Category: Social science

For this assignment, you will listen to and/or read a few materials and then respond to questions.
First, listen to or read the transcript of this podcast episode from 2019 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/podcasts/the-daily/boeing-dreamliner-charleston.html) on Boeing’s whistleblowers. You can read the transcript here: 
boeing whistle 1.pdf
Then answer the following questions with reflective, detailed responses: 
How long has Boeing operated this plane factory in Charleston? About how many jobs are there at this plane factory? Are these jobs new economy or old economy? Why (what characteristics of the jobs suggest this conclusion)?
In the last chapter of the textbook, the idea of risk was discussed. What risks are being taken on by either/both workers and Boeing at this plane factory? Who is responsible for those risks? How are those risks managed?
In chapter 5, Sweet and Meiksins discuss various ways of assessing intensity at work. In what ways are these jobs at the Boeing plant intense, or not?
Who is Swampy?
Reporter Natalie Kitroeff says:
“to be clear, the 787 Dreamliner has never crashed. It has a pristine safety record. And there’s no evidence that any of the problems that we document has led to major safety incidents. But since the crashes of those two 737 Max jets, the question that is being raised by lawmakers, by regulators, and by employees within Boeing is whether those three factors, safety, quality and speed, are always in balance — or whether sometimes, the competitive pressures that exist at the highest levels of this company are bearing down not just on the engineers as they design how this aircraft is going to work, but also on the factory floor, on the people who are responsible for assembling and manufacturing these aircraft.”
With all that being said, why does Swampy say, “I haven’t seen a plane out of Charleston yet that I’d put my name on that’s saying it’s safe and airworthy.”
How would you assess working conditions at the Boeing plant in Charleston? And how does this make you feel about these jobs being South Carolina jobs?
Next, there have been several updates in this story. Please read this article on the NYT website (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/john-barnett-boeing-whistleblower-dead.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2L42FlGorHoJLDKWuadBA2Sez579lVMkNcob_Ns1uGWXx4sUSDoqkxIjE_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw) or read it as attached here:
boeing whistle 2.pdf
7. What has Swampy been doing since the 2019 NYT report? Do you have any way to know if his activities contributed to changes in operations at the Boeing plant? 
8. Swampy was found dead earlier this spring as reported in that story. Here is a CBS Mornings Interview with his family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC7icDjRh5o. Many observers have suggested that his death is strange, leading to some speculation and conspiracy theorizing. I’m not what I make of all that, but I would like to know, how does reading about his activities the past 5 years and his death change (or not) your assessment of working conditions at the Boeing plant, and who takes which risks in that workplace, and the overall working conditions for employees there.
9. Do you have any questions for peers or your instructor about this material? 

This dissertation requires you to explore the influence of social media on political engagement and the formation of public opinion. With the rise of platforms like Twitter and Facebook, social media has become a critical arena for political discourse, mobilization, and the shaping of political views.
Key Points to Cover:
1. Overview: Brief introduction to the significance of social media in political communication.
2. Political Engagement: Discuss how social media affects political participation, highlighting both positive and negative impacts.
3. Public Opinion: Analyze the role of social media in shaping public opinion, considering aspects like misinformation and echo chambers.
Example: Provide a brief example of a political event or movement influenced by social media.
Formatting and Submission:
– Use APA style for any citations.
– The paper should be double-spaced, using Times New Roman, 12-point font.
– Ensure clarity and conciseness in your argumentation.
Your paper should offer a critical examination of social media’s role in politics, supported by relevant examples and scholarly sources. Aim to present a balanced view that acknowledges both the opportunities and challenges posed by social media in the political sphere.

