How does the video define “rational” and “irrational” thinking? Describe the theory’s strengths and weaknesses. Create a real life crisis/dilemma/confrontation and describe, including the self-defeating thoughts that could lead to an inappropriate response.

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Application of REBT

In a well-developed paper, reflect and respond to the following themes/questions (minimum 200 words per question). Use your own words. Do not “copy and paste” from Internet sources. No specific

1. How does the video define “rational” and “irrational” thinking? Provide an example.

2. Describe “self talk.” Provide an example.

3. The Wikipedia link describes 4 core irrational beliefs. Provide a brief description of each, and include examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_emotive_behavior_therapy

4.Describe the theory’s strengths and weaknesses.

5.Create a real life crisis/dilemma/confrontation and describe, including the self-defeating thoughts that could lead to an inappropriate response, then use the ABCDE model, as demonstrated in your text, to dispute the irrational thoughts, and replace with rational/effective thoughts.

What does he say about the ways culture is used to perpetuate inequalities among different classes or genders? How do you understand concepts such as ‘cultural capital’ and ‘symbolic violence?’ What is the role of the intellectuals and sociologists in social reproduction?

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1) In the film “Sociology is a martial art” Pierre Bourdieu discusses some of his most influential ideas. What does he say about the ways culture is used to perpetuate inequalities among different classes or genders? How do you understand concepts such as ‘cultural capital’ and ‘symbolic violence?’ What is the role of the intellectuals and sociologists in social reproduction?

2) The film “Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City – 1900-1922” tells the story of the collision of two nationalisms, the Greek and the Turkish nationalism. How is culture – religion, language, habits and customs – operationalized/used to fuel hatred and nationalistic fervor? Discuss any other historical examples, or ongoing nationalist conflicts you might be aware of.

3) Conflict Theory explains how laws are not applied evenly across the population or are designed to serve the political and economic interests of the ruling classes. How does the film 13th help us to better understand this theoretical approach? Use examples drawing from the documentary

4) Contrast the “culture of poverty” argument and structural explanations for poverty. Using occupation and occupational change as your mobility criteria, view the social mobility within your own family and explain why you think people in your family have moved up, moved down, or remained at the same status level.

5) Dependency theory states that as long as peripheral nations are dependent on core nations for economic stimulus and access to a larger piece of the global economy, they will never achieve stable and consistent economic growth. Drawing from the film The End of Poverty? present some examples that further support this theory.

How is learning about this topic relevant to your life currently? What concept is relevant to your (or the subject’s) life in the future? How is learning about this topic relevant to your future goals? Why should someone should learn more about the topic or topics you chose?

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Sociology


The purpose of this assignment is to help you make connections between the material we are covering in SOCI 1101 and your life. For this assignment, I would like you to select two concepts or issues that were covered in the first half of the course. So far, we have covered the following topics in our class:
Sociological Theories
Research Methods
Culture
Society and Social Interaction
Socialization
Groups and Organizations
Deviance

You may choose any topic or issue covered within these chapters from Units 1 and 2. You will then write a 2–4 page essay or personal letter discussing the relevance of the concepts or issues to your own life OR to the life of a family member or close friend. Choose topics from above that are personally useful and meaningful to you. For your first topic, describe how learning about this topic is useful to your (or your subject’s) life right now. Then choose a topic from above that is personally useful and meaningful to you (it may NOT be the same topic as before). Now, describe how learning about this topic will be beneficial to you (or a family member or close friend) in the future (e.g., education, career, daily life). Finally, explain why someone should learn more about the topics you chose. Be sure to connect the course material covered so far in the course to your life, both now and in the future. However, Am not asking you to summarize the material, just to elaborate on its relevance to your life.

Instructions
This assignment will take approximately 4 hours to complete. You will need to allocate enough time to choose your concept(s), reflect on its meaning for you, and to write up your responses. Your assignment should answer the following questions:
• What concept is relevant to your (or the subject’s) life right now? Provide a thorough description. (10% of assignment grade)
• How is learning about this topic relevant to your life currently? Answer this in detail. (30% of assignment grade)
• What concept is relevant to your (or the subject’s) life in the future? Provide a thorough description. (10% of assignment grade)
• How is learning about this topic relevant to your future goals? Answer this in detail. (30% of assignment grade)
• Why should someone should learn more about the topic or topics you chose? (20% of assignment grade)

Be sure to think sociologically when answering the attached questions. You should incorporate concepts and ideas we have discussed in class when analyzing your experiences. You are also encouraged to incorporate information from the text as well as outside sources (although this is not required). If you choose to use information that is not your own, you MUST fully cite these ideas both within the text and on a separate reference page (see the “citation examples” section attached to this document for more information). You should clearly define your terms and cite the readings. This means you MUST draw on concepts from the reading, explain the concepts, and use the concepts to explain your responses. If you are not citing your text, you are not doing the assignment correctly!

