Getting a terminal degree, Ph.D., has made me even more humble than ever, especially as I realize how little we know about the things we think we know. If you think about it, how do you know that what you have come to believe is true as science has no answer to all inexplicable things of this world? For instance, why do human beings speak different languages? Well for me, the more I know, the more I realize that I don’t know. The things I thought I knew; I now know that I did not fully know. It is a state of mind that makes me want to know more about the things that I don’t know.
Our biggest quest of knowledge, as scholars, is to perpetually seek to understand why we are born into this world and our purpose here on earth? After we achieve our highest level of incompetence – being materialism, knowledge, power, prominence, or prestige, then what? The more you ask yourself these critical questions, the more you understand how very limited human beings are. Even our so-called scholarly philosophers and theorists are confounded by time, space, and element. It is a perspective that could help you achieve your highest level of critical thinking skills, or perhaps, relate better to other people because what is now has already been, and what has been, will become our yesteryear. Simply put, there is nothing new under the sun as we, human beings, only incrementally understand the world we live in by reassembling existing matters and elements available within earth.
Throughout this semester, I have deliberately posed difficult and thought-provoking discussion topics to challenge your critical thinking skills and to encourage the boundaries of your beliefs from ethnocentrism to ethnorelativism. Ethnorelativism is an “acquired ability to see many values and behaviors as cultural rather than universal” . But since now know that no one knows it all, this is your opportunity to chime in. Do you have a topic you wished we could have covered but inadvertently missed on the basis of our class subject content?
Based on the concepts described, answer the questions below.
Answer the following question: 250 words per question.
1) Did the subjects we discussed and read about in the textbook challenge your perceptions, or at best influence the way you perceive social issues, crime and social inequality?
2) Since it is very difficult to cover everything in our class subject, and our discussion may have inadvertently omitted a related topic of your interest, perhaps, a subject matter that you would have liked to discuss, tell us about it?44
3) What subject or topic resonated with you the most after taking this class and reading the textbook?
4) What have you learned after taking this class and reading the textbook?
5) What would you do differently after taking this class and reading the textbook?
6) How would you use what you learned in this class to help others if you ever had the opportunity?
The next following question must have 250 words or more.
7) New State RICO Law Leads to Gang Arrests
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/06/13/new-state-r…
Discussion: In what ways does the new Illinois RICO law help law enforcement address the gang problem in Chicago? How did law enforcement catch the gang members in a crime that qualified for a RICO charge? ? Initial post minimum qualifications: 250-word count.