**Thank you, instructions below, along with assignment 2, to use reference for said assignment along with this site for the 2nd reference https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6358421/***
Overview
Social institutions can impact social issues in positive and negative ways. To promote positive change, it is helpful to consider the relationship between social institutions and specific social issues. This assignment will help you examine the relationship between social institutions and the social issue you chose for your project.
Directions
In Module Two, you chose a social issue for your project, along with two social science disciplines you will use to examine the issue. As part of this process, you drafted the first three criteria for Part One of the project. In Module Three, you drafted the remaining criteria for Part One of the project.
For this assignment, you will look at some specific influences on your social issue and how they will impact understanding and action on it. Additionally, you will discuss how your topic both impacts and is impacted by social institutions.
This assignment builds toward Part Two of the project. Before working on this assignment, consult the Project Guidelines and Rubric to review the scope of the project. Include two citations in your paper.
Specifically, you must address the following:
Describe the role of social institutions.
Describe how social institutions influence your topic.
Explain the relationship between your topic and social institutions as a whole, addressing the following:
How do these social institutions impact understanding of your social issue?
What impact does your topic have on social institutions?
Explain how social change impacts social institutions.
Describe how social change could impact your social issue.
Explain how social institutions foster inequity related to your topic.
Describe how the disciplines of the social sciences build the understanding of your chosen topic and social institutions.
Describe how developments and changes within the social sciences affect your understanding of the social institutions related to your topic.
What to Submit
Submit your project draft as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Keep in mind that for your project, you must use a minimum of four sources from the Shapiro Library. Use at least two sources in this project draft. Be sure to follow APA citation guidelines when citing sources both throughout and at the end of your paper.

Instructions
Much of what is written below comes from The Writing Centre at UNC Chapel Hill: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/book-reviews/
Students are expected to write a review of Bruce Dowbiggins’ “Cap in Hand: How Salary Caps are Killing Pro Sports and Why the Free Market Could Save Them”. 
What should the review consist of? Above all, a strong review makes an argument about the text. Your review should serve as a commentary, not merely a summary. In your review you can offer agreement or disagreement and identify where you find the work exemplary or deficient in its knowledge, judgments, or organization. You should clearly state your opinion (ie/ a thesis or an argument) of the work in question, which will resemble other types of academic writing, with a thesis statement, supporting body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
The review should tackle the following questions:
What is the thesis—or main argument—of the book? If the author wanted you to get one idea from the book, what would it be? 
What exactly is the subject or topic of the book? 
How does the author support her argument? What evidence does she use to prove her point? Do you find that evidence convincing? Why or why not? Does any of the author’s information (or conclusions) conflict previous assumptions you had of the subject?
How does the author structure their argument?  Does the argument make sense? Does it persuade you? Why or why not?
How has this book helped you understand the subject? Would you recommend the book to your reader?
Overall, the main question is this: Do you agree with Dowbiggins’ assertion about the impact of salary caps in pro sports (and the way to rectify this)? Why or why not?
Your review should be approximately 4 pages in length. 
You can find a copy of the book on the following website: https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Cap_in_Hand/Vi1hDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

Overview
Explore persuasive techniques used by interest groups to gain support for social change as well as the legal and ethical considerations related to action for social change. In this assignment, you will apply a persuasive technique and consider the impact recommendations have on social change.
Directions
You will write a letter in which you apply a persuasive technique to gain support for social change. You will be writing the letter to people who are advocates for social change related to your selected social movement or affiliated interest group. My social movement is Women, Life, Freedom and my affiliated interest group is the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). In your letter, you will describe recommendations for social change and the impact that those recommendations might have on social change. You will explain how members of the (CHRI) can attempt to gain support for social change related to one of their goals or issues. Be sure to write your letter with a clear purpose, provide enough background information for your audience, and employ a professional tone.
Specifically, you must address the following:
Describe a goal or an issue related to your selected social movement or affiliated interest group.
Explain the recommendations or actions you would suggest for meeting the goal of your selected social movement or affiliated interest group.
Describe the impact that the suggested recommendations might have on social change related to your selected social movement or affiliated interested group.
Describe an opposing view related to your recommendations.
Provide a rebuttal to the opposing views that defends your recommendations.
Explain the type of support the audience can offer to help achieve the goal and recommendations.
You will use this template below 
[Note: To complete this template, replace the bracketed text with your own content. Remove this note before you submit your paper.]
Dear [Name of Recipient],
[Insert your assignment as a letter here, including a goal related to your selected social movement or affiliated interest group, your recommendations, the impact of these recommendations, an opposing view related to the recommendations, a rebuttal to the opposing view, and the type of support the audience can offer.]
Sincerely,
[Insert your First and Last Name]
I have attached sources you can use along with the previous assignments that were completed about my chosen social movement and affiliated interest group. Please read through those and utilize my research it will make the assignment pretty simple. No need to use too many sources, one or two is enough as long as it flows smoothly in the letter format. 