Formatting
Your written essay must be, at minimum, 2 full pages of text (double–spaced, 12pt Times New Roman
font, 1 inch margins) and no more than 4 full pages. You should also include a title page and reference
page (these do not count toward the page limit). This assignment will be graded out of 100 points and is
worth 15% of your final grade. Your paper MUST be attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf (NOT .rtfd!) or .pdf
file. (Note: any document on a Mac can be turned into a .pdf by using File > Print. There are many free
.pdf converters for PCs.) DO NOT paste your essay into the text box in the D2L dropbox for ANY
reason. All submissions will be automatically submitted to TurnItIn for plagiarism detection when you
upload your file to the dropbox on D2L. 

What strategies could you use to up the “truth value” of your proposed study? Are there any strategies either in terms of sampling or data collection or in terms of analysis to improve this?

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Content analysis.

This is a broad category of methods, both quantitative and qualitative, that are only tied together by their focus on “content.” Content refers to any information or meaningful symbol produced by humans, and content analysis involves an expansive array of methods ranging from the highly deductive and statistical, to the highly inductive and interpretive, to the highly hermeneutical and critical. It also involves analysis of a dizzying array of sources both textual–like books, tweets, and lyrics–and visual–like films, advertisements, and video games, and even the analysis of objects and material culture–like cars, clothes, or home decor. We will learn about textual and visual methods of qualitative content analysis, including both naturalistic inductive categories and typology formation and other popular analysis strategies like semiology, discourse and narrative analysis.

CA1) What is the topic you are interested in, what type of content are you intending to analyze, and how are the two connected? What if someone questioned the content you selected and recommended something ‘better’, how would you defend (based on your substantive research question) your choice?

CA2) Do you intend to employ a case or sampling logic? If you choose a case logic, why is the case you have selected a good one or studying the topic you have chosen to study? If you choose a sampling logic, which sampling strategy do you intend to employ and why is that strategy the most appropriate for your research question and topic?

CA3) What strategies could you use to up the “truth value” of your proposed study? Are there any strategies either in terms of sampling or data collection or in terms of analysis to improve this?

Is there a relationship between social media use and teenage depression? Identify at least ten secondary academic sources and compile them into an annotated bibliography, using APA style.

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M2 Research Journal

Research Question:

“Is there a relationship between social media use and teenage depression?”

In your module 1 research journal, you identified a research question that you would like to explore this semester. For this journal, you will learn how to research your topic and explore what scholars have written about your topic. Before you begin your journal, carefully review the information in the Research, Write, and Cite guide.

This research journal has two components:

1. Identify at least ten secondary academic sources and compile them into an annotated bibliography, using APA style.

Make sure that each annotation includes the following criteria.

Author(s) qualifications

Main purpose or argument or point of view

Methods used, key conclusions or findings, and basis in evidence and/or logic

Relationship to other works

Primary Audience

Summary Content

2. Identify and describe three key ideas that have emerged from your research.

As you review your sources, compare and contrast their ideas and topics. Identify three themes that have emerged from your annotated bibliography. Briefly describe these (suggested length is a paragraph for each idea). These three themes will be the foundation for the literature review that you will write for your final research proposal.

What are you trying to do with the paper? What are the core ideas? How will you organize this paper? What will you discuss in the different sections? What you think are the strongest parts of the draft and what you are struggling with?

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Paper (FIRST DRAFT PART)

Format: 5 pages, double-spaced, 1inch margins, Times New Roman 12-point font. Right at the beginning on the first page of the first draft, briefly answer these questions. This will help you organize your paper. (if you find it easier, answer these questions once you have written the draft and BEFORE you submit it on HuskyCT):
What are you trying to do with the paper? What are the core ideas?
How will you organize this paper? What will you discuss in the different sections?
What you think are the strongest parts of the draft and what you are struggling with
Priorities for revising and things you want to work on
Things you are proud of in the paper

Explain how gender impacts the social institution. Identify a form of gender inequality associated with the social institution and use theoretical perspectives to explain the social behaviors that perpetuate the inequality.

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Write a 750-1,000-word analysis on social stratification regarding gender.

Choose a social institution (Education) to describe and analyze the effect that the stratification elements of gender have on that social institution. Include the following in your analysis:

Explain how gender impacts the social institution.
Identify a form of gender inequality associated with the social institution and use theoretical perspectives to explain the social behaviors that perpetuate the inequality.
Suggest measures for the social institution to implement to help alleviate the gender inequality you identified.
Provide a minimum of three to five scholarly sources to support your analysis and conclusion. Additionally, you will need to include statistical data of the expression of stratification regarding gender within the social institution.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Discuss how you perceive the validity between your theoretical term and the concrete questions that are asked in the question form. Discuss if the analysis has answered the research questions.

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Qualitative and quantitative methods

Specification of contents and design
Length and disposition of the tasks
• Two separate tasks, one quantitative method and one qualitative method.
• Both tasks should be maximum 10 pages, EXCLUDING attachments (look at the bottom for specification of attachments)
• Write a separate introduction for each of the tasks, and since both tasks have the same topic you need to describe the common topic in both introductions.

