Sociology

Final Project Some broad topics that you may wish to investigate: Are we Morally Free or are things Determined? Can humanity live peacefully? The Basis of Ethics: Reason or Emotion? What is the source of morality? How does understanding ourselves help us to live morally with others? Is the intention more important or the consequence of action? Does Religion provide a moral basis? Is Altruism possible? Does friendship play a part in our morality? Does “knowing” constitute ethical obligation?Some particular topics that you may wish to look at Bio-Medical: Abortion, Access to Health Care, Cloning, Euthanasia, Informed Consent, Palliative Care, Reproductive Technologies Business: Affirmative Action, Child Labor, Employer Obligations, Employee Rights, Job Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Whistle-Blowing, Working Conditions Political: Affirmative Action, Capital Punishment, Civil Disobedience, Equality, Human Rights, Racism, Sexism, Social Justice, Taxation, Terrorism, War Environmental: Animal Consumption, Animal Research, Air Pollution, Water Pollution These are just a few of the many topics that you may wish to consider for the paper. Remember to notify me about your topic if you change it from what it was in your rough draft. Requirements 1. 1200-1500 words in an MS Word document. 2. Choose a standard style of formatting, either APA, MLA, or Turabian, and stay with it throughout 3. Works Cited page–remember to include at least two references (this does not include Wikipedia) 4. Follow the usual standards as well 5. For the final project you must use two ethical perspectives you learned in the course in your approach to your chosen topic (Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Siddhartha Gautama, Epictetus, Dilemmas, Altruism, Egoism, Universalism, Relativism, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Bentham Utilitarianism, Mill Utilitarianism, Kant/Deontology, Human Rights, Existentialism, Feminist Ethics, Divine Command, Agape Ethics, Ethics of Non-Violence, Ethics of Mysticism) .  You may employ them to show where you think they are correct or where they are incorrect, you may contrast them or show how both agree on a point.  How you utilize these two perspectives is up to you.   Suggestions 1. Present a introduction that tells the reader what you will do. 2. Divide up the body of the work into comprehensible parts. 3. Don’t be afraid to use headings that act as a “signpost” telling the reader where you are going. 4. Avoid tendentiousness; you do not have to show that your position has all the answers and that the opposition has none. Be aware that there is probably at least one good argument from the “other side.” How will you deal with this? 5. Provide a summing-up conclusion that tells the reader what you learned or what insights you gained. Advice 1.  Remember that this is an Ethics paper from beginning to end.  If you present a report that offers information then at the end you conclude in a paragraph whether you think it is right or wrong or unknown, then that is another kind of paper.  2.  You have studied various philosophers and philosophies the past four months, so one way to tackle this paper is to take one or two of the views you admired and contrast it with another.  In any case, when you provide another look at the issue you should include a view you learned.

: The number of homeschooled children has increased dramatically over the past decade. According to the National Home Education Research Institute, there are currently more than two million homeschooled students in the United States, and the numbers are growing at a rate of 5–12% each year (NHERI.org). Why do you think that the homeschool movement is growing so rapidly? Should parents who choose to homeschool (or send their children to private school) have to pay taxes toward public education? Explain.

The critical reflection will be a response to Useem’s 2015 Atlantic piece on “Why It Pays to Be a Jerk”. Reflect on the article and respond to the following prompt in a five-page paper. Reflection prompt: 1) Present a summary of Useem’s key ideas (1.5-2 pages). 2) Discuss why you agree or disagree with those ideas (2.5-3.5 pages). 3) Useem presents a framework for how we should interact with others in order to reach our goals. Present your unique view on whether ethics and morals should be incorporated into this framework, and if so, how (1 page). Paper Format: double-spaced, one-inch margins, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman, APA format for citations and bibliography page.

Make sure you read through the PPT on Power & Leadership.Think about a boss (or even teacher if you have not worked yet) you have had and discuss the following the parts of his/her/their leadership:1) What kind of power did the person have and why?2) What theory of leadership do you think the person fell under and why?3) What leadership style did the person have and why?

The primary goal of this 5-page essay is to bring two sources into conversation with one another: Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Cultural Baggae” and Elyas Mulu Kiros’s “Why Should One Be Proud of One’s Identity or Country?”    – I have just really over extended myself and I’m really desperate and usually im not the type of person to do this. Between work and my other classes I have just run out of time could someone please help me! – –      (I have written this little piece if it helps at all)When it comes to having pride in one’s country or ethnic heritage, Kiro argues not only how important it is but also how challenging it can be. According to kiro, “wherever there is pride, there is prejudice.” Pride can boost confidence and bring people together. However, excessive pride in one’s self can result in ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is when someone’s ethnic background and beliefs cause judgement or slandering toward someone else’s. Ethnic pride requires a neutral standpoint and a willingness to respect other people’s beliefs, however, it cannot be avoided, it is simply part of who we are. Barbra Ehrenrich, who discusses this topic thoroughly throughout her essay, argues that ethnicity has eluded her all of her life and feels ethnic traditions and pride are nothing more than cultural baggage. She uses examples from her life of how to show that none of those things have helped her throughout her life. Her philosophy is,“ think for yourself,” her most important value is having your own identity.

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).

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

What characterizes the Mcjobs? EXplain with examples the pattern of Mcjobs you observe and/or experience in everyday social life. Apply the relevant sociological concepts in your analysis. 6-9 sentences.

-Listen very attentively to the introduction and presentation made by Ms Bourquin. -You may need to listen to certain passages several times, so leave plenty of time to do this. -You don’t need to listen to the second presentation (Tom Waters) -Then write a review of the general introduction and the presentation made by Ms Pascale Bourquin. Guidelines for the review: Introduction: organization (Institute for Fiscal Studies): what is it? What do they do? Author(s) and title of the presentations included, date of the event etc.. Context: what is the context? How is it relevant? Why did the organizer(s) choose to do a webinar on this topic? (new event? Regular update? Other?) Summary of presentation 1 (by Ms Bourquin): summarize the contents as accurately and precisely as possible, making sure to explain any important terms or concepts related to poverty and inequality measurements; also explain for instance what is the median; what is a percentile analysis. Make sure to summarize what the graphs presented show (for greater clarity give them numbers if you like: Graph 1, Graph 2 etc.); Commentary: How is the presentation organized? What are the main sections or parts? Is it easy to follow