Category: Sociology

Pick one of the countries we have covered during the semester. 
2. Pick a specific crime that we have covered (human trafficking, arms trafficking, environmental crime, and so on) and analyze it in the context of the country that you have chosen. Discuss the patterns, trends, and the impact that particular form of criminality has had in the country. Make sure to include a review of relevant literature on the topic. In addition, make sure that you are referencing correctly. The system will see it as plagiarized if you do not reference it correctly. 
The country i chose is the Philippines and the crime i chose is human traficking 

Search the GCU Library for articles that describe incidents of gender, age, racial, and ethnic discrimination.
Choose two incidents of discrimination. Be sure each is of a different type of discrimination (age, gender, race, and/or ethnicity, etc.).
Complete the “Incidents of Inequality” worksheet and submit it to your instructor.
APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
I have included an example of this assignment for reference.

All documents should be single-spaced, 12 pt. font, 1 inchmargins.
MEMOS-1-1.5 page single-spaced.
The objective of the memos is to think critically about course content; memos should integrate all materials assigned that day. As we advance into the quarter, the best memos will incorporate ideas from previous readings or lectures. Summarizing the material should account for less than 20% of your response. At least 80% of your response should be analytical in nature and reflect deep engagement with the class materials for the day.
Links: https://www.ajc.com/blog/get-schooled/black-rural-and-impoverished-are-colleges-ignoring-these-students/4IilU0wPslMP2nuKO10D0N/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/29531407/

Visual sociology Project. Take or download two photos representing one social institution such as family, education, religion, economy, government, health. One photo should represent the past and one more modern/recent. Explain the change using evidence and historical analysis. Use sociological theories to provide a sociological context. Discuss the impact of such a change on identity.

So I basically need to come up with a company, and then on another assignment, I would need to use that company to write an 2 page essay

Chapter 7 from Grazian textbook.
The scanned readings from the Dustin Kidd textbook that are posted for you on canvas
The video on the representation
The videos on neurodiversity in popular culture and gay men on 1970s television, for which there is a link 
https://youtu.be/DvwtPD6o_z4?si=Sqh8wo-XNakY1rTvLinks to an external site.
Answer each question on its own. not a paper that should be combined. The Question 13 and 14 should have longer responses
Question 1: Why is the issue of “representation” important? What can the effects of the representation of various groups in popular culture have or be on society overall?
Question 2:What is The Bechdel Test? Give an example of a Television Program or Film that passes The Bechdel Test and explain why.
Question 3: What is a “Racial Trope”? Give an example and EXPLAIN why it is a trope.
4: Explain the term Hyperembodiment in the context of gender/sexuality and   
popular culture.
5:Briefly explain bell hooks’ criticism of Beyonce. I am not asking your opinion on bell hooks or Beyonce; I am asking you what hooks’ point was.
6: What kinds of tropes exist for LGBTQ characters in TV and films? Give/explain one example
7: How accurately are the working class portrayed on television? Why/How?
8: What is one of the common themes about class that appears in movies
9: When we talk about popular culture spreading “The Dominant Ideology”, what is “The Dominant Ideology”?
10: What is Symbolic Annihilation? Do you think this applies to LGBTQ as well?
11: Choose one of the following tropes for the physically/mentally handi-capable. Explain and give an example from popular culture
The trope of the savant
The trope of isolation and pathology
The trope of self-sacrifice
The trope of asexuality and dependence
The trope of violence
12: What is McDonaldization and how might it be affecting popular culture? Do you think social media is contributing to this “McDonaldization”? Why?
13: What is racialization and what role does popular culture have in that?
14:Watch these two videos. They appear exactly in this order in the original movie.

Sweet Transvestite – Rocky Horror Picture Show

What was the significance of this movie in popular culture? Google it if you don’t know already, just give me a sentence or two. Not a long analysis that you cut and paste from a website.
Your professor has become obsessed with the notion of Popular Culture being subversive towards society, where it can be and where it cant, what forms the subversion takes, etc. From the clips, HOW is this film/music/video subversive? Are there tropes it is challenging? 
what are your overall impressions of these clips?
“Subversive”–seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution. “Undermining” “Exposing” could be alternatives.
15: 
This is a very brief review of sexuality in pop culture. There is so much more than simply what is here. This is by no means at all comprehensive and I’ve skipped over A LOT….but what is here is some extremely well known stuff.
But you also dont necessarily need to watch any of these videos to answer the question below.
1) This is a clip of Elvis Presley gyrating his hips in as manner that was found extremely offensive. In the mid 50s when he first began to be on television, they would only show him from the waist up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-oow8zDob0
2) This is a classic clip of Marilyn Monroe and was considered quite risqué at the time. She recreated it live at a movie premier and the photos show more of her body.
https://youtu.be/wUjege2gYEU
3) This is similar to Elvis, but it’s the Rolling Stones. This was considered extremely sexual.

4) A much different persona from Marilyn Monroe, these are clips from a movie called “Barbarella” staring Jane Fonda.

Once you get to the 70s more diversity enters the scene:
5) We get Androgenous characters like David Bowie

6) women of color such as Donna Summers.

7) The 80s bring us to icons such as His Purple-ness

8) And Madonna

These themes of diversity continue with a wider range of racial and ethnic groups represented as well as more women with power/control and also LBTQ.
9) But of course pop music still loves its white folks…

AND THAT LAST CLIP IS STILL 20 YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So the question is…..
What’s so different about today? How is the representation of gender and sexuality different today? Do you see any other trends besides an increase in diversity?
Why is the issue of “representation” important?
bell hook’s critique of Beyonce
hyperembodinemt
The Bechdel Test
Symbolic Annihilation
Representation of Women and LGBTQ in popular culture
Tropes-Racial trope
Tropes for LGBTQ characters
Specific tropes for disability characters (be sure to look at the reading)
“McDonaldization”
Dominant Ideology
Representation of class on television
Themes of Social Class in Popular Culture
Racialization and popular culture

This paper should be 4-6 pages typed double space with correct spelling and grammar, proper references and cites included.  The topic for your paper will correspond with your thoughts on Chapters 17&18 of the text
I included the textbook for chapter 17 and 18 (have to scroll) 

Students will utilize and cite three assigned texts:
The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz
Private Property and the Origin of the Family by Frederick Engels
No Fathers, No Husbands by Cai Hua
The purpose of this substantive final paper is to demonstrate knowledge of a
non-contemporary organization of family life. Students will rely on appropriate application of
conceptual tools learned from the course. Details will be supplied later in the semester. This is a
final paper and constitutes a major component of the overall grade, at 30%.
7 – 8 pages (3,500 – 4,000 words)

MODULE NAME- Sociology of the environment. Please choose One of the following titles. Essays should be 3000 words in length (incl. bibliography), Give full details of any sources used.. There are a wide range of electronic resources available on Canvas or through UCC Library.(if you need any articles or anything let me know and I can send them). I also attatched photos of what we studied each week.

“How to Tame a Wild Tongue” writing assignment
1. Why does use Anzaldua’s multiple languages in her essay? What message is she trying to
send her readers?
2. According to Anzaldua, how is language related to identity?
3. What does Anzaldua say is the way to “really hurt” her on page 59? How does this hurt her?
4. What are some of the different “languages” that you speak? Why are some regarded as
proper and formal and others as casual or inappropriate in some contexts?