The solution provides information, assistance and advise in putting together a journal article review. It gives students an outline to follow, one that they can customize to their requirements and a the steps in doing an article review from pre-reading, the 2 readings and the purpose of each, one af...
For many students, writing an essay, a research paper, a discussion or an article can be a real challenge especially if they have to answer questions and explore concepts and do it in an academic manner while following particular rules of scientific writing. It can be daunting especially if they hav...
Homegrown terrorists, also known as domestic terrorists, pose a unique threat to efforts to prevent terrorist acts, because such terrorists are already living in the country in which they wish to cause harm. Domestic terrorists are responsible for some of the most devastating attacks in U.S. history...
Select a topic to research from the list below, relating your choice to stakeholders. Please provide notes to assist with research.
Community partnership/cooperation and collaboration
Police in school settings
Responding to school and workplace violence
Proactive justice approaches
Enhancing ...
1. Who are key stakeholders in an alcohol and drug abuse program? Describe their
role. That is, identify who is invested in this program's success (100 words)
2. What are some ways that a program (alcohol and drug abuse program) success could be defined? What is a clear statement that clearly sp...
1. How can the approach/thoughts/knowledge about thinking like a social scientist and research methodology change from not knowing anything on research to completing a graduate Research Method course? (100 words)
2. What challenges may students encounter in a Research Method course? What are some...
SOCY 100: Introduction to Sociology
Writing Assignment #2: Obedience or Simulated Prison
In class, we have been exploring two major building blocks of sociology: research methodology/the science of sociology and the impact of groups and collectivities on our behavior. For this assignment you...
What are the views on mental illness between the old and younger generations?
Administering a mental illness survey to a much larger group using a probability-based sampling technique (e.g., simple random sampling, stratified random sampling), describe which sampling technique would be used and h...
How can a study by designed using experimental methods (Experimental methods involve manipulation of the IV and measured changes on the DV and experimental control and/or randomization) to test the hypothesis that stress at work causes family conflict at home?
IV/predictor/explanatory
DV/outcome...
Operational definitions specify, in measurable terms, how we are defining key constructs.
1. What are two different operational definitions for stress? Provide a critique of each definition
Operational definitions specify how you could measure or identify whether someone is stressed at work:
...
What are longitudinal and bidirectional associations between prosocial and problem behaviors? (100 words)
What are the longitudinal direct links between prosocial behavior and problem behaviors toward strangers? (100)
What are indirect relations between friends and family via maternal warmth/ ...
1. Are chances of succeeding in life/society increased with a formal education or life experiences or both or none? Identify a theory or theories that can answer this question
2. How can someone reach conscientization? Is formal education or life experiences needed to reach conscientization? How?...
What is Ethnomethodology?
Describe an actual everyday social norm utilizing breaching experiment. Answer the following questions:
• Describe the experiment
• What social norm was breached?
• Where?
• With how many people?
• Why?
• What was the final outcome/conclusion?
...
What are the essential concepts, ideas, and/or insights regarding Dorothy E. Smith & Sandra Harding (Sociologists) women's perspective as radical critiques of sociology?
How do they describe feminist standpoint theory?
How are women's theories, methods, and conceptual schemes viewed within th...
Why do you suppose that housing affordability is routinely calculated and reported by using the median price of a house in a given city? That is, what is there about the median that makes it a good measure of housing costs in a particular area?
What are Émile Durkheim (French sociologist) essential concepts, ideas, and/or insights regarding ethics, anomie, social bond/theory, conflict/social problems, modern order and economic systems in order to build strong societies?
How does Max Weber (Sociologist) relate to Durkheim's research, c...
Components of an introduction should include such things as a problem statement, purpose of the study, and research questions. What are the characteristics of a good problem statement? Provide examples of evidence that support the significance of the problem. • How does the problem statement align...
under what conditions, would you choose to do a self-administered questionnaire as opposed to a face-to-face interview with subjects, a telephone survey, or an email survey? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each type of survey?
Think of a simple topic that can be studied longitudinally. (Remember you need a topic that deals with changes that occur over some period of time. For instance, how often do students change jobs or careers after they graduate from college? You can only use this topic if no one else has used it in t...
Researchers argue that science and social research can often overlap to bring about policy change. What are some examples of how scientific research can contribute to social policy changes?
*400 words for 4 credits*
*NO REFERENCES NEEDED*
Develop a process evaluation plan for a Autism Spectrum Disorders caregivers support group that includes the minimal elements listed below. Review the resource "Workbook for Designing a Process Evaluation" (Attached). The response should include peer reviewed references.
◦A description of the...
review the case study of the Petrakis family, located in this week's resources. Conduct research to locate information on an evidence-based program for caregivers like Helen Petrakis that will help you understand her needs as someone who is a caregiver for multiple generations of her family. You can...
a 3-paragraph evaluation of Development of a telephone-based intervention for support persons to help smokers quit according to the criteria below (its qualitative)
• If the study is qualitative:
• Relate the central question to the strategy of inquiry.
• Begin with what or how (not why).
...
Draft a program evaluation of state funded transitional housing program for homeless clients that identifies: a) purpose of evaluation b) questions that will be addressed c) information needed to be collected d) stakeholders of the transitional housing program along with their role in the agency an...
research
Does the increase in the number of immigration violations lead to increase in crime rate?"
What is the final conclusion of the research question?
Described the discussion and conclusions of research topic?
Discussed the organizational, managerial, and policy implications of the res...
1. Describe what is meant by the social construction of race. How can this concept be applied to Americans from multiple racial backgrounds?
2. Discuss how racism can be viewed as both functional and dysfunctional for a society. Be sure to include the three major sociological views in your discus...
Select a family-related topic and briefly describe how you would study the topic using the following approaches:
Ethnographic research
Grounded theory
Phenomenology
Looking for basic information about ethics in research. Please answer the below general questions as it relates to ethics in research.
1. How do ethical issues relate to the research process?
2. How do ethical issues relate to the potential participants in a research study?
3. How do ethical is...
List and fully describe the three measures of central tendency and the two measures of variability. Provide a social work example throughout your discussion post.