This course uses concept map activities on select weeks as a formative assessmen

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This course uses concept map activities on select weeks as a formative assessment tool to help you initiate your engagement with the course material and improve your understanding of that material. The formative assessments are structured to facilitate “active learning,” which integrates course material with the experiences and reflections from you and your classmates.
As discussed in our concept map activity guidelinesPreview the document, our concept map activities call for you to create a diagram that matches different examples of key concepts to empirical observations and distinguishes dissimilar concepts from each other. Examples of concept maps are featured in our concept map activity guidelinesPreview the document, where I drew components of the “sociological imagination” and the “socio-environmental imagination” (see also the week 1 lecture material).
To complete this week’s concept map activity, you are encouraged to use some visualization software on your computer or tablet, such as Microsoft powerpoint, to match different examples of human communities-biophysical environment interrelationships to different conceptualizations of “community” in sociology as featured in the Brint (2001) reading and the week 2 lecture material. Then, you can save and submit your concept map slide/visualization in the following formats for evaluation: .pptx, .ppt, .pdf, .tif, .jpeg. Alternatively, you can manually draw your concept map on a piece of paper and submit a picture of that drawing for evaluation. If you submit such picture, please try to ensure the file format is .tif, .jpeg, or something similar.

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TOPIC ACCOMODATION OF RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR TH

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TOPIC
ACCOMODATION OF RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
THIS ASSIGNMENT IS IN THREE PARTS
PART 1 4PAGES
PART 2 7PAGES
PART 3 7PAGES
PART 1
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT
Assignment Overview
The first step in preparing for a research project is to develop an annotated bibliography. The annotated bibliography is an alphabetically organized list and summary of sources that you found during your search of the literature that support your topic. For this assignment, you will choose eight peer-reviewed articles published within the last 7 years for your annotations. You may use other types of sources to support your introduction and conclusion to the topic.
Instructions
• Your introduction narrative should provide an overview of your chosen topic as well as an explanation for why you chose this topic. The introduction should contain bullet points referencing the main points of your narrative.
• Your narrative for each source should provide a descriptive summary.
• Each source will include the APA formatted reference followed by bullet points for the main topics in your summaries.
• The peer-reviewed articles must be published within the past 7 years.
• Your conclusion must include a brief explanation for why you chose these specific sources and how they will help you develop your project.
Assignment Requirements
• Required Components: Include an introduction, APA formatted annotations of each of your eight peer-reviewed sources, and a conclusion.
PART 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
Overview
Your literature review should be a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of research that has been conducted related to your chosen topic for your project. The primary purposes of this type of academic research is to identify themes that emerge in the studies, points of author consensus and disagreement, and identify areas where there are significant gaps in research. The gap in research that you identify will form the foundation of the research study you will propose in the final project component.
Instructions
• In addition to the eight peer-reviewed sources you found for your Annotated Bibliography, use your expanding knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research to find at least four additional peer-reviewed sources to incorporate into the Literature Review. If any of the sources from the Annotated Bibliography no longer seem useful, find new ones to replace them.
• The template includes a title page, reference page, and correct formatting of margins, running header, and sections.
Organization
Organize your paper with the following sections:
• Introduction: The opening content under your paper title should provide an introduction and overview of your chosen topic and a description of what will be included in your paper. Be sure to include relevant historical information and an explanation of why the topic is an important area of research. In the second paragraph, preview the main themes you will cover in the literature review.
• Review of the Literature: The literature review should be organized chronologically. In your analysis of sources, identify themes that emerge and compare studies that address similar issues within the context of your topic. Apply information from the sources to the chosen topic and assess the relevance and value of each study.
• Conclusion: Your conclusion should emphasize the main themes that you found in reviewing the literature, identify gaps in existing research, and explain why the gaps are relevant for increasing knowledge about the topic.
• References: Your citations must have references and your references need to be included within your paper as in-text citations.
Assignment Requirements
• Written communication: Write in third person and apply scholarly writing practices. Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting. Include cover page, page numbers, headings, running head, and reference list.
• Length: 6-7 pages, not including the title and reference pages.
• Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Number of Sources: Use at least 12 peer-reviewed sources. You may also include other scholarly sources in addition to these to support your analysis.
PART 3
STUDY PROPOSAL
Instructions
The Study Proposal due this week is a 6 -7-page research proposal on your chosen topic. It includes identification of methodology, data collection and analysis approaches, and ethical issues that need to be considered.
Now that you have learned about qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, and action research, you will write a research methodology and ethics paper that is due in Week 10. This assignment provides an opportunity for you to apply your learning to your research topic. Your assignment must have all of the following sections:
Paper Organization
Start with a title page and organize your paper with the following sections:
• Introduction: The opening content under your paper should provide an introduction of your chosen topic and what will be included in your paper.
• Body of Paper
o Design of Study: Provide an overview of the research topic, question, hypotheses, type of study, data methods, and the collection and analysis of data.
o Population and Sampling: Describe the population targeted for the study, the sample, and how the sample will be chosen.
o Collection of Data: Describe the how, where, and when of data collection, as well as required details for proposed interviews and surveys, as relevant. If you plan to conduct interviews, discuss whether they will be structured or not and provide sample questions as an appendix to the text. If you plan to conduct a survey, include sample questions as an appendix to the text.
o Analysis of Data: Describe how the data will be analyzed, including justification for chosen methods. You must be detailed in discussing the identification and justification of your methods.
o Ethics: Analyze ethical issues you can objectively visualize with your research topic and conducting your research—from your role as the researcher, to gaining participants, to collecting and analyzing data.
• Conclusion: Emphasize the main themes of the proposal based on the synthesis of the literature reviewed. Use feedback you received from your instructor in the Literature Review assignment to provide a concise explanation of how the existing literature supports the proposal.
• References: This is your reference page that must include all the resources from your literature review and any others that you have found or used while writing this assignment.
• Appendix: As necessary, to explain data collection methods.
Assignment Requirements
• Written communication: Write in third person and apply scholarly writing practices. Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Supporting Evidence: In-text citations in APA format are required to support your topic, proposed research question(s), and other sections of the paper. Include at least 12 peer-reviewed sources, no older than 7 years.
• Format: Follow APA guidelines for the formatting of the paper, including title page, margins, font, pagination, headings and subheadings, reference page, and appendixes.
Textbook and resources from course
Plano Clark, V. L., & Creswell, J. W. (2015). Understanding research: A consumer’s guide (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Clark, K. R. (2019). Ethics in research. Radiologic Technology, 90(4), 394.
Raisio, H., Puustinen, A., Norri-Sederholm,T., & Jalava, J. (2019). “Those who agree to play on our terms will be taken in”: A qualitative study on the perceptions of public authorities and NGO representatives regarding self-organizing fourth-sector activity. Public Administration Quarterly, 43(3), 289-329.
Resnik, D. B. (2015, December 1). What is ethics and research & why is it important?. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Retrieved from http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/whatis/

