Category: Sociology

Based on the rubric, please assess the approximate level of my article and offer some suggestions for revision.

I need just a graph from a reliable source. describe independent variable dependent variable unit of measurement and conclusion how it affect the present day

Students will select a current event taking place in Canada that they believe in some way relates to

SOCIAL POLICY. They will provide a written analysis of this event that draws on one of the

SOCIOLOGICAL theories covered in the course. Students will be expected to formulate a strong

and convincing thesis. Detailed assignment instructions will be provided on the first day of class.

Papers should be no more than seven pages double spaced, Times New Roman

I HAVE INCLUDED A RUBRIC AND INSTRUCTIONS.

A. Directions

Step 1: Pick a Topic

Select a community group to study. Some examples of community groups you might explore include:

• An activity-based group like a book club, a soccer team, or a community choir
• A religious or ideological community such as a church congregation or a local political party
• A community organization like a Parent Teacher Association (PTA), a neighborhood association, or the volunteer committee at a local soup kitchen
• An identity-based organization such as a social club for veterans or a fraternal type organization

It should be a group in which membership is voluntary and recreational.

Avoid the following:

• Families
• Workplaces
• Ethnic or racial categories
• Friend groups

You might wish to choose a group that you are a part of, or you might not. You can use your personal experience with the group to form the basis of your research question. Or you can ask members of the group about their experiences, which will help you develop your research question.

In the template, write a paragraph (approximately 6-8 sentences) describing the community group you have chosen. In particular, be sure to answer the following questions:

• What is the community group?
• What are the attributes or characteristics of this community group? (e.g. What activities does this group do together? What element of the members’ interests or identities brings them together? How is membership in the group defined, if at all?)
• What kind of experience with or access to this community group do you have?

You will use this same topic in Touchstone 3 when you present your research plan.

Step 2: Ask a Question

Next, you will formulate a question related to this group, and to topics related to diversity and/or collaboration. You might think about diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, socioeconomic status, or along multiple intersecting identities. Be sure to use what you learned in Unit 1 about the ways sociologists ask questions.

Examples:

• What are the challenges of a moms community organization in appealing to moms with children of different ages?
• How does a group of car enthusiasts reach out to the surrounding community to get support for their events?
• How has the Boy Scouts accepting girls impacted their mission and programs?
• Do gender segregated sports teams for kids help maintain traditional gender roles?

In the template, write the question you have formulated for your study. Be sure to identify the Independent and Dependent variables and identify them correctly. (HINT: Refer back to and for help.)

Step 3: Prepare a Bibliography

Finally, you will begin developing a bibliography for a review of the existing literature that relates to your question. Before conducting a full literature review, a sociologist will build a bibliography, or a list of potential sources that they will read and study in greater depth in the review.

Collect 4-6 articles, books, or other resources that relate to your question and list them in your template. You dont have to look into these materials in depth right now! Youll review this literature more closely in Touchstone 3, and you will also be exposed to additional relevant research and frameworks in Unit 3. Youll also be able to add to or amend your bibliography before you submit Touchstone 3 in Unit 3.

Attributes of good readings for your literature review:

• They are academic, scholarly works about research findings or they are reliable journalistic reporting based on scientifically credible and reliable data.
• They should have been published in the last 10 yearsunless they are a landmark work on the topic and provide important background or as a comparison.
• They look at different sides of the argument and a variety of perspectives.
• They do not have to be written by sociologists or published in sociology journals, but they should be academic and not popular works.

Where to find readings:

More than likely you will use a major search engine like Google Scholar. Start your search by identifying key search terms related to your research question, to generate relevant results. specifically searches scholarly literature. However, keep in mind that much of this literature may have limited or paid access. Another good place to search is in a public library or university library catalog or database. You might also want to try regular Google, but you will have to be careful to screen your results and make sure you only select academic sources. Whichever way you choose to search, make sure that you are selecting credible sources.

What makes a source credible?

Credible sources are written by authors who are well known in their field. They are based on scientific datanot opinions or with biased observations. Sources should be from reliable outlets, like major publishers, universities, think tanks, and credentialed current practitioners. (HINT: Refer back to for more guidance.)

How to format sources in your bibliography:

Sociologists use American Psychological Association (APA) format for their research. However, you will use a more simplified method to format sources for your bibliography. You will include five key elements for each source, with each element separated by a period:

• Authors name(s)
• Publisher and publication date
• Title of the source, in quotation marks
• Page numbers (if applicable)
• Source’s location for web-based texts (URL)

EXAMPLE Alireza Behtoui. Journal of Sociology, 2015. “Beyond social ties: The impact of social capital on labour market outcomes for young Swedish people.” p. 711-724.

Refer to the checklist below throughout the writing process. Do not submit your Touchstone until it meets these guidelines.

1. Identify Community Group

Have you identified and described a voluntary, recreational community group?

Have you provided group attributes/characteristics of this group?

Have you discussed your experience with or access to this group?

2. Research Question

Have you selected a research question that is sufficiently specific to be researchable while tying in to broader themes in sociology?

Have you clearly identified independent and dependent variables?

Are your independent and dependent variables in the correct relationship?

3. Bibliography

Have you provided 4-6 credible, relevant, recent, and properly cited sources?

Did you properly format these sources and include the five key elements for each source, with each element separated by a period:

• Authors name(s)
• Publisher and publication date
• Title of the source, in quotation marks
• Page numbers (if applicable)
• Source’s location for web-based texts (URL)

C. Requirements

The following requirements must be met for your submission:

• Use a readable 11- or 12-point font.
• All writing must be appropriate for an academic context.
• Composition must be original and written for this assignment.
• Plagiarism of any kind is strictly prohibited.
• Submission must include your name and the date.
• Include all of the assignment components in a single file.
• Acceptable file formats include .doc and .docx.

