Category: Sociology

Imagine that classical sociological theorists Emile Durkheim, a functionalist, and Karl Marx, a conflict theorist, land in the city of Omelas. Each of them would have different perspectives on the sense of community. In an essay, write the following:
an introduction with a single, cohesive thesis statement that details the main ideas to be developed in the essay at the end of the introduction;
a description of how Omelas looks and feels, according to the narrator, supported with direct quotations;
at least two complete paragraphs that introduce Durkheim’s functionalism and theories of solidarity and what he would say about how solidarity is developed in Omelas, supported with direct quotations;
at least two paragraphs that introduce Marx’s conflict theory and what he would say about how solidarity is developed in Omelas; and, now that you have read the entire story, supported with direct quotations; and,
a paragraph discussing whether or not you think the misery of the child is worth the “utopia” of Omelas (if you see it as a utopia, at all).
NOTE: The most significant parts of the essay are the theoretical application in parts “c” and “d.” Remember, Omelas is a complex place and Durkheim and Marx will likely have very different perspectives on it.

Sociology
is an approach to understanding issues such as gender and identity. Suggest how
this
research is changing our understanding of the binary categories of masculine
and
feminine.

Final Project Details
Details:
The final project for this class will require you to pick a media piece of your choice (can be a movie, song, book, etc.) and analyze it through a sociological lens.
You will then create a presentation slideshow through the medium of your choice (Slides, PowerPoint, Canva, Prezi, etc.).
You must apply a minimum of 4 separate sociological concepts or theories to your selected media piece.
Content wise, your presentation must include the following:
a short description of your selected media piece
an explanation of each theory/concept you chose
the specific scenes or lyrics that demonstrate each theory/concept
a rationale and analysis for each theory/concept
a conclusion summarizing your overall thoughts/impression of your media piece as it relates to sociology
Your presentation is required to be at least 6 slides long, though I suggest that you not limit yourself to only 6 slides. Be as creative as you want in terms of style – just make sure that your slides are easy to read.
You are required to make use of the source material from the book. When citing the book, please use the following citation format (OpenStax College 2021). You are not required to use outside sources, though you may if you’d like. If you only use the book, you are not required to provide a reference page. However, if you do use outside sources, you will need to provide a reference page in either APA or ASA format at the end of your slideshow.
The earlier you submit your media piece for approval the better, as it gives you a longer time to work on your project. 

In this assignment, learners will select a recent research study that explores an issue relevant to anti-oppressive social work practice. Learners will critically analyze the research findings and apply them to inform practice, policy, or programs. The assignment should include the sections identified below.
Summarize Research Study
Summarize a research study, including clearly identifying and focusing on an aspect of anti-oppressive social work practice, its research question, methodology, and main findings. (C4.GP.A)The study must be published within the last five years.
Analysis of Findings
Explain how key findings of the study apply to social work practice, policy, and/or programs. (C4.GP.A)Be sure to cite clear examples from within the study.
Analyze how the findings can be applied to address systemic biases, promote anti-racist and anti-oppressive strategies, and advance social, economic, cultural, and/or environmental justice for the population in the study. (C4.GP.B)
Be sure to provide specific examples that support the analysis.
Ethical Considerations
Describe at least one potential ethical consideration related to the research study. (C4.GP.B)You have the option to analyze more than one potential ethical consideration.
Discuss the steps necessary to address the identified ethical consideration(s). (C4.GP.A)Be sure to clearly identify a specific response and support your response using the NASW Code of Ethics.
Application to Practice, Policy, or Programs
Propose at least two specific recommendations for applying specific research findings in practice, policy, or programs, including how to address inherent biases and advance anti-oppressive approaches within the field of social work. (C4.GP.B)Support your recommendations with references from the academic or professional knowledge base.
Additional Requirements
The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current Evidence and APA standards. See Evidence and APA Citation for Graduate Learners.
Length of paper: 6–8 double-spaced pages, not including cover page and references page.
Font and font size: Use APA approved font and size.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:Competency 1: Apply research findings to inform and improve practice, policy, and programs. (C4.GP.A)Summarize a research study, including clearly identifying and focusing on an aspect of anti-oppressive social work practice, its research question, methodology, and main findings. (C4.GP.A)
Explain how key findings of the study apply to social work practice, policy, and/or programs. (C4.GP.A)
Discuss the steps necessary to address the identified ethical consideration. (C4.GP.A)
Competency 2: Identify ethical, culturally informed, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive strategies that address inherent biases for use in quantitative and qualitative research methods to advance the purposes of social work. (C4.GP.B)Analyze how the findings can be applied to address systemic biases, promote anti-racist and anti-oppressive strategies, and advance social, economic, cultural, and/or environmental justice for the population in the study. (C4.GP.B)
Describe at least one potential ethical consideration related to the research study. (C4.GP.B)
Propose at least two specific recommendations for applying the research findings in practice, policy, or programs. (C4.GP.B)
Competency 3: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession

Discussion Post #1 asks you to think about the contents presented in Lecture 3. After you review Lecture 3 located in Module 1, post your thoughts with citations from the lecture to support your position on the following: 
Are Marx’s views still relevant today? (Requires you to present what you think Marx’s view are). Or did Marx predict the current stratification in the United States? (Requires you to present what you think Marx’s views)
If yes provide an example (cite your source) of why you think it does represent our current stratification.
If no, then how is our stratification different by providing an example. (cite your source) 

I will attache the necessary documents for better explanations. This assignmnet consists of four parts. 

Developmental phase
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• Vocabulary
Story structure
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• About ICCR Scholarship & a strong reason
Your purpose with the scholarship
• Transformation from being average to a strong candidate.
• What story can connect with the following topic?
• Showcase the passion
The drafts you kept making
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• Being confident about your write-up

1.  Write a 2 page essay on how COVID has been handled in 3 countries: use the United States as your first country, one other industrialized country and 1 non-industrialized country. The     type of health organizations in each country must be included but you can also research things such as insurance issues, awareness and/or educational campaigns, and any statistical differences in ages, races, or political leanings. You do NOT have to include all of these ideas—just include whatever you find interesting for your 2 pages of prose.   
2.  Toward the end of your paper, make sure to label a paragraph called Conclusion. In the conclusion, discuss which countries had the best organized programs to keep people safe and add any ideas you might think of to help the populace accept modern science and           medicine.

Write a formal paper describing a different/unknown/foreign culture that you have researched. Use tools such as your oral history interview, participant observation and different kinds of comparative and reflexive analyses based on your and other known cultures.
This paper is 3-5 pages long, approximately 750-1500 words long, with standard formatting only (1.5-2 spacing, max. 1 in margins, max. 12 pt font, etc.).
This paper is designed to catalog and describe the people, spaces, norms, structures and other aspects of this culture to an outsider without intimate knowledge of the culture.
Write a short introduction that identifies themes you either planned to observe/study or that you ended up focusing on as a result of your experience. If you had to change the focus of your study explain what led you to change your goals/perspectives.
Focus your ethnography on two or three major themes/topics for the sake of clarity and focus.
Your ethnography should be structured around questions/topics that we have considered in our discussions of culture and ethnography in our class thus far. You may choose to focus on specific social structures, norms, childhood/family/kinship relations and experiences, socialization and education, class/power, race/ethnicity, sex/gender, general worldview and understanding of other cultures as well as any other interesting aspects of culture.
Plan to devote roughly equal space to the two or three major themes that you explore. That means 1-1.5 pages with some introduction and conclusion that wraps them all together.
You should identify a space or spaces where you conducted your studies. You should plan to spend a minimum of 1.5-3 hours on at least two different occasions in your study location(s) in order to get a large enough ‘sample’ of observations.
Your observations should be both as a spectator/observer and as a participant observer – make every effort to integrate yourself.
Ask questions: What behaviors are culturally specific? What are the short lists of norms and beliefs that define this culture/space/activity? What is considered “normal” vs. “abnormal”? Why? Does everyone behave the same way? Is there pattern or organization to who behaves how and why? How do you know? What if anything surprised you or caused you confusion or discomfort? Why? Was there something you could NOT access? Things that as an outsider you simply couldn’t understand no matter what?
Write reflexively about any challenges that you encountered, or about how your perspectives and biases changed how you experienced this culture (vs. how the members of this culture experience it).
What avenues for future study do you foresee?
What perspective and style/tone will you write with? What is your ‘story’ about? Who is your audience? Make it engaging and make it make sense. Proofread. Use citations where necessary/appropriate.

