American Sociological Association (ASA) Style Guide, 6th Edition

*****ARTICLE ATTACHED*****Sociology…, a Partial Influence on Evaluation ResearchBY: James G. Hougland Jr. *****QUESTIONS TO ANSWER***** What types of reactions or thoughts did the content stimulate? What ideas, arguments, perspectives, experiences, etc. struck you as interesting, problematic, and/or worthy of further, deeper consideration? Were there any holes or gaps in the Read more…

Task:Directions for Final Assignment-PowerPoint presentation The purpose of this project is to encourage you to reflect upon what you have learned in the course and synthesize this information into a deeper understanding of a topic under Applied Social Psychology. Early in the semester, select one of the topics from the Read more…

I’m presenting in document form: The presentation must cover the following information: – Summary of the introduction – Main independent and dependent variables – Hypotheses – Brief review of the literature – Population and sample characteristics + how you will obtain informed consent – Description of the instrument to collect Read more…

Task: The methodology covers four key parts to describing what will be done in the study.  1) The first part is the participant’s section in which you are discussing the target population, your sample and how you are going about obtaining the sample, the demographics of the participants, and how Read more…

The final part of this class considers mixing research methods, evaluative research, participatory action research, and meta-analysis.  These are approaches to data collection and knowledge generation that cannot neatly fit into the two main branches of research that are quantitative and qualitative approaches. 1) Mixed methods are becoming increasingly popular.  Read more…

You are to write a review of the existing literature for your chosen topic utilizing at least fifteen academic peer-reviewed papers, preferably from scholarly journals.  You will focus on describing the results of each of the studies reviewed and narrowing down the theoretical framework driving the study. You will then Read more…

Task:Please answer 1 of the questions 1 through 3, then everyone answers question 4. 1. Using Hofstede’s tool on the website: How is your country of interest different than the U.S. on each of the dimensions of the taxonomy? This includes individualism/collectivism, power distance, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long vs. short-term Read more…

Now that we have explored some of the descriptive statistics and important basic data values in quantitative research and begun an exploration of inferential statistics, let’s make sure we can sort these concepts out before moving forward.  We have units of analysis about which we collect our data.  The data Read more…

Answer any 2 of the following questions this week. 1. Watch the video about water shortages in Mexico.  Consider the issue of resource dilemmas and Table 13.1.  What is a resource dilemma in your area?  What are the issues at stake? 2. Discuss the impact that the surrounding environment has Read more…

REBUTTAL NEEDED:Given our understanding of how prison situations act on the mind of the individual (as demonstrated by the Zimbardo study), what recommendations or changes would you suggest for our nations prison environments? (In answering this, please be sure to note concepts from the sections of the chapter that directly Read more…