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I know that you are a Great tutor and that is why I personally invite you, but I still need to state this. I have never had a more strict professor when it comes to plagiarism, cheating, AI use, or anything of that matter. After this assignment is completed I will have to personally check through multiple different websites and will check if the work is 100% original/ authentic. Please make sure to cite every source that is used. Please DO NOT use any sort of AI or anyone else’s work without citing. I attatched a doc of all of the sources that I want you to use when writing this essay.
That being said here are the essay details below :
Instructions:
Your essay should be exactly 7 pages long, typed, double-spaced, times 12-font. You should include both in-text citations and a “works cited” or “bibliography” page. The title page and “works cited” (or bibliography) page are not part of the 7 pages of content per question.
Prompt:
What makes sociology a science? Explain how sociological inquiry and analysis are a scientific process. What scientific traditions are sociological analysis part of?
Incorporate into your essay, the following concepts: sociological imagination, empiricism, positivism, structural functionalism, social conflict theory, symbolic interaction, epistemology, methodology, inquiry, social patterns, hypothesis, research steps, variables, idiographic and nomothetic explanations, inductive and deductive approaches, quantitative and qualitative methods, levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio), conceptualization, and operationalization.
Grading Criteria:
All writing assignments will be graded based on the following”
1) COMPOSITION (20 points): grammar, syntax, spelling, organization
2) CONTENT (20 points) : information & data
3) CREATIVITY (20 points) : originality of approach and ideas
4) CRITICAL ANALYSIS (20 points): sociological imagination
5) CITATION (20 points) : (I WILL ATTACH ALL OF THE SOURCES PLEASE USE THE SOURCES THAT I ATTACH) sources; references of each textbook, each film clip, online Canvas posts, class lectures/discussion, bibliography/works cited -page. Outside readings and sources are welcome, but I will be graded mainly on using the class materials.
HOW TO SHOW CREATIVITY (notice how this person asked questions and came at the reader in a different approach that left them to think):
What is the difference between stereotypes versus social patterns?
Stereotypes are overgeneralizations, taking a perceived characteristic of a group and applying it to all members. Social Patterns are established through empirical data.
See the difference?
*All Blacks are Democrats. V. *Over 90% of African Americans registered to vote are registered to the Democratic party.
*Men are murderous wifebeaters. V. *One out of four women are murdered by their male partners.
Which statements are the stereotypes and which ones are the social patterns? Why?
Three main paradigms in sociology:
1. Structural Functionalism
2. Social Conflict
3. Symbolic Interaction
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CLASS MATERIAL AND CLASS CONTENT:
You can use this file to learn and get information. Also, you should take the
evidence and facts in this file to use in the 7-page essay because this is the class
material/ content that I will be graded on for understanding. Remember to cite.
Do not share this file with anyone
WEEK #1: January 2nd – January 8th
TOPICS: The Sociological Imagination & Human Inquiry;
* https://www.thoughtco.com/sociological-imagination-3026756
*
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology2ndedition/chapt*er/chapter-2-sociological-r
esearch/
Week #1: Lecture
Some knowledge before starting:
What makes sociology a science? Science is a method of inquiry. It is a way of
learning and knowing about the (social) world in which we live. There are other ways of
learning and knowing as well. In many ways, each of us has been conducting research
our whole lives. Most of us have an idea about what the praxis of social research is. By
rigorously using the scientific method, it will further enhance and sharpen our research
skills and a deeper understanding of “the human condition.”
The Sociological Imagination coined by C.Wright Mills, The “sociological imagination”
illustrates that our own stories & personal biographies intersect with larger
sociohistorical forces. Mills explained that being “sociologically imaginative” enables us
to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two. Each of us has been
born into a world in which historical events have already set the groundwork for the
contexts of our lives and have shaped our trajectories. As history informs our family
stories, individually and collectively, we each. possess the agency and the power to
direct how our stories will be told and how our lives will be lived. As sociologists and
scholars, it is our responsibility to enliven our sociological imagination, to understand
the intersections of the personal and the historical, and to take that understanding to
make the world a little better than we found it, as generations of Asian American Studies
and ethnic studies students and scholars have been doing for the past five decades.
Applying the “sociological imagination” to our own lives, we can see clearly how
understanding the way history and structural forces have contoured our life stories and
the choices we have made.
Watch the following two film clips:
Links to an external site.
Links to an external site.
What is Sociology (Source: University of North Carolina, Sociology Department):
https://sociology.unc.edu/undergraduate-program/sociology-major/what-is-sociol
ogy/
Watch:
Sociology Crash Course #1: What is Sociology?
Links to an external site.
Overview: Is Sociology a Science?
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WEEK #2: January 8th – January 12th
TOPICS: Way of Knowing; The Limitations of Science and Positivism & Research
Ethics
Required Reading for Week #2:
https://www.coursesidekick.com/sociology/study-guides/boundless-sociology/eth
ics-in-sociological-research
* http://www.drjkoch.org/Intro/Readings/Humphreys.htm
* https://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.html
* https://www.prisonexp.org/
*
https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanf
ord-prison-experiment
*https://www.sociologylens.net/topics/crime-and-deviance/laud-humphreys-tearo
om-trade-the-best-and-worst-of-sociology/11418
Slides to Watch:
https://www.slideshare.net/CherylVierheiligMBAM/three-cases-of-ethical-controve
rsy-53307611
Suggested Film to watch (the following is the trailer, not the film itself):
The Stanford Prison Experiment – Official Trailer I HD I IFC Films
(Links to an external site.)
Controversial Studies that Created Concern:
Tuskigee Experiment (1932)
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html
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https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html
Links to an external site.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/tuskegee-study-medical-distr
ust-research/487439/
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Tuskigee Experiment Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOBYPiVfoI&t=37s
Links to an external site.
Tearoom Trade (1968)
https://sexinfo.soc.ucsb.edu/article/tearoom-trade
Links to an external site.
WEEK #3: January 15th ~ January 19th
TOPICS: Conceptualization, Operationalization, & Research Methods & Design
Required Reading For Week #3
* https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/research-methods/
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