Topic #1: Consuming Kids After you've finished watching the film, Consuming Kids, please respond to the following questions: 1) Applying the Critical Constructionist perspective please describe and sociologically discuss one specific example/issue from the film that stood out to you. (Please include a brief description of the issue in your subject heading.) 2) Considering this film how have our intimate moments and relationships become commercialized? How might marketing to kids add to stress in the family? 3) And finally, consider the fact that some companies are caught in scandals using children for labor to make toys for other kids. Take a look at the following article (Links to an external site.) and even read the short report from China Labor. How might this demonstrate to us that "childhood" is socially constructed? https://losrios.kanopy.com/video/consuming-kids https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/disney-world-in-which-chinese-children-toil-for-76-hours-a-week-2130870.html Learning Goals: Conceptual - Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of childhood as a socially constructed category. Application - Be sure to demonstrate your ability to reflect on the relationship between the economy and family experience. Structure - Be sure to provide a well-written, proofread and organized discussion of the questions asked. Topic #2: Unintended Pregnancy At a school board meeting to discuss a policy of abstinence only sex education at the local high school, one board member says, "Teenagers cannot be trusted to make safe choices because they are just a bundle of hormones." Drawing from our course readings how would a sociologist respond to this comment and the larger debate? You should draw from evidence presented in Santelli and Schalet as well as Heiner. Secondly, please discuss whether you believe this comparative approach could work in the United States. What might be practical aspects that could be accepted and implemented and what aspects may be met with controversy and why? Learning Goals: Conceptual - Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of adolescence as a socially constructed category. Application - Be sure to demonstrate your ability to analyze comparative research and apply it as a comparison to US policy and practices. Structure - Be sure to provide a well-written, proofread and organized discussion of the questions asked.