Sociology

please check the file The goal of the project is to have you research a movie of your choice (cannot be a film shown in class), describe (5) sociological concepts integrated within the film, explain key scenes that highlight the sociological concepts you are describing, explain this film’s impact on the socialization process of its viewers, explain the film’s impact on the American social structure.

This assignment is worth 25 points (25% of your grade). Answer the below questions in complete sentences and in paragraph form. You do not need an intro, body, and conclusion. Dive right into answering the questions. The keys to an “A”: use chapters 11 and 12, the lecture notes for modules 6 and 7, and all relevant assigned readings in modules 6 and 7 to answer the questions. Use sociological theory in every answer, define all aspects of sociological concepts used in the question (don’t assume I know anything about sociology). Your exam is due December 14th Discuss the differences between biological theories and the social construction of gender. Use the textbook and Judith Lorber’s article to discuss and provide 2 examples (one for biological theories and one for the social construction of gender). Define feminism. In addition, choose 3 myths of feminism to discuss in your answer.   In terms of racial inequalities, what are deficiency theories? How do you still see deficiency theories supported in U.S society? Provide one example.  Critique deficiency theories and your example of how they are supported in present day U.S society. (hint: part of the critique should use structural discrimination theories) What are structural discrimination theories? How do they relate to the article “Racial Formation and the State. Use 2 examples from the article in your analysis. Compare the following articles “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” to “Defining Racism: Can We Talk?”. McIntosh discusses 2 forms of racism. What are they? Tatum expands on McIntosh’s discussion of the 2 forms. How does she do so? (Hint: expansion includes the discussion of prejudice and the isms)

Write a paper (1,000-1,250 words) that discusses the following questions through your research and analysis on the effect of the rule of law and ethics on the economy of the selected country. Support your claims using scholarly sources with in-text citations and references. ·         Using the selected country, research the influence of colonization on that country and explain how that influence has affected the country’s current legal system. ·         Describe the current legal system. Is it a civil law code, a common law code, a religious law code, or a combination of the law codes? What is the correlation between the current rule of law and the propensity of entrepreneurship? ·         If you are an entrepreneur in the selected country, explain the specific steps you would use to perform a market screening and environmental analysis for a product/service that meets a need in the country. ·         Evaluate at least three international market entry methods for the selected product/service in the selected country. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each method? ·         Taking into consideration the cultural, societal, and religious values, provide examples of effective and ineffective advertisement practices you would implement to introduce an emerging/sustainable technology into the selected country. Explain your reasoning. ·         Recommend at least three legal compliance approaches that should be used by companies conducting international business in the selected country. ·         Provide three key recommendations to consider in regard to ethics and social responsibility in your selected country (e.g., intellectual property, competition, corruption).

What is a God? What are the attributes of a god? –       Do miracles exist and do they prove there is a god? –       Are there any arguments for the existence of a god? –       Do religious experiences prove there is a god? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-arguments-god/#Bib https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religious-experience/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924985/ I have provided the links above to use for this assignment

Self Evaluation Letter Write a direct address to your writing professor in the upcoming semester(s).  Describe your writing to them, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses, and discuss the areas where you need the most improvement.  Explain your writing process so that they can get an understanding of how you have taken a paper from inception to completion.  Your future professor should have a clear understanding of your current state as a writer and your ideas for getting better.  You may draft this letter in any form (I’d suggest modeling a business or personal letter template).  Generally, students who do well on this assignment have at least 2 pages of double spaced writing.    Reading and Research: What do you need to do to better your critical reading skills?  Do you skim a work to assess its overall meaning and purpose?  Do you look up unknown vocabulary as you read?  Do you make notes with observations or questions about what you are reading?  Do you understand close reading as opposed to reading for general comprehension?  Do you understand various types or genres of writing and how this impacts your reading?   Do you have a process in place for finding and using outside source material in your own writing?   When researching, do you keep track of your sources that you might use for your own writing?   Writing Process: What are my greatest strengths and weaknesses as a writer?  (Be specific!) Describe your pre-writing strategies (before you start an actual draft).  Consider the following elements:               –understanding purpose, audience, stance, form of writing, and voice              –freewriting, looping, and/or generating ideas              –Developing that parts of a thesis               –using an outline and planning organization Describe your revision process.  Consider the following elements and what you utilize, don’t utilize, and how you can get stronger:             –Utilize the Writing Center/Tutoring/Find outside readers               –Read out loud             –Read Backwards (sentence by sentence)             –Cut passive/redundant language               –Check your topic sentences individually               –Find general language and make it more specific              –Do additional research to add important elements or clarification             –Edit on the computer and with paper copy             –Match your formatting (Review MLA format in book or on OWL Purdue MLA website)               –Review the assignment sheet/rubric to make sure you have the required elements             –Re-imagine your paper and examine overall purpose and audience for your work             –Review each paragraph as an individual unit

