This document provides an overview of a presentation on STEM and STEMSS education. It begins with defining STEM as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education and explains it focuses on problem solving through experiential learning. It then defines STEMSS as integrating the social sciences with STEM disciplines to ensure improvements for human societies. The presentation discusses the importance of STEMSS education, provides learning activities, and shares career information in STEM fields like average earnings and employment growth projections. It aims to promote critical thinking on social issues and showcase potential STEMSS solutions.
Collective Identity Formation and The International StateAmin Sadeghi
Alexander Wendt on Constructivism and the Collective: Collective Identity, Collective Interest, and Collective Action. Wendt's article broke free from decades of Realism as the monopoly in International Relations.
This summary only deals with an introduction as well as defining the international state. It is in no an exhaustive summary of the whole article.
Collective Identity Formation and The International StateAmin Sadeghi
Alexander Wendt on Constructivism and the Collective: Collective Identity, Collective Interest, and Collective Action. Wendt's article broke free from decades of Realism as the monopoly in International Relations.
This summary only deals with an introduction as well as defining the international state. It is in no an exhaustive summary of the whole article.
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This platform is a public space to facilitate the compilation, processing and dissemination of information on serious concerns about media freedom and safety of journalists in Council of Europe member States, as guaranteed by Art. 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
It aims to improve the protection of journalists, better address threats and violence against media professionals and foster early warning mechanisms and response capacity within the Council of Europe.
The Platform shall enable the Council of Europe bodies and institutions to be alerted on time, in a more systematic way and to take timely and coordinated action when necessary. It shall help the Organisation identify trends and propose adequate policy responses in the field of media freedom.
Visit the Platform website: www.coe.int/fom
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The Study of SociologyMichael Burawoy Public sociologies .docxssusera34210
The Study of Sociology
Michael Burawoy
“Public sociologies: Contradictions,
Dilemmas, and Possibilities”
Joel Best “Telling the Truth about Damned Lies and Statistics”
Purpose of Sociology?
Provide abstract analytical “models” of society
to aid in understanding
Getting back to social reform…
C. Wright Mills and criticisms of “the power elite”
2
Applied sociology
Between extremes… using sociology to solve problems
NAACP
1954 Brown vs Board of Education
Environment
Social responses to natural disasters
AIDS
Education
Business
Difference between reform (radical…desire to rebuild society…we need a new system) and applying expert knowledge to particular contexts
“Public sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities”
Michael Burawoy
Sociological knowledge for whom?
For what purpose?
NOT easy questions!
“Since the middle of the 19th century,
social scientists have been asking about the influence of their work on society (27)
Contribute to social order and stability?
Promote social change?
Address problems; devise solutions?
Objectivity? Neutral and value-free? Passion?
Opening scene of the essay…
“Public sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities”
References a meeting of the ASA in 2003. Why?
Vote on a member resolution
Should sociologists have or act on opinions regarding important “issues of the day”?
Overwhelming opposition to the war in Iraq
“Foreign interventions that do not have the support of the world community…” (27)
Intervention could spark terrorist attacks…
Passed by 2/3 majority (22% abstained)
In an opinion poll; 75% opposed the war
Ethos
Historical shift…1968, Vietnam war
Hypotheses of shift
1) ASA – has moved further left
In 1968…many sociologists held beliefs similar to the majority of the country population (54% opposed the war)
In 2003, the inverse…75% sociologists opposed the war; 75% of the public supported it
2) the world itself is different
1968… world ripe for change…the 60s/70s
Public context and sociological conscience moved in opposite directions….
The vote
Controversial
Ethics/ code of conduct
Scientifically and professionally derived knowledge
Is taking a moral or political position incompatible with scientific objectivity?
What is Burawoy’s position? Explain.
Pure science/ public engagement?
Policy interventions?
Education?
Housing?
Healthcare?
Public sociology
Engages the publics beyond the academy (beyond the university) in dialogue about matters of political and moral concern (30)
Focuses in solutions to specific problems defined by clients (volunteerism…expertise in addressing problems; services contracted for a fee)
Businesses
State
Multilateral organizations
NGOs/ CBOs
Community of scientists
Committed to working on important puzzles through research programs
Inside/ outside academia
Government agencies (eg: Census Bureau, depar ...
