Critically evaluate the sociological significance of suicide for Durkheim.

The title of my essay is ‘Critically evaluate the sociological significance of suicide for Durkheim’. the paper needs to include the way we view suicide today and how Durkheim tried to label this action as no fault of the victim but more of how a society can drive someone to kill themsleves

Older men do not always constitute a privileged gerontocracy and beyond the confines of white, middle-class, suburban, and heterosexual families, many do not feel powerful, and may even be frustrated and angry by their lack of power Discuss.

Older men do not always constitute a privileged gerontocracy and beyond the confines of white, middle-class, suburban, and heterosexual families, many do not feel powerful, and may even be frustrated and angry by their lack of power Discuss.

Critically reflect on your own progress as a criminology with police studies undergraduate

Written report – Job Application

You are required to write no more than 1000 words in response to a job advert of your choice.
You must respond to three of the essential skills that are listed in the advert.

This assessment addresses the following programme learning outcomes:
5.6 Critically reflect on your own progress as a criminology with police studies undergraduate

Brief added in the additional materials, please read through to see how the assignment is marked etc, thank you!

Compare and contrast the following two concepts, as used in the discourse of development:

With reference to relevant theories and examples, compare and contrast the following two
concepts, as used in the discourse of development:
a. ‘Inherent backwardness’
b. ‘Inherited backwardness

 Explain the historical development of Radical Feminist Perspective

What Patriarchy is from Radical Feminist Perspective (

Explain the historical development of Radical Feminist Perspective

Please highlight the critiques/criticisms of Radical Feminist Perspective

 

What is the severity of the effects of this problem on society?

a) what is the severity of the effects of this problem on society? Find statistics, give any personal experiences of how this problem hurt people, present in the textbook or the course materials, along with your own.

b) what is/are the sociological cause(s), the independent variable(s), that give rise to this problem? (if you are considering a problem that has anything to do with racism and sexism, you MUST go beyond the (liberal) explanations offered by Conley, and comprehend and relate the more radical explanations in my document, which I’ve posted in the Week V Learning Module, on the subject.

In the Conley textbook, don’t limit yourself to the chapters we’ve already discussed. Use the table of contents, the index, etc. to find answers to this question in the entire textbook. If you can’t find an explanation/exploration of the social problem you wanted to explore here in this textbook, or in the course materials, then pick another problem for which you can use the textbook and the course materials on blackboard. .

 

Explain the who, what, when, why, how of the origin of the law or policy

General Directions:

  1. Pick a US immigration policy or law (the more specific the better) that has been implemented since at the 1980s or more recently, or has been advocated for but unimplemented as law or policy  chose the DREAM Act of 2001
    1. Explain the who, what, when, why, how of the origin of the law or policy
  2. Use texts from a module on the syllabus to explain the dynamics of the policy or the law (if module 1 or module 2, then use at least two of the texts)
  3. Use texts from a different module on the syllabus to explain the dynamics of the policy or the law (if module 1 or module 2, then use at least two of the texts)

Specific directions:

Word count minimum must be 1400 words. The essay must have an introduction and conclusion, three sections for each point from the general directions, each section must have a separate heading. You must have a works cited page, and there will be point deductions for spelling and grammar mistakes and/or lack of organization.

Can you explain what is gender and how is gender “done”?

You will write an essay of a minimum of 850 words answering ONE of these questions:

Can you explain what is gender and how is gender “done”?
What is intersectionality? Why is it important?
What is patriarchy? What are the different feminist approaches of patriarchy?
What is feminism? Why do we need it?
Your essay has to address ONE of these questions from a sociological perspective and mainly based on the course material -readings, lectures, films and class discussions-.

Reading list that you can use for your personal research and your essay:
-Bilge, Sirma and Collins, Patricia Hill. 2016. Intersectionality. Wiley.
-Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought. Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics
of Empowerment. Routledge.
-Disch, Estelle. 2009. Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology. McGraw-Hill.
-Holmes, Mary. 2007. What is Gender? Sociological Approaches. Sage Publications.
-hooks, bell. 2000. Feminism is for everybody: passionate politics. South End Press.
-Kimmel, Michael, Kaler, Amy and Aronson, Amy (eds). 2015. The Gendered Society Reader.
Oxford University Press.
-Linda, Lindsay L. 2005. Gender roles: a sociological perspective. Pearson Education.
-Lorde, Audre. 1984. Sister Outsider. Essays and Speeches.Ten Speed Press.
-Moraga, Cherríe & Anzaldúa, Gloria (eds). (1981) 2002. This Bridge Called my Back. Writings
by Radical Women of Color. (Persephone Press) Third Women Press

Explain why sociologists seem to place such importance on the organisation of production is society

The presentation has to answer the following question: ‘What were the social consequences of mass production?’.

The presentation has to be a total of 10 slides and has to have a bibliography at the end in Harvard referencing. For each slide there should be 1/2 references. Its important to relate the points made back to the presentation question.

1. Explain why sociologists seem to place such importance on the organisation of production is society
2. Explaining mass production
3. Explaining what is it about the Fordist way of organising production that is so significant. Also including the concept of Fordism and how it came about.
4. Explain in what ways flexible work practices benefit or disadvantage the following groups: management/ workers/society
5. Explaining the social consequences of mass production
6. Overall conclusion/ statement that answers the presentation question