Common for both tasks (quantitative and qualitative)
• Choose topic and design the thesis statement with basis in the chosen topic. The same topic should be explored both quantitative and qualitative, but it does not need to be the exact same thesis statement/research questions. It would be natural for a qualitative project to focus on other aspects than a quantitative project.
• The project need to be designed to be completed independently.

The quantitative task
• Choose one of the topics that are highlighted I “Levekårsundersøkelsen for Nordland 2014”, it is this dataset that will be used for the analysis. There are many topics to choose from : Political activity, worklife, leisure activities, social network/family, local society, well-being etc. Concretize the topic to a researchable thesis and formulate some concrete research questions that can either be formulated as questions or as assertions.
• The thesis statement/research questions does not need to reflect a regional issue, even though the dataset is from Nordland County.
• Choose variables you want to use in the analysis. Pick one or two effect variables, and some explanatory variables you can use to analyze variation in the effect variables. Think through what explanatory variables that can help with explaining. F.ex. is it reasonable to expect a difference between sex, age or rich-poor?
• Boxmodel or two that shows how you think the coherence between the variables are.
• Try to choose variables on different levels, so you show different statistical analysis.
• Discuss how you perceive the validity between your theoretical term (f.ex. social network or political activity) and the concrete questions that are asked in the question form.
• Carry out the statistical analysis and present the results in text and tables. Use both uni-variate, bi-variate and multivariate analysis (multivariate through multivariate crosstables or multivariate regression). Execute significance tests of the analysis. Present and interpret these tests. Only use the most important from the tables in the text, and put the ones that aren’t interpreted in text, as attachments (as long as they support the analysis, f.ex. if you have checked for something, but did not find any)
• Discuss if the analysis has answered the research questions (validity)
• USE METHOD CURRICULUM ACTIVELY when discussing choices made.

The qualitative task
• Formulate a limited thesis statement with base in the same topic as for the quantitative task
• Make an interview guide
• Create information writing in coherence with the demands for information in the personal data act.
• Recruit participants (2 people, no names)
• Datacollection (Interview)
• Transcribe the interviews
• Present the findings (show how you have coded, categorized and analyzed the material)
• Discuss if and how your findings from your study and the analysis of these can contribute to answer the thesis statement.
• Discuss the different choices you have made, from the working on the thesis statement, the design of the interview guide, carrying out the interviews and analysis. Also include discussions of what you eventually would have done different if you were to do it again.
• Use method curriculum in the discussion
Attachments that are required
The quantitive task
• Tables/analysis that you don’t wish to use directly in the text
The qualitative task
• Information writing
• Interview guide
• Section (2 pages) of coding schematics with transcribed text from the interviews and coding

Discuss why the customer clarified that secondary data is needed and it should be mostly quantitative, yet quantitative methods aren’t properly outlined.

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[Revision] Water Scarcity Refugees

1) The following comments still need to be addressed: “The customer clarified that secondary data is needed and it should be mostly quantitative, yet quantitative methods aren’t properly outlined.

2) The discussion has to be longer than the results.”- Restructure the results accordingly; quantitative and qualitative data should be outlined separated. Start the discussion afresh as it’s based on the wrong sources- all of them are introduced in the paper for the first time (this is the case for the works by Zhang, Xu and Kanyerere, 2020; Joel et al. (2016); Ajjur and Baalousha, 2021; Dillon and Arshad, 2016 etc.), while we specifically asked you to only compare the obtained results to the LR findings.

What is your first impression or feelings about any of the episode that you heard? What stood out to you as interesting or important? Why does it matter that people understand that they have implicit biases?

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Implicit Bias

This assignment is likely to be different than most others you’ve had. I am asking you to listen to an episode of the radio program called ‘This American Life’ that discusses different aspects of life around the U.S. This particular episode covers the very important issue of race and policing, and gives us the opportunity to hear from real life experiences of people using or learning about implicit bias.

We haven’t covered the criminal justice system yet, but you have had several weeks of learning about the sociological perspective and chances are good that you have had lots of exposure to conversations about race and/or the criminal justice system.

 

Your job is to listen to the program, taking notes as you listen, and then answer the following questions:

What is your first impression or feelings about any of the episode that you heard? What stood out to you as interesting or important?
Consider the agents of socialization: family, peers, sports, religion, school, toys/games, the media. Choose 2 of those to discuss how implicit biases become a part of each of us. Do you think that we can un-learn or re-learn the messages that have created implicit biases? How?
Why does it matter that people understand that they have implicit biases?
What are some positive consequences to knowing that implicit biases exist? What are some negative consequences?

The Media Education Lab is a source of good definitions to guide us in this discussion:

Implicit Attitudes – Settled ways of thinking and feeling (about different objects, people, and phenomena) that we are not aware of.
Implicit Biases – Unconscious prejudice in favor or against certain kinds of people.
Stereotypes – Mental shortcut; generalized and simplified understanding of a particular type of person or thing.

While planning your week, keep in mind that the episode is 1 hour long. If possible, don’t multi-task while listening – it makes writing about it so much harder! When you get to the website to click and listen, you will also see that there is a transcript available if you need it.

 

Your finished paper does not have to be written in formal essay format, but should be at least 500 words.