What lies over the horizon? Scenarios to the Future of Social Sciences in the...Shermon Cruz
The year was 2040 when the social sciences transformed into something really unrecognizable.
The social science catalogue now includes courses like coding and decoding, myth and magic, food futures, reality engineering, micropolitics, macrohistory and macrofutures, decolonization, re-creativity and re-invention, foresight studies, big history and galaxies, robotics and space sciences, spirituality and social transformations, etc. This was the tip of the iceberg. The climate of uncertainty and the explosive success of digital technology not to mention some game-changing events like the Occupy Wall Street, the discovery of the Higgs-boson like particle, the emergence of culture as driver of new economic growth among others continue to influence our ways of knowing and re-perceiving the social sciences.
Recently, many academics have speculated about the future of the social sciences. The shape of things to come will certainly come in a digitized content and more according to experts. This paper explored some scenarios on the futures of the social sciences. It tracked emerging developments and explored the possible, plausible, and preferred social science scenarios in 2040. It employed the futures triangle and archetypal scenario (business as usual, best case, worst case, outliers) methods developed by Sohail Inayatullah and Peter Schwartz respectively.The purpose of this paper is to anticipate events and leverage the changes shaping the future of the social sciences.
Pick any three questions to answer out of the following Feel .docxajoy21
Pick any three questions
to answer out of the following: Feel
Free to pick an additional question for extra credit.
Your answers for each of the questions should be
at least (1.5) page
—double spaced—and typed.
These are thinking questions.
Use all of the resources you can find on the internet, books, magazines, social science databases etc. Examples being: JWU Library databases, Sociology Text, and search Google for relevant websites etc. so as to find cutting edge information to help you answer questions.
1.
Pick a revolution that seems to be going on somewhere in the world, and analyze it through
the
three lenses of Functionalism, Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction.
Examples of events would be the following: The American Revolution, Hong Kong demonstrations for democracy, Market Basket Workers on strike, Ferguson-- MI demonstrations, Racism, The Occupy Movement,
Syria, Russia & the Ukraine; ISIS, Black Lives Matter , Earth Day & Ecology, Organic Foods Movement etc. United States 2016 Presidential Election, CyberRevoutions—WikiLeaks
& Anonymous etc.---Pick a Revolutionary Movement of your choice.
What social, cultural, economic, political and technical forces helped to create this revolution?
2.
Some writers and social scientists have defined several contemporary generations in the following categories
: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z.
Describe each of these generations relative to; age, values, size, beliefs, economic impacts and aspirations of each group.
Based on these definitions, which category do you fit in?
Does the description of the general group fit you?
And how are you different from the general description of
your generation?
How
do you feel that you differ from your parents generation relative to: marriage, family, work, home ownership, student debt; etc?
3.
How is deviancy defined?
Give examples of Positive and Negative types of deviance?
If the World could clone genetic deviations out of its gene pool through gene therapy or human cloning-- at a genetic level –what good and bad sociological implications can you imagine?
4.
Pick one of the following cultish groups and describe the history, and in general, why many members were attracted to the group, and the positive, and or negative societal impacts.
What was the process that the “cult” used
for the re-socialization of members so as to adopt new values and lifestyles?
a.) Charles Manson—“The Family” .
b.)
The Unification Church—Sun Myung Moon.
c.)
Heavens Gate—Marshall Applewhite d.) Jim Jones—The Peoples Temple. Or more traditional groups such as: the Masons, the Skull & Bones Secret Society at Yale University, the Illuminati, etc.
If you can think of a group you would like to explore not listed
above, feel free to research your choice.
5.
Select a major sociological theorist and describe the impact they had in the theoretical and applied Sociology.
Ideally you should pick your own, but po.
This is a 3-credit, 16-week course with 4 units of learning via face-to-face, online, blended/hybrid, and night class sessions. I taught these 4 delivery formats as one of the preps from 2006 to 2019 along with other preps of Sociology/Social Problems, Art Appreciation, and some minor assigned subject matters. Here is a part of the contents of the first unit (converted from my lecture notes/PowerPoint, based on The Meaning of Difference, a required textbook, and other relevant sources.
Diversity Studies - this course contains 4 units of learning materials. 3 credits.
