Describe the various factors that contribute to attitude (affects, behaviors, and cognitions)

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Socialization Paper

Write a 350 to 525 word (1 to 1 1/2 pages) paper in which you consider social behaviors. In your paper, include the following:

  • Describe the various factors that contribute to attitude (affects, behaviors, and cognitions).
  • Explain the role of prejudice, aggression, and attraction in social interaction.
  • Explain the influence that groups play on a person’s behavior.
  • Describe the difference between conformity (shifting your thoughts to align with someone else’s) and obedience (changing because someone tells you to).
  • Describe the role of social psychology in the workplace environment. For example, how can understanding social psychology help you at your place of work?
  • Describe the various factors that contribute to attitude (affects, behaviors, and cognitions).
  • Explain the role of prejudice, aggression, and attraction in social interaction.
  • Explain the influence that groups play on a person’s behavior.
  • Describe the difference between conformity (shifting your thoughts to align with someone else’s) and obedience (changing because someone tells you to).
  • Describe the role of social psychology in the workplace environment. For example, how can understanding social psychology help you at your place of work?

Note. Be sure to properly cite any resources you use.

adult illiteracy

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Global Societal Problem, Argument and Solution

Prepare: The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list: adult illiteracy, funding for General Education vs STEM in primary and secondary schools, minimum wage, oceans desertification, overcoming the digital divide, refugee (escaping persecution, war, or death) crises, species extinctions (modern), tax havens, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), universal statement of human rights (pick one), airport security, or wealth disparity. Review this GEN499 Sample Final Paper Guide for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solution(s) to the problem.Write: This Final Argumentative Essay will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the following items in separate sections with new headings for each:

  • Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph and conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solution(s) to the problem. For guidance on how to construct a good introduction paragraph, please review the Introduction Paragraph Guideline from the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence. Show why this is a societal problem, and provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
  • Construct an argument supporting your proposed solution(s). Be sure to consider multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution. Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
  • Interpret statistical data from at least three, peer-reviewed scholarly sources. Do this by discussing the validity, reliability, and any biases; identifying the strengths and weaknesses of these sources; and pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources. Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution. Be sure to provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution, and explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. It’s important to consider all of society.
  • Develop a conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review the Conclusion Paragraph Guideline from the Ashford Writing Center.

The Final Argumentative Essay

  • Must be 3,300 – 3,900 words in length (approximately between 10 – 12 pages; excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
    • Running header with page numbers
  • Must include in-text citations from at least 10 scholarly sources. Be sure to integrate your research rather than simply inserting it.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined here and here.
  • Must have no more than 15{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. Reference list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Source Document Requirements:
    • Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
    • Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, etc. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed soluation within the argument.
    • Where print documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.
    • Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.
    • Religious texts must not be used.

Good Critical Thinking Tips:

  • Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
  • Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
  • Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
  • Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.
  • Writing Tools:
    • Before you submit your written assignment, you are encouraged to review the The Grammarly Guide: How to Set Up & Use Grammarly tutorial, set up a Grammarly account (if you have not already done so), and use Grammarly to review a rough draft of your assignment. Then carefully review all issues identified by Grammarly and revise your work as needed.

Does Arlie Hochschild view marriage as a “total institution”

