_Experiences
in Diversity
Chestnut Hill College Fall 1, Oct 2008
J Ferry Instructor
Final Exam
STUDENT NAME:
INSTRUCTIONS: Prepare your essays to these four questions carefully.
The essays should be between 100 -200 words each. Each essay
will be worth up to 25 points. As I evaluate your answers I
will be looking for 1) evidence that you have been studying
(don't be afraid to quote briefly from text or from some of
the articles you read), 2) critical thinking and reasoned/reasonable
basis for your positions, 3) clear communication/writing of
your perspective on these matters.
ESSAY Question 1: Write three things that
you have discovered in class and your readings about diversity
in the past 8 weeksthat you think are worth knowing. Write
why you think they are worth knowing. What were the sources
for your new thought on these matters.
ESSAY Question 2:There
are expressive (music, fashion, tastes) and communicative
(language, manners, courtesies, telecom technologies) differences
among groups (large and small) of people. Do those differences
separate us or draw us together? How? Why?
ESSAY Question 3: In what
ways are nationality, race and ethnicity similar to one another
and in what ways are they different. Benedict Anderson, a
social philosopher quoted in the Kottak text, says that these
are imagined (he does not say 'imaginary') differences between
people - do you agree/disagree? How do we (as individuals,
or as groups) use these differences to make inequalities.
ESSAY Question 4:
In terms of human diversity, compare and contrast these three
concepts: gender, sex and sexual preferences: -Consider
the differences between tailors-seamstresses, policemen-police
officers, mothers/fathers vs parents (gender);
-males, "super-females" and hermaphrodites (sex);
-homosexuality, urophilia and zoophilia, heterosexuality,
(sexual preferences or 'erotics').
(Use the ideas that you have been studying this session for
this essay: tolerance; celebration of diversity; rule of law;
ethnocentrism/cultural relativism; the social construction
of value/ethics, of "right" and "wrong".)
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