Textbook: Meaning of Difference
by Rosenblum and Travis
This is Unit 3 learning materials and activities.
A Preliminary Study on Childlessness/Childfree in the US. contemporary societ...Xena Crystal LC Huang
Outline
Is childlessness and the child-free in the U.S. on the rise?
2. A brief chronicle of procreation vs. childlessness
3. Research Method- Hermeneutic Phenomenology
4. Research Rationale
6. Interpretation and Findings
7. Result and implication
(The final version was presented at UW-Stout. Women's Study Conference).
An experiential facilitation of Multiple Delivery Formats (MDF) - f2f, online, hybrid, Interactive TV conference- for multiple courses (Sociology, Diversity Studies, Developmental Psychology, and Contemporary American Society) during the spring semester of 2019.
Presented at AECT International Conference, Louisville, KY, 2009
3. What is STEM Education?
It stands for Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics.
It is designed to create curriculum
through integrating inter-disciplines or
meta-discipline through problem-
solving, discovery, experiential,
exploratory learning, and require
students to actively engage a situation
in order to find its solution.
4. What is STEMSS Education?
The main purpose of STEM education is to
enhance human conditions.
All the disciplines cannot stand along outside
of human societies (AAAS 1990, p. 8).
The integration of STEM and the Social Science
disciplines is pivotal to ensure the long lasting
improvements for human societies.
A broader and interconnected global perspective
tie STEM and the Social Sciences together to
bring forth high quality of work force.
So, STEMSS represents for Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,
and Social Science.
8. To see
might NOT be to believe.
Critical Thinking Is Your
Best Powerful Friend !!!
Let us prove it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCKbHz3JuFQ (Stereo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9PZizBDBZw&NR=1&feature=fvwp (fire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFURD-C94L8 (changing size)
33. Activity#1-Brainstorming
Use simple technology
to increase our communications and
collaboration
What are the issues and potential
solutions to what you saw?
Try Bubbl to collect thoughts.
http://bubbl.us (3 as a group)
34. What causes Poverty and
what are the potential solutions?
Poverty-
Micro-eyes: Macro-eyes:
Look at individuals A domestic Look at Society
1. Family conditions and global 1.Educational accessibility
2. Personality 2.Job availability
3. Health conditions problem 3. Population
4. Diversity issues 4. Political system
a. Race/Ethnicity, 5. Economic development
b. gender, 6. Technology/ Engineering
c. class, Science 7. Cultural Pattern
d. sexual orientation, 8. Race/Gender and
e. disability Technology other diverse types
5. Born into/ inheritance Engineering of equality
genetics Mathematics 9. History – slavery, wars,
and many other factors…. invasion, conquered
Social Science and may other factors…
35. Propose potential Solutions Via
STEMSS Approach
What are the main reasons that What are the potential solutions to
cause Poverty/Social Inequality? decrease the severity of the problems?
Poverty/
Social Inequality
is a social problem found in
every human society
(Domestic and Global)
What are the roles of Science, Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics and social science (such as sociology,
psychology, political science, diversity, demography…etc.)
to help solve the problems?
37. Critical Thinking! How to do it?
thinking that does not blindly accept
arguments and conclusions
1. examines assumptions
2. discerns hidden values
3. evaluates evidence
4. assesses conclusions
38. 1. Functional mind-eyes:
A system of interrelated parts that is
relatively stable because each part
has a particular function in society
as a whole.
Manifest functional mind-eye;
Latent functional mind-eye;
Dysfunctional mind-eye.
39. 2. Conflict Mind-Eyes
Open many smaller miraculous
mind- eyes to see social problems
based on Social inequality
(power/money, resources, opportunities,
privileges…etc.).
Such as opening the miracle eye to see
Race/ethnicity issues (Genetics, history, and
biology etc. will involve)
Such as Such as opening the miracle eye to see
Social Class issues (Economics, population,
urbanization, population etc. will involve)
Such as opening the miracle eye to see
gender, sexual orientations and disability issues
Again, biology, Neuro-genetics, political science,
ecology etc. issues will involve.