Just make sure you answer all
parts of the questions thoroughly.  In each question I
mention specific readings or weekly PowerPoints. You should make sure to use ALL these sources in
your answer. 
QUESTION 1. Explain the concepts of social and cultural capital and discuss how they can help firstgeneration college students succeed, using the reading by McCallen and Johnson. Then describe some of
the negative consequences of upward mobility, as discussed in the course slides and in the readings
(especially Riggs and Gray/Johnson/Kish-Gephart and Tilton).
Materials:
Gray, Barbara, Tiffany Johnson, Jennifer Kish-Gephart, and Jacqueline Tilton. 2018. “Identity Work by
First-Generation College Students to Counteract Class-Based Microaggressions.” Organization Studies
39: 1227-1250.
McCallen, Leigh S., and Helen L. Johnson. 2020. “The Role of Institutional Agents in Promoting Higher
Education Success Among First-Generation College Students at a Public Urban University.” Journal of
Diversity in Higher Education 13: 320-332. 
Riggs, Liz. 2014. “What It’s Like to Be the First Person in Your Family to Go to College.” The Atlantic
January 13, 2014.   
Slides from May 7: College and Upward Mobility   
QUESTION 3. We discussed disability and inequality in schools on April 2. Based on that day’s
readings and PowerPoints, write an essay in which you discuss racial differences in placement
in special education. Make sure to discuss the conflicting findings about overrepresentation and state
whether and why you think racial overrepresentation is or is not happening in special education. Finally,
review the suggestions that are on pages 4-5 in Significant Disproportionality in Special Education: The
Role of Income (under “Policy and Practice Considerations”) and discuss which one you think is the
most important, and why.   
Materials: 
Farkas, George, and Paul L. Morgan. 2018. “Risk and Race in Measuring Special Education Need.”
Contexts 17: 72-74. 
Stiefel, Lianna, Menbere Shiferaw, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Michael Gottfried. 2017. “Who
Feels Included in School? Examining Feelings of Inclusion Among Students with Disabilities.”
Educational Researcher 47: 105-120. 
“Students with Disabilities.” The Condition of Education 2021. 
National Center for Learning Disabilities. 2020. Significant Disproportionality in Special Education:
The Role of Income.   
April 2 PowerPoints: Students with Disabilities  
QUESTION 4: A) Discuss how socioeconomic status is related to enrolling in college and experiences
in college. B) Then, discuss the features of CUNY’s ASAP program, how they are associated with
students’ success, and how the features contrast with the features of for-profit trade schools as described
by Holland and DeLuca.   
Materials:  Holland, Megan M., and Stefanie DeLuca. 2016. “‘‘Why Wait Years to Become Something?’’ Lowincome African American Youth and the Costly Career Search in For-profit Trade Schools.” Sociology
of Education 89: 261-278. 
Jack, Anthony Abraham. 2019. “I Was a Low-Income College Student. Classes Weren’t the Hard Part.”
The New York Times.  
Strumbos, Diana, Donna Linderman, and Carson C. Hicks. 2018. “Postsecondary Pathways Out of
Poverty: City University of New York Accelerated Study in Associate Programs and the Case for
National Policy.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4: 100–17.   
April 16 PowerPoints: CUNY and Inequality