SHORT ANSWER 1 chapter 13 gender  Using no more than 300 words. When trying to understanding the development of sex and/or gender, the textbook mentions a few ways (theories) in which to understand how this element develops within the child.  Identify one of the perspectives and explain how using that frame work helps to understand how sex and gender develop.  Be sure to cite appropriately.

Select two of the four question sets and craft answers to the questions. Then write a one paragraph summary of the other two work. Give a heading for each paragraph or answer set with the title of the work, copy the question and add your responses. “Parallel Lives”    In his introductory article, Canter Brown, Jr. describes the “hard racial barrier” that divided the lives that blacks and whites lived “through the 1950s.” In Bill Maxwell’s essay in “Parallel Lives,” he describes himself as an “angry young man,” for whom “stepping out of ‘place’ could be lethal.” Consider the hard racial barrier that existed between blacks and whites during these times.  How could one “step out of place” during the 1950s and early 1960s?  Can one “step out of place” in 2016?  If so, what are the similarities and the differences between stepping out of place during the 1950s/early 1960s and stepping out of place today? What “small indignities” and “brutal encounters” did Maxwell suffer, and what was his response to these? If these things happened to you today, how would you respond?  Was the way you would respond even possible in the 1950s and 60s?  Why or why not? Who “cooled” Maxwell’s “growing hatred of white people”? How was this cooling accomplished?  Do you think that Maxwell is still angry at the way he was treated in his youth?  Should he be?  Beverly Coyle describes herself as “illiterate” concerning the “Whites Only” and “Coloreds Only” signs above water fountains. She writes, “We all looked at those signs without reading them.  Black presence in our lives was so minimal that incidents of racial conflict did not exist in my young perspective.”  How often do you cross paths with people who are racially or culturally different from you?  How and why do your paths cross?  How much do you understand about the lives and experiences of those who are racially or culturally different from you?  Can you see racial or cultural conflicts from an “other’s” point of view? How can you better understand the “other’s” point of view? Towards the end of her essay, Coyle describes the plot of In Troubled Waters, her novel “in which black and white characters struggle to know each other across a divide that still exists.” Do you think a racial divide still exists?    Do you experience a divide in which you struggle to know someone who is racially or culturally different from you?  If so, describe your struggle.    James Baldwin, “A Letter to My Nephew”     Baldwin writes this letter to his nephew in 1963, on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.  The letter was published in The Progressive magazine and later is adapted for his collection of essays, The Fire Next Time.  Who is his audience for this essay beyond his nephew?  And why write it on the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation?  How had the world changed (or not) from 1863 to 1963 and how has it changed (or not) from 1963 to today? He states later in the letter that his nephew is fifteen years old.  What is the significance of this age to Baldwin’s message? What does it tell you about the nature of the letter when Baldwin says, “I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times”?  Why would writing this letter be so difficult? How does he describe his brother, his nephew’s father?  What happened to him?  What are these “tears he sheds invisibly today? What does James Baldwin mean when he says: “One can be–indeed, one must strive to become–tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been best at since we have heard of war; remember, I said most of mankind, but it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime”? In paragraph four, Baldwin tells his nephew that he is “writing this letter to you, to try to tell you something about how to handle them, for most of them do not yet really know that you exist. … [they] don’t know that she exists, either, though she has been working for them all their lives.”  Who is “them,” and what does Baldwin mean when he says, “[they] don’t know that she exists, either, though she has been working for them all their lives”? Follow the use of the word “innocent” in this essay. Underline or highlight it every time you see it. How is it used for rhetorical effect?  What is Baldwin‘s dispute with his “innocent country”? Baldwin gives his nephew several pieces of advice. Choose one piece of advice he gives and explain why it is important for his nephew to follow. What does Baldwin mean when he says, “Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger”?  In danger of what? How much of what James Baldwin said about America is still true today?  Please find an example to support your response.   Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to My Son” Coates wrote this letter to his 15-year-old son in 2015.  The letter was published in The Atlantic magazine and later adapted for his prize winning book, Between the World and Me.  The work takes its inspiration from Baldwin’s letter to his nephew and book The Fire Next Time.  That inspiration is visible in the inscription Coates chose to start his essay: “And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. — James Baldwin”.  What similarities do you find between Coates’ letter and Baldwin’s?  In what ways are Coates’ letter different from Baldwin’s? Who is Coates’ audience for this essay beyond his son?  What is the need for a publication like this in 2016?  Is this “the fire next time”? The title of Coates’s book comes from a poem by Richard Wright that recounts a lynching (. Think about how the title relates to Coates’s argument and then read the poem.  Why might Coates have chosen this name for his book? What understanding can we gain by reading these texts side-by-side? David French writes in The National Review a response to Coates in the form of a letter to his African American daughter.  Again, who is the author’s audience beyond his daughter?  What is the significance of addressing his letter to an African American daughter?  What similarities do you find between these three letters?  In what ways are the letters different?   Angie Thomas, “The Hate You Give” As Starr and Khalil listen to Tupac, Khalil explains what Tupac said “Thug Life” meant. Discuss the meaning of the term “Thug Life” as an acronym and why the author might have chosen part of this at the title of the book. In what ways do you see this is society today?  Chapter 2 begins with Starr flashing back to two talks her parents had with her when she was young. One was about sex (“the usual birds and bees”). The second was about what precautions to take when encountering a police officer (Chapter 2, p.20). Have you had a similar conversation about what to do when stopped with the police? Reflect upon or imagine this conversation. Why did we care about Khalil when the encounter with the police officer occurs? What subtle but powerful writing tools did Thomas use to completely round out Khalil’s character by the time o

