Sociology

For this assignment, you are one of the following victimologists: von Hentig, Mendelsohn, Schafer, Amir, or Wolfgang. You are to assume their persona and analyze a crime event drawn from the news media through your particular victimological lens.  Explain the theoretical perspective of your persona in detail – the main tenets of your theories, your research, and what it taught you about criminals and their victims (you will probably have to do some additional research beyond the textbook about your victimologist persona). Then learn all you can about the crime, the suspect, the victim, and the judicial outcome of the case if known. Post a minimum 750 word explanation of the event, the actions of the victim and suspect, and the overall circumstances, etc.  Analyze the case in terms of your theory, typology, and victimological viewpoint.  In other words, explain the event from the theoretical lens of the victimologist whose persona you are assuming.  Justify why your assessment of the event is more valid than alternative views.

Social Deviance Assignment 1 Deviance as Innovation in Music, Movies & Television In Robert Merton’s Strain Theory (Ch. 3), innovation is described as the first category of deviance. Innovation as deviance can go two routes – legal or illegal. Illegal innovation would be resorting to a life of drug dealing or organized crime as an alternate route to the success and the American Dream. Legal innovation is deviating from the norm, or the accepted means to achieve success, usually by way of entrepreneurism or pursuing art. In this way, we might consider people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, or Kanye West, innovators because each left the normal means to achieve success (finishing college, getting a job, working your up the corporate ladder, etc.) and followed a different route. For this assignment, I want you to consider legal innovation within the world of music, movies, and television. In the making of popular music, movies, and television there is definitely a norm in terms of how the final product should sound, look, or feel. However, some artists take risks and push the boundaries of those accepted/expected norms. Instructions: Choose a specific song, movie, or television show, that you think breaks with the typical norm within its genre (or subgenre). For example, you might choose a particular Hip Hop song that you think breaks the typical mold of what is expected for songs of its kind, in terms of instrumentation/beats or lyrics or theme. Or choose a movie or TV that has characters or ways of storytelling that defy the norm. Perhaps it simply discusses a topic that is taboo. If you select a song, you may also choose to discuss its music video. Your paper should include, in no particular order: 1. The name of the song, movie, or television show. Include any other information that might be relevant, such as the artist, director, actor, etc. 2. A description of the expected norm for this medium or genre. 3. A description of how the song/show/movie you chose innovates, and thus breaks with this norm. Be detailed and thorough, however try to avoid a complete description of the plot, lyrics, or video. 4. Your thoughts about the risks you think the artist took and whether those risks paid off. In other words, do you think this act of innovation affected the world in any way (e.g. the genre it belongs to, or the viewing/listening audience). Your paper should be approximately 2-3 full, typed pages (double-spaced, with 12pt. font and 1- inch margins). There will be no penalty for exceeding these requirements, but a paper less than 2 full pages will be penalized.

locate an Evidence-Based Practice Guideline, related to your topic  identified:Are women ages 25-40 who take oral contraceptives at greater risk for developing blood clots compared with women ages 25-40 who use IUDs for contraception over a 5 year time frame ?  Perform a rapid critical appraisal of the Evidence-Based Guideline by answering the following questions in APA format. All questions should be answered in detail and explanations offered according to guideline content when applicable.  Who were the guideline developers?  Were the developers of the guideline representative of key stakeholders in this specialty (inter-disciplinary)?  Who funded the guideline development?   Were any of the guideline developers funded researchers of the reviewed studies?  Did the team have a valid development strategy?  Was an explicit (how decisions were made), sensible, and impartial process used to identify, select, and combine evidence?  Did its developers carry out comprehensive, reproducible literature review within the past 12 months of its publication/revision?  Were all important options and outcomes considered?  Is each recommendation in the guideline tagged by the level/strength of evidence upon which it is based and linked to the scientific evidence?  Do the guidelines make explicit recommendations (reflecting value judgments about the outcomes)?  Has the guideline been subjected to peer review and testing?  Is the intent of use provided (i.e. national, regional, local)?  Are the recommendations clinically relevant?  Will the recommendations help me in caring for my patients?  Are the recommendations practical/feasible? Are resources (people and equipment) available?  Are the recommendations a major variation from current practice? Can the outcomes be measured through standard care?