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Imagine you are going to conduct research investigating a human behavior that you would be interested in learning more about.
1. Based on your readings and learning this week describe what research method you would use for investigating it. PLEASE NOTE: Although you as a researcher in the real world might use more than one or a combination of research methods to study a topic of interest, please select ONE method to discuss for the sake of this academic exercise.
2. What drew you to this method? Why would it be well suited for your hypothetical research?
3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this type of research?
4. When responding to your classmates for the reply posts requirement, take their research topic of interest and recommend a different type of research approach to the study of the topic they chose (Ex: “Another method that might also work is _______” or “Have you thought of the _________ method?” – we want to be respectful and professional and not criticize a classmate’s method choice) and explain why you would recommend that alternative method.
To help jump start this part of the discussion, here is an example of a human behavior that has been researched: Say you were interested in whether men or women approach each other first in social situations where they do not know one another. You might have an opinion based on personal experience, but you want to avoid bias toward one’s own experience and ideas that such might cause, so you are going to conduct a research study. To research this, you might choose “naturalistic observation,” which could require going into nightclubs and taking note of what you observe men and women doing. Another research method would be to give out a survey to see how men and women respond to the question of whether they approach the other. Each method has strengths and weaknesses.
Be sure to check before posting that you have answered all of the questions, that you are basing your statements on concepts you learned about in your weekly readings and activities where required and that your post meets the general posting requirements.

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Why is our Constitution vague? What are the pros and cons of having a constituti

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Why is our Constitution vague? What are the pros and cons of having a constitution that is written vaguely? Pick a “vague’ portion of the US Constitution. Has this vagueness in terminology been problematic or helpful? Provide historical examples. Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, and at least one outside scholarly source.
APA format for in-text citations and list of references

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