Sociology

In your own words, describe oppression and give 10 examples of negative –isms. For each –ism, describe who is oppressed by that –ism, and give an example of how it is displayed. For example, racism may be displayed by a black person and a white person committing the exact same crime and having the same past criminal history, but the black person receives a harsher sentence. Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

What is the wedding industrial complex? What purpose does it have in society? According to your text, what factors affect a couple’s decisions to cohabitate or marry?

How important were official Americanization and Mexicanization efforts from both governments relative to informal cultural influences in shaping the emerging Mexican American community in Los Angeles? Explain your position. Also, to what degree did negative social limits, such as segregation or repatriation efforts shape Mexican American identity formation? Do you consider the story of Mexican American Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century more of a triumph or tragedy? Explain your position.   This paper should be four pages in length, not including the cover page. You may have a cover page, but it is not required. You must have a title for your essay. In addition, the essay should contain an introduction with a clear thesis statement. As you may have noticed in the question, I am asking you to use the chapters from this book to make an argument about the complex formation of Mexican American culture and identity. That is, how did ethnic Mexicans view themselves, and how did they participate in the larger society around them? Do not merely restate what I have already stated in the prompt, that these formations were not linear or unidirectional. You must show how and why, and make an argument for what you think were the most powerful forces affecting Mexican American community development. Were they political forces or cultural forces?

For each of the following questions, compose a thorough response drawing on the readings covered in the course as well as your own knowledge of methodology and criminology. In order to provide a complete answer, your response for each question should be at LEAST one paragraph (6-7 sentences). Longer submissions are welcome if appropriate and substantive. Each question is worth 1 point.   1. Choose a topic that interests you. Write a problem statement, purpose statement (using Creswell and Poth’s script in Chapter 6) central question and two or three sub-questions.   2. You are working for a community development organization in a city with high rates of unemployment, poverty, high school attrition, and juvenile delinquency. Your organization wants to begin an afternoon computer-training program for young people. Explain how descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, and evaluation research can all be used to help start and later maintain this program.   3. Consider the Milgram obedience studies and the Stanford prison simulation study. Discuss some of the ethical concerns regarding the treatment of participants in both studies. Do you think the benefits of the knowledge that was gained from these experiments outweighed the risks to the participants?   4. Discuss the importance of maintaining confidentiality. What can be done by all researchers to protect the confidentiality of subjects and what can researchers who focus on high-risk populations do to protect themselves?   5. List and describe 3-4 writing strategies as proposed by Creswell (2014). Explain how you can use these elements to write your final paper for this course.   6. What are the similarities and differences among the five approaches in qualitative research?   7. What are the observation roles available to a field researcher? List and describe each role. Assume you were interested in studying social protest and movements in the US. Which of the observer roles would you choose to study Black Lives Matter occurring across the US and why?   8. Crime has been decreasing in most U.S. cities for the last decade. However, crime remains a critical issue in politics, in the media, and in explanations for why middle-class people do not want to live in the cities. Explain this situation by referring to all four errors in everyday reasoning. Propose different sources of errors in everyday reasoning that might account for continued concern about crime even in the face of evidence of declining crime rates.   9. According to Pont (2008), describe some of the ethical issues surrounding research that involves incarcerated persons. In the era of COVID-19, do you see their being greater concerns for this population? Explain why or why not.   10. Among the five research approaches, which approach would you be hypothetically interested in using as a researcher? Provide insights as to the definition, one example of a topic you would study and why?

Jake, a college junior, is 6 feet tall and weighs 175 pounds. He has been lifting weights since he was a college freshman. Although he has gotten significantly stronger over the last 2 years, he decided he wants to have more muscle definition. He read (mainly on the Internet) a lot about nutrition and resistance training, especially about the role of protein and muscle growth, and decided to take a protein supplement to get bigger muscles and more definition. He has been taking the supplement for about 3 weeks. It consists of a whey protein powder, which he mixes with either water or milk. It contains about 60 grams of protein per serving, and he has 2 protein drinks per day. His breakfasts consist of a protein shake; for lunch, he has a sandwich with extra meat and a small salad with fat-free dressing. He consumes another shake around 4 p.m. and isn’t hungry again until about 7 p.m. Yesterday for dinner, he ate 2 chicken breasts with ½ cup of rice, a small salad with fat-free dressing, and an iced tea. Unfortunately, this past week he noticed that during his lifting he was tired and could not lift as much weight as the week before. Today while lifting, he started to feel fatigued 20 minutes into the training session. He is not sure why he can’t finish his workout and thinks maybe he should eat more protein. What role does protein have in resistance exercise? What is causing him to be so fatigued that he cannot finish his workout? Should he consume more protein?

