Sociology
Discrimination, Prejudice, Racism, and Stereotyping
Create a PowerPoint® Presentation of 9 to 12 slides that you will present in an urban, racially diverse high school. Compare and contrast each term: discrimination, prejudice, racism, institutional racism, and stereotyping. Make the presentation relevant to the lives of urban students in a racially diverse school. Include the following: Introduction and conclusion slides Detailed speaker notes […]
Reflecting on General Education
Prepare: Start by reviewing General Education Curriculum found in “Section Five: General Academic Information and Policies†in the Ashford University Academic Catalog, which addresses the core competencies that the general education courses must cover: Applied Ethics, Communication, Information Technology, Critical Thinking, and Quantitative Reasoning. Reflect: Think about the core competencies as previously mentioned and ponder […]
Final Research Project
The topic of your project needs to be a contemporary societal problem, such as healthcare reform, immigration reform, privacy rights, euthanasia, First Amendment Rights, stem cell research, capital punishment, corporate prisons, legalizing drugs, ageism, animal rights, cloning, prayer in schools, racial profiling, recycling/conservation, sexism, outsourcing jobs, workplace bullying, etc. The topic must focus on a […]
Understanding of the north / south divide
Describe your understanding of the north / south divide as it relates to the health of populations in developing counties. Determine specific steps — aside from building more clinics — that the leadership in developing countries can take to improve their health care systems and, as a consequence, the health of the population.
Sociology
Assignment 3: Obesity in America Due Week 9 and worth 65 points Obesity in America is considered an epidemic. There are many contributing factors to obesity (both childhood and adult), such as biological, environmental, social, or economic factors. Review the information on obesity on pages 383 to 385 in the textbook. You may also use […]
An Examination of Institutional Discrimination
Discrimination occurs in many different forms in U.S. society. Although individual acts of discrimination are damaging and hurtful, that which has become woven into the fabric of society is insidious and far more destructive. For this assignment select one of the critical issues currently reported in the news and determine if there are any aspects […]
Case analysis
Select a family whose members are experiencing difficulty due to loss, life stressors and/or change. Write a paper that examined the case situation from a family developmental-system perspective. What changes are needed in the family and why? Why are these changes so difficult? What role(s) do family myths, rituals, and rites of passage (or lack […]
Organized Behavior
The Process of Developing Teams As you have learned in the text, social loafing occurs when some members of a team do less work and do not live up to their team responsibilities. When this occurs, typically other team members pick up the extra work to meet the timeline, and often times end up frustrated […]
Social Gerontology and Physical Health
In about three pages, explore the older worker in the organization in which you work or an organization with which you are familiar. As a result of their age, were they/are they treated differently? Are they given different tasks or more time to complete them? Or were they treated equally?
Poverty
Write a research paper (6-8 pages not including cover page and reference page) on poverty addressing the following questions: • What is poverty? • What is the poverty rate in the United States? • Where does the United States rank among the industrialized countries in the world in terms of poverty? • What are the […]