Category Archives: Sociology

Discuss why would you say the recent rise in populist rhetoric has taken hold? Why are populists appeals and populist language or discourfktse used by both Democrats and Republicans?

For your 250-500 word writing response, please identify as least 2 key types or elements of the populist “repertoire” discussed by Brubaker and as then share examples of each type or element of this populist appeal from the recent US elections – for example from a speech by President-elect Biden, or campaign material from candidate […]

Analyze a primary source of your choosing.

You will be required to complete a research paper using the course readings to analyze a primary source of your choosing. This primary source can be an archival document, an historical object, an oral history transcript or recording, a song, film (or other video recording), or a work of visual art, poetry, or literature. The […]

Can you envision such a family in reality in the future in some way? Why or why not?How might you contribute to your family to be, to make it more of a reality”?Discuss

Imagine that you went to sleep one night and while you were asleep a ‘miracle’ happened in your family. Your family was transformed so that the family’s communication reflected change or improvement of several characteristics of an optimally (or close to it) functioning family. That is, assume that relationships in the family are consistent with […]

dentify-Assess Butler’s essay and identify five course concepts that relate to her argument or a statement made within the essay. Give a brief description of her argument, statement, or main point as it relates to a specific course concept

Prompt: You have been provided an article from the New York Times which is posted under the Reflexive Paper heading. Your task is to assess the main points of Butler’s essay using five concepts from this course. Your essay must include five citations from the course textbook to sufficiently analyze Butler’s essay. The Reflexive Paper […]

A large, national youth development organization funds local community-based agencies to follow its program model. The adolescents selected for the program must be identified as “high risk,” meaning that they live in an impoverished community, have a single parent, have low grades, have a parent who is or has been incarcerated, and/or are medically fragile. […]

Discuss drug and alcohol.Wdentify at least a couple of possible solutions to this problem and your reasons as to why these would be possible solutions.

Topic: drug and alcohol Paper details: Submit your Final PP Presentation. This project will give you the opportunity to learn more about a current social problem and to teach your classmates more about this social issue as well as possible solutions. You will choose a social problem from a chapter in your textbook. Present your […]

Discuss In Adam Hochschild’s book, King Leopold’s Ghost, we read about colonial extraction in the Congo by Belgium from 1885 until 1960. Over that period, the Belgians were active in a number of industries. How did the character of the resource being exploited and the international industry around it – first ivory, then rubber– affect the character of the colonial enterprise and what Bernstein would call the “labor regime” in the Congo? How were the systems of economic exploitation and the social/cultural impacts similar and/or different?

Topic: King Leopold’s Ghost Paper details: In Adam Hochschild’s book, King Leopold’s Ghost, we read about colonial extraction in the Congo by Belgium from 1885 until 1960. Over that period, the Belgians were active in a number of industries. How did the character of the resource being exploited and the international industry around it – […]

Argue which 2 of these factors (economic exploitation, political control, ideological justification) interacted most potently or powerfully to supported King Leopold II’s domination over the territories and people of the Congo.

Topic: make an argument for which 2 of these factors (economic exploitation, political control, ideological justification) interacted most potently or powerfully to supported King Leopold II’s domination over the territories and people of the Congo. Paper details: In readings by Bernstein (“Colonialism, capitalism, development”) and Hochschild (King Leopold’s Ghost), we discussed colonialism as a confluence […]

To what degree would you say we are living in a world risk society? Do you think globalization (i.e. greater world-wide inter-connectedness) makes the coronavirus crisis worse, or are there elements of globalization that might make the fight against the pandemic more solvable?Discuss

To what degree would you say we are living in a world risk society? Do you think globalization (i.e. greater world-wide inter-connectedness) makes the coronavirus crisis worse, or are there elements of globalization that might make the fight against the pandemic more solvable? If the Coronavirus pandemic may provide new opportunities for alternative futures or […]