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Define/describe the four key functions of family. Apply and discuss the four key functions to your family of orientation (the family you grew up in) or family of procreation (your spouse and/or children), and give examples from your family to illustrate the functions.

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Sociological Perspectives on Family

Review the functionalist perspectives on family from Theoretical Perspectives of Family

Actions

  • Define/describe the four key functions of family.
  • Apply and discuss the four key functions to your family of orientation (the family you grew up in) or family of procreation (your spouse and/or children), and give examples from your family to illustrate the functions.
  • Define and/describe the Conflict theory on family and apply it to your family.
  • Finally, compare and contrast the theories and discuss which theory, functionalism or conflict theory, is better for explaining the purpose and role of family in society and why.

Write a 4 – 6 page analytical or argumentative paper – supported by research – on the topic you selected in Module 6.

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Essay #2 – The Research Essay

Instructions

For Essay #3, you are to write a 4 – 6 page analytical or argumentative paper – supported by research – on the topic you selected in Module 6. The use of outside sources is important in this essay, as your argument (or thesis) must be supported by the evidence.

Based on Theranos Case, What lessons do you take away from the case?

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Theranos: A Case Study

Based on Theranos Case, What lessons do you take away from the case?

What lessons do you take away from the case,

  1. as an investor?
  2. as an entrepreneur?
  3. as an employee of a startup?

Create a statistical analysis table using the attached research study by Binns-Turner et al.

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Creating a statistical analysis table

Create a statistical analysis table using the attached research study by Binns-Turner et al.

  • https://www.studypool.com/questions/download?id=2834672&path=uploads/questions/950095/20230504225120binns_turner_et_al._3__1_.pdf&fileDownloadName=attachment_1

In creating the statistical analysis table name the columns purpose of analysis, analysis technique, statistic, results, and probability using the samples provided on pp. 370 and 376 in the textbook by Grove and Gray (2023). Create a separate row for each purpose.

Binn-Turner et al. Purpose of Analysis:

  • Difference between the intervention and control group on race
  • Difference between the intervention and control group on ASA status
  • Difference between the intervention and control group on marital status
  • Change scores on dependent variables (MAP. HR, Anxiety, & Pain) between preoperative (T1) to postoperative period (T2) in intervention and control groups

Use evidence to clearly identify challenges throughout US history that are related to your topic. Analyze how challenges were tackled throughout US history that are related to your topic, using historical evidence.

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Touchstone 3: Creating a Slide Presentation

SCENARIO: You represent your company at a service organization dealing with one of these two issues:

  • Facing Economic Change
  • Engaging Civil Rights

Your supervisor asked you to research information related to the history of one of these issues for your organization to help new employees and volunteers understand it better. You will need to create a slide presentation that summarizes your findings and recommendations.

ASSIGNMENT: Back in Unit 2, you chose your issue and your sources and used the critical thinking process to begin to formulate an argument about your topic. Now you will refine your argument and create a slide presentation that’s due at the end of Unit 3.

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS: Your presentation must be 7–11 slides long, not including the title and sources slides. It must include the following slides:

  • title
  • outline
  • topic
  • evidence (4–8 slides with both text and images)
  • argument (making connections between past and present)
  • sources

If you’ve never used a presentation tool like PowerPoint or Google Slides before, don’t worry! The assignment template below will help you create slides for a basic slide presentation. Then you’ll be able to practice using the presentation technology as you put the finishing touches on your presentation. You can also refer back to the Unit 3 lessons that provide support for creating a solid slide presentation.

Before you get started, let’s look at how you’ll be building the presentation, step by step.

A. Directions

Step 1: Review Touchstone 2

Review the scenario and your work from Touchstone 2. You will need to use the research question and your primary and secondary sources, along with the critical thinking process you completed in that touchstone.

Step 2: Create Presentation Slides

Use a presentation tool like PowerPoint or Google Slides to outline and organize a presentation for new employees and volunteers to help them understand better how key historical events in U.S. History are connected to their work and impact society today.

Slide Component
Title Slide Your title slide will be the first slide and should give the viewer an idea of what your presentation will be about.
Outline Slide An outline slide lets your audience know what to expect from your presentation. This doesn’t need to be the kind of detailed or thorough outline that you might use to plan out a research report. It just needs to include the main idea that each slide will cover—it might even just be the time period covered by that slide.
Topic Slide Your topic is the same as the research question you selected in Unit 2.

Define the historical challenges you are presenting on and expand on the topic of your presentation. What questions will you answer? What historical events and approaches will you explore?
Evidence Slides
(4-8 slides with both text and images)		 Now that you’ve reviewed your outline, it’s time to add information to your evidence slides. Use simple bullet points for slide text and leave room for pictures! Use speaker notes to describe the historical challenges, approaches and strategies with supporting evidence. Also, remember to include information from your primary or secondary sources.

