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Assignment 1: Evaluating Bias in Research

Due Week 3

Read the article titled, “As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias,” located at http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-drug-industrys-influence-over-research-grows-so-does-the-potential-for-bias/2012/11/24/bb64d596-1264-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html.

Review the six (6) rules of critical thinking (Chapter 1) and the
steps of “Doing Sociology: A Student’s Guide to Research” (Chapter 2).

Student Success Tip: As you review the steps, jot a few notes or thoughts down. Relax and prepare to write a concise and accurate essay.

Write a one to two (1-2) page essay in which you:

1. Identify the first step in the student’s guide to research.
2. Define the first step of research in your own words.
3. Identify the major assumptions and bias of the drug industry that underlie drug research.
4. Identify the personal bias that you, as a consumer, have on the drug industry’s influence over research.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
  one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any
  additional instructions.
• To keep this essay short and manageable, your only sources for the essay should be the article from The Washington Post and the sections noted in your text. For this reason, APA citations or references are not required for this assignment.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.
  The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Define the basic concepts used in the discipline of sociology.
• Define the various methodologies for sociological research.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology.
• Write clearly and concisely about sociology using proper writing mechanics.

a 3- to 4-page paper in which you:

• Choose one family from the videos and briefly describe their circumstances as if they were an identified client Listed Below
• Explain how the DoDEA school system could be utilized to help the family you chose
• Analyze how the scenarios discussed or circumstances may have been different in a civilian school
• Explain what social work strategies you would utilize with this family
• Explain how military culture played a part in this scenario
• conduct some additional research to deepen your understanding of the education of military children.
• Be specific in your answers and provide examples. Cite the resources and any additional resources you use. Be sure to follow APA guidelines in your research, writing, and citation.

MICHAEL WILKINSON: My daughter Brittany who was born with respiratory papillomas was the main reason why I joined the military. She was actually having surgery every four weeks to take care of her condition. That was the reason I joined because the medical bills for that would just be outrageous.So when I joined the Air Force at the time, the doctor at the hospital where I was stationed, he was the leading doctor for that field. He wrote books about it and everything like that. So she got the best care at Lackland Air Force Base’s hospital. The impact of my military life on my children, specifically my eldest, Brittany, was probably more towards her later years in high school because she had to realize the moving around part, dealing with making new friends, which was the hard part on her. For somebody with her condition, not able to speak as much, it was very hard, so she didn’t make friends as fast. In the beginning, I think she enjoyed it because Dad would send stuff home from every port that he went to, so she enjoyed that. But after I got married again, she had a little bit of a hard time. The one stable person, which was me, wasn’t there the whole time, and I was gone for so long. She wasn’t sure if she could talk to her step-mom. But when I was deployed, I tried to make it a point to call and talk. The good thing nowadays with emails and stuff like that on the ships, you can actually talk almost instantaneously. Me and my daughter have a good relationship. We talk to each other. She’s been through a lot. I listen to her a lot. We have a good father/daughter relationship, and when I was deployed, I think she missed that.

KRISTIN WILKINSON: In the beginning, it was extremely hard because we were just newly married, and I was fearful that, well, if I really made my stepdaughter angry and we really had a bad relationship, what’s it going to do to our relationship because we’re so newly married and we’re in this deployment situation and we have this brand new baby. When Michael would come back from the deployment, he always wanted things to be fun. He wanted to enjoy the time with the kids. He wanted everything to be happy, everything to be wonderful. But he came back during a time once where Brittany was grounded, and he didn’t want her to be grounded anymore. So he says, well, it’s OK. Well, let’s go ahead. I just got back from deployment. Let’s go ahead and all go out to dinner, and let’s all go together. It’s OK. How about we end her grounded two days early? And it didn’t help her grow as an individual, and it was keeping her from learning the responsibility which she needed. And for Bella, she was a baby. But still,babies still needed to have their routines, and he wanted to break some of the routines sometimes because he just wanted to spend time with her. I had to be the disciplinarian. No matter what, I had to be the disciplinarian, I had to be the bad guy, and I had to be willing to be that. And sometimes, it just was really hard when he’d come home and he’d want to do things very differently. So how we ended up coping with it was I started emailing him when he was on deployment, and I started telling him, this is what’s going on, this is what the rules I set in, and I need you to follow it when you come home. And once we started really getting into that cycle, it started working much better. And so it really helped our relationship and it helped keep things consistent for Brittany and for the girls.

