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Educational Issues: equal access to education, problems within our education system, tenure for teachers, etc.

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it is a power point project Timeline: PPT Presentation topic due to Instructor for approval no later than the end of Unit 7 (please refer to the Units of Instruction file for dates). Submit topic to instructor. Approval of Presentation topics due back to students no later than the end of Unit 7 (please refer to the Units of Instruction file for dates). Students must follow Presentation guidelines in syllabus and repeated here in this Presentation handout. The completed 1st progress form is due to instructor no later than the end of Unit 9A (please refer to the Units of Instruction file for dates). Submit via email to instructor. The completed 2nd progress form is due to instructor no later than the end of Unit 11A (please refer to the Units of Instruction file for dates). Submit via email to instructor. The completed 3rd progress form is due to instructor no later than the end of Unit 13 (please refer to the Units of Instruction file for dates). Submit via email to instructor. Presentation Creation: The student will create a PowerPoint presentation on a topic chosen from any ONE of the Concepts Chapter 1, 4, 7, 8, or 9. Please narrow the topic and do not try to cover the entire chapter. Each presentation must contain: text (with animations), graphics, and slide transitions. Each presentation will contain a title slide, an agenda slide, body slides, summary slide, and a Works Cited slide. The background design, theme, animations, colors and fonts should be appropriate for the topic chosen. The length of the presentation should be sufficient to cover the topic chosen and should be no shorter than 10 minutes but no longer than 15 minutes. When presenting, the rule is that you should be able to present 1 to 2 slides per minute without speaking so fast that you could not be understood. So if you are to present for 10 minutes, you would need to create as few as 10 slides or as many as 20 slides. It depends on your natural speech pace. DO NOT CREATE TOO FEW OR TOO MANY SLIDES. Presentation Guidelines: The presentation can be recorded and presented via a YouTube video or by using the Record feature of PPT. The instructor will view and grade the actual presentation and/or the submitted PowerPoint file(s).

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   Abstract
   Think of this as a one-paragraph summary of your report. A reader should be able to read this and understand the purpose of your report, the problem being addressed, research methods, and recommendations. (hint: write this last)
   2.  Introduction/Statement of the Problem
   Address all of the following questions:
   What is the problem/issue?
   What are the potential causes?
   Who is affected and what is at stake?
   1.  Why it is worth researching?
   What is your research question?
   How do you plan to research the topic?
   2. Describe the strategy of data collection, explain why the specific methodology utilized, and discuss the techniques of data analysis (hint: look at the survey material provided to you).
   Discuss where the data is from and when it was collected
   Give the total sample size
   Description of the dependent variable (including the level of measurement and an appropriate measure of central tendency)
   Provide any descriptive statistics or tables that you feel would help the reader understand the data and what you are investigating (i.e., describe frequencies of your variables)
   If you recoded any of your variables define the new variables and explain why the grouping was theoretically appropriate.
   Description of the independent variable
   Provide any descriptive statistics or tables that you feel would help the reader understand the data and what you are investigating (i.e., describe frequencies of your variables)
   If you recoded any of your variables define the new variables and explain why the grouping was theoretically appropriate.
   Specify a hypothesis—provide a description of how you expect these two variables to be related to each other in a causal relationship and why (provide your reasoning for why your independent variable might cause your dependent variable
   Findings
   
   Describe caveats to your conclusions, including why you might want to include other variables.
   Implications/Policy Recommendations
   Identify 2-4 distinct recommendations. Each recommendation must be feasible, based on strong evidence, the solution to the specific problem you have identified
   List of references
   References should be formatted according to ASA guidelines.
   
   
   

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Go into more depth within your chosen social problem. Examine your selected social problem theorize why your social problem exists in the first place. Which sociological theory do you identify most with as you describe your social problem (see page 15 of your text/figure 1.7 & table 1.2). Why? (100-150 words)
I'd like for us to use our sociological imagination. C. Wright Mills (a famous sociologist) described the sociological imagination as: "the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society". Choose one social problem (such as: abortion, bullying, alcoholism, date rape, capital punishment/death penalty, racism, poverty, eating disorders, etc.) and describe, in your ideal society, how you would combat your selected issue to solve it. Describe the experience of those affected by the social problem and how their experience would be shifted through the changes made in your ideal society. (200 words) (15 points)

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Applied Research Report Assignment

Applied research is intended to inform stakeholders and decision-makers about a particular issue and possible solutions. For this assignment, you will be using data from the General Social Survey to write an applied or practice-oriented research report.

