Category: Sociology

Our book is : Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom 7th Edition by Janet M. Ruane (Author), Karen A. Cerulo (Author).
I need an introduction that revolves around a Hispanic girl who grew up in East Los Angeles in a poor socioeconomic environment and whose parents are in the lower working class. Who decided to seek higher education at California State University, Fresno majoring in Accounting.
For personal information and personal experiences, I don’t mind what the writer decides.
I need three scholarly references. Please include a reference page.
I chose the three topics in the files.

Digital ethnography for the attached survey 
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Visual project (4-5 pages) criteria:
You are to pick an extremely specific topic from the midterm paper which is PRIMARY GROUPS in sociology.
Select 2-3 pictures to demonstrate you understand the subject matter. You can use a past, present, and future approach. You can use any type of approach if it relates to the other pictures.
The pictures are to be on the paper.
Type your response to the pictures underneath the image.
You still must write 3 pages, regardless of how big or small, or number of pictures are on the paper.
Include 4 outside sources, in text citations, and a citation page. Follow APA.
Essay assignments should conform to APA format
Use a 12-point font
Single-spaced
It should be a Word (.doc or .docx)

Instructions in attachment files 
Materials for inspiration in attachment files 
Create an enlightening infographic about the topic that I chose, which was ( Perfeomces, Doing gender) 
After creating the infographic write a short description of what you created and What the inspiration was from the course material and what You hope People get from your project (200-300 words). 
Please read instructions carefully 
The course material is provided for this. 
Thank you! 

Choose one topic that contributes to Economic Inequalities in Society. Watch a video called Gender Satisfaction for background information. I attached the screenshot of the instructions.

SPSS usage is required to get data, im using the 2018 GSS data set, Originally was going to do the project on NATHEAL which is about people’s views on how much our nations spends on improving and protecting our nations health. You can go ahead and choose another Variable to do the research on if you’d like. if you need to cut space to reach the 6 pages the final limitations and summary section at the end can be shorter. (food for thought prof checks papers for heavy AI use) Rest of info about format etc in the attached files.

SOC480 – Literature Review – 100 points
Research your topic choice and write a scholarly literature review on the social problem in the United States.
Literature Review must:
1.) Synthesize at least 10 sociology and/or criminology peer-reviewed scholarly articles into a literature review on your topic in the U.S. 2.) Connect your topic to at least two categories of identity (race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, etc.) and explain the affects of inequality on people experiencing your social problem.
3.) Utilize one sociology or criminology theory as the framework for your social problem.
4.) Include sociological concepts throughout.
Paper requirements: 1.) Well organized and clear, including cover page, introduction with thesis statement, literature review, conclusion, & reference page
2.) At least 10 sociology and/or criminology sources (articles or books) are cited properly according to APA or ASA standards, both in-text and in reference page. Sources must be no older than 2014 – no master’s thesis, dissertations. or conference papers allowed
3.) Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are error free
4.) Double spaced, 10 to 12 point font, 1 inch margins
5.) Minimum of 7 pages and a maximum of 10 pages (not including cover page or reference page)
6.) Each resource in your reference page must be cited in the paper. Likewise, every resource cited in the paper needs to be included in the reference page.
Structure of the Paper
I. Introduction
The topic is introduced, and the thesis statement gives clear direction to what factors will be discussed throughout the paper. Includes current data reflecting social problem status.
[Suggested length: 2-3 paragraphs – 1 page] (15 points possible based on content and style)
II. Literature Review
Demonstrate your ability to locate, identify, and write about sociology/criminology scholarship related to your topic/social problem. The result should be a detailed discussion of what the scholarly literature tells you is the current status of your topic/social problem. Synthesize don’t summarize. Clearly discuss the social problem using sociological concepts throughout. Analyze your topic/social problem through the lens of at least one sociology or criminology theory. Discuss how inequality is related to at least 2 social factors or categories of identity (race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender, religion, etc.). Scholarly, sociology/criminology, peer reviewed sources must all be fairly recent (2014 – present). [Suggested length: 5-6 pages] (50 points possible based on content and style) III. Conclusion
Make succinct and precise conclusions based on the literature review and introduction. Insights into the problem are appropriate and implications are clear. [Suggested length: 2-3 paragraphs – 1 page] (15 points possible based on content and style)
IV. References Use the American Sociological Association (ASA) or American Psychological Association citation styles (APA). Must be in correct format, both in-text and reference page. Any sources cited in-text MUST be included in reference page and any sources included in reference page MUST be cited in-text. No sources over 10 years old, no dissertations, master’s thesis, or conference papers allowed.
[Suggested length: minimum 10 scholarly sources that you independently located and used] (20 points possible based upon content and style)
Goals of the Paper:
Please note that Soc 480 is a “capstone” class and is meant for you to demonstrate all that you have learned in the major. The department wants you to be able to do all this by the end of Soc 480: Student Learning Objectives for Sociology:
1. Analyze and interpret the diversity of social experience associated with criminology and social justice issues, especially as they relate to race, class, gender, age, sexual preference, religion, and nationality. 2. Assess competing theoretical approaches to criminology and social justice issues of publics with differing and multiple interests; specify structural or institutional sources of these criminology and social justice issues; and propose and assess policies, interventions and/or modes of advocacy that will enact positive change.
3. Locate, analyze, assess, and communicate criminology and social justice scholarship.
4. Articulate the ethical and social justice implications of criminology and justice studies.
Student Learning Objectives for Soc 480:
1. Demonstrate competency in key sociological theoretical approaches and concepts.
2. Apply concepts of diversity including but not limited to race, class, sexual orientation, age, religion, and nationality, physical abilities. 3. Formulate a research question within a sociological framework. 4. Compile academic research articles from academic databases for sociology and related fields (e.g. women studies, race and ethnicity, etc.). 5. Demonstrate knowledge of a full scope of research methods including application. 6. Write a literature review that conforms to professional standards of scholarship. 7. Envision areas and ways for future social change. 8. Develop civic values and skills.

