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W09 Exercise: Exploring SOC Poverty Name Trevor Baird Date 11/11/23 After completing the readings on I-Learn, answer all questions thoroughly, demonstrating critical thinking and the use of the sociological imagination. Submit your completed worksheet. World 1. Briefly describe which episode you watched. I watched the video about keeping girls in school during puberty and beyond. In this video, they taught about how women in third-world countries are not getting an education which is greatly affecting their lives and the country as a whole. There are many barriers to educating girls, including their periods. Gayle King and Bonang Matheba call on South Africa to end “period poverty” and provide girls with the resource they need to stay in school. They want to get the government to make it easier for girls to go to school while on their periods and to prioritize their education rather than the education of just boys. 2. What were your top two or three takeaways? What impressed you most? One takeaway I had was how women are seen as less than throughout the world and for all of history. I just never thought about this kind of stuff until I got married and it was shocking to me. This video impressed me even more knowing that girl’s periods could even keep them from moving in the world. Another takeaway I had was how education effects poverty, specifically how the lack of educated women effects poverty. I just had no idea this was a thing and had such an effect on the world. 3. Do you agree with the Nelson Mandela’s quote? Why or why-not? What evidence from the episode watched and/or our text would support your answer? One part of Mandela’s quote stood out to me the most and it was that in order to help the world, we have to believe “that extreme poverty and all of its related symptoms and causes can be ended if enough people take action”. I completely agree with this. I know for a fact that people, including my own family, see poverty around the world as simply just laziness. They do not believe that poverty has symptoms and causes that are more than just laziness. In fact, I really thought this as well for a long time. An example that can support this is form the video I watched. In it, they talked about how the government doesn’t see the education of women as important and playing a role in their country’s poverty, when it is in fact, just the opposite.

State 4. Choose one of the theories listed in your book (conflict, functional, symbolic interactionism, or feminist). According to your chosen theory , what do free, and reduced lunch programs say about society? Conflict theory focuses on power, domination, and social inequality in shaping society. Applying this lens to free and reduced lunch programs shows several important points. Firstly, these programs highlight class inequalities, showing economic disparities where lower socioeconomic groups struggle to afford basic needs. Conflict theorists argue that such programs, while providing needed assistance, may perpetuate power imbalances by not addressing the root causes of poverty. Additionally, they suggest that these programs might contribute to the reproduction of social inequalities across generations if broader economic and social structures remain unchanged. Conflict theorists view education, including assistance programs, as a tool for maintaining social order by addressing immediate needs while potentially avoiding challenges to the existing system. Criticizing free and reduced lunch programs as part of a broader welfare system, they call for deeper structural changes to address the underlying issues of economic inequality. 5. What are the rates of food insecurity in the State, and county you reside? https://www.feedingamerica.org https://datacenter.kidscount.org/locations In Idaho, the rates of food insecurity are pretty surprising.  Children Living In Households That Were Food Insecure At Some Point During The Year In Idaho: 2019 – 2021 = 14%  Adults Ages 18 To 24 Who Sometimes Or Often Did Not Have Enough Food To Eat In The Past Week In Idaho: Sep 14, 2022 - Oct 17, 2022 = 17% There were a lot more numbers and categories that showed different variations of food insecurity, but I felt these two gave a good example. In Bonneville country where I live, as of 2022, the percent of total food stamp participants was 47.4%. 6. What programs are offered to meet the needs of this population? There are so many programs that I honestly did not know about. My own family has partaken in Medicaid and WIC for the last few years, but in this area, there are many more options for help. There are food banks, family crisis centers, mobile pantries, summer meals for children, and many others. I wish that these things were better advertised to families. 7. What suggestions might you propose to end hunger in your community? In my community, I think that one way to end hunger is to advertise the help better. If I didn’t just look at these resources, if I needed food, I would struggle to know where to go besides my parents. I also think that in my community specifically, there is a sense of pride. People think that they shouldn’t ask for help because they can do it themselves, but it is okay to ask for help.

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