Tag: Sociology

Please number and answer the following questions, based on readings and occasionally a video. When you refer to the reading in your answer, put the author’s last name in parentheses – example: (Brandt). Do not repeat the question; simply number then answer. Your total word count for this exam should be minimum 1000 words. All answers must be in your own words; no direct quoting from material or readings is allowed. In other words, you of course will summarize points from the readings, but the key word is summarize. You must put the readings’ points into your own words; please do not quote word-for-word from the readings.

1. Based on the reading (C)Donnelly, Burgess, Simonds, explain how each of the following theories view human sexuality: functionalism, conflict theory, and social constructionist theory. How do feminist theory and queer theory challenge the above theories? That is, how do feminist theory and queer theory approach human sexuality? Finally, what is intersectionality?

2. According to lecture but primarily the movie “Kinsey,” what was Kinsey’s background? That is, what was his training, what was he famous for studying before he started studying human sexuality? What prompted Kinsey to begin studying human sexuality? What was Kinsey’s research methodology, and how/why did he train his research team? What were Kinsey’s two publications, and what did they reveal about sex? How was each publication received by the general public? That is, how did people react to each of his books? Finally, based on lecture, explain what it means to practice good ethics when doing human sexuality research. Explain with examples from the reading (9)Brandt how the Tuskegee Syphilis Study committed huge ethical violations.

3. According to the reading (C)Alavi, what was this study’s methodology? In other words, what was Alavi studying? What were this study’s research findings? Give examples of how the dildos themselves as well as their packaging and descriiptions reinforce racist stereotypes.

4. According to the reading (16)Simonds and Jungels, what are some limitations of children’s sex education books in their study? Specifically explain with examples how these books oversimplified differences between girls and boys as well as reinforced heterosexuality while making homosexuality seem deviant. According to the reading (20)Schalet, how do American vs Dutch parents (on average) differ in how they view teen sexuality? How does Schalet explain these differences?

5. Based on lecture as well as reading (2)Davis, explain what it means to be intersex. According to the reading, how are the outcomes for individuals who were put into surgeries as infants? Give examples. Finally, what is the difference between the terms DSD vs intersex, and who usually identifies with each term and why?

There are TWO parts to this essay. Your essay should address each of the questions answered in essay format.

2-3 pages minimum including an introduction and a conclusion. 10-11 pt font.

1. Visit the website below
http://crown.org/
Go to the website
Click on MONEY
FINANCIAL CALCULATORSLinks to an external site.
choose from the list
Do at least two of the calculators and summarize your findings.
Did you feel like this site was helpful to family financial planning?
Also, visit this website:
http://www.daveramsey.com

You will read chapter 2 and create Cornell notes. You will write main points and summary of that chapter. I will upload the Cornell Notes template that shows what is the format of the assignment. I will put an educational video link that talks about the format of the paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErSjc1PEGKE

1. Choose a country (NOT THE UNITED STATES).
2. Research the state of human trafficking in your chosen country.
3. What does human trafficking look like in this country?
4. How does globalization contribute to human trafficking in this country?
5 .Where is this country failing in addressing their issues of human trafficking?
6. Does the trafficking in this country have a connection to trafficking in the United States through global networks? How?

Make 3 properly cited references to the course material or outside sources.

Incorporate one (1) current event from 2020/2021/2022 and properly cite the source where this information was obtained.

Source can be from a national or local newspaper, its corresponding website, or a legitimate news website (CNN, MSNBC, Google News, Yahoo News, Fox News, etc.). Articles and information from Wikipedia, personal web pages or any blogs WILL NOT be accepted.

