This document provides tips for writing an essay on collective identity for an exam. It outlines four potential essay questions focusing on media representation of groups and the social implications. For any question chosen, the introduction should state the collective being studied is African American males and females, address the question and conclusion, and use the provided source to debate naming the collective. The tips recommend applying theories to case studies rather than explaining theories, thoroughly analyzing case studies in relation to the question, and connecting case studies throughout the essay. Grade boundaries for the different sections and total exam score are also listed.
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~ 1a) Social Inequality
The Week 4 Instructor Question meets the following course objectives:
•Apply a sociological perspective to the social world
•Analyze contemporary social issues using the sociological imagination and use sociological theories and concepts to analyze everyday life.
•Discuss global stratification and explain social class and the impact of stratification in the United States.
•Describe sex and gender, race and ethnicity, and the elderly in the United States as well as how inequality, prejudice, and discrimination impacts certain groups of people in society
•Develop written communication skills and critical thinking skills.
•Apply American Psychological Association formatting and citation style when completing course assignments.
Initial forum postings should be a minimum of 250 words. Each student must also respond to a minimum of 1 fellow students' postings; each response must be at least 100 words in length.
Choose ONE of the following questions:
1. How is power wielded in the social world? Do agree more with functionalist or conflict theorists regarding the concept of power in a democracy? Be sure to describe both the functionalist and conflict perspectives on power in society and provide evidence or examples to support your position.
2. Describe the functionalist view of social stratification, and the conflict theory's view of social stratification. Then take a pro or con position on each of the following three points: first, social stratification is necessary for societies to exist and prosper; second, the United States functions, overall, as a meritocracy; and third, human beings-driven as they are by human nature-are incapable of ever creating and/or living in a classless society. Provide detail about 'why' you are taking the pro or con position for each point.
3. Will there ever be complete equality between males and females in the United States? Should there be? What would constitute complete equality? Do you think the women's movement is stronger or weaker today than it was in the 1970s? In what ways? In challenging gender stratification, do you think that feminists sometimes over-exaggerate the problem of sexual inequality in the United States? If so, how? The text offers a few explanations for the origins of patriarchy while ignoring religion. Given that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all patriarchal religions, do you think that the feminist movement is an attack against religion? Finally, what is a feminist? Are you a feminist? If so, why? If not, why? Be sure to use examples from the text in your discussion.
~1b) Social Inequality
The Week 4 WSMP meets the following course objectives:
•Apply a sociological perspective to the social world
•Analyze contemporary social issues using the sociological imagination and use sociological theories and concepts to analyze everyday life.
•Demonstrate the ability to identify, locate, and retrieve information related to the topics .
Research PaperStatement of the Problem How can a teacher be e.docxDustiBuckner14
Research Paper
Statement of the Problem: How can a teacher be encouraging and motivating to students during challenging times ie. (COVID)? The problem is not being able to keep children motivated long enough to complete and submit assignments
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Title Page (Title of Your Study)
Use the following headings in your research paper---You can use subheadings as well:
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Statement of Problem /Purpose/Research Question and Introduction- No more than 1
page
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Literature Review- 3-5 pages (You may have to condense the literature; Remember this is not just summarizing one study after another; synthesize the literature; Make it flow
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Methodology- 1
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Findings- About 2
paragraphs to 1
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Conclusion- Limitations/Implications/Suggestions/Recommendations/Possible Resolutions- 1
page
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References- Reference Page
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Appendix (include the instrument you will use…one that you have found or one that you created) Remember to cite work that is not yours…even instruments
(Your paper should be 8 pages this does not include the Title Page, Reference pages, and Appendix)