Hello!
Please edit my essay by:
-fitting the prompt (make sure it answers and covers everything, include key words)
-making sure quotes are used and analyzed the best way (change, add or remove if needed, id prefer if you added quotes or analysis, or nothing, not remove as the professor loves quotes for evidence) 
-change the in text citations: (…, p. …) to (…, Page ….)
-make it fit the word counts (3500 words)
-humanize it where it sounds like AI as I have used ChatGPT to write it (submit it through turn it in and AI detector once done)
-you can rearrange and do whatever, just make sure to keep the content
Here is the essay prompt:
The premise of this course is that ‘narratives’ (defined in a very broad sense) are critical to ‘imagining’ and ‘disseminating’ and possibly also ‘deconstructing’ the nation. For your final term paper identify two works – one fictional and one non-fictional – that can be related to this theme and critically explore them within the following parameters.
1.    Both the works need to be from a single context so that they can be related to each other. The works can be from any genre – film, theater, text (prose or poetry).
2.    Both works need to be ‘substantial’ – substance here does not necessarily mean length but should have significance in relation to the broad theme outlined above and should have the potential to yield an insightful discussion.
3.    It is expected that you will do research in to the works you have selected and reference their social and political context and history. There needs to be evidence that you consulted secondary sources (such sources can be a range of things – books, academic articles, newspaper articles, blog entries and even discussion on social media).
4.    As in the second presentation you completed for this course, you are expected to critically explore the “performative” as aspects of the texts you chose. How do they “imagine” the nation? What allusions and metaphors do they deploy? What are the “aesthetic” qualities of the texts? How to they figuratively imagine the nation? This is not an extensive list but simply a set of prompts to get you thinking.
5.    You are also welcome to explore how the these texts/narratives might also be demonstrating ways of thinking ‘beyond the nation’. In other words how they might be imagining ways of being in the world that are not limited to an exclusively national framework. 
6.    This assignment will be judged primarily on your ability to build a cogent and logical extended argument and therefore the written essay must clearly be structured and organized. 
My essay: 
PDF called Final Essay N&N Shaikha Al Mansoori

For this paper, you will search, read, analyze, and write based on articles from reputable mainstream news sources about various political, environmental, economic, or cultural topics that cover at least one region (and at least two countries from the region) from the eleven major regions we are exploring in this course. Check these important guidelines below:
At least four articles should be considered for this paper. 
The articles selected should have been published no more than six months before the course began. Ideally, you should identify interconnections between events, as well as highlight some of the regional characteristics you read about from the course content that can be hinted at in the articles.  
The final paper should be submitted in Word or PDF format. 
It should contain about 1000 words, excluding references.
Articles must be referenced and cited using either MLALinks to an external site. or APALinks to an external site. format (consult the library website in case you need more info). Remember that a URL alone is not a proper citation. You must use in-text citations (for direct quotes and paraphrasing) AND works cited page.
Use appropriate articles. The articles should be from reputable mainstream news sources, such as The Conversation, The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, etc.
What to write —
The paper should analyze the four articles integratively – compare their perspectives on the issue of your choice, their scopes of agreement and disagreement, the limits of their argument, etc. 
As far as the structure of the paper, I would suggest, in about 400 words, introducing the topic based on the articles and synthesizing them. In the remaining 600 words, do an integrated analysis of all these pieces from a regional perspective. Consider the following when doing the analysis: 
– Show how your chosen articles relate to one or more of the themes we have touched on in this course.
– Identify spatial interrelationships. Highlight how your chosen topic/event occurring in a particular place and time might be influencing other spaces/countries/regions/landscapes/peoples, not necessarily from the other articles but in general. How is one event occurring in one place affecting other places? This is a good exercise to learn to identify the interconnections between locales.
– Demonstrate and apply how the concepts we learned through the course material help to analyze/expand your understanding of the topic/theme? Does the course material lead you to question some of the statements or assumptions in the articles or to see them in a more organized way?
– Think about how the articles add to what we learned in this course– does it add detail? Does it show how generalizations about the whole region may or may not apply to specific places within it?
Here’s the evaluation rubric for the final paper
Criterion
Points
Contemporary articles
15
Appropriate source
15
Grammar and style
10
Identification of spatial interconnections
20
Utilization of course concepts/ideas
20
Narrative cohesion/integration
20
Total
100

