Ive attached the introduction paragraph that Ive already done, also the book and rubric is attaching to assignment.

Read both readings, Mcnamee the Meritocracy Myth and the one downloaded below to do a reflection of the two. You need to be able to gain your own access to the meritocracy myth

Capital in the Twenty-First Century film

Overview

Organized laborthrough unions, strikes, and collective bargaininghas played a major role in shaping the lives of working people in the U.S. This assignment will help you connect real-world labor struggles to the sociological concepts weve discussed about power in the economy and government.

Youll do this by listening to an episode of the Philadelphia-based podcast Labor Jawn, which shares stories from the past and present about labor organizing, strikes, and workplace struggles.

Youll write (or audio record) a short response that summarizes the episodes key events and connects them to bigger questions about how power works in the workplace, economy, and politics.

Instructions

Step 1: Choose an Episode

You may select any episode from the podcast Labor Jawn (available on

,

, or their

). If you dont know where to start, here are some suggestions:

Labor History / Context Episodes:

• a great introduction to the citys role in labor history.

Strike & Direct Action Episodes:

Step 2: Write or Record Your Response

[If youd like to submit an audio recording, here is

. You can record audio directly into Canvas from a computer, tablet, or phone]

In at least 200 words or a 35 minute audio recording, respond to the following:

1.Episode Basics

• Which episode did you choose? Provide the title and episode number/date.
• Briefly summarize the labor action(s) or workplace issue(s) discussed.

2.Power and Sociology

• How did the workers in the episode try to gain power or protect themselves?
• What role did employers or the government play?
• Connect this to at least one concept from our course (e.g., labor unions, collective bargaining, strikes, economic inequality, worker solidarity). Explain the concept in your own words and apply it to the episode.

3.Audio or Written Response: Listening to Labor Unions, Power, and the WorkplaceYour Reflection

• What stood out to you most from the episode? Did it remind you of any other labor actions or strikes youve heard about?
• Why do you think this labor action or story matters today?

Requirements

• Length: Minimum 200 words (written) OR 23 minutes (audio)
• Format: Full sentences for written work; clear, audible audio for recordings
• References: Include the episode title and date, and any other sources you reference
• Submission: Upload to Canvas in the correct assignment area
• Academic Integrity: This must reflect your own thinking and your own engagement with the episode. AI-generated summaries or answers are not permitted.

Rubric:

Responses (CLO3)

Responses (CLO3)

CriteriaRatingsPointsSociological Content

Expert

Clearly discusses key concepts and demonstrates sociological imagination. Excellent examples and good critical analysis. Clearly uses key terms and concepts from course.

70.1 to 80 pts

Proficient

Demonstrates familiarity with key concepts, uses of relevant examples and/or demonstrates some critical analysis. Some use or reference to terms or concepts but, could improve.

60.1 to 70 pts

Developing

Suggests familiarity with key concepts, uses somewhat relevant examples and/or demonstrates minor critical analysis. Missing any use of key terms or concepts.

50.1 to 60 pts

Needs Work

Includes only minimal information about the topic and does not make use of key concepts. Examples are of limited relevance.

40.1 to 50 pts

Below Basic

Exhibits limited familiarity or grasp of key concepts (does not use the text), and/or contains factual errors. No examples or highly irrelevant examples.

0.1 to 40 pts

Absent

No submission and/or submission is entirely unrelated to assignment.

0 to 0 pts

/80 pts

Writing and Meeting Assignment Requirement

Expert

Submission is very clearly organized, has logical flow, and is well-written. Little to no grammatical spelling errors. Follows all assignment guidelines (e.g., length, references, etc).

16.1 to 20 pts

Developing

Submission is somewhat organized and/or has only minor grammatical and/or spelling errors. Follows most assignment guidelines (e.g., length, references, etc).

12.1 to 16 pts

Needs Work

Moderate difficulties in following submission writing, poor use of paragraph breaks (or other mechanics); multiple grammatical and/or spelling errors. Does not meet multiple assignment guidelines (e.g., length, references, etc).

8.1 to 12 pts

Below Basic

Confusing submission and/or major, significant grammatical and/or spelling errors. Does not meet most assignment guidelines (e.g., length, references, etc).

0.1 to 8 pts

Absent

No submission and/or submission is unreadable due to problems with writing mechanics and/or missed guidelines.

