Category: Sociology

Student Interpreter/Translator
“Wait up, Maria!” Mr. Clark shouted as he hurried to catch up with his fifth grader and her mother who were leaving school at the end of the day. Maria Montes usually walked home with her sister, a third grader at the school, but on this particular day they were delighted to find their mother waiting outside the school for them.
Mr. Clark has been trying to reach Maria’s mother, Ms. Montes, to discuss discipline concerns he had about Maria. Several students complained to him that Maria was not including them in activities at recess. Others complained that Maria was calling them names. Maria denied the accusations, but Mr. Clark, who started paying closer attention to Maria’s interactions with her classmates, witnessed a few incidents and wanted to let her parents know what was happening.
He wrote a note home but noticed a few days later that it was still in Maria’s backpack, undelivered. Next he called her parents, but he knew they were just beginning to learn English, so he wasn’t confident they would understand the message he left for them.
Maria’s mom was receptive during their last conference, when an interpreter was present. As he jogged to catch up with her, Mr. Clark wondered how a conversation would go now, given the fact that he did not speak Spanish. When he finally reached them, Mr. Clark shook Ms. Montes’s hand and asked her if he had a few minutes to talk. “Yes,” she replied, and Mr. Clark noticed that Maria’s expression changed, probably out of concern that the conversation was not going to go well. Mr. Clark felt that asking Maria to interpret would not be a good idea since he was not sure she would translate accurately, given the topic of conversation. He turned, instead, to Marcella, Maria’s younger sister, who had developed a reputation for being a helpful and bright student, and asked her if she could translate for him. Marcella nodded and explained to her mother why Mr. Clark had stopped them.
After several minutes of conversation, slowed a bit by the translation process, Maria, Ms. Montes, and Mr. Clark agreed on an appropriate behavior plan for Maria. Mr. Clark was pleased with the impromptu meeting and its results. “Thank you, Marcella,” he said, and told her how wonderful it was that she was so proficient with two languages and that she was willing to help him. He looked at Maria’s mom and said, “You must be very proud of her. She’s very smart!”
Marcella beamed. “I can help other teachers too,” she said, shyly. Mr. Clark smiled and said he might need her to help translating for her mother in the future.
Looking back up at Maria and Ms. Montes, Mr. Clark noticed that they appeared uncomfortable. Seeing this, he reassured them, “I’m sure next time we will have something good to report.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow, Maria,” he said with a little wave, then headed back toward the school.
Mr. Clark felt satisfied about what he was able to accomplish in the short impromptu meeting. He felt confident that Ms. Montes would follow through on their agreement for at-home support. As a bonus, he felt good ab out empowering Marcella and praising her for her help. He was happy to know she would be a resource if he did not feel he could trust Maria to translate for her mother.
It’s a win-win situation, he thought.
Questions: Why might Ms. Montes and Maria have grown uncomfortable with Mr. Clark’s interaction with Marcella?
In your opinion, was it appropriate for Mr. Clark to stop Ms. Montes, Maria and Marcella on their walk home from school in order to have a conversation about Maria’s behavior? Why or why not?
Was it appropriate for Mr. Clark to ask Marcella to be the interpreter for the conversation? Why or why not?

Task summary:
Dear Freelancer, you will write a paper that examines the topic the client chose in Module Two and how it affects individuals and society.
Full order description:
MAIN DETAILS:
In the paper. you will describe your chosen topic. construct a thesis statement, perform a critical analysis, and reflect on how your topic informs your personal life and experience.
You will dcmonstrate your ability to think critically, investigate, and communicate clearly.
Specifically. you must address the following rubric criteria:
l. Evidence: You will use evidence to support your analysis throughout the project.
1. Integrate reliable from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis. Use at least two resources from theModule Resources section of the course and two resources that vou find through your own research using the Shapiro Library.
a. It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
b. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sourccs will be represented as in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
c. You will be evaluated on both criteria.two sources from our school library. I’ll send it over by Monday. Others, is free ball.include thesis
Note the topic is attached in the attachment check there

