Category: Sociology

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)

Pollution

Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solutions to the problem.

Write: This Final Paper, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.

In your paper,

Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.

Conclude with a statement that states your proposed solutions to the problem. (For guidance on how to construct a good introduction paragraph, review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the

Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.Show why this is a societal problem.

Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.

Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.

Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.

Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.

Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)

Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.
Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.

Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)
Develop a conclusion for the last paragraphs of the essay, starting with rephrasing your statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. (For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the  Writing Center (Links to an external site.).)

The Global Societal Problem, Argument, and Solution Paper

Must be 1,750 to 2,250 words in length (approximately between seven and nine pages; not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the  Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the  Writing Center resources.
Must use at least eight scholarly sources.

Source Document Requirements:

Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Library.

Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used.

Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, and so forth. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed solution within the argument.

Where documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used.

Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.

Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.

Religious texts must not be used.

The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types.

If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for an assignment.

The Integrating Research (Links to an external site.) tutorial will offer further assistance with including supporting information and reasoning.

Must document in APA style any information used from sources, as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.).

Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. References list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style. See the Formatting Your References List

Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.

Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.

Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.

Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.

Define Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Perspective including all five (5) levels of systems, making note of each of the systems as they are expressed in the film.

APPLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

View the film “The Boys of Baraka” The film is available on Vimeo at the link below:
https://vimeo.com/6948025 Choose two (2) of the main characters (among the “boys”).

1.Define Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Perspective including all five (5) levels of systems, making note of each of the systems as they are expressed in the film.

You can speak in generalities (i.e. – the microsystems for the boys include their caregivers), but make sure it is specific to the film.

2.Select 2 of the 4 main characters in the film.

3.Through either a multidimensional OR life cycle perspective, discuss how each system interacts with these characters to inform their functioning and development.

Compare and/or contrast the differences or similarities between the environmental factors of these two characters.

Use 3 sources from the attached list.

Additionally use 5 external sources from peer reviewed journals that are relevant. Total of 8 sources.

All sources must be quoted accurately, will look at the sources and check that they in fact say what the writer is saying that they say.

If they are not being quoted accurately, will ask for a revision until the sources are accurate.
Do not include a synopsis of the movie.

This is not a movie review. Only reference the movie as needed to directly to answer the prompts.

Include an Introduction and a Conclusion. Use headings to organize the paper.

Choose (1) of the four solutions and provide the reason why you choose the solution over the other three and provide supported literature.

Sociology

Description

-Provide pros and cons for the four solutions listed below to prevent burnout for child welfare case workers.

• lower high case loads

• bonus and incentives to keep workers

• more trainings

• more supervision with boss for feedback

-Identify barriers for each four solutions and how you would address those barriers.

-Last choose (1) of the four solutions and provide the reason why you choose the solution over the other three and provide supported literature.

Choose a topic. What is your chosen crime or violence issue? Choose from the following list and provide a brief preliminary overview. Your overview will simply be 1–2 sentences describing why this issue is important to you and to society in general.

. Choose a topic. What is your chosen crime or violence issue? Choose from the following list and provide a brief preliminary overview. Your overview will simply be 1–2 sentences describing why this issue is important to you and to society in general.
Decriminalization of responsible drug
use
Intervention on the issue of campus
rape

 

Prisons as mental health institutions

 

Militarization of police

 

Institutionalized racism in a chosen area
of the criminal justice system

 

Other issue (if approved by instructor)

The topic have chosen to research is the issue of prisons being used as mental institutions.

Ever since deinstitutionalization in the ’60s, which was well-intended but not properly followed through with, the rate of those incarcerated with severe mental illness has skyrocketed to where it was before asylums were utilized (St. John, 2016).

A majority of these offenders have co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. With the implementation of proper behavioral treatment programs, the
numbers of those incarcerated with severe mental illness and the rate of
reoffending can be significantly decreased.

This issue is important to me as am working with the goal of improving the prevention and treatment of personality disorders. It is important to society because this treatment
would reduce crime, substance use, and re-offending.

2. Introduce your social advocacy group. This is an advocacy group of your own creation. In other words, if you were to establish an advocacy group dedicated to the work of your issue, what does that advocacy group look like and what are its ultimate goals (e.g., public awareness, political action, social action, changing laws)?

Explain the work the group does related to the topic area.

Explain how the social issue aligns with the group’s ultimate goals.

The social advocacy group would establish would consist of forensic
psychologists and social workers who are dedicated to the rehabilitation of
offenders with severe mental illness and substance use disorders.

This group would also advocate for the early intervention of substance use and
mental health disorders.

The kind of work this group would do includes,

Generating public support about the issue and raising awareness
about what kind of treatment programs and prevention methods
there are.

Enacting policies that change how prisons treat the mental health
of their offenders.

Increasing the use of data and analytics to predict who is at risk of
offending and re-offending.

Providing prevention methods and treatment options for those at
risk.

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Choose two research articles that we either discussed during the classes, or that are relevant for your research, or that you simply find interesting. Critically discuss and compare, across the two articles:

Foundational and Advanced Perspectives in Qualitative Methods

DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

3000 word assignment, +/- 10% (excluding references)

Choose two research articles that we either discussed during the classes, or that are relevant for your research, or that you simply find interesting. Critically discuss and compare, across the two articles:

1. The paradigmatic foundations, OR the theoretical perspective, OR the interpretative stance (OR a combination of those, depending on how much details you can infer from the papers) that they adopt, reflecting upon the ontological and epistemological implications.