0 to 0 pts

/20 pts

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Threshold: 3 pts

Exemplary

4 pts

Proficient

3 pts

Approaching Proficiency

2 pts

Needs Improvement

1 pts

No Evidence Available

0 pts

–/4 pts

I have a mid term essay to build off of its about 2.5 pages long the final product needs to be 5-6 pages long with the midterm included so I need about 2.5 pages. I have the midterm and the book as well as the assignment details.

This June will mark a decade since the United Kingdom’s European Union membership referendum, often referred to as ‘the Brexit referendum.’ How significantly did populism influence this event, and what lasting impacts has it had within the framework of populist nationalism?

The slides will only need to discuss “Social Learning & Behavior” which can include such things as therapy, disabilities, trauma & if on any medications previously such as during childhood, during trial/imprisonment. Pictures included as well.

Also, please no AI

FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL Step 1

• Due Monday by 11:59pm
• Points 10
• Submitting a text entry box, a media recording, or a file upload
• Attempts 0
• Allowed Attempts 3
• Available Mar 2 at 12am – Mar 13 at 11:59pm

Final Project Proposal (Step 1): What story do I want to tell? Identifying the story you want to tell

(Estimated length: about 2-3 paragraphs to one page = 250 words)

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Step 1: In this assignment you will simply write down briefly your choice of what you propose to write about for your final project.

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For this assignment, Step 1, please chose an option form the choices below and write about the story you want to tell. In this assignment uyou will share a draft or informal idea of what you would like to write about for your final proyect. You may chose from the menu below:.

First, chose ONE of the following possible two paths:

1) Your own family and/or personal story: either,

• documenting a historical and cultural collective experience you are familiar with, written from your own personal perspective; (you may use selected prompt from the “Family Legacies” handout to help you craft a family story) OR
• documenting a historical and cultural collective experience you are not familiar with, written from your own personal perspective;( you may use selected prompt from the “Family Legacies” handout to help you craft a family story)

2) Your story about anotehr person, family or community of your choice

• documenting a historical and cultural collective experience you are familiar with, written from your own personal perspective; OR
• your story about a family or community documenting a historical and cultural collective experience you are not familiar with, written from your own personal perspective;

IMPORTANT: Graduate students please contact your professor directly for consultation to propose a final project/reflection (and class presentation in any format) that adapts to and engages an aspect of your M.A. culmination project.

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Second, you may follow some of these further guidelines and questions to develop your the story you during Step 2. (See instructions will appear on Step 2, Whats the Story? to be released on Week 8).

FYI (moving ahead)

Step 2; (TBA Instructions on a separate assignment, Week 8) Your final project is, simply stated, to write a story and discuss it in the light of the course literature, and to share with your teams (on a special forum) in the final weeks (Weeks 13-14) in slides, oral presentation and/or podcast format. It can be a personal or team project.

Step 3: (TBA Instructions on a separate assignment on Week 10) , The final assignment (due by Week 15) will be an individual reflection on your project and the overall impact of the course literature and materials in your own thinking about trauma and healing processes in memory and life lessons. Recipes for Life and share your own “Healing Manual” (a separate assignment will be placed on the board for extra credit).

SUGGESTED STEPS/QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER to develop the story from Step 1 to Step2:

Please consider the following questions to get started and come up with ideas for your project:

Step 1) What Story –Select a difficult or ‘traumatic’ experience (or set of experiences): Whose story/stories do you want to tell and share? Why is this story important?

(What are the pre-concepts or presuppositions you started with?)

Step 2) How to Tell a Story-Tools for Story-Telling: What approach/perspective do you want to use to tell the story/stories? You may use a variety of tools: a) narrative: words on short essay or story; and b) you can add another form of communication: non-narrative: photography; audio-visual /artistic/music/song-writing/ creative tools You may also tell the story via podcast, video documenting, video narrative, a photograph or collection of photos or other visual forms of communication, discussion of a meaningful object, drawings or depictions, sculpture, zines or comic book-style, children’s story, cultural artifacts, etc.); your creative outlet can also be a curated collection of social media entries, letters/diaries/e-communications, art exhibits, murals, cultural products etc.

Describe what story/collection of stories you are interested in documenting, and go on an exploratory “fact finding” (collecting sources or data) to find a way to “represent” the story in narrative and other chosen method (brief verbal & written & slide show or other audio-visual narrative tools, as listed above).

(Step 2 will be released on Week 8 and will be due on Weeks 12-13).