In the final project, you will write a research-based paper exploring a contemporary social problem (the topic that you selected in Milestone One). The purpose of this milestone is to find the scholarly sources you will use as references for your final paper and to gather information about your topic. In this milestone, you will submit Mapping the Issue (Section II of your final project). This milestone is a PowerPoint presentation that will help you visualize the social issue and how it relates to the following sociological concepts: cultural beliefs and biases, social roles, social inequalities, and existing social conditions. PowerPoint will help you to organize the concepts and identify the conceptual relationships. Your PowerPoint presentation should be based on the elements that you provided in your Milestone One submission. This PowerPoint is a critical piece of your final project, which is due in Module Seven. You will include at least four scholarly references (APA format) in the final slide of your PowerPoint presentation to support your ideas with scholarly sources.
Using the social issue you selected in Milestone One in Module Two, you will further examine the issue using the sociological concepts of cultural beliefs and biases, social roles, social inequalities, and the existing social conditions. These concepts will serve as categories through which you examine the issue, as you will identify how each is related to the larger issue. Use the provided PowerPoint template (linked in Module Four of your online course) to complete this assignment.
In the PowerPoint presentation, you must address each of the following four categories:
Identify the cultural beliefs and biases present in the social issue. For example, there may be prejudice or discrimination at play.
Identify the social roles played by the main individuals or groups in the social issue. For example, an individual may be a mother and/or teacher.
Identify the social inequalities present in this social issue. For example, there may be racism or sexism at play.
Identify the existing state or conditions that the social issue is challenging. For example, if your issue is that recycling does not lead to better environmental conditions, the existing condition may be perceived worsening environmental conditions which recycling aim to solve.
What to Submit
This milestone should be submitted using the PowerPoint template. Your submission should include APA references for at least four scholarly sources.
**TO WRITER: I Included Final Project Power Point Template, please download it and answer in it. I also included Milestone one. my topic is Prescription Drug Abuse

Write a critical, analytic essay about how the neighborhoods have change over time culturally and ethnically in New York City. Urban gangs, their history, how ethnic succession works, and how people’s living conditions are in ghettos for example, the extreme gap of the living conditions and life quality in general… Can you please write it as if you are telling a story instead of putting information back to back. I will attach 3 sources, can you also refer to them while writing? Thank you so much!

Here is the initial post that i already answered but need a response to a classmates (see below)
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?”, Revisited
In module 1, you read Roz Chast’s graphic memoir and we discussed it in Module 2. Please go back and review that discussion now. Did you learn anything in this course that helps you understand the Chast family’s experience better than you would have before you took the course? Was there anything in the Chast family’s experience that helped you understand something you read about in the course better? Would you change the posts that you made in that discussion? Why or why not?
Remember to substantively respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts after you have posted your response to the discussion prompt.
Please respond to this post.
I really enjoyed Roz Chast’s graphic memoir “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” especially because I have seen my own Mother and Aunt in her shoes when my grandparents were put on hospice and actively not getting better from their elderly ailments. Both of my grandparents were diagnosed with end stage COPD around the same time, and they ended up passing within 3 months of one another. In Chast’s memoir she uses dark humor to cope with some of the thing’s family members must endure or deal with seriously during times of loss or for planning ahead for when the day does come. On page 149 Chast writes, “Once or twice, I asked someone – a staff person at the Place, or later, a hospice person – what would happen when the money ran out. The response was always a variation of, “Don’t worry! Somehow it always works out!”” This passage of her story really hit home with me because it truly feels like nobody in assisted living, hospice or even Medicare Insurance representatives know the true answer to how things can be taken care of when “the money runs out”. I truly feel that Medicare should absolutely fund long term care, as a citizen of this country we pay into Medicare our whole lives with every job and career we stay with or start with – Medicare rates are taken out of every paycheck just like taxes. I honestly believe that it should be our right as American citizens to be able to peacefully know that we can be taken care of from the funding we have been putting our hard-working money into all our lives. There should never be a question of “if” someone at advanced age can be taken care of or not or to have to rely on “hope”.

Updated Post 12/13/23:

Since reading Roz Chast’s graphic memoir “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” along with the knowledge and insight I have learned throughout this course I do still feel the same way as I did from the first time reading the memoir. Now that I have researched more on palliative care as well as the lack of funding for in-home care aids and even designated family members it is so important for our community and country to review these areas of need more in depth and seriously. That along with the possibility of Medicare running out within the next 20 or so years, it is detrimental to the future of our advanced age generations as well as those approaching that they have the healthcare benefits that are necessary for treatment of ailments and even for preparing for their death as Chast mentions the moral burden and guilt that family members can have when being sole or primary caretakers for those that cannot do much on their own anymore and depend on their caretakers for sustaining all ways of life and treatment of ailments. As stated in my earlier discussion, Medicare rates are taken out of every paycheck just like taxes. I honestly believe that it should be our right as American citizens to be able to peacefully know that we can be taken care of from the funding we have been putting our hard-working money into all our lives. There should never be a question of “if” someone at advanced age can be taken care of or not or to have to rely on “hope”.

