Category: Sociology

Assignment Content
In what ways are we still a patriarchal society? Write about some ways in which you have experienced gender stratification in your own life?

Reaction paper is base solely on your opinion . This teacher just want your opinion how you feel about it 🙂 I need 5 sources . Here are the videos we saw in class room and talked about include what gather from https://www.learner.org/series/discovering-psychology/constructing-social-reality/
Steven Hassan on the Power of Cults and the Myths Surrounding Them
Mental Health Counselor and Cult Expert Steven Hassan addresses the factors that enable cults to gain and control the minds of followers.
My definition of a cult is a pyramid-structured, authoritarian group or relationship where deception, recruitment, and mind control are used to keep people dependent and obedient. A cult can be a very small group or it can contain a whole country. The emphasis of mind control is what I call the BITE model: the control of behavior, information, thoughts, and emotions.
Popular opinion looks at cults and blames the victims. One of the myths about destructive cults is that its members are weak or stupid, or that they come from a bad family. But in my 23 years of cult counseling, most of the people I’ve worked with are intelligent, educated, idealistic, ambitious, and caught at a vulnerable moment in their lives.
Another myth is that cults have gone away, when in fact cult mind control is on the rise. One reason for this increase is that advances in technology make information widely available and easy to spread. We have mass media and the Internet. We also have the phenomenon of second- and third-generation mind control cults. That’s when someone gets recruited into a group, leaves it, doesn’t get counseling, and then later has a “revelation” and ends up starting a cult.
Cults are also on the rise because people are under more stress, we’re more sleep-deprived, and our society has less confidence in government and religious institutions. Combine all those factors and I would say people are more susceptible to someone who comes along who’s very confident and loving — and offers answers.
There is this perception that cults are religious, but religious cults are just one type of cult. There are political cults, therapy cults, business cults, and even family group systems that act like a mind-control cult. Essentially, people are not allowed to be themselves as unique individuals in a mind-control group.
Any traumatic experience or rough period in life can make a person more vulnerable to a cult, but the greatest vulnerability is a lack of understanding about how destructive cults operate.
https://www.learner.org/series/ethics-in-america/under-orders-under-fire-part-ii/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-life/202101/becoming-more-ethical

Content and Format
This exam covers material from Modules 4-7 and is worth 25% of your final grade. Topics addressed include:
The goals of criminal law
The concept of justice and how our society seeks to achieve justice
The policies of criminal law and criminal punishment
The role of police, courts, and corrections in achieving justice
Examples of policy changes in criminal justice that seek justice
Questions on the exam will be in essay format. These questions will be similar to what you have seen in discussion posts and reflective journals but will require more information and formal writing. 
Using your notes, textbook, and peer-reviewed journal articles, answer ONE of the following questions in ESSAY format. Your response is worth 100 points.
You are REQUIRED to use the textbook as your main source for answering all of the questions below, but you are allowed to use additional sources. You should NOT cite Moodle information; you should cite the textbook instead. 
Content is worth 70 points  
Formatting is worth 10 points 
Proper use of internal and end citations is worth 20 points.
To receive full credit, you must:
Have a header at the top left of your paper with your name, the course title, Essay Title (brief description of which question you are answering) and Final Essay
Your paper should be formatted with 1″ margins, 12 point, Times New Roman font, and double spaced. 
You should answer all parts of the question fully. 
Each essay response should be at least 500 words 
You should use multiple paragraphs in your essay to delineate differing topics within your response. 
You do not need to repeat the question. 
The references should be listed at the end of your response on a separate page titled References.
You should use in-text citations in the body of your essay indicating ANY and ALL information coming from a source (whether it is paraphrasing or a direct quote) and each citation should have an accompanying full citation on your References page at the end of your assessment (which will begin on a new page).
The entirety of your final assessment should be in one Word or PDF document. Turnitin does not accept Word Online, Google docs, or Pages. If you submit your paper in a format that cannot be opened in Turnitin, your paper will not be graded and you will receive a zero for this assignment.
Preparation
To prepare for your exam, review the chapter readings and assignments in modules 4-7. Your essay should reflect the knowledge you have gained in the course through your readings and assignments in these modules. Therefore your essay should be grounded in the course material and not merely reflect your personal opinions and/or beliefs.
In addition, please review the American Sociological Association (ASA) style guide for citations and references. Your essays should contain references to the textbook and any other additional sources used to gather information for your essay responses. Please reference and cite the textbook and any reputable outside sources using ASA format. A failure to cite your responses will result in a “zero” for this essay and you will be reported to SAA for plagiarism. Remember, it must be clear what information was used from each source. 
Also, AI is not allowed at any time in academic writing. If your essays are flagged for AI usage, you will be referred to SAA for Academic Misconduct.
What is justice? How can we, as a society, achieve justice from an idealists’ perspective and from a pragmatists’ perspective? Which do you believe to be the most likely to occur in the US criminal justice system? (CO2, CO3) (500 words)