FINAL MAJOR PRESENTATION – Fall 2020 INTRODUCATION TO ETHICS ETHICAL DISCERNMENT TEMPLATE Find a major news story of 2020 that reflects “The moral of the story”. Create an Ethical Discernment using the following outline. I.      Identify the Central Questions within the News Story – clearly and succinctly articulate the issues. What individual and societal ethical issues/considerations does it raise? How does this story potentially impact the individual/society in the short and long term? Is this an appropriate time to address this issue? II.   Who is affected by this story and the situation? Who has proper authority to address this situation? Who is most directly affected by the moral decisions made? III. Identify the relevant facts of this story or situation. What laws seem to have been broken? Who was harmed directly and indirectly? Is there a greater good to be protected? IV.   Identify salient values and moral concerns. Address key principles like Human Dignity, the Common Good, Justice. What are the values that are clearly in place or violated? V.      IS THERE ANOTHER WAY? Once you have made your own ethical decision, ask yourself – is there an alternative decision I could or should have made? This is your major paper and final exam in one. It is due on December 12, 2020 by 5:00pm. I will grade your paper and send you feedback. You can begin working on it when-ever and submit it when you have it finished. If you would like to work on this early and submit early I would be grateful Remember this is 35% of your grade so make sure you follow the instructions completely and add the ethical principles as you did for the movie The Doctor.  I must have all papers by December 12th which is why I am opening this now so you have plenty of time. Let me give you some examples of stories to write about. The Ethical Issues related to Black Lives Matter Protests are very good as is the Story of George Floyd. The ethical issues related to COVID and the Development of a COVID 19 Vaccine are also appropriate as are the issues related to the ethics of this National Election. You may have some local stories related to Criminal Justice and Healthcare and you are free to use these as well. But you need to make sure you create an Ethical Discernment and not an Op Ed Piece related solely to your opinion of the stories and issues. I will have the SafeAssign key on so I will know how much of your paper is not your own but was lifted from medial and news articles. Some references will be very appropriate since you have to had the facts to analyze with the Key Ethical Principles. This paper is similar to your Midterm in what is required so pay attention to that fact that I want to see how you name, analyze and apply the Key Ethical Principles. If this part is missing it will reflect on my feedback and your grade. Please call me or email me with any questions you have and I suggest you start working on this paper now – October 20th…. until December. I am a news media junkie so I pretty much follow everything that is out there in the news. Key Ethical Principles   Principle of Beneficence – traditionally understood as the “first principle” of morality, the dictum “do good and avoid evil” lends some moral content to this principle.  Principle of the Common Good – in general, the common good consists of all the conditions of society and the goods secured by those conditions, which allow individuals to achieve human and spiritual flourishing. Principle of Distributive Justice – considered as one type of justice, distributive justice is a central concept in the Catholic tradition and is closely linked to the concepts of human dignity, the common good, and equality. (The issues in Indiana and Arkansas with the Religious Freedom Laws is an excellent example) Principle of Double Effect – an action that is good in itself that has two effects –an intended and otherwise not reasonably attained good effect, and an unintended yet foreseen evil  effect. Here we ask the question “does the end justify the means?” Principle of Formal and Material Cooperation – we cooperate with others in the world in order to achieve or preserve important goods, or in order to diminish or avoid evils and harm. (The talks with Iran about Nuclear Power is a great example) Principle of Human Dignity – the intrinsic worth that inheres to every human being – in Catholic Ethics this comes from the teaching that “we are all born in the image and likeness of God” Principle of Informed Consent – it is the right and responsibility of every competent individual to advance his or her own welfare. This right and responsibility is exercised by freely and voluntarily consenting or refusing any form of medical treatment or intervention. Principle of Integrity and Totality – these principles dictate that the well-being of the whole person must be taken into account in deciding about any therapeutic intervention or use of technology. Principle of Proportionality and Disproportionate Means – often used synonymously with the terms “ordinary/extraordinary means” or “burden and benefit” since the three sets of terms can be used interchangeably. Here we ask the questions is whatever means is being used – will it provide an extreme burden to the person – body, mind or spirit – or will it provide a better outcome to the person to achieve a better quality of life than is currently being lived. Principle of Religious Freedom – all persons have a right to religious freedom, which has its foundation in human dignity. This principle implies that competent individuals should never be forced to act in a manner that goes against his/her religious beliefs.  Think about the situation in the Middle East with the ISIS group and those they kidnap. Principle of Autonomy –this is the capacity for self-determination by each and every human being who enjoys the capacity of decision making. Principle of Respect for Persons – all individual human beings are presumed to be free and responsible persons and should be treated as such in proportion to their ability in the each circumstance.  (The stories of the Civil Rights movement reflect this principle vividly) Principle of Stewardship –requires us to appreciate the two great gifts that a wise and loving God has given: the earth with all its natural resources, and our own human nature with all the intrinsic resources understood in supernatural law. It requires humans to give of their time, talents and treasures to protect that which belongs to individuals and all of society. Principle of Subsidiarity – often considered a corollary of the principle of the common good – subsidiarity required those in positions of authority to recognize that individuals have a right to participate in decision making that effects them and that decisions should be made closest to those most involved in the decision.

