Category: Sociology

A. Directions
Step 1: Pick a Topic
Select a community group to study. Some examples of community groups you might explore include:
An activity-based group like a book club, a soccer team, or a community choir
A religious or ideological community such as a church congregation or a local political party
A community organization like a Parent Teacher Association (PTA), a neighborhood association, or the volunteer committee at a local soup kitchen
An identity-based organization such as a social club for veterans or a fraternal type organization
It should be a group in which membership is voluntary and recreational.
Avoid the following:
Families
Workplaces
Ethnic or racial categories
Friend groups
You might wish to choose a group that you are a part of, or you might not. You can use your personal experience with the group to form the basis of your research question. Or you can ask members of the group about their experiences, which will help you develop your research question.
In the template, write a paragraph (approximately 6-8 sentences) describing the community group you have chosen. In particular, be sure to answer the following questions:
What is the community group?
What are the attributes or characteristics of this community group? (e.g. What activities does this group do together? What element of the members’ interests or identities brings them together? How is membership in the group defined, if at all?)
What kind of experience with or access to this community group do you have?
HINT
You will use this same topic in Touchstone 3 when you present your research plan.
Step 2: Ask a Question
Next, you will formulate a question related to this group, and to topics related to diversity and/or collaboration. You might think about diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, socioeconomic status, or along multiple intersecting identities. Be sure to use what you learned in Unit 1 about the ways sociologists ask questions.
Examples:
What are the challenges of a mom’s community organization in appealing to moms with children of different ages?
How does a group of car enthusiasts reach out to the surrounding community to get support for their events?
How has the Boy Scouts accepting girls impacted their mission and programs?
Do gender segregated sports teams for kids help maintain traditional gender roles?
In the template, write the question you have formulated for your study. Be sure to identify the Independent and Dependent variables and identify them correctly. (HINT: Refer back to Lesson 1.3.3: Asking Questions and Lesson 1.3.5: Formulating a Hypothesis for help.)
Step 3: Prepare a Bibliography
Finally, you will begin developing a bibliography for a review of the existing literature that relates to your question. Before conducting a full literature review, a sociologist will build a bibliography, or a list of potential sources that they will read and study in greater depth in the review.
Collect 4-6 articles, books, or other resources that relate to your question and list them in your template. You don’t have to look into these materials in depth right now! You’ll review this literature more closely in Touchstone 3, and you will also be exposed to additional relevant research and frameworks in Unit 3. You’ll also be able to add to or amend your bibliography before you submit Touchstone 3 in Unit 3.
Attributes of good readings for your literature review:
They are academic, scholarly works about research findings or they are reliable journalistic reporting based on scientifically credible and reliable data.
They should have been published in the last 10 years—unless they are a landmark work on the topic and provide important background or as a comparison.
They look at different sides of the argument and a variety of perspectives.
They do not have to be written by sociologists or published in sociology journals, but they should be academic and not popular works.
Where to find readings:
More than likely you will use a major search engine like Google Scholar. Start your search by identifying key search terms related to your research question, to generate relevant results. Google Scholar specifically searches scholarly literature. However, keep in mind that much of this literature may have limited or paid access. Another good place to search is in a public library or university library catalog or database. You might also want to try regular Google, but you will have to be careful to screen your results and make sure you only select academic sources. Whichever way you choose to search, make sure that you are selecting credible sources.
What makes a source credible?
Credible sources are written by authors who are well known in their field. They are based on scientific data—not opinions or with biased observations. Sources should be from reliable outlets, like major publishers, universities, think tanks, and credentialed current practitioners. (HINT: Refer back to Lesson 1.3.4: Researching Existing Sources for more guidance.)
How to format sources in your bibliography:
Sociologists use American Psychological Association (APA) format for their research. However, you will use a more simplified method to format sources for your bibliography. You will include five key elements for each source, with each element separated by a period:
Author’s name(s)
Publisher and publication date
Title of the source, in quotation marks
Page numbers (if applicable)
Source’s location for web-based texts (URL)
EXAMPLE
Alireza Behtoui. Journal of Sociology, 2015. “Beyond social ties: The impact of social capital on labour market outcomes for young Swedish people.” p. 711-724. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1440783315581217
Refer to the checklist below throughout the writing process. Do not submit your Touchstone until it meets these guidelines.
1. Identify Community Group
❒ Have you identified and described a voluntary, recreational community group?
❒ Have you provided group attributes/characteristics of this group?
❒ Have you discussed your experience with or access to this group?
2. Research Question
❒ Have you selected a research question that is sufficiently specific to be researchable while tying in to broader themes in sociology?
❒ Have you clearly identified independent and dependent variables?
❒ Are your independent and dependent variables in the correct relationship?
3. Bibliography
❒ Have you provided 4-6 credible, relevant, recent, and properly cited sources?
❒ Did you properly format these sources and include the five key elements for each source, with each element separated by a period:
Author’s name(s)
Publisher and publication date
Title of the source, in quotation marks
Page numbers (if applicable)
Source’s location for web-based texts (URL)
4. Conventions
❒ Have you proofread your essay for grammatical and mechanical errors?
❒ Have you used spell check or another method to check spelling?
5. Before You Submit
❒ Have you included your name and date at the top left of the page?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GXqpQZ-NLhA&list=PLzkQfVIJun2L9Hzo8wlwwY6d4qwbbSl6T&index=51 this is the link to the video that needs to be watched for this assignment

