Disciplinary perspectives

Disciplinary perspectives

 Using what you’ve read this week, answer the question on page 73 #2.1 in your Repko & Szostak text.  Here’s what that question asks:

This chapter has said that a discipline’s perspective is like a lens through which it views reality.  Identify three relevant disciplinary perspectives, and describe how they might view each of the following:

• Offshore drilling for oil and gas
• Urban sprawl (e.g., building subdivisions and shopping centers on farmland)
• Income inequality
• Border security

DON’T DO THE ASSIGNMENT ABOVE JUST USE IT AS A REFERENCE TO ANSWER STUDENT 1 AND 2 !!!!!!

 

Student 1 (Ann)

• Offshore drilling for oil and gas

Earth science: if you drill a whole too deep it can disturb the atmosphere.

Economics: People profit off of the oil the are getting from the earth. You have to pay the workers who are drilling.

Physics: There are different forces being disrupted while the oil is being extracted.

• Urban sprawl (e.g., building subdivisions and shopping centers on farmland)

Economics: You have to buy the land that you’re building on top of.

Anthropology: Different cultures will shop at the shopping center.

Political science: The government will be in charge building the shopping centers.

• Income inequality

Sociology: Income inequality is a social problem that needs to be fixed

Economics: The world revolves around money and without equal pay people will find it somewhere else.

Political Science: The government has a say in who gets payed and who doesn’t, so if the government is racist then everyone won’t get paid the same.

• Border security

Philosophy: Everyone has their own political view about border security.

Economics: Everyone that is for border security is making a profit off of it.

Sociology: People are sneaking in form different countries because of border security.

 

Student 2 (Jenna)

1. Offshore drilling for oil and gas
   • Biology:involves studying how the ecosystem would be effected by a potential oil spill and/or drilling activity
   • Economics: Rise and fall of gas prices due to the availability of oil and gas resources
   • Political Science: Climate lobbyist v. gas companies battling over the right to drill and the right to keep an ecosystem undisturbed
2. Urban Sprawl (e.g. building subdivisions and shopping centers on farmland)
   • History: disturbing the historical aspects of land is bad
   • Economics:  land as more valuable developed rather than undeveloped
   • Sociology: analyzes the consumption habits of society and the cost of those habits
3. Income inequality
   • Psychology: What determines one’s monetary worth?
   • Economics: income drives spending habits
   • Political Science: the system determines the pay scale for individuals
4. Border Security
   • Biology: building a wall may disturb the environment of the southwest Unites States
   • Political Science/Economics: Taxpayers being forced to pay for border security whether they agree or not
   • Religious Studies: other religions are a threat and contribute to the need of border security