Watch the following TedTalk video: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_how_equal_do_we_want_the_world_to_be_you_d_be_surprised?language=en What do you think?  What would the world be like?  Do you think we would be better of in a consistent equality?  Compare and contrast your level of thinking and your synopsis.  What sociological perspectives are you you coming from?  In 350 words or more respond and include your sociological perspective.

Create your detailed analysis plan using the appropriate statistical techniques for analyzing data on descriptive measures and outcome measures based on the methodology you proposed. Evaluate data analysis tests to select appropriate tests pertinent to the sampling methodology and program evaluation design. How will you answer your guiding research question (or questions)? Evaluate the research assumptions that guided your selection of methodology and data analysis. For example, to conduct paired t tests, you must have a minimum of 30 participants in your sample size. Describe any qualitative data you might collect and how you would analyze that data. Describe the alignment of your research question and/or hypothesis and your chosen program evaluation design.

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Experimental validity refers to the manner that variables influence the results of the research and the generalizability of the results to the population at large. The two types of validity that are relevant to experimental designs include internal validity and external validity. Instructions: Using a topic of interest to yourself, briefly describe a proposed research study you would like to conduct. Provide a detailed discussion regarding some of the potential threats that could occur to the internal validity of your study. Examine how these threats could reduce the validity of your study and possibly make the study invalid. What are some ways you could increase the internal validity? What is the importance of external validity for your study? Is internal validity or external validity more important for your study? What do you find most difficult about the idea of validity? What aspects of evaluating it or integrating it into research desin are the most challenging and why? What questions do you still have about experimental validity after this exercise?

Read this Article: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema here is the link: https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacirema.pdf What points about culture do you think the author is trying to make? What is your reaction to this culture? How would you respond to being placed in this culture?

Below, you will find an outline of what this paper should contain. Be sure to minimally answer all questions below. You will be submitting your paper on Turn-It-In which highlights the sources in your paper to ensure that no parts of your paper are plagiarized. If you click on the originality report in Turn-it-in, you will also be privy to this information. I strongly recommend that you look before you submit. If you find highlighted sections, be sure you do a better job of expressing the author’s idea in your own words. If you use one or two direct quotes, be sure that you place quotation marks around the passage and that you not only cite the author and the publication year but also the page number(s) on which you found the passage. If you do not have page numbers on a journal article then list the URL address of the website. Remember the References are different than the citations. Be sure you know the difference. In addition, Your final draft should be five to six pages long not counting the cover and reference pages and the abstract if you use one. . You should double-space and use APA formatting. You should use a minimum of  five to six journal articles and up to one book other than any of the textbooks – all within the past five years. Do not use Wikipedia or any other websites. Write an introduction to your paper. Define White privilege? Use social service related Peer-reviewed Journals such as the Journal of Human Service or the Journal of Counseling or Social Work to find this definition. How do you think it impacts human services agencies and supervision and hiring of staff? How do you think it impacts how you would supervise your staff? Summarize how the National Organization of Human Services Code of Ethics discusses cultural competence and diversity (go to the NOHS website to find this).  Think back when you first noticed that a person or a group of people who were different than you in terms of race/ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or religion. Describe the situation in one to two paragraphs. In what context did you see or meet the person or people? How old were you? At what level of education were you? What were some of your thoughts and feelings? What did you notice about him/her or them? How do you think what you have learned about the concept of White Privilege impacted your initial impressions? What impact did this event have on the way you look at the world or on your sense of inclusiveness or exclusiveness? How has your thinking evolved? How will this impact your supervision of people as you attempt to ensure you are being inclusive? In regard to how your awareness and thinking now impacts how you plan to supervise.

As you learned in this week’s readings, social structure sets the stage for social life to happen. We explored how bureaucracy is a coordinated set of tasks and procedures carried out by people who accede to formal authority, and we see that these structures strongly affect people’s personal lives. To fully explore your own experiences with bureaucracies, discuss two examples of these structures you have encountered in your personal life. What were the challenges you experienced in navigating these bureaucracies? Discuss any benefits you see to bureaucratization. How might sociologists leverage bureaucratic structures and processes for the betterment of humanity? Your initial posting should be 250-500 words