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)
- 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
- 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
- Income inequality
- Psychology: What determines one’s monetary worth?
- Economics: income drives spending habits
- Political Science: the system determines the pay scale for individuals
- 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