Ecological Model

Question 1

Implications of arguments can be used as tools for evaluating and assessing arguments. These can help you decide whether you want to accept or support an original argument or not. In this assignment, you build on the skills you used in M3: Assignment 2, and go one step further.

Review the following articles:

• Eastland, T. (2011, January 17). We the people. The Weekly Standard, 16(17), 7–8.
• Cohen, N. (2013, December 15). Surveillance: Cozy or chilling?. The New York Times, p. SR.6.

Using these articles, complete the following:

• Summarize two of the authors’ arguments (one argument from each article).
• Identify and discuss one further implication of each of those arguments. Assuming the author is “right,” what sorts of claims or facts would follow from that argument?

Support your statements with scholarly references. Be sure to use concepts from your readings that are relevant to the assignment.

Write your initial response in 300–400 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Question 2

Analyze the new research indicating that heart disease may affect females more than males and comment upon how gender impacts our behaviors related to disease. How has the fact that most prior research has studied heart disease in males changed the ways in which women perceive the risks of heart disease and heart attacks? Considering the videos, using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model, what sociocultural beliefs contribute to the increased risk for heart attacks in women? Provide a statement from at least one of the required and/or recommended resources that supports your reasoning.

Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words with at least one scholarly source beyond your textbook.

Guided Response: Read several of your classmates’ posts and respond to two of your peers. Comment upon some of the differences you found in your classmate’s post. What specific sociocultural beliefs did they describe with which you may have had personal experience? If you or someone in your life were to suffer a heart attack or be diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, how might your opinions differ? Would your gender (or the gender of the person in your life) make a difference in how you would react and/or change your mind? Why, or why not?