Task summary:
Using the provided information, please compile a research on the given topic.
Full order description:
Dear Freelancer,please writeNo specific sources necessary, just needs to be about the people temple (only that cult).
MAIN DETAILS:
What part does a specific cult (pick one cult) play in the overall culture?The cult: Peoples Templewrite a 3-page research paper about The People Temple cult and answer the question above.The rubric will be linked.

In Week Seven we are exploring global inequality, race, and ethnicity. After reading Chapters 10 & 11 of your course text, and watching the assigned videos, complete and submit the following.
Discussion Post Instructions:
Define prejudice and discrimination. Provide specific examples of their use in history outside of the U.S. and in present day.
Differentiate between race and ethnicity.
If you could conduct a sociological research study on race and ethnicity, what would your topic be and why?

In lesson 9, we learned about Garfinkel’s breaching experiments as part of ethnomethodology. Now you will complete your own. Review the article Making Something out of Nothing: Breaching Everyday Life by Standing Still in a Public Place. Using this as a model, create your own mini breaching experiment and write it up as a research paper using the article as a guide for both content and form. 
Remember that as sociology students, our breaching experiments should have extremely mild repercussions. No one should be harmed emotionally, psychologically, or physically, and no laws should be broken.
For ideas, check out Breaching Experiment: Definition & Examples-https://study.com/academy/lesson/breaching-experiment-definition-examples.html
Your paper should contain the following sections:
Introduction (1 page)
Theory (1 page)
Description of Breaching Experiment in detail (2
pages)
Analysis (2 pages)
Conclusion (.5 pages)
References (1 page)
Your paper should be double-spaced and 6 written pages, not counting references. You should use between 5 and 7 references, 5 of which should be readings from class. Make sure to cite readings using the Chicago Manual of Style.
1.    Introduction. 
In the introduction, the topic being analyzed should be presented in a succinct and efficient manner. State the purpose of your essay and explain how you will be achieving that purpose. In sociological writing, there are no surprises. State what the main point/finding of your analysis is.
2.    Theoretical Framework (about 2 pages)
This section is nothing more than a summary of the theory and the theoretical concepts you will be using to both conduct your breaching experiment and then analyze it. You will need to create a framework building on the introduction to which you can link the rest of your paper. Do not limit yourself to Garfinkel, but use other symbolic interactionists and any other theorists who may shed light on either the process or your analysis. Theory from Lessons 8 through 13 should be used.
3.    Description of the Breaching Experiment
In detail. The details are where the heart of a breaching experiment lies.
4.    Analysis
There should be 3 separate threads within this section of the paper. The first thread is the theory you set up in the theoretical framework. The second is the breaching experiment you conducted, and the third is the analysis of the breaching experiment, where you tie the theory and your experiment together and discuss what happened and why. Remember you are analyzing your experiment. I will specifically look for evidence that you are using the theory to both setup and analyze your experiment. 
For these to be visible, you must cite the appropriate readings from class. The way this should look is state the thing you are talking about from your experiment, then state the theory you are using and cite the theorist, then explain what the relation between the two is. This last part is you and your analysis. How can you show the reader how we can use these theoretical pieces to understand or analyze the experimental event?
5.    Conclusion
Tell me, the reader, what you have done and seen in your paper. What has the reader learned, and the big “so what”? Just like in the intro, tell the reader what sociological concepts have been addressed and how.
6.    References
Use the Chicago Manual of Style (posted on Blackboard) or the American Sociological Association style. On a separate page.
How to write?
My writing philosophy is shaped by my training in public policy. I was taught in college to write to the point: say what you need to say as clearly as possible so that the reader understands, nothing more, nothing less. I often say writing is about re-writing. At its best, writing is thought made perfect. Don’t be afraid to say something of your own. Take a stand! Share your spicy take! Students often write in a vague way, as if they fear making a point (perhaps the wrong point) or saying the wrong thing. And they err towards saying nothing, which is the worst mistake to make. Remember, I want to read your thoughts. And it always helps if you make it fun for me to read!
My writing style is developed from the classic “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk, Jr. Earlier editions were co-written with E.B. White, the author of “Charlotte’s Web”. This is a web link to the 2011 edition of “The Elements” available on Project Gutenberg. I cannot recommend it enough. Good writing makes you stand out. Good writers are made, not born, and one only becomes a good writer by writing. This isn’t assigned to read but you’ll be better for it if you do.
As I grade your work throughout the course I will write more notes here on writing tips/guidance:
No contractions are allowed in formal writing. The following and anything like them should be written out. Can’t, I’d, Don’t, Won’t, Couldn’t, Wouldn’t, Didn’t, Weren’t, Wasn’t, Isn’t , etc.
As a rule of thumb each paragraph should have 1 to 2 citations minimum. Paragraphs consist of at least 3 sentences but are not generally an entire page long. Make sure to break the text up to flow naturally for the reader.
USE THE SITES BELOW FOR THE ESSAY
https://www.thoughtco.com/symbolic-interaction-theory-p2-3026645
https://www.everythingsociology.com/2014/03/socialization-george-herbert-meads-self.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life-3026754
https://www.thoughtco.com/goffmans-front-stage-and-back-stage-behavior-4087971
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718227789/all-the-worlds-a-stage-including-the-doctor-s-office

