Sociology

Integrate the feedback you have received from your faculty member on your previous family analysis papers submitted in Weeks 1 through 4. Combine your previous papers into a 3,500- to 4,200-word paper in which you synthesize what you have learned into a conclusion. Apply the concepts learned from your family history and genogram to a human service and/or counseling scenario. Discuss the following in your Final Family Analysis paper: An analysis of any special issues associated with your family In what kinds of applications would having the knowledge from the genogram be useful? How would this knowledge impact and direct treatment, as well as help you assess client services? A genogram can be a helpful visual tool to keep track of family members, the quality of relationships in each family, and assist a human service worker in determining the needs and services from which the family may benefit. Create a genogram for your family based on your analysis and using a genogram template/program. Use the Preferred Genogram Guide as an example. You may use Microsoft® Word®, Microsoft® Visio®, or another program of your choice to create your genogram. Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed sources. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Submit your assignment.

This assignment is the first step in a three part project. You only need to focus on part one at this point. Each step will build on earlier steps. However, it is not a matter of providing a rough draft of all or even part of the entire project here in week three. That is, further steps might require completely new and original text. At the same time, completing each step will aid you in completing a future step or future steps. And, you should use the same topic in all steps. First, select a topic of moral controversy, debate, disagreement, and dispute, Examples of such topics are euthanasia, the death penalty, abortion, cloning, etc. You can pick any such topic. It need not be listed here. Next, detail the positions of each side of the ethical debate. Note at least two moral reasons each side presents to show their view on the topic is correct. Now, we want to evaluate these positions using the moral theories we studied this week: What would an Ethical Egoist say about this topic? What side would the Ethical Egoist take? What would the Ethical Egoist say to justify their moral position? Is there a conflict between loyalty to self and to community relevant to your topic? If so, how so? Note what you feel is the best course of action. What would a Social Contract Ethicist say about this topic? What side would the Social Contract Ethicist take? What would the Social Contract Ethicist say to justify their moral position? Does your topic involve a collision between personal obligations and national ones? If so, how so? Note what you feel is the best course of action. Finally, reference and discuss any professional code of ethics relevant to your topic such as the AMA code for doctors, the ANA code for nurses, or any other pertinent professional code. State whether and how your chosen topic involves any conflicts between professional and familial duties. Cite the textbook and incorporate outside sources, including citations. Writing Requirements (APA format) Length: 3-4pages (not including title page or references page) 1-inch margins Double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font Title page References page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources in addition to the course textbook)

For your first essay, you will begin to think about how the social sciences can be used to address social problems. Read the instructions and guidelines below carefully and review the grading rubric before submitting your work. Instructions: Find a NEWS article that addresses a current social problem facing your community (local, national, or global) that you are concerned about. (A news article is an article from a media source like a newspaper or magazine such as the New York Times, FOX, The Washington Post, VICE, etc. that addresses a current event. It does not include sources like Wikipedia, eHow, dictionaries, academic journals, or other information websites.) Write a minimum 300-word essay that answers the following questions: Based on the article you chose, what is the social problem and who does it impact? How can the social sciences be used to research the issue? Name specific methods and disciplines from Chapter 1. What are some solutions you can think of to address the issue? Guidelines: Your essay should: be a total of 300 words or more.  o The 300-word limit DOES NOT include the questions, names, titles, and references. It also does not include meaningless filler statements have factual information from the textbook and/or appropriate articles and websites. be original work and will be checked for plagiarism.  You will receive a zero if substantial portions of your work are taken from other sources without proper citation have references and citations for your sources, including the textbook Cite your sources in-text and provide references for each source according to the APA Style Guide. FYI web addresses or links are not full references! Essays are automatically submitted to SafeAssign. Watch the video – SafeAssign for Students – Blackboard Learn Any work that SafeAssign identifies as having more than a 10% rate of plagiarism after quoted material and small matches (10 words or less) are excluded will not be read and will receive a grade of F (No points). All essays must be written using Microsoft Office applications such as Word. Work that is not submitted through the assigned dropbox or that is submitted using software that is not compatible with Safe Assign (SafeAssign accepts files in .doc, .docx, .docm, .ppt, .pptx, .odt, .txt, .rtf, .pdf, and .html file formats only) will not be read and will receive a grade of zero. Submitting a paper that was already submitted by the student to another professor and/or course is also considered an act of academic dishonesty. Students who are found doing this will also receive an F (no points) for this assignment. Students must write a different new essay or paper for every class they take.

PART 1 After reading the class notes and the first reading, please address both of these questions in the DB On page, 2, Professor Yuang says,  “One way to think about culture is, people act on certain norms without thinking about those norms every day.” ? In what ways do you think this statement is true? Can you think of an example that confirms this statement? What about an example that counters this statement? (Try to think of examples from NYC and/or the US context? Toward the end of the article, the authors discuss what long-lasting changes    they think COVID-19 will have on culture ? What do you think will be the long-lasting changes right here in NYC?  You may think about changes to material culture, non-material culture, norms, values, rituals, etc. PART 2 After reading the Reading in Unit Two Folder in Course Materials, “Body Rituals Among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner, please answer the following questions by MONDAY, 9/14 : 1. How would you characterize the Nacirema? 2. What cultural norm did you find the most interesting?  Why? PLEASE MAKE SURE TO LABEL PART ONE AND PART 2 THIS IS A question and answer not a essay. number and match each answer and question.

