Category: Sociology

What other rights accrue from having the right to vote? Would you be willing to “put your body on the line” and risk jail, or being beaten, or perhaps dying to ensure the right of minorities to vote?

If you are from another country, explain in your answers in terms of how the voting system in your homeland compares to the United States?

What Would You Do if You Were NOT Allowed to Vote?
Does the right to vote matter? explain your answer in detail. (25 words or more with a separate word count)

What other rights accrue from having the right to vote? explain your answer in detail. (25 words or more with a separate word count)
Have You Been Disenfranchised?

Explain your answer in detail. (25 words or more with a separate word count)

Where would you find accurate information about this issue? (25 words or more with a separate word count)
How Much Voting Fraud Is There?

Explain your answer in detail. (25 words or more with a separate word count)

Where would you find accurate information about this issue? (25 words or more with a separate word count)

What Is the Timeline for Voter Suppression among Minorities in the US?

Where would you find accurate information about this issue? (25 words or more with a separate word count)

Should any US government entity (Federal, State, Regional, County, City) prevent people from legitimately voting in the US?

Explain your answer in detail. (25 words or more with a separate word count)

People Have DIED in order to Secure the Right to Vote for Minorities in the US. Many people died for merely registering or trying to register minorities to vote.

If you couldn’t vote just because of your minority status, what would you do to gain the right as a citizen to vote? (25 words or more with a separate word count)

Would you be willing to “put your body on the line” and risk jail, or being beaten, or perhaps dying to ensure the right of minorities to vote? (25 words or more with a separate word count)

https://www.nytimes.com/article/mail-in-vote-fraud-ballot.html (Links to an external site.)

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud (Links to an external site.)

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/heritage-explains/voter-fraud (Links to an external site.)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/montana-vote-by-mail-ruling-trump-campaign-lawsuit/index.html (Links to an external site.)

https://electionlab.mit.edu/research/voter-identification (Links to an external site.)

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx (Links to an external site.)

https://www.findlaw.com/voting/how-do-i-protect-my-right-to-vote-/voter-suppression-and-voter-id-laws.html?DCMP=google:ppc:K-FLPortal:10313486553:103002902536&HBX_PK=&sid=9027743&source=google~ppc (Links to an external site.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/23/there-are-850-164-year-old-voters-in-new-york-city-and-other-quirks-of-the-voter-registration-process/ (Links to an external site.)

https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/ (Links to an external site.)

Voter Suppression/Voter Intimidation:

https://www.vox.com/videos/2020/9/30/21495386/digital-voter-suppression-russian-social-media (Links to an external site.)

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-warns-voters-about-election-crimes-ahead-of-the-november-2020-election (Links to an external site.)

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/13/912519039/a-look-at-voter-suppression-tactics-ahead-of-the-election (Links to an external site.)

https://www.ft.com/content/fb1f8bc8-864b-45a1-91c5-8643e07a31dc (Links to an external site.)

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/04/texas-republicans-vote-by-mail/ (Links to an external site.)

https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/09/28/trump-campaign-black-voters-data-facebook-election-2016.html (Links to an external site.)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-voter-suppression-us-civil-war-today/story?id=72248473 (Links to an external site.)

https://www.riggedthefilm.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_NX7BRA1EiwA2dpg0g1lOO5QwyOsQ6tgB3w5k2FyfHy71NPo2qHnXk44tV_sjIFvRgSvHhoCQSwQAvD_BwE (Links to an external site.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/when-women-got-the-right-to-vote-american-voting-rights-timeline-2018-10 (Links to an external site.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/10/01/more-than-2-million-people-have-already-voted-in-the-election/#4cd0a878bb49 (Links to an external site.)

https://www.theroot.com/tag/voting (Links to an external site.)

https://naacp.org/coronavirus/voter-access-and-participation-during-coronavirus-pandemic/ (Links to an external site.)

https://www.justice.gov/crt/history-federal-voting-rights-laws (Links to an external site.)

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918766323/trumps-calls-for-poll-watchers-raises-fears-about-voter-intimidation (Links to an external site.)

What is the truth about COVID-19, as we know it when you are reading this?Do you believe the former president and his cohorts, or do you believe in science?

What is the truth about COVID-19, as we know it when you are reading this?

