Category: Sociology

For the following assignment please write regarding the migrant crisis in NYC and how it is 
affecting the budgeting. The research question is “How is the incoming of undocumented migrants affecting the city budgeting system?” and how is that affecting these areas 
City budgets
Employment opportunities
Labor market
Undocumented migrants
Social and economic impacts
Economic growth

An in class essay presentation using this information. Quotes, paraphrases and citations and in-text citations with academic references inserted below texts.
“Mass Incarceration as a Tool of Social Control,” particularly in the context of incarcerated women in the United States, Karl Marx’s theories on class struggle provide a powerful lens. Marx’s ideas about the economic base influencing the superstructure, which includes institutions like the criminal justice system, can frame the subject matter effectively.
Karl Marx’s Conflict Theory will be the primary theoretical framework for this presentation. This theory posits that society is in a state of perpetual conflict due to competition for limited resources. Marx emphasized the struggle between classes (the bourgeoisie or capitalist class owning the means of production, and the proletariat, the working class) as the prime driver of social change and development. When applied to mass incarceration, this theory can illuminate how the criminal justice system serves the interests of the ruling class by maintaining social order and control, particularly through the suppression and control of disadvantaged social groups.
The focus will be on examining the ways in which the criminal justice system, through mass incarceration, acts as a tool of social control to perpetuate class disparities and suppress dissent among marginalized populations, with a specific spotlight on incarcerated women. It will explore how policies and practices linked to incarceration disproportionately affect lower socio-economic groups, reinforcing a cycle of poverty and marginalization that benefits the ruling class by maintaining a fragile status quo.
Presentation Content:
1. **Introduction to Marx’s Conflict Theory: Basis of class struggle and its relevance to the criminal justice system specifically New York State female prisons
2. **Historical Context and Contemporary Realities: Overview of mass incarceration in the U.S., New York State female prisons with statistics highlighting the disparate impact on women, particularly from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
3. **Illustration of Class Struggle through Mass Incarceration: Analysis of how economic interests and the capitalist system influence punitive justice policies and practices in the New York State female prisons.
4. **Case Studies and Testimonies: Personal stories from incarcerated women to humanize the data and emphasize the social and human cost.
5. **Impact on Society: Discussion on how mass incarceration reinforces class disparities and serves as a mechanism for social control in New York State.
Academic References:
Marx, K., & Engels, F. **The Communist Manifesto.
Marx, K. cAPITAL
Davis, A. **Are Prisons Obsolete?
Garland, D. **Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory.
Friedrich Engels’ “The Condition of the Working Class in England”, for historical context on class struggles.
“The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander, for a contemporary analysis of mass incarceration.
“Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison” by Michel Foucault, for a theoretical perspective on surveillance and control.
“Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity” by Loïc Wacquant, for a critique of penal policies within capitalist societies.

*The file below are all the questions that are to be answered*
It is to be an argumentative essay, presenting and defending an argument. Minimum 6 paragraphs, and minimum 5 sentences in each paragraph.

DF #6- Educational Experience 
Introduction: This assignment will assist in your gaining a better understanding of the culture influence in society
This assignment fulfills/supports
Module Outcome: You will be able to identify how the functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist approach and explain education as an institution.
Course Outcome: You will be able to analyze social institutions, structures, and societal issues and how they may be related to a nation’s culture and economy. 
General Education Competency
You will be able to communicate effectively using the conventions of American Standard English in professional and academic environments.
You will be able to demonstrate socialization skills that support cultural awareness and a global perspective.
You will have used critical thinking to analyze problems and make logical decisions.
The goal of this assignment is to examine policies and practices of the education system in two geographically separate cities using one of the three major sociological perspectives. Your sister city you choose should be outside of the U.S.
Prompt: 
1)   Select a major city in the U.S. and examine its sister city from the list of sister cities provided under Resources 
Share some geographic information on A) the U.S. city that you selected and B) its sister city (some of them have more than one city but, you are only required to investigate one sister city).  
Where is the city located?
What is the population size and demographics?
What language(s) is/are spoken?
What is the structure of the education system? 
Compare and contrast the educational practices and policies of the two cities. Analyze your findings on the education system using one of the major sociological perspectives.
This assignment should follow standard 5 paragraph essay format. An introduction with a thesis, 2-3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. You should include your view on how one of the major sociological perspectives relates to the policies and practices of education of each city. This should be more than just stating the perspective and its definition.  
Quality primary input-Your initial post will count as 80%.  Primary input should be thorough and direct. Quality primary input should be complete, thoughtful, and well-developed responses that are substantive and may contain specific text references. Students should refrain from personal opinions unless it is based upon objective facts. It must be detailed; at least two paragraphs (5-7 sentences each). If there is more than one part to a question, you must answer all parts of the question.
Do not attach files as your submission. Place your submission directly in the discussion box.
There is no requirement to respond to your classmates for this discussion board.. The deadline for completion of this assignment is May 5

These are the sources for the assignment, bascially writing a reflective unit journal indicating your own opinions mixed with the readings we have read and what we think about each of the articles the the author wrote. 
1. There should be a clear narrative when writing this essay, its not supposed to be a summary essay of each of the readings, but rather a way to conclude our thoughts while providing reading evidence and a clear essay narrative to follow.
I can provide an example! As well as the rubric! 
Here is a another source I wasn’t able to upload: 
https://apjjf.org/2012/10/2/Rdiger-Frank/3674/article 

review the Marriage Contract attached Look at each question in the contract, which questions do you think are the most important to include in a marriage contract? (Pick your Top 5) Why?
Is there anything else you would add to the marriage contract? 
Do you think a contract like this should be sign before getting married? What are the benefits of discussion these issues before getting married? 