2. The strategy for data collection and analysis, and the sample strategies that they adopt.

3. The type of analysis they conduct

How to choose the research articles:

• Articles can be in any social science discipline (sociology, political science, anthropology, social statistics, etc…)

• Articles need to report the results of an empirical research project

• At least ONE article needs to report a qualitative research project

• Articles can be compared because (select one or more criteria):

1. They research the same topic, but with different methodologies (different qualitative methods, or one qualitative and one quantitative)

2. They research different topics, but with similar methodologies

3. They share the same theoretical framework (eg: phenomenology) but with different qualitative (or qual/quant) methodologies

4. They share the same interpretative stance (eg: feminism) but with different qualitative (or qual/quant) methodologies

The files that uploaded are from the 7 lectures (which may be of help for the essay), required reading that goes with each lecture and examples of past essays with a score of 80%

there is no limit to the number of sources that can be used

 Explain which theoretical perspective would be most useful in explaining the function of prisons in U.S. society today.

Perceptions of Deviance

This chapter will help you do the following:

Describe who is deviant and why.

Compare key ideas in the differential association, labeling, rational choice, structural-functional, and conflict perspectives on deviance.

Provide possible explanations for why the crime rate has fallen in recent years.

Describe types of organized crime and crime by organizations prevalent today.

Give examples of crimes committed at the national and global level today.

Explain which theoretical perspective would be most useful in explaining the function of prisons in U.S. society today.

Why do you feel our prison population is so high? Which populations are most represented in prisons and why?

Chap 13

By 2015, the federal and state inmate population in the United States was more than 1.4 million. Though the United States represents only 5 percent of the world’s population, the number of incarcerated people in the United States represents nearly 25 percent of the world’s prison population.

Do we imprison too many people? Why do you feel our prison population is so high? Which populations are most represented in prisons and why?

Why has the concept of a ‘sociological canon’ been criticised by feminist, critical race AND/OR postcolonial theorists? To what extent are these criticisms justified?

Modern Sociological Theories

Word limit: 4,000 – 5,000 words ( note that 5,000 words is the maximum word count – there is no 10% leeway margin)
Deadline: 18th January 2021

Choose ONE of the questions from the list below.

Ensure that you consult the assignment tips and guidance page posted on canvas and engage with the essay writing lecture (week 11).

1. Explain and critically assess the main features of Marx’s historical materialism

2. Critically assess Marx’s account of the alienating effects of capitalism and how it would be overcome under communism

3. Explain and critically assess Durkheim’s account of ‘social facts’, using his study of Suicide to illustrate your answer

4. Explain and critically assess Durkheim’s account of the transition from ‘mechanical’ to ‘organic’ solidarity

5. Explain and critically assess the merits of Weber’s contributions to sociological methodologies

6. Explain and critically assess the sociological significance of Weber’s concept of the ‘ideal-type’

7. What is the ‘iron cage’ of bureaucracy identified by Weber? How might it be resisted?

8. Outline the main contributions to sociology made by W. E. B. Du Bois and critically assess his frequent absence from the sociological canon

9. Critically assess the contemporary relevance of ONE or TWO of the theorists studied during the module. To what extent can their works be used to understand contemporary societies?

10. Why has the concept of a ‘sociological canon’ been criticised by feminist, critical race AND/OR postcolonial theorists? To what extent are these criticisms justified?

11. How and why has the concept of ‘the social’ presented by the ‘founding fathers’ of Sociology (Marx, Weber, Durkheim) been criticised by feminist scholars?

12. To what extent – if any – does symbolic interactionism explain how individuals might change shared norms?

13. Explain and critically assess Goffman’s arguments about power and agency being a skilled performance

14. What, according to Adorno, is the impact of the culture industry on the political life of late-capitalist society?

15. Compare and contrast the evaluations of popular culture made by the Frankfurt School and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

What do you think of attachment theory? Some have suggested it has to do with the types of significant others we seek. Do you think this is so? Cite articles in your reply to support your opinion.

Human Sexuality-Counseling

Reply and cite sources in response to the following questions. Do not re-write the question in the response.

1. Sexual coercion is sex (including harassment) against a person’s will. Comment on a cultural perspective of sex from your worldview. Are we a sexually violent society in the USA? Cite research in your reply.

2. Module 3 on behavioral perspectives has information regarding sexual habits and preferences. Come up with a potential topic a client or student may bring up with you (or a friend if you’re not going to be a counselor) and discuss how you would address the issue. Remember to reference a minimum of 3 of the articles for full credit.

3. What do you think of attachment theory? Some have suggested it has to do with the types of significant others we seek. Do you think this is so? Cite articles in your reply to support your opinion.

4. Ambwani seems to suggest that love is complicated and that love for ourselves is reflected in our expectations of others. Comment on this. Is this so?

(reference for #4— Ambwani, S, & Strauss, J. (2006). Love thyself before loving others? A qualitative and quantitative analysis of gender differences in body image and romantic love. Sex Roles, 56, 13-21)