For Paper Project: 1,400 word minimum, Double Spaced, 12 point font, Calibri or New Times Roman Paper Project must includes 3 scholarly citations from sociological journals or books and 3 other sources from news articles, etc. You will also provide 3 solutions to the social problem you are addressing. You also need to include at least 1 organization or group that does activism or volunteer work on this social problem. Must include a citations page for paper that does not count towards your word count.
Please use these sources provided in addition to other sources. 
The topic of the paper is the the model minority asian myth and how that affects south east asians and pacific islanders in regards to education limited access of education and also mental health.

For this assignment, you will be reading and reviewing an article from a peer reviewed journal. You will then be analyzing the article and writing a summary of your findings. Complete the attached assignment and submit it to the assignment folder.
Read the article, taking notes or highlighting to suit your needs.
Write a paper analyzing your article. Write this as a guide to the article. It should be in the form of a bulleted list or something similar; it’s not a full essay. In the guide, you should do the following:
Evaluate the source. Not all peer-reviewed material is reliable. Predatory journals and just poor work by reviewers can lead to problems with these articles. Research your source and confirm that it is a reputable journal. In your guide, give 1 or 2 bits of evidence that it is or isn’t. Also, research the authors and find out whether they are qualified to write this paper, whether they are the actual researcher, and so on. Again, include a couple points on your guide. Some websites to help you with this:
Evaluating Information Sources: What Is A Peer-Reviewed Article?
Nature
Beall’s list of predatory journals and publishers
Directory of open access journals
State the question being asked and the hypothesis being proposed. What are the scientists trying to figure out?
List any assumptions and evaluate their validity. Note that the hypothesis is not an assumption. Assumptions are not things you test, they’re things you already believe to be true. If there’s solid scientific evidence already backing up an idea, it’s not an assumption. You may not be able to find anything for this point but look closely.
Describe the research methods and materials.
Describe the research results and evidence collected.
State the conclusion the authors come to. This should be brief and decisive in your guide. What did they come up with?
Discuss whether the results support the conclusion. Does the evidence given in the paper support the claim the authors are making? Is there some other questions you’d like answered or did they cover all the possibilities? Is there some other conclusion that a reasonable person might come to based on this experiment?
Discuss possible errors. Do not include “human error,” “tools that didn’t work,” or “math errors.” These things can happen, and everybody knows that, but it’s not what you mention in error analysis. Look for things built into the method or data that might skew the results.
Discuss the importance of the research to society and the connection to what we’re covering in class.
Include a citation for your article and for any other source you used.
You’ll need to keep all the above fairly brief, so the idea is to analyze the article for key points and main ideas rather than just including all the information in your guide. Don’t summarize, analyze. Pick out what matters. Try to keep your guide under a page or so in length. A bullet list is acceptable here. This doesn’t need to be an essay.

One page reading note(summary) and two pages for the prompt below:
What does Etzioni’s Compliance theory add to the understanding of organizational effectiveness? Do your own investigation, and discuss current companies using Starbucks’ form of organizational structure. 
Responses will be assessed for the use of generative AI, which is not permitted