SOC 100, Exam 2 
For each of the following prompts, provide an essay-style answer that reveals your (not the textbook’s or other source’s) understanding of the subject matter in question. Be thorough and provide detail. Discuss your answer with examples illustrating that clarify your argument. Cite any sources that you use to support your argument.
The responses must be posted to the exam assignment in Canvas by 11:59pm on 5/13. 
For each of the following prompts, provide an essay-style answer that reveals your (not the textbook’s or other source’s) understanding of the subject matter in question. Be thorough and provide detail. Discuss your answer with examples illustrating that clarify your argument. Cite any sources that you use to support your argument.
The textbook describes power as occurring along three different dimensions. For each dimension, discuss how power works and provide an example illustrating that process.
What is the function of the institution of education? What evidence exists that education is not functioning equally for different categoric units?
What are push and pull factors as they relate to immigration? What is assimilation? What factors help gauge how well an immigrant has assimilated?

Select two recent (2010 or newer – some exceptions but contact me if needed, it would most likely be for family history) academic journal articles studying some sort of topic related to the family. Do not use articles that I provide or from the book. The two articles should have a similar topic (family violence, aging issues and families, history, LGBTQ, ethnicity, single parent, blended families, divorce, etc.) There must be some type of research performed in the article: experiment, participant observation, unobtrusive observation, secondary analysis, etc. In order for the article to be considered academic, it should have most of the following sections: Intro/Background, Methods/Measures, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References.
In your own words, provide a brief summary of the first article. The idea is to teach me about the article you read in a full, detailed paragraph. Then, do the same for the second article. Finally, you should end with a detailed paragraph briefly comparing and contrasting the two articles. This assignment is a full, three paragraphs. Quotes are not necessary as you are explaining the articles according to you.
You can use the CSUDH Library (online or in-person), Academic Databases, or Google Scholar. Make sure the article is not a regular magazine article. It must be academic.

