Potato Crisps Supply Chain

Choose a food item (anything that is edible and commonly eaten by humans) and follow the “chain of production” of that item.You will be taking this product from “seed to plate” and tell us how it is produced.You should tell us what goes into the production of this item and trace ALL of the ingredients to the original plant source.

the food I want you to do the presentation on is Potatoes.

Tackling Social Problems

PART II: Understand the Problems Answer 3 of 5

Instructions: Describe and explain the following social problems

1. Explain global warming and describe its consequences.

2. Describe the Interactionist perspective on environmentalism.

3. Describe the Conflict perspective on environmentalism and how it leads to environmental racism.

4. Describe the strategies for slowing population growth.

5. Describe the 5 stages of Demographic Transition and explain how births and deaths affect demographics. .

PART III: Face the Issues Answer 3 of 5

Instructions: Answer these thought questions with the intent of defending your answer.

1. Given the definition of pollution as what mankind is putting back into the Earth, what is the only way to bring about an end to pollution? How would this be achieved?

2. How could mankind destroy the earth?

3. Who should be in charge of setting the limits on conceptions? What problems are to be foreseen with this decision being made at this level?

Native American Material Culture

Pg 250

How do the meanings of museum collections of Native American material culture change depending on who is thinking about them? How would these meanings be different if the objects were historical artifacts from a white community in the National Museum of American History, another museum in the Smithsonian Institution?

Must be a page

Social Marketing of Water and Sanitation Products

You will build on what you have done from the previous article assignments by selecting an academic paper on your own and applying the skills from the previous article assignments. The goal of this assignment is to ensure your comfort with reading academic articles. You will essentially be mimicking what you have done on the previous article assignments, only this time on an article of your choosing and putting your responses on a word document.

Here are the steps for the assignment:

Step 1.

Select a peer reviewed article on the subject of sociology (or a sufficiently similar social science) using SDSU library resources. The type of article is up to you, but you must be able to answer the following questions with it. I would suggest a paper using quantitative methods given that’s what most of the past article assignments were geared towards.

If you are not clear on what a peer reviewed article constitutes, consult this link: http://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/c.php?g=288333&p=1… or this link: http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/pe…

For this assignment, you will need to download the ‘.pdf’ of the article. To find a peer-reviewed article and download it as a pdf,

Step 2.

State in your own words the following (take up to a few sentences for each response):

  1. The motivation for the paper
  2. The key findings of the paper

For your responses to these and the following questions, please us the full citation of the article, using the Chicago manual of style as is discussed in the syllabus.

Step 3.

Pick 4 of the following to respond to (take up to a few sentences for each response). These do not have to be in your own words:

  1. State the hypothesis (or Hypotheses)
  2. Identify the dependent variable (or variables)
  3. Identify the independent variables
  4. What is the unit of analysis
  5. What is the sampling frame for this study?
  6. What form of survey was given?

Theories of Demographic Transitions and Cohorts

In your answer, be sure to define all analytic concepts you need to use, use specific examples from the required readings, link the answer to the epochal periods, and apply Nobles’s framework.

  1. 1) Analyze demographic change over time, using theories of demographic transitions and cohorts.
  2. 2) Analyze exogenous and endogenous aspects of cultural change.

Health Maintenance Organizations

Write a paper to discuss changes with American families. You must relate changes as presented in the textbook to larger social context and large-scale social change as discussed in class to earn extra credit. 2-3PGS

 

Theory of Evolution in Hominins

Page 159:

Scholars are still working through the actual sequence of evolutionary changes in hominins that led to the development of bipedalism, large brains, social complexity, and tool-making abilities. Knowing what you now know about early hominins and how evolutionary processes work, can you theorize a possible sequence of evolutionary changes? (make sure you justify your answer)

I will send picture of the page in the book once the question is accepted. Should be at least one page

Enhancing Childhood Socialization

Choose one of the following:

Toys in a toy store

Children’s television programs

Children’s movies

Children’s books

Birth announcements/greeting cards for kids

Or choose something of your own that deals with socialization of children

Collect about 2 hours of data (so, one movie, or 4 episodes of a cartoon, or 4 short books, or spend 2 hours in the bookstore, etc) and analyze it. What messages about race, class, and gender are portrayed? Give specific examples. How does this affect our roles in society as adults?

the symbolic interactionist understanding of sex and gender

Reminder: Each essay response must be a minimum of a page in length. A page includes the following:top to the bottom, 12 font, double spaced.

Answer both

  • Explain the symbolic interactionist understanding of sex and gender.
  • Explain the two functionalist perspectives on gender stratification.

Does Everyone Have An Equal Opportunity

Analytic Essay: This essay should be analytic, thus answering a question by using course readings and/or outside sources. Citations are required. A minimum of 5 course readings must be cited.

Plagiarism: You are expected to write your responses in your own words. Do not copy anything from another source without the required citation.

Citations: Cite key published sources on which you base your answers. For example, give the author’s (or authors’) last name(s) and year of publication.

Format: Answer the examination question in 1300 words. Use the formatting style of your major (eg. APA). The formatting must be consistent throughout the entirety of the essay.

Answer Question:

  1. In America, does everyone have an equal opportunity at success? Cite readings on the criminal justice system, educational system, and health care system to support your answer.