1. Overall Goal

Write a critical sociological analysis of Islam using theories and concepts from the course.

This is not a summary paper. You must:

• Take a clear analytical position
• Use sociological theory to support that position
• Show how sociology helps us understand Islam, religion, power, modernity, secularism, and/or Orientalism

2. Length & Scope

• Target length: ~1,250 words
• Acceptable range: 1,1251,375 words
• Do not exceed 1,500 words
• Focus on one main argument, not multiple unrelated claims
• The thesis must be:
• Sociological (not theological or personal)
• Analytical (not descriptive or moral)
• Arguable (not obvious or neutral)
• Every section of the paper should support, refine, or complicate this thesis

3. Use of Readings (Critical Engagement Required)

• Minimum 10 scholarly sources total
• At least 6 must come from assigned course readings
• All sources must be academic (no blogs, news articles, or opinion pieces)
• ( Week 1 has a set of readings , week 2 has a set of readings, etc.) the paper may focus on one or more of the weeks if needed.

You should explicitly engage with:

• Classical sociological theory (e.g., Durkheim, Weber, Marx, secularization theory)
• Modern critiques (e.g., postcolonial theory, Orientalism, critiques of secularism)
• Concepts of power, knowledge, modernity, and religion

Avoid:

• Theology
• Personal belief statements
• Defending or attacking Islam normatively

8. Writing Style

• focus on analysis rather than description
• Keep sentences direct and well-structured; avoid unnecessary complexity or big words
• Use course concepts and theoretical terms where relevant, but do not overuse advanced language
• Avoid purely descriptive writing or moral judgments
• Do not use first person (I, we) unless it is analytically necessary
• make it sound like a first year student, no need to over do it or make it difficult to read

I UPLOADED THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM PROFESSOR, I WILL UPLOAD READINGS AFTER I HIRE YOU.

Instructions

The Topic Idea & Theory Selection is the first assignment for the Sociological Analysis Project.

You will select a social problem to research and prepare a written report. You may choose to evaluate a social concern, issue, event, or phenomenon from a sociological perspective; examine the social construction of personal identity; or evaluate the roots of a social movement.

Your research paper (at the end of the semester) will include key sociological concepts and theories while demonstrating the sociological perspective throughout. There will be individual assignments along the way. Specific grading criteria for each step of the project is provided. See Guidelines for Sociological Analysis Project.’

1/2 typed page. This can be in formatted like an outline or written as a paragraph.

Assignment for Step 1 Topic Idea and Theory Selection.

For this first assignment you will need to choose a social problem specific in its characteristics (see examples in the Guidelines for Sociological Analysis Project), explain why the topic is of interest to you, how it is relevant to sociology, and what sociological theory could be used to explain the topic. Remember you will need to choose a sociological theory to help shed light on your topic — conflict, symbolic interactionism, or functionalism theory.

Read The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber (Reading 7) and Naming All the Parts by Kate Bornstein (Reading 10). Your journal entry must address all the questions below and be at least 350 words long. Do not include the questions in your answer.

1. In what ways do you see yourself doing gender?
2. Lorber argues that gender is a social rather than a biological construct, yet the dominant notion in our society is that gender is linked to biological factors. What would be the implications of accepting the notion that gender is socially constructed and therefore mutable?
3. Lorber discusses many reasons why a culture maintains constructions of gender differences. What are your own ideas regarding why we maintain such constructs?
4. What are some of the ideas Bornstein discusses about how constructs of sex and gender are connected to sexuality?

If needed I will upload readings from book. Will also need to respond to one post from a student I upload.

Overview

In this assignment, you will practice writing four research questions.

Prompt

In Chapters 1 and 2 of your textbook, you learned about the four types of social research: exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, and evaluative. In this activity, you will formulate four research questions about support for or against capital punishmentone question per research purpose (exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, and evaluative).

• Exploratory
• Write an exploratory research question either for or against capital punishment.
• Descriptive
• Write a descriptive research question either for or against capital punishment.
• Explanatory
• Write an explanatory research question either for or against capital punishment.
• Evaluative
• Write an evaluative research question either for or against capital punishment.

What to Submit

This assignment must be completed in written format. Any references should be cited in APA format.

Overview

In this assignment, you will craft three potential research questions for your research problem.

Prompt

Now that you have chosen your resources and examined the influence of the methodologies and data-collection types on research, its time to use your resources to craft research questions. In Project Three: Research Questions, which is due in Module Eight, you will need to create a research question that addresses a particular research problem and explain your development process. To prepare yourself to explain your development process, think about your research problem, not a specific study, and then complete the following:

Crafting Questions

Craft research questions that would require the researcher to use a particular research methodology. Complete each of the following:

• Craft a qualitative research question.
• Be sure your research question captures your research problem and requires using a qualitative approach to answer the question.
• Craft a quantitative research question.
• Be sure your research question captures your research problem and requires using a quantitative approach to answer the question.
• Craft a mixed-methodology research question.
• Be sure your research question captures your research problem and requires using a mixed-methodology approach to answer the question.

Examination of Questions

Now that you have crafted a research question that would require a particular research methodology, answer each of the following to help choose which research question you will examine further in Project Three in Module Eight:

• Which research question do you think best captures the research problem you would like to explore?
• Remember: Youre not actually performing this research studyyoure just thinking about the research question that you would like to dig into if you were going to conduct a research study.
• Does one of your research questions seem to represent the types of research questions in your field of study more than the others?
• Is there anything you noticed about the creation of these research questions? Was there something that surprised you in their creation? What stood out to you as you were crafting each question?

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Craft a qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodology research question about a specific research problem.
2. Examine research questions in order to select a complex question.