You will measure your ability to apply the logic of inquiry to a particular research project, which you will imagine,
Suppose you wanted to undertake a research project to study some aspect of racism. This is a very difficult task given problems defining what it is, and how to identify it, especially if it becomes necessary to determine the motivations underpinning the behavior.
According to Devah Pager and Hanah Shepherd (2008:181): “Persistent racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social domains has renewed interest In the passible role of discrimination. And yet, unlike in the pre-civil rights era, when racial prejudice and discrimination were overt and widespread, today discrimination is less readily identifiable, posing problems for social scientific conceptualization and measurement. *
Read the 18-page article by Pager and Shepherd. Consider it to be your “Literature review.”
https://scholarhavard.edu/pager/files/annualreview_discrimination.pdf
Having read that article, design your own research project to study some aspect of racism. Answer the following questions, as if you were beginning a research project. For each of the questions, be sure to answer why you are making these choices. The ability to convincingly answer why you are making the choices Is just as important as the choice, itself: Express how your choices relate to specific insights from the literature review.
For example, with regard to your research question, will you be re-examining a topic in light of the contemporary era? You will be conducting a research on a new population?will you address an aspect of the topic that has yet to be addressed? Will you be linking variables In novel ways?
The following are the questions that you should answer.
1) What t your research question?
2) Will your projecr be exploratory, descriptive, or explanatory?
3) Will your approach be Inductive or deductive?
4) What are your independent and dependent variables?
5) What is your hypothesis?
6) How will you conceptualize racise for the parposes of your project? What will your indicators of racism bez Wil you eluster these indicators into identifiable dimensions of racism?
7) How will you conceptualice the other variables?
8) Operationalize your vanables.
9) What is the level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, or tatio) for each of your variables?
10) What is your unit of analyais?
11) How will you ensure face validity, criterion-related validity, construct validity, and content validity?
12) What ethical considerations will you make? What safeguards will you put into place?
13) Will your project be cross-sectional or longitudinal (specify trend, cohort, or panel)?
14) What is your population?
15) Will you use probability or non-probability sampling? Describe. Why?
16) What is your sampling frame?
17) If you plan to do surveys or interviews, how will they be administered? Why?
18) Is your research quantitative or qualitative?
19) For the qualitative aspects of your project, how will you go about coding and analyzing Grounded Theory? Explain.
20) For the quantitative aspects of your project how will you go about coding and analyzing your data? How will you use univariate, bivariate, and/ or multivariate analysis? Explain. Do you plan to use descriptive or inferential statistics or both? Why?
Helpful Resources/Tips:
Read the article “The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets” Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 34:181-209 (Volume publication date August, 2008}
•Use The Practice of Social Research, by Earl Babbie as a reference text. You should not, need any other sources beyond these 2 sources.
• You should brainstorm and map out your project ideas before you begin answering the questions
Number your responses as they are above. Do not try to link them into paragraphs as If you are writing a research paper. Just answer the questions clearly, thoroughly, and directly.
Do not make these Two mistakes you can make on polar ends or the spectrum are. 1） Hiding behind flowery writing. It will be easy to determine if you know what you are talking about no matter how ” Pretty” your prose sounds.
2） Answering the questions with one sentence or just presenting a definition from the textbook with no demonstrated understanding of how it applies to your particular proposed research design.

This research paper needs to cover the research of The impact of PArental illness and single parent households, utilizing resources, The directions that need to be followed are under step 3: Research paper in the guidelines file. The proposal I wrote is what this paper should be based off of. 

In one to two pages, answer the following:
Describe the type of inequality being addressed in the research article.
How are social institutions or society or individual(s) in the article addressing the inequality, prejudice, stereotype, or discrimination?
Analyze the evidence provided in the article. While describing your findings, apply how at least three sociological concepts such as inequality, prejudice, stereotype, or discrimination are demonstrated.
Applying at least one appropriate sociological theory, explain the inequality and the process of how the inequality occurs in society.

The prompt is: 
Why do social movements matter? What is their role in bringing social change? Explain using examples of social movements from the 20th century.
The paper must include the four sources attached below PLUS an additional 3 academic sources (JSTOR etc). The assignment requires answering both parts of the question and using examples. I would like the examples to focus on the feminist social movement and the animal rights social movement, with a thesis pointing toward legal action and raised consciousness. Please use a mix of quoted material and some paraphrasing, but both require American Sociology Association style in-text citation (author last name Year of Publication: page #).
I have access to Turnitin plagiarism checker so NO PLAGIARISM or AI use. 
Please write a coherent and structured essay which flows logically.