Please rewrite my Portfolio for it to meet the requirements of the assignment instructions. The PDF document are the requirements for the assignment and the Word document is the assignment that needs to be rewritten and proofread.  

Instructions
In our first week of class, we have been learning about how society shapes our lives as individuals. As a healthcare professional, understanding these connections is important because society can greatly affect our health. For this assignment, choose one major health issue that is common in the U.S. and reflect on how society has an impact on your chosen health issue. 
In a 1-page reflection, address the following: 
Identify the health issue you are choosing for this assignment. 
Explain how an understanding of society and its influence on individuals helps us understand this health issue. Be sure to integrate one or more course concepts. 

Power Point should be HEAVILY graphs, charts, tables, images with MINIMAL TEXT
any charts, graphs, images, tables used IN power point must be appropriately cited ON slides. 
use slides to describe Team’s dependent variable AND key independent variables AND social/causal relationships including:
illustrations of answers to 3 central questions ((1) How does it work? (2) Who is involved? and (3) What does it mean?)
use of classic tensions to ‘frame’ presentation/argument
illustrations of disproportionality and structured inequalities
identification of key social positions/status and their roles and influences.
include Team’s Thesis Statement (one sentence that EXPLAINS your Team Dependent Variable) — this should be a EARLY slide
Include strategies for ‘fixing’ the social issue
ANY text on slides should be VERY SHORT
NOTES — Bullet pointed/organized BY SLIDE demonstrate how your individual and Team sources are valuable in your research and constructing your argument
I have also included a breakdown of my scholarly articles so it’s much easier to read through. Also, contained in the files are sources my professor wants me to use. I’ve used them in my annotated bibliography but a break down of those articles ss also included.
I have also started a PowerPoint so I will add that. it’s essentially an outline for the powerpoint. 
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU OPENA AND READ ALL FILES, THANK YOU

Review the Week 6 Dataset [JASP], which includes 95 cases. The two variables are types of intervention program (parenting classes or family therapy) and subsequent status in the child welfare system (no suspicion of abuse or neglect or suspicion of abuse or neglect). Review the JASP Tutorial Video: Chi-Square Test of IndependenceLinks to an external site., which demonstrates a chi-square test of independence. Now, complete the following in a one-page, APA-formatted paper: Conduct a chi-square test on the dataset to determine if one program had better outcomes than the others. Include a copy of JASP output. Provide the result of the statistical analysis. Was there a significant association between type of program and subsequent status in the child welfare system? Write a narrative explaining the implications of the findings for future programming and funding priorities. What are the potential limitations of the program evaluation results?