Find two or three videos or articles about this pandemic and briefly summarize them (35 words or more with a separate word count for each video or article.)

Tell me what is true and why. (35 words or more with a separate word count)

https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_a_global_pandemic_calls_for_global_solutions?language=en (Links to an external site.)

https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready?language=en (Links to an external site.)

Why people believe weird things | Michael Shermer (Links to an external site.)
Why people believe weird things | Michael Shermer

Why do we believe things that aren’t true? | Philip Fernbach | TEDxMileHigh (Links to an external site.)

Why do we believe things that aren’t true? | Philip Fernbach | TEDxMileHigh

Do you believe the former president and his cohorts, or do you believe in science?

Explain your answer (35 words or more with a separate word count).

https://www.ted.com/talks/alanna_shaikh_why_covid_19_is_hitting_us_now_and_how_to_prepare_for_the_next_outbreak?language=en (Links to an external site.)

What are the macro level of dependent and independent variables (concepts, terminologies, key terms, social meanings) in the article?

First-year students’ perspectives on intercultural learning

What are the macro level of dependent and independent variables (concepts, terminologies, key terms, social meanings) in the article?

How are these variables applied to macro vs. micro level of analyses ( social institutions (social structures), communities, social groups, organizations, social identities…) in the article?

How does the article link macro vs. micro connection (continuum) in global and a “big picture” level? Explain in detail.

What is the purpose of the article? Explain in detail.

What is the study area of the article? Explain in detail.

What is/are the research method(s) (survey, interview, experiment, participant observation, field research, existing resources) and formulas (quantitative data) in the article? How do authors collect data? Are the data valid and reliable? Explain in detail.

What type of data that article has (quantitative and/or qualitative)? Explain in detail?

What are the crucial findings of article that inspire new studies? Please explain in detail

Are they any gender roles, social classes, age, race and ethnicity issues mentioned in the article? (if not some of them, no worries, keep writing!)

What is the strong side of the article that you defend and support? Explain in detail.

What is the week side of the article that you have suggestions? Explain in detail.

What is the hypothesis of the article? Do the data meet the hypothesis? Is it valid and reliable? Explain in detail.

As an applied sociologist, when you analyze this article what will be “your and new” factual, comparative, developmental and theoretical questions for this research?

As an applied sociologist, please write the article’s findings based on three sociological perspectives; the structural functionalist (explain the manifest vs. latent functions in macro levels), social conflict (explain the reasons of social tension and social inequalities in macro levels)and symbolic interactional (explain social meanings in social interactions in micro levels) (Please create your own three types of sociological perspectives based on the article).

She tells you now is not a good time to visit the children. What would you do?

You go to a foster home and there are two children placed in the home. One child,
who is 4, is in the front yard when you arrive. The front door is shut. When you
knock on the door, the foster parent answers and it is obvious that she was asleep.
She tells you now is not a good time to visit the children. What would you do?

How feminist theory explains gender-based violence (also add how it might be limited/weak in explaining the issue). Include feminist strategies that would eliminate gender based violence.

A Feminist Approach to Understanding Pandemic Inequalities, Gender-Based Violence, and the Gender Wage Gap

How feminist theory explains pandemic inequalities (also add how it might be limited/weak in explaining the issue). Include feminist strategies that would reduce pandemic inequalities.

How feminist theory explains gender-based violence (also add how it might be limited/weak in explaining the issue). Include feminist strategies that would eliminate gender based violence.

How feminist theory explains gender wage gap (also add how it might be limited/weak in explaining the issue). Include feminist strategies that would reduce the wage gap.

(Possible weaknesses of feminist theory that u could include are ideas are too universally applied to all women, doesn’t consider class, race, etc., doesn’t consider intersectionality etc.)

How does this reading connect to cultural relativism and ethnocentrism?What are your thoughts on this demographic shift?

Reflecting a demographic shift, 109 U.S. counties have become majority nonwhite since 2000

Answer the following:

Have you seen signs of increasing diversity in your community (ex: school and neighborhood)
How does this reading connect to cultural relativism and ethnocentrism?
Using your sociological perspective, what do you think are the short-term and long-term effects of these demographic changes?
What are your thoughts on this demographic shift?
Think critically about this reading, be thorough in your answer, and clearly show you are making connections to the course material.

2-3 paragraphs