Category: Social Sciences

Sociology 410

January 17, 2020 1 Comment MLA, Social Sciences

Please use the following questions as guiding questions while reading. You can use them to guide your reading reflections, or go beyond them if you find that helpful to your learning.

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Is Merton talking about science in its ideal form, or science as it is practiced and institutionalized?

What does Bourdieu say about legitimacy and authority in science?

Bourdieu writes, [in science] epistemological conflicts are always, inseparably, political conflicts so that a survey on power in the scientific field could perfectly well consist of apparently epistemological questions alone (21). What does Bourdieu mean by this and how does he support this statement?

What does it mean to practice normal science according to Kuhn?

How do the authors respond or reference each other?

What in the readings was surprising or unexpected to you?

What questions remain for you after discussion this week?

racial/ethnic answering question

January 17, 2020 2 Comments MLA, Social Sciences

RACE ARTICLE ANALYSIS PROJECT

Throughout the course, students should have gained an understanding of various sociological topics, such as gender, racial, class, and cultural inequalities. This Race project allows students to find relevant racial/ethnic -related examples, either in local communities or on a global scale, through accredited news articles or scholarly journals in order to apply their knowledge gained from the course and then explain why those actions or behaviors occurred in the selected articles. Thus, students will continue to be actively engaged in applying their sociological knowledge, even after the course has ended.

WHEN WRITING UP AND SUBMITTING IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT, DOWNLOAD OR COPY THE DOCUMENT AND PLEASE ANSWER RIGHT BELOW EACH NUMBERED QUESTION. I WANT TO SEE YOUR RESPONSE TO EACH QUESTION.

Each answer should be 3 or more sentences. Each answer should have a thoughtful reflection. Write college-level sentences to reach the 3-sentence requirement.
Here are two examples of responses:

Bad example: Rent is $100. I can afford it. It is in my budget.

Good example: The rent for the location that I have selected is $100. This is a lot cheaper compared to other rental locations in my area. The reason why the rent is cheap is because it only has one bedroom. (Do not use this example or make one similar to it. It would be considered plagiarism)

For each answer, you will be able to find the information in your textbook to help construct a detailed answer and relate it back to the sociological content. Do no use your own personal opinions.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

January 17, 2020 4 Comments Not applicable, Social Sciences

The purpose of this assignment is to provide students the opportunity to reflect on and demonstrate their initial understanding of the concept of helping and to share their interest in the helping professions.
Please take a moment to think about and respond to each of the following questions. Be sure to answer the questions in complete sentences while being as detailed and concise as possible.

1.    How do you define helping?
2.    What is your main motivation for wanting to be a helper? Who in your life has influenced your decision to consider this role for yourself?
3.    What has attracted you to the helping professions?
4.    Think of a time when you needed help from another person (a professional, friend, family member, stranger). What did you most want from this person? What did this person do that was effective or was a hinderance?
5.    Think about the attributes of an effective helper? What traits or characteristics do you believe are most important? 
6.    How can this course support you in developing and/or growing skills you believe you need to be an effective helper?
7.    If you were to pursue a career in one of the helping professions, what would your ideal vision be? What kind of work appeals to you? With what clients would you most like to work? What kind of human service would bring you the greatest meaning and satisfaction?
8.    Currently, how prepared do you feel you are to enter one of the helping professions?

Successful Aging

January 17, 2020 1 Comment APA, Social Sciences

The successful aging concept is not without its critics.  What might be some of the underlying assumptions of this approach? Use information from the lecture and your chapter to answer the question in full.

Requirements
1)Meet the required length of 500 (minimum) words
2)Should be written in a format that includes an introduction, body and conclusion.
3)Make 2-3, properly APA cited references to the course material.
Include your word count at the bottom of your post.

racial/ethnic(answering question)