The Relevant History 
It’s been more than 150 years since slave-holding states in the American south seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America and waged war to establish their legitimacy as a sovereign nation independent of the Union, or what remained of the US in the north.
Despite claims that the conflict was about protecting states’ rights and state sovereignty from federal overreach, the Civil War was the attempt of the southern states to protect the economic interests of the Confederacy’s wealthy landowners—especially those families operating plantations—by defending the institution of slavery as well as the right of southerners to own slaves.
The Confederacy’s defeat in 1865 ended centuries of chattel slavery in North America, freed more than 4 million people from bondage, and set Americans on the slow and treacherous, frustratingly twisted path toward racial equality and justice in the modern era.
Ten years of Radical Reconstruction following the end of the Civil War (1865-1874)
The US Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that established “separate but equal” as doctrine, and thus made racial segregation legal. Segregation would remain legal until Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned by the SCOTUS in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Arguably, because of that ruling, the separate-but-equal ideology of Jim Crow segregation existed alongside 80 years of exploitation of African Americans by corporations and local officials in the south who would deny people of color the rights and protections guaranteed to all by the US Constitution.
“The problem of the 20th century,” wrote sociologist WEB Dubois in 1904, “will be the problem of the color line.” Dubois was among the first American sociologists whose work would have a significant and lasting impact on American culture and the discipline worldwide. The 20th century saw more than the struggle  to keep slavery and inequality alive in some way. The 1900s included the activist years, when the norms and practices of the pre-modern world were to be challenged, changed or rejected entirely.
The Harlem Renaissance
The 1955 murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, as well as the brave sorrow of his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, whose decision to allow the nation to see her son’s mutilated body put her child’s face on the victim of a deeply violent and unforgiving Southern racism, and awakened people across the country to the dangerously cruel acts of racially motivated violence and ultimately helped energize the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s;
We celebrated the passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965), as well as the achievements of civil rights activists like Medgar Evers and Rosa Parks and mourned the deaths of leaders like Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King.
While we celebrated, we forget our society was ignoring the government-sponsored syphilis experiment in Tuskegee, Alabama. The experiment operated from 1932 until 1972, killing nearly 400 people and affecting countless families before it was finally shut down 8 years after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.
For the past 50 years, the war on drugs has decimated urban black populations and quite possibly has been the engine behind the mass incarceration of African Americans.  Between roughly 1983 and 2023, the US prison system—including state and federal facilities, government-run or for-profit prisons—has absorbed a dramatic, almost unbelievable 700 percent increase in the prison population. Minority men, including black men, are disproportionately overrepresented in prison populations.
Scholars and activists argue that the drug war provides cover for the systematic disenfranchisement of the poor and minorities and people of color through mass incarceration. Mass incarceration threatens to create a bureaucratized caste system in the United States by stigmatizing African American identities as inherently criminal and irredeemable. One scholar calls this race based caste system “the new Jim Crow.”
From the beginning of modernity, even before the Civil War and until the present day, the politics of race have been woven into the fabric of US cultural memory via unflattering, politically-charged racial images or ethnic caricatures in art, television news and entertainment, film, and more recently social media. These images affirm stereotypes and perpetuate prejudices toward people of color, and they exist alongside equally exaggerated representations of white people that cast whites as good-natured, benevolent, tolerant and fair in their dealings with minority members. Indeed, the inclusion of or reference to this image of the “good guy/white guy” has been said to be symptomatic of what some scholars have called the “white savior complex.”
In February 2012, in Sanford, Florida, local neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman reported a “suspicious person” in the neighborhood to Sanford police, then accosted, shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin, an African American and son of a neighbor, allegedly in self-defense. Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder and was acquitted at a trial that was nothing if not suspect.
In August 2014, in Ferguson, MO, Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old African American Michael Brown, triggering what has come to be known as the Ferguson Unrest and Ferguson Riots, which forced “officer involved shootings” of African Americans into American public consciousness.
What seemed isolate incidents became a litany of names with a deeper history: the stories of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddy Gray, Alton Sterling, Philandro Castile, Botham Jean, Stephon Clark, Atatiana Jefferson, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Manuel Ellis, Andre Hill, and Daunte Wright began to be seen as familiar, like the stories of Emmett Till or James Byrd, for example. Thus began a new wave of resistance, of social movements around and about race and racism, including the Black Lives Matter movement, and recently, people have begun to speak of being “woke,” or socially conscious, aware of and concerned about the need for social justice for everyone. 
That brings us to today. Last weekend, masked members of the white supremacist group, Patriot Front, marched through downtown Charleston, West Virginia, handing out propaganda that tells a white nationalist story. proclaiming that their white ancestors were conquerors who had taken this land by force, Patriot Front asserts that “America is not for sale,” because they believe that America belongs to them. This land is supposedly the legacy of those “conquerors,” meant for their white descendants only. This group and others like it are increasingly active and increasingly visible, and historically, these groups have been associated with violence and lawlessness. That they are openly marching in the streets of American cities is just one indicator of the racial tension that is part of American daily life now. 
The Prompt for your final project   
Consider how the institution of racism (yes, it is an institution)  manifests itself in your personal lifeworld.  How has racism and/or racist culture influenced your identity, shaped your relationships, or impacted your life in other ways. Were these other ways positive? negative? I want to challenge your understanding of the sociology of race and ethnicity, and inequality. Your goal is to explain sociologically how the “criminalization of black life” described across our documentary sources has helped to create and sustain racism and inequality from the 19th to the 21st century. How does that meme figure into understanding privilege as well as the experience of discrimination? Include brief descriptions of how racism, prejudice and discrimination are explained from the three paradigmatic theoretical perspectives in sociology (functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist).