Category: Sociology

In writing this paper, use Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism, Conflict Theory, Critical Theory, Intersectionality, Social Construction of Reality, and/or the Sociological Imagination as a “lens” for thinking about the fissured economy (Weil https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-disappearing-co…), housing insecurity (The Push), or plagiarism (Rudd & Hodges). **I provided link for conflict theory and document for fissured economy, if other topics is better tell me I’ll send them**. To help in writing this paper, review this guidance for “Writing a ‘Lens’ Essay” from Pomona College: https://www.pomona.edu/administration/writing-center/student-resources/general-writing-resources/writing-lens-essay
When reading this guidance, remember that the term “text” applies to audiovisual materials (which you may draw upon) as well as written materials. **i have lecture notes and document notes i can send them**
Formatting Instructions:
Submissions must include correct APA citations and reference list. Other aspects of APA formatting (e.g., font, running headers, title page format, margin size) are not required. See Week 1 materials for information on APA.
750-1250 words, including references.
External sources are not permitted.
Cite at least two assigned course materials.

After watching/reading listening to Lecture Module 2 module videos, please do the following by posting a paper or uploading an audio message or video of up to 5 minutes long. This assignment should take approximately 2 hours to complete after doing the preparation for the module. Try to work on it gradually if possible. Complete one of the following textbox activities from Chapter 1: (Be Careful Who You are Calling Deviant: Body Rituals Among the Nacirema, How Do You define Deviance? or Now You Use your Sociological Imagination). Write up (or record) your answers to the questions related to each activity (100-word minimum–worth 3 points) Elaborate upon how you have seen at least one of the three non-sociological theories discussed in Module 2’s Part 1 or 2 lecture being used in the last year to either define a person/group/or behavior as deviant (or criminal or inferior–many words can be used) or to socially control (change, restrict) a person or group’s behavior (100-word minimum–3 points) When you analyze how each has been used, be sure to integrate ideas from my video lecture into your analysis and cite any news sources you might be using in your response (last name of author year: page number or weblink); examples: (Swan 2024: Lecture Module 2 Part 1) or (Lopez 2023)
For news articles also reference them at the end with the title of the article and the name of the newspaper. For (made-up) example: Lopez, Steve. 2023. “The problems with the court system in Los Angeles.” The Los Angeles Times, May 21: web address).
3. Write an original paragraph that uses the either anomie’s or strain theory’s concepts to analyze the article/audio story/video on factors related to deaths by suicide in the military (Walsh 2024) or Disneybounding (Refinery 29 2019). Draw upon specific ideas from the lecture and/or the assigned reading from your textbook chapter in your paragraph (100-word minimum) (4 points). See ASA Style GuidelinesLinks to an external site. for additional help on how to cite and reference and the examples in the course schedule on your syllabus. Note if your browser requires you to use keyboard shortcuts to cut and paste your assignment draft from a file on your word processing program onto the Cougar Course textbox, these are the instructions. If you have a PC, hold Control & C to copy and Control& V you can paste. If you have a Mac, hold Command & C to copy and Command & V to paste. Or you can upload a file or record an audio or video file.
https://americanhomefront.wunc.org/news/2024-01-09/a-pentagon-report-finds-that-troops-suicides-are-often-preceded-by-legal-or-administrative-troubles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZlAfuJE-k&list=PLs6CcQphfieKNMhNmzEM9_3rM0UNAGb1k&index=6

Greater global economic integration and neoliberalization processes, characterized by privatization (of roads, public services, etc, private sector led development, deregulation, etc.), have produced urbanization trends that we can observe in different contexts across the globe. One of these trends has been the increasing development of gated communities in countries across the Americas, for example. While gated or walled communities have always existed in one form or another, rapid urbanization, economic instability and a generalized sense of heightened insecurity in conjunction with a distrust of the state and its capacity to provide certain public services have contributed to the rapid proliferation of new gated developments. Yet, in each context (Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles) the types of gated communities that are created depend on the existence of local antecedents and on the local social, political and economic context. The humanities provide a window into the complexities of gating communities. Literature and film can delve deeply into the mental, social, political, cultural – individual and collective – constructs that gating represents and produces. What can we learn from fictionalized accounts of Gated Communities about the gating phenomenon and its consequences? The film La Zona, for example, expresses the sense that the society in which the action takes place is putrefying. Gated communities here seem to function as a metaphor for social (and political) decay. What does the film tell us about the society and political order in which the gated community is embedded? What is the basis of urban citizenship in these places? In your examination of the film La Zona, think of the underlying motivations of the characters. Why do they take “refuge” in or seek “recognition” in gated communities? What role do Miguel and Alejandro play in the narratives? What might their characters represent in terms of the future? Here are some other questions you might keep in mind:
How does the film suggest that the characters might feel a sense of dislocation or a sense of belonging? How is “belonging” in the gated community constructed? How do the relationships among the characters highlight / intensify experiences of isolation and / or belonging? As you watch the film: How does the medium of the film create (or not) a sense of shared consciousness with the characters and the audience (you)?
How does the film use music to heighten a sense of identification or dislocation?
Is music used to set up juxtapositions, to highlight contradictions, or to reinforce a feeling of shared understanding/experience?
Your assignment:
Make sure your essays has a thesis / argument and that you illustrate your thesis through specific references to the film (you are analyzing the film). You may want to take a look at the Burke (2001) article, which we read at the beginning of the semester, again to see what kind of metaphors he discusses – e.g. gated communities as “fascist min-states” (Burke 2001, 120). You can develop and argument around this theme, for example. You may also want find a different kind of theme. • Write your initial post in a word document (2 pages single-spaced), save it with your name in the document name (_La Zona). Upload the word document to Assignments. Find the appropriate assignment name, click view complete and browse for your document). • Copy and paste your post your text from your word document into the dialogue box for the discussion board thread. (Discussion Board / La Zona / Create Thread).
• Main Post due Saturday night 10/21, (at least 2 pages single spaced). Some film terminology and strategies you might look for (Film studies: an introduction By Ed Sikov):
Mise-en scene is “the totality of expressive content within the image” it is like the stage set, and the assumption is that everything has meaning and was chosen to speak to, engage, shock, manipulate the audience.
The shots – the first shot of a character tells you a lot. How are the different characters introduced to the audience?
Can you identify some of the following shots? How do they relate to the development of the narrative or of particular characters? Extreme close-up shot – might be a person’s mouth, eye, hand, etc. – any element isolated.
Medium shot – might be a shot of a person from the waist up.
Long shot – places a human, for example, in the surrounding by creating the illusion that the image was taken from a far distance. Point of View (POV) shot – creates the impression that the viewer is seeing the scene through a particular character’s eyes. At the edge shots – might be framed by windows, doors, etc., which create a sense of division – the sense of being on the other side.
Shots that frame some characters as being “on the same side.” References
Burke, M. (2001). Fortress dystopia: Representations of gated communities in contemporary fiction. The Journal of American Culture, 24(1/2), 115–122.
Pla, Rodrigo, director. La Zona. Morena Films, 2007.

In his book, Jerome Kagan says, “The modern world desperately needs a Swift, Kant, Goya, Shaw, Beckett, or Eliot to provoke a passive population, adrift in a ship without a confident direction… to choose a moral position that demands a deeper empathetic concern with the social and natural settings into which each generation is born and to communicate it to a desperate public” (p. 243).
Evaluate this proposal through your critical examination of the state of the three cultures (science, social science, and the humanities) as presented in Kagan’s book.
Explain what such a person would or should say and/or do, based on your evaluation. Describe what you envision today’s Kant or Eliot to be. This can be an actual or a hypothetical person. Your Poet/Philosopher of Our Age must be able to respond to the failures of the three cultures while defending and promoting them. You need to explain how this person’s thought and/or action would contribute to an authentic transformation of society.
Research: Include at least 6 sources, journal articles in the disciplines of the social sciences, the sciences, and the humanities. You can choose to find research in all three, or just two of the cultures.
Analyze: Your research should help you in your analysis by supporting your explanation of how the three cultures (the social sciences, the sciences, and the humanities) would contribute, in your proposed scenario, to such a transformation.
> 6 sources required, academic journal articles (social sciences and/or the humanities)

Case Study 16.2: Margaret Davis Stays at Home As a social worker working with this family, discuss how you would negotiate between autonomy and self-determination and competent practice with the best interest of the client’s health in mind? How does living in a rural area affect these negotiations? What might be some of your concerns and reasoning processes? Case Study 16.4: Bina Patel Outlives Her Son Discuss the physical health needs and psychosocial stressors associated with Bina, her son, and her daughter-in-law. How are these complicated culturally? What are the culturally prescribed roles and rules that you became aware of in this story? Discuss the social worker’s dual task regarding the needs of the couple, given the husband’s failing health and the needs of Bina. How do you suggest that the social worker should initially engage with the couple? What possible options need to be explored regarding caregiving for Bina? Requirements: Reaction paper should be minimum of five pages of content, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 font, and APA format.

Greater global economic integration and neoliberalization processes, characterized by privatization (of roads, public services, etc, private sector led development, deregulation, etc.), have produced urbanization trends that we can observe in different contexts across the globe. One of these trends has been the increasing development of gated communities in countries across the Americas, for example. While gated or walled communities have always existed in one form or another, rapid urbanization, economic instability and a generalized sense of heightened insecurity in conjunction with a distrust of the state and its capacity to provide certain public services have contributed to the rapid proliferation of new gated developments. Yet, in each context (Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles) the types of gated communities that are created depend on the existence of local antecedents and on the local social, political and economic context. The humanities provide a window into the complexities of gating communities. Literature and film can delve deeply into the mental, social, political, cultural – individual and collective – constructs that gating represents and produces. What can we learn from fictionalized accounts of Gated Communities about the gating phenomenon and its consequences? The film La Zona, for example, expresses the sense that the society in which the action takes place is putrefying. Gated communities here seem to function as a metaphor for social (and political) decay. What does the film tell us about the society and political order in which the gated community is embedded? What is the basis of urban citizenship in these places? In your examination of the film La Zona, think of the underlying motivations of the characters. Why do they take “refuge” in or seek “recognition” in gated communities? What role do Miguel and Alejandro play in the narratives? What might their characters represent in terms of the future? Here are some other questions you might keep in mind:
How does the film suggest that the characters might feel a sense of dislocation or a sense of belonging? How is “belonging” in the gated community constructed? How do the relationships among the characters highlight / intensify experiences of isolation and / or belonging? As you watch the film: How does the medium of the film create (or not) a sense of shared consciousness with the characters and the audience (you)?
How does the film use music to heighten a sense of identification or dislocation?
Is music used to set up juxtapositions, to highlight contradictions, or to reinforce a feeling of shared understanding/experience?
Your assignment:
Make sure your essays has a thesis / argument and that you illustrate your thesis through specific references to the film (you are analyzing the film). You may want to take a look at the Burke (2001) article, which we read at the beginning of the semester, again to see what kind of metaphors he discusses – e.g. gated communities as “fascist min-states” (Burke 2001, 120). You can develop and argument around this theme, for example. You may also want find a different kind of theme. • Write your initial post in a word document (2 pages single-spaced), save it with your name in the document name (_La Zona). Upload the word document to Assignments. Find the appropriate assignment name, click view complete and browse for your document). • Copy and paste your post your text from your word document into the dialogue box for the discussion board thread. (Discussion Board / La Zona / Create Thread).
• Main Post due Saturday night 10/21, (at least 2 pages single spaced). Some film terminology and strategies you might look for (Film studies: an introduction By Ed Sikov):
Mise-en scene is “the totality of expressive content within the image” it is like the stage set, and the assumption is that everything has meaning and was chosen to speak to, engage, shock, manipulate the audience.
The shots – the first shot of a character tells you a lot. How are the different characters introduced to the audience?
Can you identify some of the following shots? How do they relate to the development of the narrative or of particular characters? Extreme close-up shot – might be a person’s mouth, eye, hand, etc. – any element isolated.
Medium shot – might be a shot of a person from the waist up.
Long shot – places a human, for example, in the surrounding by creating the illusion that the image was taken from a far distance. Point of View (POV) shot – creates the impression that the viewer is seeing the scene through a particular character’s eyes. At the edge shots – might be framed by windows, doors, etc., which create a sense of division – the sense of being on the other side.
Shots that frame some characters as being “on the same side.” References
Burke, M. (2001). Fortress dystopia: Representations of gated communities in contemporary fiction. The Journal of American Culture, 24(1/2), 115–122.
Pla, Rodrigo, director. La Zona. Morena Films, 2007.