Step 3) Create a Product to develop to share the story: Write a ‘brief’ of the story (using your documented data) and draft the “Healing Lessons” and Life Lessons you have learned as you tell/write the story in the format of your choosing (story or essay, poem, short story, blog, podcast, photography, video, etc):

• Please create a brief Healing Lessons or “Lessons learned” as part of your project – With each every we will create a collective handbook in the final weeks

(This step will be released in a Discussion Forum on Week 10 and will be due Week 13)

Suggested issues to think about:

• Are there (publicly) visible aspects of this story/stories? How do you find this experience impacted the subjects in your story? (you, your family, community, others/the population of your choice)
• Do you feel your work has documented and visibilized some aspects of what happened during this experience that may have not be envisible in our/your society/communities? (How so?)
• Are there aspects of these experiences subjects (individuals, families , communities) have gone through that they may still be processing, that are not visible outside your/their personal and family lives?
• Do you think the community, and our society, has processed or healed what happened (in the examples in your story)?
• Did you find any signs that healing has started, been processed. and/or happened?
• Are there any negative aspects that affect the subjects to this day?
• Do you see any signs of “growth” (as in Post-Traumatic Growth) from the experience?

Last Step: Final Reflection:(instructions to be released Week 10, due at the end of Week 15)

• What have you learned while doing this project? What insights or reflections have you gained? (this includes story and addressing your favorite course literature).
• In Closing, please create a brief Healing Lessons or “Lessons learned” attached to your paper (1-3 points)= to create a collective handbook in the final week (Week 15).

Please plan to share your project informally with a peer group, Weeks 12-14.

(Important Note: Final Project Assignment Step 1 Proposal (10%) Step 2, The Story (20 %,) and Step 3, and Final Reflection (10 %). Total: 40 %

*All steps will be released on Canvas by Week 10. Each Step will have a separate Assignment instructions on Canvas under Assignments.

DISCUSSION POST 1

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/jjE5mBXDKIU

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/B_UZyT0nShI

Define the term working poor. Explain how it is possible for a person to work and still be poor. With your classmates discuss: Does this seem fair? Why or why not?

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DISCUSSION POST 2

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/0sj-8pjt9Xk

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/QPnxOOeY1Kg

The middle class was once a symbol of the American dream. It meant financial security and an opportunity for a better future. But that portrait of the American middle class is quite different today. Describe the term middle class. Who is in the middle class? Why is the upper middle class called Dream Hoarders”?

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QUESTIONS

1. Define Poverty and Economic Need:

How Many People Are Poor?

Who Are the Poor?

What Causes Poverty?

2.Explain Antipoverty Policies and Programs:

• Programs to Ensure Economic Stability
• Programs Providing In-Kind Support

Write the essay in easy words instead of big words.

Immigration in the United States: A Critical Sociological AnalysisAssignment Prompt:

1. Analyze immigration in the United States through a sociological lens. Should immigration be examined primarily from a Functionalist, Conflict, or Symbolic Interactionist perspective? Defend your choice by explaining how that perspective best helps us understand immigration policies, debates, and experiences.
2. Apply Sociological Concepts. Connect at least five of the sociological terms listed below to your analysis of immigration in the U.S. Be sure to:

• Define each concept in your own words.
• Apply it to current immigration policies, debates, or immigrant experiences.
• Use these concepts to answer the question: Does U.S. immigration policy promote inclusion or reinforce inequality?

Terms:

a. Assimilation

b. Segmented Assimilation Theory

c. Racialization

d. Social Stratification

e. Cultural Capital

f. Nativism

g. Intersectionality

h. Deviancy

i. Social Control

j. Citizenship ( Race, Ethnicity, Nationality )

1. Use Supporting Texts and Videos. You must:

• Cite at least three of the texts below in your essay.
• Engage with at least two of the videos as part of your analysis.
• Use these sources to support your argument about how immigration is understood, debated, and regulated in U.S. society.

Supporting Texts:

3. “How the Irish Became White” by Noel Ignatiev :

Supporting Videos:

2. 2.
3. 3.

4.

Essay Expectations:

• Length: 3 pages (double-spaced, 12-point font).
• Structure: Introduction, body paragraphs (with sociological terms, theories, and evidence), and conclusion.
• Sources: At least 3 texts and 2 videos must be cited.
• Perspective: Choose a theoretical lens (Functionalist, Conflict, or Symbolic Interactionist) and use it consistently.