Students should be able to identify and describe various marriage types or relationships as well as explain the benefits and disadvantages of each type. This assignment will help you learn these skills. In an essay (1,000 to 1,500 words), answer to the following prompts: Identify six marriage types or similar relationships. Include traditional and nontraditional forms of marriage or similar relationships.  For each marriage type you identify, name the marriage type and describe the key components. Next, for each marriage type, explain the advantages and disadvantages.   Cite one to three scholarly sources from the GCU library for each marriage type you describe. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Discuss Plan for Development Using your discoveries, describe how you plan to develop these abilities which are important to you as you move from the real to the ideal. Include each of the sub-sections below, and remember to focus on specific ability development – not general self-improvement. Where possible, be as specific as possible. Discuss day-to-day strategies and behaviors that you will engage in to move closer to the ideal. Explore and list possibilities for incorporating current and future SMAC’s that you will do in other courses into this overall plan. Look at the future course descriptions and start to plan possible projects or aspects of projects that would be conducive to developing certain abilities. List specific behaviors that you could engage in within an SMA framework. Discuss how you will draw on resources outside of the program to improve your abilities. While the rigors of working and completing a Master’s degree are time consuming, there are still many opportunities to pursue other interests. Note that all files must be in pdf or microsoft word format. All submissions must follow APA style guidelines. Rubric Development working in Healthcare, management position. Will download current abilities and what to want to develop in the future  nts 5.0 pts Significant writing issues present

Religious Change and Continuity  1.What common Christian elements do you find in these sources? What differences in the expression of Christianity can you define? 2.The Catholic Christian tradition as it developed in Latin America, China, and India as well as Europe assigned a very important role to representations of the Virgin Mary.  In what ways does the image of the Holy Mother differ in these sources? In what ways were those images adapted to the distinctive cultures in which they were created? 3.Syncretism is the blending of religious or cultural elements. From a missionary viewpoint, develop arguments for and against religious syncretism using these sources as points of reference. What would be the benefits or drawbacks?

Option 4:  Many politicians, religious leaders, and traditional individuals are bemoaning how easy it is to get a divorce. Several states are trying to make it harder for couples to obtain a divorce by requiring a mandatory waiting period and a consultation with a counselor before a divorce can be granted. Do you think making stricter laws will help reduce divorce rates? Is that the best way to reduce divorce? What might be some alternative methods? Questions to answer: A. Is divorce a social problem? B. How does divorce affect individual families and society as a whole? C. Considering the well-being of both adults and children, is it better to stay in an unhappy marriage or is it better to divorce? D. Why do 95% of all American adults get married if divorce rate is so high? E. What social structures contribute to divorce?

Read Chapter 8 of Anthropology: What Does It Mean to Be Human?   Overview: Culture is the key concept unifying the sub-disciplines of anthropology. The culture concept helps anthropologists challenge notions of biological determinism. As you will see, you and all other human beings acquire culture—patterns of learned behavior and ideas—as a member of your own society. Material artifacts and structures created and used by humans help shape your acquisition of culture, and your culture builds on the heritage of earlier generations. As you will learn, no other living organism relies on culture as much as human beings do, and culture is our principle means of navigating the world. We will also explore the methods used by cultural anthropologists, primarily fieldwork and participant-observation, to understand culture.   Points to Consider: According to Ivan Karp, on p. 239, “reading ethnographies trains us to question the received wisdom of our society and makes us receptive to change.” Do you agree with this statement? Are we to believe then that ethnographies are inherently good? How do classical ethnographies problematize Karp’s point of view? Given what you have read in the text thus far, what are some of the pros and cons of doing ethnographic research? Is ethnographic research objective? How might this kind of research affect the researched group’s perspective of themselves? Is this a significant concern?   In-Class/or ZOOM Exercise 8: Culture Shock Students list the last time that they experienced the feeling of not belonging because they were in a cultural setting different from their own. Discuss specifically what factors made them feel out of place: sights, smells, other people, sound, and so forth.   Discussion Questions 8: On Chapter 8 of Anthropology: What Does It Mean to Be Human? Are all cultures equal, no matter how different they are, or are some cultures simply superior to other cultures? If all members follow and cherish a cultural tradition, but outsiders object to the practices associated with that tradition, should the culture be forced to stop their ancient practices? Should genital cutting be allowed, if it is an accepted cultural practice by the members of a society? Do people have a complete right to images associated with their culture, such as design on a T-shirt or tattoo? Watch Videos & Movies Before Class: 2008   Doing Anthropology. MIT Anthropology Department.