January 17, 2020 2 Comments MLA, Social Sciences

RACE ARTICLE ANALYSIS PROJECT
Throughout the course, students should have gained an understanding of various sociological topics, such as gender, racial, class, and cultural inequalities. This Race project allows students to find relevant racial/ethnic -related examples, either in local communities or on a global scale, through accredited news articles or scholarly journals in order to apply their knowledge gained from the course and then explain why those actions or behaviors occurred in the selected articles. Thus, students will continue to be actively engaged in applying their sociological knowledge, even after the course has ended.
WHEN WRITING UP AND SUBMITTING IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT, DOWNLOAD OR COPY THE DOCUMENT AND PLEASE ANSWER RIGHT BELOW EACH NUMBERED QUESTION. I WANT TO SEE YOUR RESPONSE TO EACH QUESTION.
Each answer should be 3 or more sentences. Each answer should have a thoughtful reflection. Write college-level sentences to reach the 3-sentence requirement.
Here are two examples of responses:
Bad example: Rent is $100. I can afford it. It is in my budget.
Good example: The rent for the location that I have selected is $100. This is a lot cheaper compared to other rental locations in my area. The reason why the rent is cheap is because it only has one bedroom. (Do not use this example or make one similar to it. It would be considered plagiarism)
For each answer, you will be able to find the information in your textbook to help construct a detailed answer and relate it back to the sociological content. Do no use your own personal opinions.
Each response needs to relate back to race/ethnicity and sociology.
Throughout the course, save accredited news articles or scholarly journals that are relevant to the course material. (No answer needed for #1).
The articles must discuss about or relate back to race and/or ethnicity.
The articles must relate to any social concept relating to the U.S. or globally.
The news article must be from an accredited new source or scholarly journal.
Save the news article on your

Sociology

January 16, 2020 4 Comments APA, Social Sciences

Module 2 Assessment
Sociological Perspective on Aging

A sociological perspective on aging highlights the role that social structure plays in shaping the choices and experiences of aging individuals. That is, sociologists recognize that while we are acting, feeling, reasoning beings that attach meaning to our behaviour, there are also important structural forces that influence our choices and experiences. For example, an individuals choice to dye their greying hair may be influenced by the powerful forces of the media and cultural expectations of aging. Similarly, an older persons choice to participate in community events may depend on their access to economic resources and transportation. Taking a sociological perspective, then, involves realizing that age-related experiences are more than private, personal issues. Choices and experiences of the elderly also depend on the ways in which our society is organized at a given history, including its distribution of wealth, political and economic system, cultural patterns, dominant social roles, and power relationships between groups (Funk, 2016, p.3).

Learning Objectives:
    Identify social structures in the social world that may influence aging individuals.
    Discuss how social structures can be used to explain individual choices and experiences of the elderly.

Instructions:

Write a 1 1 page response (not including title page and reference page) to the following question:

How does social structure influence the choices and experiences of aging individuals?

You must identify two social structures from the social world and discuss how they may influence choices and experiences of aging individuals.

Social structures include such concepts as social stratification, inequality, social institutions (such as political, economic, education, health and family systems), cultural patterns, roles and status to name a few.

Your paper should include the following paragraphs:

Introduction
    Introduce the social structures you will discuss.
    What is the relevance of focusing on how we organize our society to studying the aging population?
Body
    What is meant by the term social structure?
    Identify 2 social structures that shape the lives of older individuals.
    Define each of the 2 social structures using sources from course material.
    Discuss how the structures influence the choices and experiences of aging.
    Provide support for your discussion by referring to textbook and additional course material.
Conclusion
    Briefly summarize the main points.
    What are the implications of explaining age-related issues by looking at social structures?

To help you respond to the question above, please refer to Required Readings for this module:
A.    Textbook Reading: Chapter 1 “Choices and Constraints in Aging: Theoretical Approaches and Sociological Contributions” (Funk, 2016)
B.    Social Structures, Social Inequality, and the Life Course: Wister, Andrew V. (2019). Social structures, Social Inequality, and the Life Course. In Aging as a social process: Canada and Beyond, Seventh Edition (p. 166-178). Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. (pdf document on D2L)

Guidelines:
    Responses to the question should not exceed 1 pages in length (not including title and reference page).
    APA formatting, citing, and referencing guidelines must be followed.
    Assessments missing a reference list or in-text citations will not be graded. All assignments will be checked to ensure academic honesty.
    Create a MS Word Document (.doc or .docx) and upload to the Module 2 Assessment dropbox in D2L by the due date. Assignments submitted late will be subject to a five percent reduction of the total grade for every day past the due date, including weekends (e.g., if the assignment is three days late, 3 X 5% = 15% will be deducted resulting in a maximum letter grade of A). Assignments more than seven calendar days past the due date, without written approval for extension, will receive a grade of zero (0).

job assisnemt and social work

January 16, 2020 3 Comments APA, Social Sciences

In this assignment you will use career and job search websites to research the field of social work. You will look in general at the field of social work and then zero in on specific areas and job titles of potential future jobs in which you might be interested. You are to find at least 3 real jobs you would be qualified for when you earn your BA degree and 3 more if/when you earn a MA degree. 

