Product Analyze

Choose a product and analyze the social impacts of the products life cycle. Discuss what social, ethical, political, economic or environmental consequences in the United States or in the world have been resulted from this process.  Your discussion should directly answer the question of how this product’s life cycle has affected diversity, equality, and structural inequalities in the U.S. (and the world).  You may consider any product: a product with a physical form (such as clothes, phones, etc.) or without a physical form (such as certain financial or cultural products).  You can focus on one or multiple steps in the products life cycle, from material acquisition, to production, distribution, marketing, use and final disposal. Please integrate course material (concepts, theories, discussions, and lectures). Please cite at least one course reading and one appropriate source from outside class.  All course reading materials are posted on the course HOME page.
Needed to have two outside sources