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

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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.

counterculture

AT LEAST 750 WORDS FOR SOCIOLOGY 101

The Discussion Forums are designed to facilitate dialogue and discussion of ideas and concepts, to ask and answer questions and share experiences related to specific course materials.

Choose a deviant subculture/counterculture that interests you. Please present us with a different deviant sub/counterculture than examples from class. You cannot use the Transhumanist Movement or the medicalization/legalization of marijuana. You may provide a link if your group has an online presence. Why is your chosen group deviant? (i.e., behavioral, conditional, ascribed, public, etc). Are they a subculture or counterculture? Why? What types of norms do they violate? What sanctions might they experience? How might Labeling Theory and the concepts derived from this theory apply to your chosen deviant group? How might the relativist/social power perspective apply to your group? Do you see your deviant group moving into mainstream culture like the marijuana industry or the body/bio hacking movement? Remember, deviance is in the “eye of the beholder” and we are taking a sociological approach without judgment.

1) Break your Long Discussion Post into logical, flowing sections/paragraphs.

2) Bold the class terms/concepts you use.

4) Cite your outside source(s) at the end of your post in whatever format you like (e.g., APA, ASA, MLA, etc.)

You must include 1-2 (at least 1) outside credible source into your long post. Please see the videos on credible/academic source in the introduction materials. Sources may include CREDIBLE newspapers, magazines, websites or ACADEMIC books or articles.

Bullying in Schools Quantitative Research

For Part II of your final project, you will comprehensively evaluate an article of your choice that reports on a quantitative study. (Remember, a quantitative study uses numbers as data.) Locate an article in the professional literature that addresses a topic you are interested in. Remember to use the Area of Interest interactive (Links to an external site.) to guide you in the selection process. The article you select should describe a quantitative study and should have all or most of the expected sections, either with their own headings or embedded in the article: Introduction, Literature Review, Methods, Results, and Discussion.

In writing your evaluation of the article, you will use Section 5.7 in your text. Do not simply tell what is in the article, but evaluate it using the questions in your text. Explain and justify your evaluation based on specific examples from the article.

Your paper should be 2100-2800 words in length (not counting the title, abstract, and reference pages) and comprehensively evaluate an article of a quantitative study. Use proper APA formatting and good writing and organization in your evaluation paper.