Refrain from using “I” and “My” as much as possible to ensure scholarly writing
**Use APA format.
**Almost every paragraph should have a citation.
**Include facts, not opinions.
**Include citations (studies/articles/research) to support what you write.
Power point Instructions
Slide 1-Intro Slide/Name/Topic
Your Powerpoint should include 1-3 slides each for the following:
· Statement of Problem /Purpose/Research Question
· Literature Review Highlights (Concise)- About 3 slides
· Methodology
· Findings
· Conclusion- Limitations/Implications/Suggestions/Recommendations/Possible Resolutions
*Slide with references (APA format)- Up to 3 slides
Ethnography Project Module
For this class you will get to work on a fun and amazing project. You will need to write an ethnography on a culture of your choice that you do not belong to. To help you work through the project there will be discussions boards set up help you with ideas and to make sure you are progressing. They will be part of the points toward the final project. If you press next you will find the instructions for the project.
You will need to first be able to answer what is a subculture. The first chapter should give you a good sense of this. You can also start looking around on the internet about subcultures to add to your information. Ethnography Project Intructions
For this assignment, you’ll learn about a subculture by observing and experiencing it firsthand and participating in it. Be you begin, review the following terminology in your textbook and/or lesson; ascribed vs. achieved status, cultural materialism, cultural relativism, dialect, emic and etic, ethnograph.
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WEEK 2 Disscussion 1
Some students think that they do not have much of a cultural background because they were not born outside of the United States or because they do not speak another language. The truth is that everyone has a culture!
Prepare:
As you prepare to write your discussion for this topic, take time to do the following:
Read the writing prompt below in its entirety. Note that there are three tasks to complete:
Define culture and explain its importance in communication.
Describe your own culture.
Explain how your culture shapes how you communicate with others, including those from different cultures.
Review Chapter 3 of your text and identify at least one point about culture and communication to discuss in your post.
Develop a definition of culture and explain its importance in communication.
Review the
grading rubric
and note that 25% of your grade is based on your application of course material (Content/Subject Knowledge) and 25% is based on your ability to demonstrate you are thinking critically and presenting original ideas.
Reflect:
Based on what you have learned in Chapter 3, think about key elements of your own culture and how it influences both the style and content of your communication. Think about how your culture shapes how you communicate with others, especially those who are from other cultures. Why is culture important in understanding effective communication? How can knowing about your own culture help you build bonds and/or bridge cultural divides?
Write:
Based on what you have learned in class this week
Define culture and explain why it is important to understanding communication.
Explain how paying attention to culture can make you a better communicator.
Describe your own culture and share with us what makes you who you are. Your culture can be related to your race, ethnicity, gender, age, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, media preferences, hobbies, religion, etc. Try not to focus on just one of these aspects of yourself, but instead utilize as many cultural elements as possible. Think about both style (how you speak) and content (what interests you).
How does your culture affect your communication with those in your own culture and those from other cultures?
Thoroughly respond to the discussion elements by writing at least one to two sentences on your definition and then two to three sentences on each of the remaining two elements. Use the course readings, with full APA citations, at least once to help you make your points. Consider copying and pasting all three tasks into a word file and addressing each of them separately.
WEEK 2 Disscussion 2
Bevan and Sole (2014) present theories that women and men communicate differently based growing up in “different cultures” or that they are similar based on the “gender similarities” hypothesis. For this discussion, you will be required to think through these ideas by relating these arguments to what you learn in a video you will watch on gender and c.
Biographic narrative: a taster workshopdebbieholley1
Participants are warmly invited to take part in a practice interview, work on coding a short extract from a 'real' interview and carry out a sample analysis. BNIM draws upon the German school of thought from the early 20th century, and is a particular method used to draw out the 'stories' or narratives from interviewee's lives. What is of interest to the researcher is what the interviewee selects to tell us, and the way in which the story is told. The interview is structured such that the interviewee has the time and space to develop their own contribution. This approach is useful as it can in part challenge the criticism of the research interview, which can assume that an interview is an unproblematic window on psychological or social realities, and that the 'information' that the interviewee gives about themselves and their world can be simply extracted and quoted (Wengraf 2001).