Marx offered a thesis on the fetishism of commodities. First, explain Marx’s thesis on the fetishism of commodities. Next, describe what you think we have fetishized in modern society (be sure to explain your reasoning). Or, if you you disagree with Marx’s thesis on the fetishism of commodities, explain why (be sure to include specific examples).

Option 1. Explain the differences in men and women as both victims and offenders in terms of deviance and crime. Are the rates of victimization and crime different? What factors might lead to those gender differences? How does gender affect treatment in the criminal justice system? Include a recent news piece that is related to the topic of gender, crime, and/or deviance.
Option 2. Analyze the claim that there are gender differences in academic performance. What factors lead to a potential gender gap in education? What are the short-term and long-term effects of the gap? Do we define success in the same way for boys and girls, men and women? Provide an example of how teacher expectations can impact academic achievement.

In this course, we have examined many topics related to gender and society (socialization, media, health, deviance, family, workplace, etc.). The research paper should show a comprehension and analysis of the course readings and course objectives. The weekly readings and sociological theories should serve as a beginning point for your paper and should be incorporated in the assignment.
For the research paper, you will need to select a topic of interest that is related to gender and society. Incorporate related, scholarly materials (minimum of 5 sources) into your analysis. You will select a topic that interests you and provide a critical analysis of the topic and it’s relevance in contemporary society.
As you complete the research paper, assess your assignment. It should include:
1. A descriiption of your topic and its relevance to the course
2. The background of your topic
3. The connection to course materials and related theories.
4. Critical analysis
a. Provide in-depth analysis of the topic (for example, analyzing factors that contribute to the wage gap)
b. Discuss the relationship between gender and your selected topic
c. Provide a conclusion with summary of findings
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
· Sexism in the Media
· Parental Leave in the Workplace
· The Gender Pay Gap
· Violence Against Women
· The Feminist Movement
· Gender and Body Image
· Sexual harassment
Instructions for assignment:
Paper should be 5+ pages in length, not including the title page & references
Follow APA-formatting guidelines
Include a References page.
Include section headings where needed
Review assignment before submitting for spelling, sentence structure, writing, and grammatical errors.
Paper should be written in your own words (include proper APA-formatted citations for any referenced materials).

Write essay responses for each of the prompts associated with the selected chapters in Deviant
Behavior by Thio, Taylor and; Schwartz. Keep your responses separate by chapter, identifying
each essay by number or writing out the prompt with your response immediately following, but
turn them in together as one paper. Organizationally, begin each essay response at the top of a
new page. Your paper should be typed, well written and comprehensive in depth and detail. Write responses to the following questions for Chapters 2, 3, and 5
Chapter 2: Positivist Theories
2-1 Compare and contrast strain and control theories. What does each say about the causes of
deviance? Which one seems more sensible?
2-2 How does social learning theory explain deviant behavior? What social forces does this
theory identify as possible factors that would pressure someone toward deviance?
Chapter 3: Constructionist Theories
3-1 Evaluate the labeling perspective on deviance. What are some pros and cons of this
approach? How does it relate to the more general process of social interaction?
3-2 Identify the central ideas of the conflict approach to deviance. In what ways is economic
and cultural conflict involved in the definition and control of deviance?
Chapter 5: Sexual Assault and Child Molestation
5-1 What is meant by the “culture of rape”? How does the culture work, and what are its
consequences?
5-2 Contrast and compare the psychological and sociological views on why men rape. Are these
men abnormal or driven by society? Which view seems to provide the best explanation?

Watch one episode of one of the following television programs: Modern Family, Blackish, Fresh Off the Boat. Choose ONE of the following theorists: Robert K. Merton, Ralf Dahrendorf, Herbert Marcuse or Erving Goffman Describe in detail three or more concepts introduced by the theorist. Apply the theorist’s concepts using illustrations from the show. Explain in detail one or more limitations of the theorist’s concepts in explaining what you observed in the film. What is lacking from the theory? What does it not address in the context of the film? Consider the work of other theorists and whether their theories address certain aspects of the film more effectively. Consider the limitations of the theorist’s theoretical approach (for example: micro/macro, nomothetic or ideographic, historical context, etc Properly cite your references Include a bibliography. Cite original sources Use the MLA Citation Style Guide: Author-Date Style: ** I need paper back no later than 12/6/23 at 10am cst**