11 Mar Use your textbook, any related videos listed on the course homepage and related powerpoint presentations posted on the course

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Use your textbook, any related videos listed on the course homepage and related powerpoint presentations posted on the course homepage to respond to all ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS.  Responses should be thorough, include definitions, examples, and demonstrate clear understanding of conceptual objectives listed on the Syllabus.  Each...

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11 Mar Our society is in crisis.? Systemic racism, police violence against African-Americans (and other minorities), a global pandemi

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1)  Our society is in crisis.  Systemic racism, police violence against African-Americans (and other minorities), a global pandemic, and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression have combined to create a tinderbox of rage and frustration.  What can sociology add to your understanding of...

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11 Mar Pick one question from each section (10 sections total = 10 final questions & answers). Each answer should be no more than two

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Instructions Pick one question from each section (10 sections total = 10 final questions & answers). Each answer should be no more than two paragraphs (1 paragraph = 5 – 8 sentences) and no less than 3 sentences. Answer as concisely as possible without leaving...

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10 Mar Purpose This final content analysis exercise uses music as another form for expressing cultural emotions. Task Use Chapter 2 (Em

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Purpose This final content analysis exercise uses music as another form for expressing cultural emotions. Task Use Chapter 2 (Emotions Norms) to explain the cultural emotions in the song by Elton John "All the Young Girls Love Alice" Elton John - All the...

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10 Mar Purpose: To use poetry as content to identify cultural emotion (s), privilege cultural emotions of soft and hard boundaries and?

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  Purpose: To use poetry as content to identify cultural emotion (s), privilege cultural emotions of soft and hard boundaries and  institutional (open and closed) boundaries, and to assess challenges to structural conditions of assimilation (blending-in).  Task analyze the poem Yo Soy Joaquin. Yo soy...

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10 Mar Anaylze three news articles that address three distinct current events or topics in Latin America. ?Then you will write an approx

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 Anaylze three news articles that address three distinct current events or topics in Latin America.  Then you will write an approximately two-page write up on each news, analysis, or feature article, in which you analyze and relate the particular item to the themes you have...

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10 Mar What were the impacts of SAPs on Third World countries, particularly in terms of urbanization and slum formation? Provide specifi

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What were the impacts of SAPs on Third World countries, particularly in terms of urbanization and slum formation? Provide specific examples.  What are the fallacies in optimistic views of informality?  According to Davis, what is the political destiny of the contemporary slum? Do you agree...

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09 Mar How did the film make you feel? What surprised you? Or what didn’t surprise you?? (2) Do you think the prison system, as shown in the

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write a two-page (double-spaced) response paper that answers the following questions: (1) How did the film make you feel? What surprised you? Or what didn't surprise you?  (2) Do you think the prison system, as shown in the video, achieved justice?  (3) How does the...

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06 Mar You will write one 2 ? 3-page solving social problems paper, using the Solutions Story Tracker website?(Links to an external s

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You will write one 2 – 3-page solving social problems paper, using the Solutions Story Tracker website (Links to an external site.). The paper topic must correspond with one of the weekly topics discussed during the last 5 weeks of the quarter. It is up to...

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06 Mar What was the World Bank’s approach to slum improvement in the 1970s? Was the ‘self-help’ program a success? Why or why not?? w

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What was the World Bank's approach to slum improvement in the 1970s? Was the "self-help" program a success? Why or why not?  who are responsible for slum evictions and displacements and why do they occur? Are there any local examples of similar displacements?  How does...

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