6.6 Analyzing Message in the Effects of the Great Recession: Health and Well-Being

Out of the bullet points on page 181, which seems most relevant to your text’s message and purpose? Why?

Inform the reader about a topic that is misunderstood, sometimes an economic impact could have a positive connotation when a individual faces an economic hardship they also can  have a boost of self-confidence to get out of the situation and preserver and try harder under the circumstance with a positive outlook.

Responds to a particular occasion of the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

Analyze, synthesize, or interpret? Analyzes how a recession can impact societies health and well-being.

Reflects on a topic of economic health and well-being in a recession.

Advocate for change that there are ways to cope in this type of situation.

Move the reader to feel a certain way in that a financial hardship is a challenge and there are ways to cope once we find the assistance and skills and know that there are other facing the same situations and that they are not alone.

Which bullet points to not seem relevant to your text’s message and purpose? Why not?

Express an idea or opinion is not related to this text that text states a fact.

Persuade the audience of something does not relate to this text there is no persuasion involved.

Are there nuances and layers to the message the author/speaker is trying to get across? If so, what are they? If not, why not?

The message the author is trying to get across is that individuals and communities are not alone there is assistance and skills to cope with financial hardships and help address the health and well-being before a major illness can occur and cause even a greater strain.

6.5 Analysising My Own Assumptions

What cultural or social values, beliefs, etc., do we share with the society or culture in which the text was written? Why have they endured? We share that we are all members of the U.S. population and many of us at times have fallen on financial hardship and possibly health related problems. The culture in the text has endured due to the economic forecasts that the U.S. faces and how the deficit in the economy is challenged.

What cultural or social values, beliefs, etc., do we not share why or why not? The upper clsss might not have experienced to a degree the financial hardships that might have a negative impact on their health and well-being. They are a society that does not have to want and is financially secure and stable in economic situations.

If the text is written in a culture distant or different from our own, what social values, beliefs, etc., connect to reflect our own culture? What cultural or social values, beliefs, etc., can we not see in our own culture? The text states the culture looks at the economically challenged individuals and populations.

If the text is written in our culture but in a different historical time how  are the social values have, beliefs, etc., developed or changed over time? The historical time of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 was a time where certain things were negatively impacted such as the housing marketing which may have been affordable for the people who could not have home ownership or for the people who were losing their homes and thus their health and well-being might have been affected.

6.2 Cultural Analysis of Economic Health and Well Being

What is the connection between the cultural keywords, passage and the thesis?
The connection between the keywords: recessions, people, families, communities and the passage of how the populations' health is greatly effected and how the economy in a recession is negatively impacted. This text appeals to the emotions of the audience (pathos) by telling how there is a great concern on the U.S. populations' health and well being how there are sociological approaches that are described on how to cope with a recession.

How do the keywords support the argument that the author is making? The keywords support the argument as research experienced in the Great Recession of 2007-2009 (Burgard. & Kalousova) and how it affected the U.S. population and economy.

What might an audience be more likely to support this argument if it is connected to these values?
If the audience has or is experiencing this type of economic situation it can be related to and understood and the audience can learn about analytical sociological approaches on how to cope.



Burgard, Sarah A. & Kalousova, Lucie (2015). Effects of the Great Recession: Health and Well-Being. Annual Review of Sociology, Google Scholar., 181-200).