40. How does sociology make your mind-eyes sharp and see things differently?
Individualism, Capitalism. Representative Democracy. Religiosity, social class,
Diverse population
Social Structures
Revolutionary war,
waves of immigration,
Ascribed
wars against Native (race,/ethnicity gender,
Americans, sexual orientation,
industrialization, social class,
Slavery, Civil War, disability…etc) vs.
Suffrage movement, Achieved status;
WWI, Union Genetics vs.
movement, Great
Depression, WWII,
Civil right movement,
Individual Environment.
Family upbringing,
Korean war, Vietnam education, occupation,
war, oil crunch, gulf peers, media…etc.
wars, war on Iraq…
History Biography
41. Symbolic-interaction Analysis Structural–functional Analysis
1. Dramaturgical A. Look at the whole social
A social structure, or the overall
Analysis- functions of social
World as a stage; event/issue operations. Ask, “How it
Roles and status to be analyzed works?”
involve; B. Or divide into 3
•Sports sub-paradigms
in front of stage; •Internet
behind the stage. a. Manifest function
•Divorce b. Dysfunction
2. Social •War on Iraq/ c. Latent function
Afghanistan
Exchange •Cloning Social-conflict Analysis
Theory- (organs, A. 3 Levels of analysis:
Rational animals,
human a.Individual b. Societal c. Global
calculation of Race, gender, social class,
benefit and cost beings?)
•Pro-life./ sexuality, disabilities…etc
3. Social Pro-choice B. Social institutional
Constructionism •Gun Perspectives
•Death Penalty Economic perspective
Symbols •Shall I live Political Perspective
attaching meaning with my girl Family/Educational Perspective
friend now. Religious Perspective
Environment/Population
42. Education Politics Religion
Organization Socialization
Sport- Media
Family
Football
Technology/
Economy Medicine
Cultural, structural Competition/
and situational cooperation,
factors affecting conflict, social
sport and sport stratification and
experiences social change
43. Symbolic-interaction Analysis Structural–functional Analysis(Macro-level)
(Micro-level)
Dramaturgical Analysis- Social What sportacan do to
society as whole?
World as a stage; Roles and
status involve; in front of stage; event 3 sub-paradigms:
behind the stage.
Sport is a complex face to face
Sports a. Manifest function-
interaction. Prejudice, jealousies, recreation, physical condition,
and ambition are brought to the harmless way of let off steam
field. E.g., In 1947, Jackie Robison b. Dysfunction-not for
understood that million fans and academic ability, drugs, death
white players resented his
presence in the MLB. c. Latent function- foster
The players, spectaculars, the social relationship to creating jobs,
coaches, owners of the teams,, encourage competition
media/sport news reporters,
magazines, commercialism, Social-conflict Analysis (Macro-level)
prayers, national anthem, and the Analysis based on social inequality:
involvement of political leaders.
Conflict based on Gender and Race and
Social Exchange Theory- other categories of inequality analyzed from
Rational calculation of Individual, Societal and Global perspectives
benefit and cost of each social
interaction and transaction. Social institutional analysis
Why people risk the injury, even Socio-economic status (SES)- tennis, golf, skiing are
death to be a pro ball player? expensive, basketball, baseball are accessible to all
Money, fame, or power….etc. income level, which reflect social standing.
Political aspect – the majority of manages,
Constructionism- head coaches, and team owners are still white.
Singing the national Anthem; Family/Educational aspect – more support to male
Mascots, body deco, headgears; children students in sports
End zone dancing, hand Race/Religious Perspective-racial discrimination still
gestures…and so on to construct taints pro sports in the U.S.
meaning. Gender aspect- male dominates sports.
More budgets go to support male sport
44. Activity #3
Review via a Video
A Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hL
Phdjj0Uo (house)
50. A General View of Employment in 2010
Occupational employment and wages report for May 2010
51. Gandhi's Seven Deadly Sins
Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi, one of the most
influential figures in modern social and political
activism, considered these traits to be the most
spiritually perilous to humanity/societies:
1. Wealth without Work
2. Pleasure without Conscience
3. Science without Humanity
4. Knowledge without Character
5. Politics without Principle
6. Commerce without Morality
7. Worship without Sacrifice
52. Have a Wonderful Summer!
Social Science Faculty- Crystal Li-chin Huang
Email: Lhuang@cvtc.edu
Phone: 715-833-6283