In his book, Jerome Kagan says, “The modern world desperately needs a Swift, Kant, Goya, Shaw, Beckett, or Eliot to provoke a passive population, adrift in a ship without a confident direction… to choose a moral position that demands a deeper empathetic concern with the social and natural settings into which each generation is born and to communicate it to a desperate public” (p. 243).
Evaluate this proposal through your critical examination of the state of the three cultures (science, social science, and the humanities) as presented in Kagan’s book.
Explain what such a person would or should say and/or do, based on your evaluation. Describe what you envision today’s Kant or Eliot to be. This can be an actual or a hypothetical person. Your Poet/Philosopher of Our Age must be able to respond to the failures of the three cultures while defending and promoting them. You need to explain how this person’s thought and/or action would contribute to an authentic transformation of society.
Research: Include at least 6 sources, journal articles in the disciplines of the social sciences, the sciences, and the humanities. You can choose to find research in all three, or just two of the cultures.
Analyze: Your research should help you in your analysis by supporting your explanation of how the three cultures (the social sciences, the sciences, and the humanities) would contribute, in your proposed scenario, to such a transformation.
> 6 sources required, academic journal articles (social sciences and/or the humanities)

Case Study 16.2: Margaret Davis Stays at Home As a social worker working with this family, discuss how you would negotiate between autonomy and self-determination and competent practice with the best interest of the client’s health in mind? How does living in a rural area affect these negotiations? What might be some of your concerns and reasoning processes? Case Study 16.4: Bina Patel Outlives Her Son Discuss the physical health needs and psychosocial stressors associated with Bina, her son, and her daughter-in-law. How are these complicated culturally? What are the culturally prescribed roles and rules that you became aware of in this story? Discuss the social worker’s dual task regarding the needs of the couple, given the husband’s failing health and the needs of Bina. How do you suggest that the social worker should initially engage with the couple? What possible options need to be explored regarding caregiving for Bina? Requirements: Reaction paper should be minimum of five pages of content, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 font, and APA format.

Pick a sociological topic and find 5 reliable sources, tell me 3 interesting facts and/or things strengthen your argument for your topic that you learn from each source (remember to keep a sociological lens!), and must include proper citations (this includes in-text as well as a full citation you would find in a works cited or reference page) in the citation style of your choosing. The topic that I chose is Sociology of nationality and race: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Education Systems.

Please provide an answer that is 100% original and do not copy the answer to this question from any other website since I am already well aware of this. I will be sure to check this.
Please be sure that the answer comes up with way less than 18% on Studypool’s internal plagiarism checker since anything above this is not acceptable according to Studypool’s standards. I will not accept answers that are above this standard.
No AI or Chatbot! I will be sure to check this.
Race is considered a “social construction” by anthropologists and sociologists. This means that the symbols, values and attitudes that we associate with race are a reflection of the broader dynamics of society. Race, from a sociological perspective, is more about how people are treated in a society based on observable characteristics such as skin tone, hair texture etc. Race has nothing to do with who we are inherently as human beings. It is more about how others “see and treat” people in society and the social realities that become associated with “race.”
Race has important historical, political and socio-economic implications for this country. Race is a construct that has become woven into institutions of society such as housing, education, health care, politics etc. This form of racism is known as “institutional racism.” For the purposes of this discussion topic, please complete the following:
Go to the links to the PBS documentary, Race: The Power of an Illusion. There are two segments available to watch online:
Race: The Power of Illusion Introduction
How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Created
Please respond to the following questions:
What do sociologists mean when they say that race is “socially constructed?”
How did the information, presented in the videos, increase your understanding of race from a sociological perspective?
Provide an example from the video to support how race has become “institutionalized.”
Cite three references from this video to support your response.
Requirements: 2 Paragraphs Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages | .doc file
Please provide an answer that is 100% original and do not copy the answer to this question from any other website since I am already well aware of this. I will be sure to check this.
Please be sure that the answer comes up with way less than 18% on Studypool’s internal plagiarism checker since anything above this is not acceptable according to Studypool’s standards. I will not accept answers that are above this standard.
No AI or Chatbot! I will be sure to check this. Please be sure to carefully follow the instructions.
No plagiarism & No Course Hero & No Chegg. The assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
Please be sure to include at least one in-text citation in each paragraph.