Sociology

Reflect on both the classic and contemporary theories on the self and consider elements of your “self” in terms of your everyday life. How can you apply elements of Mead, Simmel, Goffman, Foucault, Butler, and Giddens to your life?

12 pt. font, times new roman, APA Format 1. Introduction The introduction will serve to introduce the topic and idea to your audience (i.e. me). In this case, you need to construct an introduction that motivates an interest in the topic as well as introduces the basic necessities of understanding to your reader. To that end, your introduction should focus primarily on your issue of interest (the pay gap, for example). Make sure there is a clear thesis of what your overall paper is as well as the research question you’re attempting to answer. It should give some insight into the components that underlie that issue 2. Literature Review The literature review serves to fine tune your point further and helps you to focus on where you are most specifically interested, namely the key independent variable(s) that you think influence the problem you are trying to understand. You need to work through your idea here about what you identify as happening. This works to take what you’re interested in and give insight into how it’s complex. So, make sure your literature review discusses what influences what you’re interested, with special focus on the primary independent variable you’re focused on. For example, say you were interested in the voting behaviors of people. Your literature review would note what influences people to vote and why. So, you’d most likely have some discussion of how and why race influences voter preference, as well as some discussion of some things like gender, income, etc. That way your reader understands the complexity of the issue, but keep in mind your major focus. 3. Hypotheses/Expectations These should clearly articulate what you are expecting to see in terms of your key independent variable(s) influencing your dependent variable, or at least the what you expect to see. For example: at this point I’d make the claim of what I expect to see in my own data as it flows from the literature review I just did. Note that these need to make sense with the literature you just reviewed! These are logically deduced from what you’ve read. 4. Proposed Methodology and Data Collection Strategy In this section, you will need to discuss the method and sampling approach that is best suited for what you want to do. Discuss the method in detail, with a major focus on its strengths and why it is well suited for what you’re trying to do. Basically, the why is the most important. For this you’ll be pulling from the readings and lectures in terms of defining and substantiating your approach. You’re not collecting the data, you’re saying that you will collect the data. Additionally, make sure that you discuss which sampling approach is best suited for obtaining your respondents and why you think it is well suited. Again, this should be discussed in detail. 5. Conclusion The conclusion reiterates your main research question and the points you’re expecting to address and why. Highlight how your research fits within and is useful for the broader area you’re arguing for. Additionally, note what you can’t address in this project but make sure you present how this gets us moving forward and basis for understanding and pursuing future research 6. References In addition to using in-text citations, you must also have a references list. Use whichever citation method you want but it must be uniform!

10. Graded LP1.2 Assignment: Walking Meditation Instructions Meditation is a process of focusing on something. With a walking meditation, one goes outside to walk among the trees or in a garden or in nature. Walk for 15 minutes not thinking about anything but what you see in the beauty of nature, paying special attention to everything with your senses. What do you hear, see, touch, feel, taste? In essay form (introduction, body and conclusion) answer the following questions when you have completed the Walking Meditation: Describe what the experience of “not thinking” was like for you. What were you aware of outside? What do you feel when you are out in nature? Did you learn any lessons or anything about yourself while you were walking? What is mindfulness and how does it increase personal and environmental awareness? Why might a holistic approach like this be effective in a multicultural context?

In 500 – 750 words, write a paper in essay format (introduction, body, and conclusion) that describes the Anglo worldview in dominant Canadian society and explain how it differs from that of Asian and Latino cultures. Describe how cultural scripts (values, behaviours, beliefs) may affect helping-relationships. Explain what sort of challenges might exist in working with Asian, Indo, and Latino-Canadians and Describe intervention strategies that could be used. Submit this assignment in a Word document in APA format to your instructor via the dropbox. This assignment is worth 30 marks.

Select 5 topics related to social change from the course.  You will be writing a blog-post style essay for each of those 5 topics.  Guidelines: Browse the “There’s Research On That!” blog to get a sense of how TROT posts are written. They usually start with a summary of a current event, then provide sociological ideas relevant to the matter at the hand. The author highlights one to four key ideas from the research and includes citations for each source with hyperlinks to the authors’ website and the publication information. Choose 5 recent news events or pop culture trends related to social change to analyze. Ask yourself, “What would sociologists have to say about this that the rest of the media may be missing?” Make a list of a few possible themes to investigate about each topic, such as the impact of social construction, institutions, or networks. Search for literature on your themes using the online library. Select three to five pieces for each that speak to the themes or provide broader information about the topic. Evaluate the research. Read the methodology sections of any journal articles, or find reviews of the books published in academic journals. Do you find the conclusion(s) convincing, based on the evidence provided? Is the methodology high quality? Which pieces provide the best takeaways for a general reader? Once you’ve considered the possible sources separately, consider how they will fit together in each essay. From your list, pick the best two or three pieces for each theme to include in your article. Write a TROT essay for each of the five topics in the style of the website. Remember the main components: a short summary of the news, including links to media coverage so the reader can see what’s already been written; key takeaways you identified in the sociological literature; and citations of the research. Be prepared to discuss your essays in the forum for Week 8.  Each essay should be 2 pages in length, for a total of 10+ pages for the assignment.

Chapter 3 & 4 Motivation is the inward drive we have to get what we need. In the mid-1900s, Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, developed the hierarchy of needs shown in Figure 3.4. 1. Select two advertisements and describe the needs identified by Abraham Maslow that each ad addresses. 2. Analyze the advertisement using the concepts of marketing and consumer segmentation, and discuss how it aligns to the organization’s mission. 3. Find an international version of an advertisement for one of the products. 4. What differences do you detect in the international version of the ad? How did the underlying aspects of marketing and psychology utilized in the advertisement change? Note: Please review my expectations for the assignment. I expect your response to include 2 or more references from the APUS Library system (failure to include such references will detract from your grade on the assignment), and be presented in APA Format. Deliverable length is a minimum of 2 body pages

In at least 1,000 words (excluding title page, abstract (optional) and reference page), research retirement in the United States. In your paper discuss the retirement age of 65. Where did this age come from? Does this age still work? Are more people working past the age of 65? Is retirement as stress free as it is portrayed in the media or is it dependent on other factors such as financial security, capacity, etc.? Remember to avoid the use of first person. Paper must be in IWG formatting and have at least three references. You must use SHARC (ProQuest, PubMed, Google Scholar) for your research. Cite and reference both sources of information.         To access ProQuest through SHARC:             username: 0W3THVQJGM              password: welcome

How do neoliberalism and global economic restructuring impact negatively on the most vulnerable people globally? Drawing on The True Cost, Corinne L. Mason’s “Transnational Feminism” and STITCH and the Maquila Solidarity Network “Women Behind the Labels: Worker Testimonies from Central America”, explain how global economic restructuring impacts women globally. What social changes can you suggest to economically improve the lives of women in Canada and globally? – Use sources mentioned in the question to answer the question.

Case Study: to Explore SBCC interventions in low to middle income countries and summarize the program interventions as an illustrative case study.

Each of the scholars explored this week understood the confines of understanding our social world was limited to dominant scholarship. Explore these ideas in relation to how Thomas Kuhn defines a paradigm change. Offer a contemporary example from an interdisciplinary perspective on how paradigm changes impact our understanding.