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The major elements of this project include:

Abstract
Think of this as a one-paragraph summary of your report. A reader should be able to read this and understand the purpose of your report, the problem being addressed, research methods, and recommendations. (hint: write this last)
Introduction/Statement of the Problem
Address all of the following questions:
What is the problem/issue?
What are the potential causes?
Who is affected and what is at stake?
Why it is worth researching?
What is your research question?
How do you plan to research the topic?
Methods
Describe the strategy of data collection, explain why the specific methodology utilized, and discuss the techniques of data analysis (hint: look at the survey material provided to you).
Discuss where the data is from and when it was collected
Give the total sample size
Description of the dependent variable (including the level of measurement and an appropriate measure of central tendency)
Provide any descriptive statistics or tables that you feel would help the reader understand the data and what you are investigating (i.e., describe frequencies of your variables)
If you recoded any of your variables define the new variables and explain why the grouping was theoretically appropriate.
Description of the independent variable
Provide any descriptive statistics or tables that you feel would help the reader understand the data and what you are investigating (i.e., describe frequencies of your variables)
If you recoded any of your variables define the new variables and explain why the grouping was theoretically appropriate.
Specify a hypothesis—provide a description of how you expect these two variables to be related to each other in a causal relationship and why (provide your reasoning for why your independent variable might cause your dependent variable
Findings
Run frequencies for each of the variables so that you understand their distributions
Examine bivariate relationships (run cross tabs)
Determine whether each relationship is significant
Provide the results from the test and provide the technical interpretation.
Provide a substantive interpretation of the test.
Describe caveats to your conclusions, including why you might want to include other variables.
Implications/Policy Recommendations
Identify 2-4 distinct recommendations. Each recommendation must be feasible, based on strong evidence, the solution to the specific problem you have identified
List of references
References should be formatted according to ASA guidelines.
Appendix - SPSS Output

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Pick one country from around the world that have different political systems than the United States. Explore their characteristics in terms of power and authority.

Write a post answering following questions.

    How does the political system work in each of this country?
    Who are the power holders? Are they elected?
    Do they have governments?

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The article, ‘Code of the Street’ is an article from the book by Elijah Anderson titled the same. According to Anderson, what is meant by the terms ‘street’ and ‘decent’ families? What other examples of varying cultural norms within the same geographic area can you think of?

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Who are the Nacirema? What is the point of this article? What are examples of behaviors  of the Nacirema that perhaps look odd to outsiders?

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Many people are unfamiliar with the idea that material objects are related to culture. When someone typically will answer the question what is culture, they discuss nonmaterial culture such as values, beliefs, and norms. One aspect to material culture is the more entrenched an object is in the culture the more invisible it becomes. One example I use in class is from the Little Mermaid. There is a scene where Ariel uses a fork to comb her hair. This is an example of an object that is so much a part of our culture it seems so silly that someone wouldn't know what to do with it. For this discussion, come up with an example of something that is part of your material culture and discuss how it may be viewed by someone from another culture.

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You will need to review PowerPoint/Panopto presentations to help you work through the material on research concepts. You will then need to read the research article "Sex and School" and corresponding news article "Love makes teen sex."  These files are included in this module. Lastly, you will thoroughly answer the following questions about the research. Be sure to employ proper spelling/grammar and citations in your finished product. 

1. What were the independent and dependent variables?

2. What was the research methodology?

3. What were the strengths of the research methodology?

4. What were the limitations of the research methodology?

5. How else could this be studied? Explain any ethical considerations.

6. What are suggestions for future directions for this field of research?

7. What is wrong with how the news article presented the research?

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Inadequate Housing and Crowded Living Conditions for Families on Canada’s First Nations Reserves

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What do you think is the most important social problem facing our nation right now? Explain your answer