You are to write a 2 page paper that gives the following information for each job: Job title and description, location, pay, education needed, experience needed and any other information that might be interesting.

In the body of your paper discuss the field of social work in general.  What is the employment outlook like for this field?  Is it a demand job?  What is our local area like?  Will it be hard to find a job?  Will it be hard to find a job in the area in which you want to specialize?  What interested you about these jobs?  Besides finishing your education, what can you do to help get you ready to be hired as a social worker?

Intereste in some sort of cousnelor
mainly drug and alchol cousnelor
must be in areas: tulare ca, and near by there. 45 min away

Climate Change Activism

January 16, 2020 5 Comments APA, Social Sciences

60 word summary of why this article/book is relevant to my topic, for each citation. 6 sources/citations should be used to write my “blog content” for my class on how to engage in climate activism. My focus is on celebrity influence.

I have two sources already provided below;

you need to find 4 more in relation and write an annotated bibliography.

1. 20 Reasons Why 2019 Gave Us Climate Hope. (2020). Retrieved 8 January 2020, from https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/20-reasons-why-2019-gave-us-climate-hope

2. Klein, N. (2019). On fire (pp. 3-315). Simon & Schuster.

Diversity in the Media

January 15, 2020 8 Comments APA, Social Sciences

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
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Competency 1: Describe theoretical ideas of power in relation to policy.
Discuss how minority and dominant groups are portrayed in a media piece in relation to the influence of power.
Discuss sociological concepts or theories appropriate for understanding the portrayal of diversity in the media.
Competency 2: Identify historical and contemporary influences of discrimination in U. S. culture.
Summarize a media piece using the sociological perspective on diversity.
Competency 3: Analyze the effects of social policy using aggregated data.
Analyze data that are appropriate for supporting or refuting the central tenets of media piece.
Competency 6: Apply in text the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, tone, and citation formatting.
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Deliverable
For this assessment:
Summarize briefly, in one or two paragraphs, the main events or issues presented in your media program or article and describe how they relate to cultural diversity studies.
Discuss how minority and dominant groups are portrayed in your media selection in relation to the influence of power. 
Consider the relative power of each group portrayed in your selection in society.
Consider how individuals in power influence decisions regarding how issues are portrayed. This can include corporate executives, lobbyists, special interest groups, or those who own a particular newspaper, channel, or media conglomerate.
Explain how two or more sociological theories apply to or can be used to provide insight about your media program or article. Examples of theories include:
Merton’s typology of prejudice and discrimination.
Noel hypothesis.
Blauner hypothesis.
Gordon’s theory of assimilation.
Human capital theory.
Theories of inequality (such as Marx’s or Weber’s theories of inequality).
Collins’ theory of intersectionality.
Park’s race relations cycle.
Structural pluralism.
Analyze data that are appropriate for supporting or refuting the central tenets of your media program or article.
If data (statistical information) is cited in your media selection, you may go to that source and analyze it yourself; then consult an additional source that supports or refutes the data presented.

discussing whether you experienced inequality in schooling or witnessed inequality occurring, particularly inequality by social class, race and ethnicity, and/or gender.

January 15, 2020 3 Comments Not applicable, Social Sciences

This relates to the last two papers you wrote on autobiography .

You will write one to two pages discussing whether you experienced inequality in schooling or witnessed inequality occurring, particularly inequality by social class, race and ethnicity, and/or gender.

You must write about these experiences using a sociological lens and incorporating at least two readings and one of the concepts from the Video Lectures. 
You can write about your experiences as a student, parent, and/or educator, and you can write about any point in your schooling – very early on, or recently, or both.

Please submit your assignment as a Word document, or, if you don’t have Word, as plain text.