Ethnomethodology Theory: Definition & Examples

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026120940616

Task summary:
Imagine you are a new social worker at a school serving students in a suburban community. Your supervisor has tasked you with developing a group for students experiencing mental health challenges. Respond to the prompts for your initial post
Full order description:
Dear Freelancer,please complete the task
MAIN DETAILS:
Respond to the prompts below for your initial post:What is the age group of the participants in your group?Identify the mental health challenge your school-based group will address.List 3 objectives of your group. How many sessions will the group meet?
How will you recruit students to participate?How will you engage families? What would be important for them to know about their student’s participation in your group?
Additional information: Include any other pertinent information that you would like to share about your group.
300 words

Write a 6-8 page paper in which you summarize, review, and analyze the information you have found about a specific topic.
Frame a research question about the topic.
Define the concepts inherent in the topic.
Students will then explore the topic using credible and non-credible resources, and be able to describe the differences in quality of information.
Students must then also be able to explain what an appropriate, systematic method would be to get answers, or research, the research question.
Your final paper should be between 6-8 pages of text and, in addition, a cover sheet formatted in accordance with APA 7th edition style, and a reference page with references formatted in APA 7th edition style.
The final paper should be both a review of literature about your topic and an explanation of how your research question would propose to elaborate on this topic.
Do not forget to discuss the credibility (or not) of your sources!
How should this assignment be done?
This paper requires that you have collected, read, and reviewed the following sources:
5 newspaper articles
5 websites
5 peer reviewed articles from scholarly databases.
Please note this is the minimum required number of sources.
This brief literature review assignment will be graded in accordance with the rubric that accompanies this assignment:

Midterm 2, Question 1 (on Durkheim from Chapter 4)
Compare and contrast Spencer’s and Durkheim’s theories of social change and the problems of integration. How can they be integrated?
Midterm 2, Question 2 (on Weber from Chapter 5)
Compare and contrast Marx and Weber on the origins of capitalism. Can these theories be reconciled in any way? Do you think one is more correct than the other? Why or why not?

Please see attached directions and the topic of the week powerpoints to select an article that will coinside with the week’s topic
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