Add appropriate visuals that help to communicate main ideas. Use images, charts, photos, and infographics to help answer the research question. If you use infographics, make sure any text in the infographics is large enough to read. Make sure images are not blurry or too small to see.
Connection Slide Your connections slide should connect past events to current events related to your issue and research question. Think of this slide as showing lessons you’ve learned from your research. What are the takeaways? How should people in your organization apply history to the present and the future? Include historical evidence in the speaker notes to explain these lessons.

Try to think of four lessons from the past that you can connect to the present and the future.
Sources Slide Now it’s time to add the primary and secondary sources you selected from Touchstone 2 to a slide, following APA format. (Note: the sources provided to you in Touchstone 2 were already in APA format). Click here for a guideline to help you with APA formatting if you selected any outside sources. Also following APA formatting, your sources should appear in alphabetical order.

Step 3: Add Speaker Notes

Recall that your supervisor asked you to research information related to the history of one of the above issues for your organization to help new employees and volunteers understand it better. For this assignment, you are not actually giving the presentation, but rather just preparing a slide deck that summarizes your findings and recommendations.

An important step in the preparation of a speech is writing speaker notes. Use speaker notes to develop historical evidence and explain your historical challenges, strategies, and connections:

  • Use evidence to clearly identify challenges throughout US history that are related to your topic.
  • Analyze how challenges were tackled throughout US history that are related to your topic, using historical evidence.
  • Analyze the connection between historical strategies and a current issue using supporting evidence (Connections slide).

Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. If you were giving an oral presentation, these notes wouldn’t be visible to your audience when you’re in Presenter View. But you would be able to see them, and they would guide you through your presentation.

Step 4: Add In-Text Citations

Make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author’s last name and the year of publication for the source, for example: (Mitchell, 2014).

Step 5: Submit Presentation

Once you have completed your slides and corresponding speaker notes, it is time to submit your presentation. If you are using PowerPoint, you simply need to save your presentation and upload this file to Sophia. If you are using another slide presentation technology, download the slide deck as a Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) and upload this version to Sophia.

Using the skills that you learned in this class to identify how it should be investigated, was it investigated completely, and what else could have been done for the case.

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Writing Question

For your Final Examination, review the “Trial of the Century” – OJ Simpson Video (52 minutes). Using the skills that you learned in this class to identify how it should be investigated, was it investigated completely, and what else could have been done for the case. The video clearly outlines methods utilized in the early 1990’s which were problematic for prosecutors during the trail. Your paper should included an overview of the case and outcome. A breakdown of the techniques used in the investigation (bullet points). You should identify things discussed from your assigned Chapter readings throughout the semester. Utilize the assigned text book as your sole source (open book).

What did you learn about their experience and how does it relate to the themes in our course? Identify three themes from our course that the interviewee’s experiences illustrate. Understand what resources, beliefs, attitudes, or relationships shaped a person’s life, and how those were particular to their sociocultural context.

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Task – Option 2 -Interview Project exploring diversity in life course

Overview

This option involves interviewing a friend or family member who has lived in another country or culture for the entirety of at least one life stage. In your interview and subsequent write up,
you will explore how cultural differences impacted their experience of that life stage, and the way that had repercussions for future stages. You must use developmental theory and your intersectionality to unpack the way various identity characteristics and cultural frameworks have shaped their life trajectories. Please include quotes (paraphrased is ok) from your interview to
support your argument. You do NOT have to tell us the name or your relationship to the person you interviewed to protect their privacy. You may use a fake name or pseudonym for them.
Part 1: The Interview
First, select someone for the interview.
Second, create an interview guide, or a list of questions that you will use in the interview to guide the conversation towards topics that arose in our class. Strong interview questions are open ended and often are phrased not as questions but as invitations to “tell me about…” something. For example, rather than saying “Did you like your parents?” a stronger interview
question would be “Tell me about your relationship with your parents…” It may also be wise to prepare “probes” or follow up questions that get at details that may be relevant. Probes can be more pointed than your initial questions. A probe for the previous question might be “Was there ever a time when you felt your parents expected you to make choices for the good of your family rather than your own good?” You should have at least 8-10 questions.
After conducting the interview, the third step is analyzing the interview. What did you learn about their experience and how does it relate to the themes in our course? Try to identify three themes from our course that the interviewee’s experiences illustrate. Try to understand what resources, beliefs, attitudes, or relationships shaped a person’s life, and how those were particular to their sociocultural context.
Part 2: Report
After conducting and analyzing your interview, summarize what you have found. Please include concrete examples from your interview, like quotes (that can be paraphrased), to support your argument. A strong way to start your report would be to introduce the person and provide an overview of their experience living a formative period of their life in another culture and the themes that you found in their narrative. Then proceed to discuss the themes you identified in detail, drawing on examples from the interview. In the text, please include 3 citations to class material and 1 citations from outside of class material that are relevant to themes that arise in your interview (and that are academic citations from peer-reviewed journals or academic publishers in the case of books).

