Critically discuss the issues surrounding teenage pregnancy and parenthood.

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Teenage pregnancy and parenthood

Critically discuss the issues surrounding teenage pregnancy and parenthood.

Describe some of the problems associated with accessing research locales. Identify the pros and cons of conducting research invisibly. Explain how ethnographic research data is analyzed.

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Observation Practices

6.1 Describe some of the problems associated with accessing research locales.
6.2 Identify the pros and cons of conducting research invisibly.
6.3 Recall the importance of planning for watching, listening, and learning in ethnographic research.
6.4 Explain how ethnographic research data is analyzed.
6.5 Examine how typologies, sociograms, and metaphors are used in studying ethnographic research data.
6.6 Outline two operations that form part of the process of disengaging from a field research setting.
6.7 Analyze the relevance of reflexivity as used in ethnography.
6.8 Recall that the major elements in critical-ethnography is addressing concerns on power and control structures.
6.9 Outline the uniqueness of ethnography with respect to other forms of research.
6.10 Give potential causes behind the failure of ethnographic field strategies

Select three of the ten references from your Reference List assignment. Create an annotated bibliography for each of the three references.

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Effects of gender identity on mental health

Select three of the ten references from your Reference List assignment. Create an annotated bibliography for each of the three references.

Each annotation must have 150-200 words, making a total of 450-600 words for the entire assignment. Each annotation should have the following elements:

APA style reference of the article being annotated

A paraphrased summary of the article (See note on paraphrasing below.)

An assessment of why it is a scholarly reference

A reflection on how it is applicable to your research

Paraphrasing is using your own words to restate ideas or information from a source material. As you write each annotation use the following paraphrasing guidelines.

There are three main steps to paraphrasing:

Identify the original idea(s) in the article

Identify general points regarding the idea(s)

Summarize the general points of the article in your own words

Follow the steps above for all three references you chose.

find some of the references below

Bränström, R., & Pachankis, J. E. (2020). Reduction in mental health treatment utilization among transgender individuals after gender-affirming surgeries: a total population study. American journal of psychiatry, 177(8), 727-734.

Goldhammer, H., Crall, C., & Keuroghlian, A. S. (2019). Distinguishing and addressing gender minority stress and borderline personality symptoms. Harvard review of psychiatry, 27(5), 317-325.

Goldstein, Z., Corneil, T. A., & Greene, D. N. (2017). When gender identity doesn’t equal sex recorded at birth: the role of the laboratory in providing effective healthcare to the transgender community. Clinical chemistry, 63(8), 1342-1352.

Jorm, A., & Yap, M. (2019). The future of Mental Health & Prevention. Mental Health & Prevention, 14, 200168.

Kulkarni, J. (2019, July 4) Gender differences in mental health. [Video] YouTube.

Mason, A. (2021, February 4) what affects transgender mental health [Video] YouTube.

Reisner, S. L., Katz-Wise, S. L., Gordon, A. R., Corliss, H. L., & Austin, S. B. (2016). Social epidemiology of depression and anxiety by gender identity. Journal of Adolescent Health, 59(2), 203-208.

Ted. (2018, September 5) Gender identity disorder: the untold story. [Video] YouTube.

Thomas, T. R., Hofammann, D., McKenna, B. G., IR van der Miesen, A., Stokes, M. A.,

Daniolos, P., & Michaelson, J. J. (2020). Community attitudes on genetic research of

Gender identity, sexual orientation, and mental health. Plos one, 15(7), e0235608.

Turban, J. L., & Ehrensaft, D. (2018). Research review: gender identity in youth: treatment paradigms and controversies. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(12), 1228-1243.

Srivastava, A., Davis, J. P., & Goldbach, J. T. (2020). Gender and sexual identities predicting patterns of co-occurring health risks among sexual minority youth: a latent class analysis approach. Prevention science, 21(7), 908-916.

What was the norm that was violated? Describe briefly how this norm helps one determine how to act in a social setting. What is the function of the norm for society in general? Which deviance theory do you think can best explain the public’s reactions to this norm violation? Explain why.

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Deivance in the News

This assignment asks you to write a sociological analysis of a report about deviance. The objective of the research is to determine the extent to which norms influence behavior and how norm violation is perceived in our society. Thus, you will pay particular attention on how the deviance was described in your chosen article. This assignment involves core concepts that you find in Chapter 7. Make sure that you have reviewed this chapter before writing your final report.

STEP 1: Find a current article about a deviant act that has been committed within the past few weeks. These deviant acts could either be positive or negative. Examples of deviant actscriminal behaviors, heroic behaviors, hoarding, Samaritan acts, etc. You can also look at acts institutions/ organizations have done that would be considered “deviant” acts. Articles should be a minimum of 500 words, recent (within three-six weeks), relevant (related to social conformity, deviance, and social control), and from a reputable news source (the KSUTC library as well as your public libraries provide free access to national news sources). You should not Google “deviance” to find a current events article; rather, check reputable online news sources or an actual article about a deviant behavior. There are always major deviant acts each week that make the national and local news.