PHILOSOPHY 2306 ETHICS (ONLINE) DR. STEVE BEST FALL 2016 .docxmattjtoni51554
PHILOSOPHY 2306: ETHICS (ONLINE)
DR. STEVE BEST
FALL 2016
EMAIL: [email protected] (work); [email protected] (home)
"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." Voltaire
"He is a philosopher who tramples underfoot prejudices, tradition, antiquity, universal
assent, authority, in a word, everything that overawes the mass of minds, who dares to think
for himself, to go back to the clearest general principles, examine them, discuss them, admit
nothing save on the testimony of his experience and reasoning." Diderot
"Why stay we on the earth unless to grow?" Robert Browning
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
“Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a
beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for
it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim.” Elie Wiesel
“Cowardice asks the question, `Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, `Is it
politic?’And Vanity comes along and asks the question, `Is it popular?’ But Conscience
asks the question `Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that
is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it
is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin
Luther King, Jr.
“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and
depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to humankind.” Albert
Schweitzer
Course Description
This course is an introduction to ethics and ethical reasoning. We will spend most of the
course getting acquainted with the definition and meaning of ethics, and seek in many
ways to transcend conventional views to produce a broader and deeper definition and
understanding of ethics that places it at the center of a meaningful, responsible, and
compassionate life. We will examine key ethical issues, explore major philosophers’
ideas, and examine a number of core ethical traditions. The course aims not only to
explain what ethics is, as a historical and philosophical matter, but also how to do it, as a
reasoned practice relevant to contemporary society and to the quality of one’s own
existence.
After the main focus on ethical theory, we devote the last part of the course to applied
ethics, specifically to the topics of animal rights, ethical veganism, and environmental
ethics. These profound issues surfaced in the last four decades to become major new
fields of inquiry and to pose powerful challenges to Western dogmas and humanist
traditions with their violent and destructive power pathologies. I chose these issues
because: (1) they strongly relate to a key course goal to produce a more comprehensive
and expansive concept of ethics than given by the Western tradition; (2) they are
controversial,.
1. Collective Identity essay tips
There are four question areas that could come up in the exam. Two questions will appear
on the paper, you only answer ONE. Please be aware that the wording could change
slightly.
• How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and ethnic / social / collective
groups of people in different ways?
• How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods?
• What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?
• To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’?
INTRO FOR ALL FOUR ESSAYS:
• State that you are studying African American males and females- the examiner doesn’t know which
collective we have chosen
• Address the question- give your conclusion at the start (like with questions for
1b)
• Use Manny Otiko “Black or African American: which is correct?” to open the debate about what to call this
collective and assert that one of the difficulties with naming this collective is that the terms used to refer to
them have been created by others. (see document on blog) then choose a term to use throughout the essay
(Black American or African American is best)
TIPS:
• Apply the theory to the case study texts rather than explaining the theory first.
• Look at your paragraphs- there should be as little description as possible and as much analysis
• Take your time with each case study- each should be deconstructed thoroughly in relation to the question
and using a number of theories
• You need audience examples to prove that these representations are affecting the social group
• Point, Evidence, Explain and LINK to the question at the end of every paragraph
• You have an hour to write your answer- spend five minutes planning the best way to address the question so
you show off as much as possible
2. • Try and connect your case studies so your essay flows, e. g. HAIR (Gramsci, Butler, Bell Hooks, Lacan)
FEMALE CELEBS (Butler, Mulvey) MALE RAPPERS (Gramsci, Bell Hooks and pugilistic eroticism,
colonialism) COON STEREOTYPE, HOTTENTOT VENUS CONCLUSION
GRADE BOUNDARIES FOR THE EXAM (estimates, subject to change):
1a and 1b:
BOUNDARY GRADE
22-25 A
18-21 B
13-17 C
9-12 D
5-8 E
0-4 U
Collective Identity:
BOUNDARY GRADE
42-50 A
33-41 B
25-32 C
17-24 D
9-16 E
0-8 U
TOTAL:
BOUNDARY GRADE
83-100 A
69-82 B