1. Arrange an Interview with someone from a different culture. For this assignment, we will define “different culture” as someone who had a different first language than you. In other words, the first language that she/he learned as a child should be different than the one you first learned as a child. If you are uncertain whether your interview subject meets the criteria, consult the instructor. Let the interview subject know that the interview is to help you complete a class assignment about culture. You may meet face to face in a public place (perhaps buy them a coffee or take them out to lunch), or you may interview your subject via an online communication tool, such as Skype, Facebook Messenger, or Google Hangouts. You may not, however, conduct a voice-only interview. You must be able to see your subject in order to observe their non-verbal communication (as they may be different than yours and therefore important to the assignment). Also, be sensitive to different cultures’ attitudes about the interaction between genders.
2. Prepare a few questions ahead of time that will help you learn about her/his culture and how it is different (or similar) to yours. Try to go a little deeper than surface level questions so that you get beyond a simple discussion of material culture to cultural elements such as values and norms. If you are interviewing someone from outside the United States, an interesting line of discussion might be asking what parts of US culture he/she finds similar, different, confusing, surprising. Even if you have socialized outside the United States yourself, you may find the same things confusing but for different reasons (another interesting line of discussion). Another helpful line of discussion with someone who is living away from her/his home is what activities, people, objects, foods, etc., that she/he misses most from home.
3. Enjoy a conversation with your cultural informant about his/her culture and how it is different than your culture. Remember to take notes
4. Write a 3-page (double spaced) paper (approximately 750 words) composed of two parts: 
A. Description (approximately 500 words) – describe what you learned from this assignment, making sure to include…
i. Who you interviewed (name, first language, and country of origin) and how you know them or connected with them
ii. Some of the questions you asked, especially ones that were most helpful in discovering more about your informant’s culture
iii. What you learned about your informant’s culture. Be sure to use the concepts and terms from this week’s module (examples include beliefs, folkways, norms, sanctions, symbols, values, material culture, etc.).
B. Reflection (at least 250 words) – describe what you learned about yourself from this assignment, making sure to include the following:
i. Contrast what you learned about your informant’s culture with your own cultural background. Be sure to use the concepts and terms from this week’s module as you contrast your cultural backgrounds.
ii. Use the assignment to reflect on how growing up in your culture has shaped you.

Complete a dis board post following attached pictures of rubric, guidelines and instruction for questions. Plz complete in a.p.a format citing 2-3 sources with in text citation and references. The book and reading for post is Social Problems: A down to earth approach chapter 7 by Jim M. Henslin

We began this course by talking about sociology as a distinctive way of thinking.  This assignment asks you to analyze sociologically a significant event or experience in your life or in the life of somebody you know well.  (Since we discussed unemployment in some detail in class, this event or experience should not involve unemployment.)
The purpose of the paper is not to describe the event or experience in detail; it is for you to analyze it in sociological terms.  The paper should be an analysis, not simply a personal narrative.  It should make specific reference to at least two key elements of sociological thinking that we have discussed, and it should also make specific reference to ideas from the assigned readings that can help make sociological sense of the event or experience. 
Papers will be evaluated based on the aptness, insightfulness, and clarity of the sociological analysis.
This is not a research paper.  No outside reading or research is required or expected; no outside works should be cited.  No formal bibliography is required; specific references to ideas from the assigned readings should be made through parenthetical citations giving the author’s last name and page number (e.g. de Swaan, 35).
Talk about witnessing protests throughout colleges across America and vividly seeing it first hand and how that can play into a sociological narrative with race, gender, how a brown Muslim man like myself may identify and socialize. 

1)In Their pamphlet Combahee River Collective(CRC)ushers in the revolutionary subject – gendered, racialized- experiencing interlocking oppression with an anti-capitalist and womanist vision. They say, “We realize that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy.” How does CRC articulate/connect oppressed people’s struggles and how does their program seek to overcome and transform it to create feminist futures? (in 150 words)
2) Despite the daunting realities of subjugation and its legacies the anti-war politics of Du Bois and the Vietnamese struggle for self-determination show how people launched resistances against imperial extraction, sexism, racism and militarism/policing. These movements give us an aspirational vision for liberation, self-determination, and an egalitarian society. Giving equal weight to Du Bois’ I take a stand for peace; and Ho Chi Minh’s letter to Johnson and the Vietnamese declaration of independence show how do these struggles balance local self-defense and community autonomy with an inclusive worldview which situates their struggles within global struggles for social justice? (300 words)
(SB: the name of the 4 readings are in the picture attached file below)
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