STEP 2: Write a thorough summary of the article. This means that the summary should be at quite detailed. Summary, however, should not be more than one page.

STEP 3: Using your sociological imagination, write an analysis of the article that connects the main idea/s of the article to 5 specific key terms and 1 theory we have discussed in Chapter 7 – Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control.”
Use the following outline for your analysis:
Format to use:
I. Write a thorough summary of the article (not more than one page)
II. Sociological Analysis of the report
A. What was the norm that was violated? Describe briefly how this norm helps one determine how to act in a social setting. That is, what is the function of the norm for society in general?
B. Which deviance theory do you think can best explain the public’s reactions to this norm violation? Explain why.
C. Relate the article’s report about this deviance to at least FIVE sociological concepts we have studied in Chapter 7. (*note: in this analysis, make sure to highlight the key terms)
D. Write a conclusion for your paper by stating what you learned about how is deviance perceived in society?

STEP 4: Include the link to your article, check for any writing errors, and submit your article with your response paper.

What are the anticipated societal impacts of Peak Oil as sketched in The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream? Do you agree with this pessimistic prognosis?

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Societal impacts of Peak Oil

What are the anticipated societal impacts of Peak Oil as sketched in The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream? Do you agree with this pessimistic prognosis?

 Why has the Iliad remained so prominent in Western society continuously over time?

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Essay HW

Why has the Iliad remained so prominent in Western society continuously over time?

 

Identify the role of the market, the state, and the civil society under the implementation of your solutions. Evaluate the applicability and critical aspects of your solutions.

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Racial versus Rurality

This paper should include the following sections:

1)- Topic to be investigated. In doing so:     (100 Points)
State clearly your objective(s) in conducting this research.
State your central research question(s).
Identify your unit(s) of analysis (e.g., communities, groups, countries, etc.).
Review the debates in the literature concerning the problem.
Justify why this problem is sociologically important.

2)-Findings:     (100 Points)
Analyze the complexity of rural communities and/or agri-food systems in regard to your problem/topic and respond your research question/s. You should include analysis of primary data (e.g., documents, products from news or the media, websites, proceedings of policy making and/or implementation, etc.) or secondary data (e.g., survey results, census, etc.) sources wherever appropriate.

3)- Possible strategies that could be developed by the state, the private sector and/or the civil society (NGOs, consumers, etc.) to solve or alleviate the problem/s (while making social change and contributing to sustainable rural communities or agri-food systems):

Review the evidence to date concerning key solution strategies, and select (or propose) the strategy that seems optimal. You should include strategies and/or ideas from the readings and class.
Identify the role of the market, the state, and the civil society under the implementation of your solutions.
Evaluate the applicability and critical aspects of your solutions.

4)- Conclusions: discuss the implications of your findings. In addition, you may want to highlight findings that you did not expect and their implications for your future involvement/work on this area.  (25 Points)

Develop and illustrate a detailed knowledge of the social, political, cultural and economic history of post-WW2 Britain up to contemporary times.

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Sociology of modern Britain

1 Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding
• Develop and illustrate a detailed knowledge of the social, political, cultural and economic history of post–WW2 Britain up to contemporary times.
• Illustrate ability to articulate such knowledge and reasoning via (1) well–researched and reflective written work and (2) via articulation of knowledge in unseen examination conditions.

2 Demonstrate the following skills and abilities
• Design, implement and derive sound conclusions from an investigation into a chosen topic/event of sociological interest via set writing exercise and examination etc.

How many ways could you be described in numerical terms? What are some of your intrinsically numerical attributes? Could you express some of your qualitative attributes in quantitative terms?

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Subgroup Comparison

1. How might the various majors at your college be classified into categories? Create a coding system that would allow you to categorize them according to some meaningful variable. h en create a different coding system, using a different variable.

2. How many ways could you be described in numerical terms? What are some of your intrinsically numerical attributes? Could you express some of your qualitative attributes in quantitative terms?

3. How would you construct and interpret a contingency table from the following information: 150  Democrats favor raising the minimum wage, and 50 oppose it; 100 Republicans favor raising the minimum wage, and 300 oppose it?

4. Using the hypothetical data in the following table, how would you construct and interpret tables showing these three relationships?

a.The bivariate relationship between age and attitude toward abortion
b.The bivariate relationship between political orientation and attitude toward abortion
c. The multivariate relationship linking age, political orientation, and attitude toward abortion

Describe the conflict that may come up in heteronormative families when a member comes out (or is outted) as sexually diverse or transgender.

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Critical Reflection #4

The critical reflections are opportunities to deeply engage with the social theories and concepts you learn in class, and apply these concepts to real world data. You must submit three of the four critical reflections.

This reflection will focus on themes from the textbook with the option of including the film you screened, Abu.
Describe the conflict that may come up in heteronormative families when a member comes out (or is outted) as sexually diverse or transgender. You may use Arshad and his family as an example.
Discuss how creating a fictive family, or family of choice/family of choice, can help individuals who are LGBTQ gain the kinds of support and care that families of origin are socially expected to provide. Focus on three specific functions that fictive families provide for members.