The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at Home

Discussion questions:

How does the cultural meaning of bathing shape the experience of assisted bathing?

How do those receiving assistance feel about being bathed by young persons?

How does Twigg interpret respondents’ feelings about having their backs washed?

What kind of relationship did the recipients of care want to have with their caregiver?

Discuss gender differences in attitudes about receiving assistance bathing?

How does this article illustrate the symbolic interactionist perspective?

What is your assessment of Twigg's analysis?

Study guide and discussion questions for "Housebound: Women's Agency in White Separatist Movements"

Housebound: Women's Agency in White Separatist Movements
by Jennifer Fluri and Lorraine Dowler

Discussion questions:

How can the white separatist understanding of the world be explained?

To what extent do you agree or disagree with their views and why?

Study guide questions:

How do white separatists understand the world?

According to Fluri and Dowler, in what ways are white separatist women critical actors in the reproduction of the white nation?

Study guide and discussion questions for "America's National Eating Disorder"

Study guide and discussions questions for "America's National Eating Disorder"
by Michael Pollan

Discussion questions:

What does Pollan mean when he writes that our eating tends to grow more tortured as our culture's power to manage our relationship to food weakens?

According to Michael Pollan, which source is superior with respect to making good food choices, established cultural traditions or science?

According to Michael Pollan, what is the relationship between the food industry and America's national eating disorder?

What is your assessment of Pollan's claims?


Study guide questions:

According to Michael Pollan, the French culture of food successfully negotiates the omnivore’s dilemma, allowing the French to enjoy their meals without ruining their health. True or false?

According to Daniel Bell, there is a tendency in capitalism, in its single-minded pursuit of profit, to erode the various cultural underpinnings that steady a society but often impede the march of commercialization. True or false?

According to Michael Pollan, American’s rely on what in making their food choices?