How do different groups in society understand and portray the problem? How do these diverse portrayals reflect the different perspectives that one can have in this issue, and what informs those perspectives?

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Task – Option 1 – A Content Analysis

Overview
Option 1 invites you to analyze one instance in the world in which you observe cultural variation or diversity that ultimately results in inequity, to use theories from the class to better analyze the way social ecologies shape inequities in the world, and to make some sort of recommendation to key stakeholders as to how to address this issue. Your purpose is to reveal how sociological and developmental theories can help us understand the social construction of particular problems or inequities and to account for these in seeking ways to address them.

Part 1: Analysis
Your analysis should focus on:
1. One social problem that is rooted in inequities that are related to cultural variation. (see previous lectures for examples).
2. One or two forms of media (e.g., newspapers, magazines, advertisements, websites [governmental, NGO, or popular websites are all acceptable])
3. You must include at least 5 media sources- each of which is relevant to the social problem

  • For example, 5 news stories about the ways racial inequities in health and the way different groups encounter different challenges to their health.
  • These will be the dataset that you will analyze to reveal the cultural side of the social problem.
  • You could compare and contrast portrayals between different sources (e.g., the portrayal by public health organizations [CDC/WHO] vs. the portrayal by the media), but this is optional

4. As you analyze your data, consider questions like

  • How do different groups in society understand and portray the problem?
  • How do these diverse portrayals reflect the different perspectives that one can have in this issue, and what informs those perspectives?
  • Within these different perspectives, what value judgments are made about the social problem, and how are these shaped by particular cultural beliefs and frameworks?
  • What purpose do these cultural frameworks serve (who benefits?)?
  • How is this problem shaped by various factors at different levels in the socio-ecological environment (macro, meso, micro and chrono)?

Part 2: Report
After constructing and analyzing your dataset of cultural media objects, please summarize what you have found. Please include concrete examples from your dataset, like quotes or images from the media, to support your argument. A strong way to start your report would be to discuss why we should care about the social construction of the problem that you are analyzing. Your report should discuss questions like the ones listed above (under analysis).
In your report on your findings, you must reference with in-text citations at least 3 ideas from our course in your report. These “ideas” may be things like social constructionism, intersectionality, life course theory, socio-ecological theory and the various levels of social life, etc. You must cite the ideas appropriately using formal citation processes, and citations should be to the articles we read as well as my lectures).
Finally, you must include at least 1 citation to out-of-class materials that are relevant to the specific issue you have chosen and that are academic citations from peer-reviewed scholarly journals or academic publishers in the case of books.

Your submitted project must include:
1. At least 1,250 words reporting what you found that includes in-text citations to at least 4 articles.
2. A reference section or bibliography (properly formatted in ASA, APA, MLA, or other consistent style).
3. A summary of your dataset in the form of references or online links to each of the 5 media sources that you analyzed.

In this discussion, share your experience of using at least two selection tools. Provide a comparison of the two and discuss how you would use them.

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W5 Photoshop selection

In this discussion, share your experience of using at least two selection tools. Provide a comparison of the two and discuss how you would use them.

What is the objective of location strategy? What are some of the key success factors related to location decision? What are the factors That Affect Location Decisions?

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Operation Management Research

• Group
• Names :
• Name of company: Example: Saudi Airline

1. Company Name
• Introduction
• Location
• Production
• Main competitors

2. Forecasting
• What is forecasting?
• Why forecasting is important.
• The company in which life cycle (Introduction, Growth, maturity, Decline)
• What is the strategy/issue related to this cycle?
• What are the factors that affect the forecast/demand, explain how? (PESTEL)
• Based on the forecast, will the production/service level increase or decrease in the future? Why?

3. Aggregate Planning
• What is the objective of aggregate planning!
• What are the aggregate planning options that can be applied to the sector? What are the advantages and disadvantages and if there any comments!

4. Inventory management
• What is the objective of inventory management!
• Inventory Analysis: Classify the type of inventory in your company (ABC ANALYSIS)

5. Operation & productivity
• What is operation management!
• Why operation management!
• What is the strategic decision related to operation management! Explain it.
• How can you improve the productivity in your sector/company?

6. Operations Strategy in a Global Environment

• Why the company need to globalize.
• Which factor should the company consider before globalizing?
• What are the competitive advantages in your industry/company?
• Develop SWAA Analysis.
• Can the company outsource some of its activities to internal to external suppliers?
• What are the Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Outsourcing?

7. Location Strategies
• What is the objective of location strategy?
• What are some of the key success factors related to location decision?
• What are the factors That Affect Location Decisions?

8. Supply–Chain Management
• What is the objective of supply chain management?
• How Corporate Strategy Impacts Supply Chain Decisions
• What are supply chain risk and related mitigation tactics