Health and Aging 1. Reader 49: The Crisis in American Health Care (use google to answer questions below) 2. Video” Sick Around America (Below) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundamerica/ 3. Reader 51: A World Growing Old (use google to answer questions below) 4. Complete questions below. Watch this!!! It is FUNNY!!! This is comedy, it shed light on some very important reality about healthcare (Link Below) http://www.cc.com/video-clips/cbbn22/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-third-world-health-care—knoxville–tennessee-edition TOPIC 10 – HEALTH AND AGING The Crisis in American Healthcare 1. According to the article, what are some of the problems with Medicaid? Are the poor, who are unable to pay for healthcare, taken care of? 2. Why are physicians reluctant to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients? How does that impact patients’ health? 3. On average, about ¼ of Americans put off medical treatment every year because they can’t afford it. Why is this a problem both ethically as well as financially? 4. According to the article, why is American healthcare the most expensive in the world? Explain Video: Sick Around America 5. Does the healthcare crisis in America impact only the poor – people without health insureance? Explain A World Growing Old 6. Why do the values of the old seem out of place in the world dominated by globalization? 7. How does the aging of the Baby Boomers impact the healthcare system? Rationality and Formal Organizations Rationality and Formal Organizations 1. McDonaldization of Society (PDF link below) https://learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.s3.amazonaws.com/5beddfe10b70f/4146963?response-cache-control=private%2C%20max-age%3D21600&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27McDonaldization.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20201125T000000Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAZH6WM4PL5SJBSTP6%2F20201125%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=d03411997f43798aa7057918063d56dbb38a9fbc45fa0f2ba623da6e7716ad46 This article suggests that unlike our parents and grandparents, whose lives were dominated by industrial bureaucratic institutions, our lives are dominated by McDonalds. The way we conduct our lives and organize our society is increasingly McDonalds-like. 2. Reader 35: If Hitler Asked you to Electrocute a Stranger … https://classic.esquire.com/article/1970/2/1/if-hitler-asked-you-to-electrocute-a-stranger-would-you Read only up until the end of the third paragraph on page 270 to the point when the author starts describing the experiment. Watch the actual video of the experiment (link below – no need to read the lengthy description, unless you really want to). https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/cc-9th-reading-vocab/x73a76fccbaf2a246:cc-9th-social-psychology/x73a76fccbaf2a246:reading-for-understanding-informational-text/v/milgram-experiment-on-obedience After you finish the video, start reading again on page 272 to finish the article. 3. Complete questions below. TOPIC 11 – RATIONALITY AND ORGANIZATIONS McDonaldization of Society 8. What does Ritzer mean by the “McDonaldization of Society”? 9. What are some of the downsides of this excessive emphasis on efficiency, calculability and predictability? (Give me your own example) If Hitler Asked you to Electrocute a Stranger + video 10. Based on the article, how can you explain why people are capable of committing atrocities? 11. What exactly is the ” structure” (last paragraph p. 272) Milgram describes that turns ordinary people into obedient robots? 12. How does this theory help explain the mass atrocities committed by Nazi Germany? Are the Germans just different?