A core theme of our freshman seminar has been the meaning of social justice in relationship to an ethical vision of self and society and the role of education in personal and social change. Select three (3) or more readings from the First- Year Reader and compare their arguments for creating a more just, free, and sustainable world. Finally, what does the concept of social justice mean to you? How does it relate to the ideas about ethics, personal responsibility, community engagement and a commitment to diversity and the common good? Based upon the readings, what do you think are the effective methods for positive social change? Your essay should be four (4) to six (6) pages, double spaced, with one (1) inch margins. Your essay should be based on selections from the First-Year Reader. Therefore, citations need not be formal, but should include the author and page number. Plagiarism is not acceptable and will guarantee failure for the assignment. In any case, you should be proud of your own ideas, voice, and hard work.

Instructions:  Please answer the question below.  Be sure to answer each part of each question.  Also, be sure to use the major concepts of the course, explain them carefully, and apply them as needed.  Do not assume that your grader has prior knowledge—i.e., make all your arguments clear and transparent. Use direct quotes from class materials VERY sparingly, if at all.  Do not let quotes do the writing for you.  If you use a quote, you must explain its meaning first in your own words.  You must also use proper citation formatting, which includes putting the statement in quotations and ending with a parenthetical citation.  As an example, “sdlksjdflkjsdlklkj” (Green 23). You may use any written materials, notes, and readings to construct your response.  You may not use the Internet. Question: Use the example of the individual who opts for sex reassignment surgery to discuss the ways in which these individuals may subvert the binary sex/gender system. First, explain the elements of the binary sex and gender system and then make your argument.