Word Count must be included at the end of essay

In a 5 page paper, explore a workplace organization and their policies around diversity. Analyze the diversity of the organization and develop a report about how you would bring a new workshop, event, or speaker series to the organization to enrich their approach to diversity. If the organization has a great program already in place, think about how you might contribute to what they already have.
Choose a workplace organization (the one you’re employed with or perhaps one you would like to work for) and review their policies on embracing diversity. A good place to research this information is on a company’s human resources page. You can also look at some public information data for an organization on the Glass Door (Links to an external site.) website. If your organization is a public organization (college, university, government employment agency, or nonprofit), that information will be public and on the organization’s website.
• For this assignment, you should focus on race and ethnicity, because this Module deals with race and ethnicity, but note also that diversity includes ability, age, religion, gender, sexuality, etc.
• Consider how this event might help the organization’s staff use their creativity and awareness to imagine a community which truly values diversity.
• Brainstorm what this community would be like if they had an environment that truly valued racial and ethnic diversity, based on the research you conducted.
• Feel free to explore different sorts of diversity activities listed on the Internet, but you must come up with your own activity.
• Conduct research using scholarly sources to review Affirmative Action policies regarding education and employment as well as making sure you have done all of the reading for this week before completing your assignment.
Instructions:
• Write a 5-page paper or about 1500 words, not including the title and reference pages, which are required. Be sure to incorporate a clear explanation of your proposed activity in the body of your paper, with detail, context, and analysis. This is important.
• Your paper must be properly cited and formatted
• Include a formal References page. This is an individual paper; however, you should reflect on our Discussion Forums and incorporate ideas from there as appropriate.
• You must support your analysis with at least three scholarly references and can include resources from this course. Sources such as Wikipedia, USA Today, Fox News, or MSNBC news will not be accepted

The response papers are 1-2 double-spaced page written assignments that require you to engage with the course material to develop an argument of your own. Each paper should cover one week’s material and can cover any week before its due date and after the previous due date. This allows some element of choice in topic while also requiring steady progress and ensuring timely feedback.

Links for the sources

Sept. 7th Introduction and course logistics

Barnard, Anne, Corey Kilgannon, Jazmine Hughes, Emma Goldberg, and Stephanie Mei-Ling. 2022. “It’s Going to Be a Hot Summer. It Will Be Hotter If You’re Not Rich.” The New York Times, May 28. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/nyregion/heat-waves-climate-change-inequality.html

Mon., Sep. 12th

Readings Oreskes and Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). This very short work of speculative fiction, informed by current climate models, is available online from the Library at:

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1702216~S4 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Two of the Following:

Stern, White nationalists’ extreme solution to the coming environmental apocalypse https://theconversation.com/white-nationalists-extreme-solution-to-the-coming environmental-apocalypse-121532 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Allison and Miller, Why science needs the humanities to solve climate change

https://theconversation.com/why-science-needs-the-humanities-to-solve-climate change-113832 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Palm and Bolsen, Climate scientists may not be the best communicators of climate threats https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-may-not-be-the-best-communicators-of-climate-threats-121901 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

David, Espange, and Marx, Inequality and climate change: the rich must step up https://theconversation.com/inequality-and-climate-change-the-rich-must-step-up-119074 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Franzen, What if we stopped pretending? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Sept. 14th

Read the introduction to Foster, J. Bellamy, Clark, B.,

Functionalist Theorizing: Talcott Parsons and Beyond
INSTRUCTIONS
Read Chapter 3: Talcott Parsons’ Analytical Functionalism and Chapter 5: Efforts to Revitalize Functionalism from CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY by Jonathan H. Turner
View the powerpoint lecture.
Discussion:
Discussion Posts are no less than 500 words. Your discussion post needs to answer the following questions:
1. What is/are the main question(s) addressed by the author(s)?
2. What is the significance of that question for key issues in the field?
3. What are competing answers to that question?
4. What would be a different, valid way of addressing the same question, preferably one you regard as superior? Provide examples.

Social work research questions. Social work research questions. Mental Health in School-Aged Children Prenatally Exposed to Alcohol and Other Substances Lisbeth Beate Sandtorv, Mari Hysing, Malin Rognlid, Sondre Aasen Nilsen and Irene Bircow Elgen
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/11782…
1. Name the study design of this study and describe the study design including the intervention
2. What is the study population? and is it appropriate? Why or why not?
3. What is the sampling frame, if any, was used?
4. What are the Strengths of the study design (including how threats to internal validity were addressed)?
5. What are the weaknesses of the study design (including threats to internal validity that are relevant for this study and how they may affect findings)?
6. What are the Strengths of the sampling frame(how threats to external validity were addressed)?
7. What are the weaknesses of the sampling frame (threats to external validity that were not addressed and how this might affect generalizability of the findings to the target population?
8. What are the implications of the study results for policy?
9. What are the implications of the study results for social work Micro practice?
Social work Mezzo practice?
Social work Macro practice?