Please read these articles:  https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/time-for-child-welfare-system-to-stop-confusing-poverty-with-neglect/40222 racial_disproportionality.pdf   Then answer the following questions: 1. How does poverty impact child welfare placements? 2.  Why do Black and Brown people disproportionately come into contact with child welfare? Please read carefully the articles, no outside resources, just one page

What is globalization?  What are the views of the proponents and critics of globalization?  What is your view of globalization?

THERE IS NO RELIGION WITHOUT ETHICS, AND FOR MANY PEOPLE, THERE IS NO ETHICS WITHOUT RELIGION. Please do some general research on religious principles. Religious principles are the basics upon which a religion is founded. The Christian Ten Commandments’ “Thou shalt not kill” is a religious principle, as is the Five Pillars of Islam’s Shahadah. There are many, many more sets of religious principles across history. You can start with Google, but you should end up narrowing your search in our online library. Think about this as you browse: What commonalities do you notice between most or all sets of religious principles? What do scholars say about connections between them? When something stands out as unique among religious principles, why is that? Take notes—both for informational and for citations. After you’ve gotten the lay of the land, please choose and summarize, simply and in your own words, one religious principle that you see occurring in most or all of the religions you’ve researched. This principle may be worded differently in different religions, but its core meaning will be universal. Why do you think that this principle is so important to human interaction that it has been codified many times, across many centuries and cultures? This paper will have the following in this order. A one-paragraph introduction with a one-sentence thesis laying out the paper’s guiding idea and the main points supporting it (the main points occur in items 2 and 3, below). Two body paragraphs, one per religion, that explain your chosen religious principle as it shows up in two religions of your choice. These paragraphs should have in-text citations for all quotes, paraphrases, and outside information that you use as support for your explanation. A third body paragraph (the fourth paragraph including the introduction) that explores why you think this principle is so important to human interaction that it is one of the basics of these two different religions. A conclusion that reflects upon your thesis and how you’ve supported it.  You should use quality sources from our library as support. Wikipedia, “About” sites, and the like are for getting a quick (and sometimes unreliable) picture of a topic, not for citing in college-level papers. Do not use big chunks of outside information to share someone else’s argument; rather, reflect on well-chosen nuggets of outside information that define, clarify, and support your argument.  This paper should be in APA format. It should be two to three pages long with in-text citations as needed and a bibliography.

In the video lecture on the End of the Vedas, I discuss some key philosophical ideals that emerge from the Upanashadic tradition including the following: atman/Self; Brahman, dukha, knowledge/Self-realization; dukha, samsara, karma, and reincarnation.  You’ve been assigned to read three of the Upanishads for this week–the Katha Upanishad, the Mundaka Upanishad and the Chandogya Upanishad. Your group assignment this week is to read these with a critical eye looking for examples of the concepts listed above and answer the following questions: What are the three “boons” that Nachiketa asks of Death in the Katha Upanishad? According to the Katha Upanishad, how does one achieve Self-Realization?  How is the Self described in the Katha Upanishad? Explain allegory of the chariot that Death offers Nachiketa in the Katha Upanishad? According to the Mundaka Upanishad, what are the two kinds of knowledge? How does the Mundaka Upanisahd say one gains knowledge of the Self? According to the Mundaka Upanishad, what keeps us in sorrow and suffering and how can we free ourselves from suffering? What is the creation story that Uppalaka tells his son in the Chandogya Upanishad? What is the lesson that Uppalaka teaches his son by having him mix salt in water? Video lecture:  https://www.youtube.com/watch v=OAOSDk2g8NM&feature=youtu.be other article:  http://veda.wikidot.com/mundaka-upanishad-eknath http://veda.wikidot.com/katha-upanishad-eknath

The second Exploration Activity is a summary of your interview with an individual from a different ethnic background than yourself (non-Jewish). Again use the ADDRESSING model and the questions below to conduct your interview. Provide a summary of what you learned about the person in the interview.  Discuss insights you gained about this person and yourself. Identify any challenges you had relating to the person.  Refer to what you learned about your own world view in the first activity and contrast it with the world view and experiences of this individual.   If you were this person’s counselor what obstacles would you need to overcome to provide culturally competent counseling?  See syllabus for grading rubric Questions for self -exploration and interview: 1. When you were born, what were the social expectations for a person of your identity? 2. When you were a teenager, what were the norms, values, and gender roles supported within your family,  peers,  culture, and in the dominant culture? 3. How your view of the world shaped by the social movements of your teenage years? 4. When you were a young adult, what educational and occupational opportunities were available to you? And now? 5. What generational roles make up your core identity (e.g., auntie, father, adult child, grandparent)? 6. What experiences have you had related to racism and/or sexism? 7. Tell me about experiences you have had with discrimination. 8. Do you see yourself as being in position of power or privilege? In what ways? 9.Have you ever felt oppressed? Please give an example. 10. What impact do you believe that racism, discrimination sexism, power, privilege and oppression have had on your life and your career?

A rite of passage is an event that marks a person’s progress from one status to another. It is a universal phenomenon which can show anthropologists what social hierarchies, values and beliefs are important in specific cultures. Rites of passage are often ceremonies surrounding events such as other milestones are considered important rites of passage for persons of their respective religions.s within puberty, coming of age, marriage and death. Initiation ceremonies such as baptism, confirmation and bar or bat Mitzva I would like you to write and describe an event that you have gone through that has changed your perception of yourself, your perception by those around you, and any new roles, expectations that came along with your Rite of Passage. How has this passage changed how you interact with others? How has it changed who you interact with? Please use concepts and terms from the text to better explain your experiences. For example; you may describe when you had your first child and the new roles that came with being a mother or father. You may describe when you got married, graduated from high school, got your driver’s license, etc.