Please paraphrase thank you also use this Blaisure, K. R., Saathoff-Wells, T., Pereira, A., MacDermid Wadsworth, S., & Dombro, A. L. (2016). Serving military families (2nd ed.). New York: NY: Routledge.

• Chapter 4, “Children and Youth in Military Families” (pp. 73-97)Do

Closely read the following article.

http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/ERR/article-full-text-pdf/EA9DAF13586

Create a post based on the article that you read identifying what kinds of bias might influence the study results and/or where the background of the researcher might influence their perceptions.

You will see posts of others only after you have created yours. Your post is due by Sunday, 11:59 p.m.. When examining research for the influence of bias or personal/political agendas, examine the following questions.

• What is the source? Who is making the claim? What is their academic background? Who may be funding the research? Is there any sign of external influence that may color the results – intentionally or not.
• Could bias contaminate the conclusion? Bias consists of evaluating information through preset ideas, attitudes and beliefs, rather than on the presented evidence, including these common types: emotional bias, in which fears and hopes precede clear thinking; and confirmation bias, in which people remember events that seem to confirm beliefs, without regard to the facts.

This is political science. And while the science part is murky and vague, the personal connection to politics is fundamental. This is why it is impossible to shut down when and where people become active.

For example, take the Colin Kaepernick and now, larger NFL workplace-protest controversy. This is evidence of personal political philosophies, or the deep-seeded reactions you have to situations. These reactions are often emotional–as politics ideals with everything you care about–yet they are LEARNED behaviors. Are you reacting or listening?

To truly know where you stand is to first identify the political philosophy you mostly likely learned from parents and/or other family. More recently, you may have gravitated towards “friends” who share learned reactions. Then the discomfort of it all: when there is nuance in what it means to be “progressive,” or “conservative.” Most individuals believe they are unique and therefore so are their political inclinations, but with just a few broad terms, how can this be so? This is a classical philosophical question that is answered in pursuing an investigation of yourself through the literature of political science THEORY. No one theory describes you any better than a political party affiliation, although there is much more specificity.

I’ll use myself as an example. My household was “democrat” and yet the city of Pittsburgh is hardly a liberal bastion like Seattle. Even though I wasn’t Catholic, I attended a high school that was and most students were uninterested in politics. At university, many consider themselves “liberal” but then stop asking WHY there is so much nuance with diversity. It is challenging to be this open-minded to your own assumptions. But I pressed forward with a variety of coursework in the social sciences. When I first started teaching in Seattle, I was forced to address the more conservative elements of my “liberal” identity. As I developed this assignment, I again used myself as a model, and I uncovered that I’m radical. That freaked me out; I don’t advocate violence to achieve political outcomes, but there is such a strong association with violence and radical politics. To sort this out, my literature review brought me to “contemporary intellectual radicalism.” From there, the literature became a part of my life-long evolution of how I view myself politically. This process is a snapshot in time, so what you are now can change and probably will.

So, how do you do this?

1. Even if you think you already know where you stand, please take this quiz (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
2. Then locate your “label” corresponding to your quiz outcome on this image (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. This is our agreed upon starting point for the course. To ignore this and attempt the rest of the assignment usually wastes time and so just do this!
3. Go to our research library databases (EBSCOHost and JStor are best) and SHOP for articles that touch on the philosophy in some way. In most cases, the originating political philosophy is recapped so the researcher can show you what is being added, or taken away, modified, etc.
4. Collect 3 – 5 articles that you find interesting, and are appropriate for your reading level.
5. Annotate them. (How to Annotate is in MODULE 0)
6. Once you have accurately, and fully annotated your articles, you may proceed to the last part of the assignment.
7. Write a 1-2 page summary of your findings from the articles and how they relate to your personal political philosophy.

Some important things to note:

• This is a QUARTER long assignment. Some of you will have an easier time than others, and so the only way to know where you are is to get started ASAP and begin the revision process with me.
• You will turn in multiple drafts throughout the quarter so that you can continue to refine (and improve your score).
• When you get stuck–and many of you will–please do not wait to contact me!

This is about and for you. I cannot tell you who you are, but I can ask that you clarify using the language of our discipline. Therefore, it is without question that you must use academic journals to do this assignment. Occasionally, students find access to particular journals that are not in EBSCO or JStor, and while this is fine–YOU MUST CHECK WITH ME BEFORE USING IT. Otherwise, you could waste a lot of time working on something I will not accept.

Rubric

Personal Political Philosophy