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Collage movie/ video (o music or sound). Collage movie/ video (o music or sound). From the syllabus:
3. Collage Project: This project has three parts. One part is embedded in the Portfolio Assignments:
a. Collage Movie/Video: You will create a video/movie (or a timed slide show in PPT or Google Slides) in which
you present your ideas and thoughts about achieving a “Great Society”. The purpose of the images, words and
presentation is to affect, influence, and persuade others to think differently. Your final collage movie will vary in
length from 2-3 1/2 minutes and must have a minimum of 20 slides (not including title and citation/reference
pages). The rubric for the movie is heavily weighted for you to show creativity and persuasive argument using
your chosen imagery and words. You will present a “draft” to the class. The draft is required but not graded.
This part the Collage project is to help meet the criteria that you’ve engaged in a creative process and have been
given an opportunity for revision. To help with this and the gen. ed. criteria that students engage in giving
feedback, members of the class will give each person feedback before the final product is due. Your final collage
movie/video is due on the day of the final exam for section 01 which is December 15th. There is no grace period.
Submissions for both sections 01 and 02 need to be uploaded and a link sent to me by midnight on that day.
More directions, rubric and resources are in OnCourse.
b. Unit Mini-Posters (embedded in the Portfolio): An element of the Portfolio Assignments for each unit, an
assignment to create “mini-posters” your collage. Each of these posters asks you to create visual
representations of content you think will help you with your final message. More directions and a rubric are
given in the Portfolio directions
c. “Wrap-up” Paper: When you submit the Collage, you will also submit a short 2-3 page paper in which you
assess your effort answering the question: What do I think the consequences of my collage are?
More directions and rubric are posted in OnCourse.
Here are the More Directions/Requirements for Video/Movie:
1. Your goal is to create a series of slides (mini-posters) through which you share and advocate your ideas about
a “Great Society” and how to achieve it. You want to “influence” our thinking, persuade us to consider your
point of view, engage us in a discussion with you, etc..
2. You can string together all your unit “mini-posters” but that is not the expectation. The “mini-posters” were
meant to help but you may have changed your mind, found a new idea, etc. You should continuously revise, add,
…..
3. Your final video/movie MUST have at least 20 slides (“mini-posters”) with no more than 3 images per slide.
All the slides should work as a whole to send your message. Most of you will have more than 20 slides because
you will have a couple of reference slides. BUT, you can have more than the 20 “mini-poster” slides. You just
need to watch the time limit, which should not be problematic for most.

4. The rubric for the video/movie rewards creativity as well as how you connect, synthesize and integrate ideas
into a whole.
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5. Because movie presentations will be class content during the last week of class, you need to submit your
“draft” version movie by midnight on Wednesday, December 1st. You CANNOT change this draft version of
your movie. You will upload this into Google Drive and share the link with me.
6. Your “draft” should have a preface/introduction in which you tell us what you hope your pictures/words
achieve. You can also ask your colleagues and me for specific help in this opening statement. (You should
delete this opening statement when you submit the final version).
7. You will also review your colleague’s productions to give them feedback for their final version.

8. You can and should edit/revise your collage movie prior to submitting for final grading. The rubric rewards
revision.

9. Because your final version will be a large electronic file, you need to store your Collage movie in Google Drive
and provide me with a shared link so I can view it for grading purposes.
10. The final version of your collage movie should have a title page with your name and it should be labelled
“Final Version” under your title. For example:
A Great Society: “Equality for All”
Final Version
Mary B. Carney
11. You SHOULD convert your PowerPoint slides into the video format. We will have a workshop in class about
how to do this. If you create your slides in Google Slides, you must convert to PowerPoint to do this. I will
accept timed and animated PowerPoints and Slides without penalty.

