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Post by Chicago Campus on Apr 13, 2013 8:26:34 GMT -5
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bchlr
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Post by bchlr on Apr 13, 2013 16:04:26 GMT -5
Necati Guney
Discussion Questions:
1-What has Eric Klinsenberg, a sociologist at New York University, spent the past several years studying on?
2-What is the name of the book written by Eric Klinenberg?
3-What is the motivation behind the interviewees' (New Yorkers) choice towards to living alone?
4-What would be the cost of living alone to the community?
5-What is Robert D. Putnam's arguament about the role that technology plays on our life?
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tnan
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Post by tnan on Apr 13, 2013 17:16:46 GMT -5
Thiphakhun N.
Discussion Questions:
True or False
1.) Is that young Americans concerning about the privacy?
2.) Living alone costs more?
3.) Being alone after divorce, will make you feel happier?
4.) Is that too late to do online-dating after you turn 30?
5.) Technology drives us away from the social fulfillment?
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Post by Kanthee P on Apr 13, 2013 22:03:25 GMT -5
Discussion Questions:
1. How many people in the U.S. live alone nowadays?
2. How many percents of the U.S. residents are single?
3. What were Eric Klinenberg's approaches on his study?
4. How did Klinenberg and his research team interview people?
5. What is the result of Klinenberg's data?
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Katarzyna Grzywalska
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Post by Katarzyna Grzywalska on Apr 13, 2013 23:35:24 GMT -5
Discussion Question:
1. Do financial stability and spiritual autonomy really make people
happy in their solo lives?
2. Why people are getting married if many of them are expected to end
in divorce?
3. According to Klinenberg's data, what liberal values determine on
solo living?
4. Does technology isolate people from each other or make them
easier to connect?
5. Is the natural need of people to live in group not so strong anymore?
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Post by Butterfly12 on Apr 14, 2013 0:32:45 GMT -5
Discussion questions:
-What are some examples of American Individualism in history?
-How did technology contribute to American Individualism?
-What happened in Chicago during the summer of 1995?
-What did Klinenberg suggest that living alone provides?
-Do you think the "American Dream" a representation of American Individualism?
Diana G.
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Post by titletoon on Apr 14, 2013 16:57:19 GMT -5
Discussion question:
1. Do people live alone because they want to or because they have to?
2. What does "the cult of the individual" means by Klinenberg?
3. What is the difference opinion between Putnam and Klinenberg?
4. What is the most important reason for Americans who like to live alone?
5. How to live alone without being lonely?
Surasa K.
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