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2. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Entire Course (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course) • SOC 100 Week 1 Individual Assignment Social Group Matrix (UOP Course) • SOC 100 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course) • SOC 100 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course) • SOC 100 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course) • SOC 100 Week 1 DQ 4 (UOP Course) • Explain what sociologists mean by the social construction of reality. How has the social construction of reality affected you?

3. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course) • Compare the contributions of two pioneers in sociology, choosing two from the following list: Comte, Martineau, Spencer, Durkheim, Weber, Marx, DuBois, Cooley, Addams, Merton, Bourdieu, or Wells-Barnett. • What is sociology? How does it differ from the other social sciences, such as psychology or anthropology? In what ways is the logic of sociology useful?

4. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 1 DQ 4 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 1 Individual Assignment Social Group Matrix (UOP Course) • What are some of the norms of the American culture? Of a subculture to which you belong? • Complete the University Material: Social Group Matrix.

5. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course) • Explain the advantages and limitations of the four major research designs. Provide an example of a social group situation that you believe would be best studied by each type of design. Explain your selection • Fig. 2.2 in Ch. 2 states that “in general, states with high education levels . . . also have high household incomes.” What hypothesis might you propose to explain states that do not have a correlational relationship between high income and high education levels?

6. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 2 DQ 4 (UOP Course) • How would you use the different types of research design? What are some strengths and weaknesses of each? • How can a sociologist maintain neutrality when studying a group that he or she finds repugnant? (e.g., inmates convicted of rape or child molestation.)

7. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 2 Individual Assignment Scientific Method Matrix (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Sociological Perspectives Paper (UOP Course) • Complete the University Material: Scientific Method Matrix. • Resource: NBC videos link, located on the student website • Watch the following videos: • Three Cups of Tea • Northern Exposure • Religion Unplugged • School Girl Attacks • The Joy of Garbage • Young Evangelicals • Discuss the videos as a team.

8. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course) • Schaefer (2011) defines the self “as a distinct identity that sets us apart from others.” Describe your “self” identity. How does your “self” differ from others and set you apart? • Deviant behavior violates standards and expectations of a group social norm. Reflect on a time when you violated a widely shared and understood norm of your society. What was the norm?

9. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP Course) • What are some of the major agents of socialization? Which do you think most influenced you? Why and how? • Define or describe the “social self. What are some moral and ethical factors of the social self?

10. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Online Social Networking Paper (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course) • Complete the following, individually • Enter at least one online social networking website of your choice. • Explore and participate in the site. • Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word analysis paper, as a team, and address the following components: • A majority of residents of the United States are descendants of ethnic groups from around the world. Explain symbolic ethnicity. Reflecting on your cultural heritage and traditions

11. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP Course) • Using the definition of wealth to calculate your wealth, and considering Rossides’ five-class model of the U. S. class system, would you say that Marx’s concept of false consciousness applies to you? • How do urban and rural communities differ in the formality of their norms and the strictness with which they are enforced?

12. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 4 Individual Assignment Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Media Analysis (UOP Course) • Imagine that you have been asked to study the issue of air pollution in one of the large urban areas in your state or country. How might you draw on surveys, observation research, experiments, and existing sources to help you study this issue? • To focus on nonverbal and symbolic behavior, this assignment requires that you mute the volume of the television for a program’s duration. • Select a television program that you know contains social inequality or social class themes. • Prepare a 750- to 1,250-word analysis of the program in which you complete the following:

13. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Social Impact Survey and Paper (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 5 Assignment Global Social Issues and Change Paper and Presentation (UOP Course) • Brainstorm questions, and create a 5- to 10-question survey to administer to team members’ coworkers or adult acquaintances. • The survey must allow the team to gather information about the effects and influence of neocolonialism, globalization, or multinational corporations. • Select a current, global social issue related to political, economic, cultural, structural, ecological, environmental, demographic, or technological change. • Explore the Culturegrams resource in the University library for specific information and data on nations and ethnic groups around the world. To access the Culturegrams resource, complete the following steps

14. SOC 100 learning consultant / tutorialrank.com SOC 100 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course) SOC 100 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course) • As of 2012, the United States has never had a female president. Nations throughout the world have had powerful queens and elected leaders. How might you explain the fact that the United States has never elected a woman to be president? • New social movements are defined as movements that address values, social identities, and improvements in the quality of life. If you had the ability to mobilize resources to create a new social movement to promote or oppose social change

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