12. You must cite your sources. The best way is in-text citations after each picture on the slide with an
alphabetical reference page of the WEB sites using MLA, APA or Chicago/Turabian style (ASA okay too). When
citing this way, you must find a balance between the citation and the visual impact.
But there are several other ways, such as the ones here and the ones we discuss in our Collage Workshop:
Alternative #1: Numbering each picture on the slide: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc and listing them in the citation page by
number. Again, you have to find a balance between the citation and the visual impact.
1. Carney, M. B. (2020)…..
2. Carney, M.B. (2019)…..
3.
etc
or,
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Alternative
#2: You do not number them on the page but you provide your “system” at the beginning of the
video/movie as a “preface” and you provide the same “system” at the top of your reference page. For example:
a. Image Citations or References
The following are the citations for the images used in this project. The citations are presented in order of
appearance. The picture on the reader/viewers left is the starting picture on each page. The first picture on the
first slide starts the citation sequence. If two pictures overlap, the one that is most left to the reader was cited
first. If they are aligned, the top picture was given preference in the numbering of the sequence.
Alternative # 3: Or, You can go in order from 1-30 or breakdown by slide with caption title- (Also create a
preface slide telling the viewer your system and then telling it to them again on the citation reference page)
Slide 1: Justice
1
2
3
Slide 2: Empower
1 (or 4)
Slide 3: Equality
1 (or 5)
2 (or 6)
Slide 4: Greatness
1 (or 7)
2 (or 8)
Etc.
b. Image Citations or References
The following are the reference citations for the images used in this project. The citations are presented in
order of appearance, broken down by slide. The picture on the reader/viewers left is the starting picture on
each page. If two pictures overlap, the one that is most left to the reader/viewer was cited first. If they are
aligned, the top picture was given preference in the numbering of the sequence.
If you use in-text citations, follow the normal pattern for a reference/works cited page.
Please note: Your project will not be accepted without a reference page that connects the correct images to
the proper citations or if the Google Drive version is not a video. This means you will receive a failing grade.
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Purpose of the Movie/Video Collage project:
There are several purposes of this assignment. First, the slides in each unit ask you to apply your thoughts about
the ideas/events/actions/policies/values/etc. that you are learning in an expressive way in relation to the
theme. This builds synthesizing, decision-making and other critical thinking skills. Second, you are developing
your own style of creative expression through a visual medium. Third, using imagery and words is a type activity
that is used in a more refined way when promoting or advocating for others. So, engaging in making the slides
and movie is a building block for future advocacy activities, especially social marketing ones (in any profession,
including business or citizen social action). Fourth, the project requires you to engage in technology that you are
expected to use in college but also as a professional (in any field). Fifth, this assignment assists in assessing
Course Learning Outcomes 6

Collage movie/ video (o music or sound)

Collage movie/ video (o music or sound)

Sociology Question. Sociology Question. OverviewEarlier in the course, you answered several questions about your familiarity and attitudes toward the science, including its process and evidence. Now that we’re at the end of the course, it’s a good time to review those questions and see how your responses have evolved (if at all). There are no right or wrong responses here, so please feel free to be honest in your reflections. Worth 1% to your course grade.Directions
In a word processing program (e.g. Word, Google Docs, etc.), respond to the questions below and save your document as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. 1- On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being “not interested at all” and 5 being “very interested”, how interested are you in the social research methods? 2-What do you know about research methods and/or the scientific method in sociology now? What do you want to learn more about? 3- How confident are you now in evaluating stats or research about social issues, such as COVID, policing, racial equality, etc.? Is that different than when you started this course? 4- If presented with quality scientific data and research that contradicted a belief you have, would you change your belief? Why or why not? 5- What other reflections do you have about this course that you’d like to share?Remember, part of being a good sociologist is communicating your ideas clearly, so please write in complete sentences, explain your thoughts thoroughly, use proper punctuation and grammar, etc. I will provide course lectures below it may help.

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