
is still being passed down through the generations as a result of these schools.

Because of this historical context, indigenous people continue to experience systemic problems
in institutions (including hospitals and health care facilities), such as racism, prejudice, and bias.

For many Indigenous people, the workplace is a place where they experience prejudice, bias, and
culturally unsafe settings that may have an influence on their overall well-being and lives outside
of work. Indigenous workers, however, may potentially develop occupational and environmental
exposure to toxins created by enterprises that have established themselves on their territories in
addition to psychological dangers and mental health difficulties at work.

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