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All written assignments must follow these style requirements:Margins and spacing for written assignments: the left margin of any assignment should not be wider than 1.25”; the right margin of any assignment must not be wider than 1.25”. [The same margins used on this style sheet.] Top and bottom margins should be approximately 1 ½ to 2 inches.All written assignments should be double spaced.Font: In order to assure a standard paper length, please use 12 point font.Quotations: All essays must contain quotations from assigned readings. These quotations can take the form of individual words, phrases, single sentences, or longer passages.*If you quote a single sentence, use the following form: “The production of life…now appears as a double relationship: one the one hand as a natural, on the other as a social relationship.”*Do not italicize quotations.*As a general rule, if the passage cited is longer than a three short sentences, it should take the form of a block quotation. A single very long sentence might require a block quote, just as four very short sentences might not require block quotation. Use your best judgment.Do not use boldface and do not use italics when block quoting a passage (unless a word is boldfaced or italicized in the original).Citation form: Every quotation must be followed immediately by a citation: (Author, Year: Page #). For example:“The production of life…now appears as a double relationship: one the one hand as a natural, on the other as a social relationship” (Marx and Engels, 1988: 50).Further information and instruction concerning essay style will be provided in class.Works Cited Page and Reference Style:The following guidelines are based upon the citation style used by the professional journal Critical Sociology (Sage Publications).All written assignments must include a works cited page. List the authors in alphabetical order. For each author, list their works in chronological order, the earliest work first.All book citations must include the author’s last name, first initial, date of publication, title, place of publication, publisher. For example:Cooley C (1922) Human Nature and The Social Order. Revised Edition. New York, NY: Charles Scribner.For citations to texts with multiple authors, use the following form:Marx K and Engels F (1988) The German Ideology: Part One. New York, NY: International Publishers.When citing a journal article, include the author’s last name, first initial(s), date of publication, title, journal title, volume, issue, page numbers. For example:Peirce CS (1868) Some Consequences of Four Incapacities. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 2(3): 140-157.When the same author has multiple texts that appear the same year, use an (a), (b), (c), etc., to signify the chronological order. For example:Peirce CS (1868a) Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Man. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 2(2): 103-114.Peirce CS (1868b) Some Consequences of Four Incapacities. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 2(3): 140-157.When citing an article that appears in a book, include the author’s last name, first initial(s), date of publication, article title, book author, book title, place of publication, publisher, page numbers. For example:Mauss M (1979) Body Techniques. In: Mauss M, Sociology and Psychology: Essays. London, U.K.: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 95-123.The separate ‘works cited’ page that accompanies every written assignment must be single spaced.Further information and instruction concerning citation style will be provided in class.

1. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Economic Classics—EMP). ISBN: 978-16194912812. Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford, 2009). ISBN: 978-0-1995558883. Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover, 1994). ISBN: 0-486-28062-44.Erving Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. (Anchor Books, 1961) ISBN: 0-385-00016-25. Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origin of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Revised Edition (Princeton, 2005). ISBN: 978-06911218646. Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Second Shift. (Penguin, 2003) ISBN: 978-01420029267. Kevin Leicht and Scott Fitzgerald, Middleclass Meltdown in America: Causes, consequences, and remedies (Routledge, 2014). ISBN: 978-0-415-70952-1Charles Horton Cooley, “The Social Self”W.E.B. DuBois, “Of our spiritual strivings”Emile Durkheim, “What is a Social Fact”Max Weber, “Class, Status, Party”Florence Kelley, “The Sweating System”Marion Young, “Throwing Like a Girl”

Short Paper:

The paper must be between 3-4 pages long, type-written, double spaced and conform to the style and citation requirements posted on our moodle site (“Class Style Sheet”). Since this is a text-based course, the papers must contain direct textual citations (quotations from the books).

Paper Topic: Does Arlie Hochschild view marriage as a “total institution”?

First, define Goffman’s notion of a total institution, then, using examples from The Second Shift, explain how marriage is or is not a total institution according to Hochschild.

Not asking is Marriage a Total Institution!

No outside sources!! Only quotes from books read in class!!

Get right to the point!!

No quotations (especially from Goffman or Hochschild) NO CREDIT!!

Don’t just describe a Total Institution but how it works! (Looking-glass Self) *Page and a half at most including quotations*

Hochschild perspective “can marriage be a total institution or not?

Relation of Hochschild to Gofman!!

*Citation Form* Name, Date, and Page Number after each quotations or NO CREDIT

6. Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Second Shift. (Penguin, 2003)

4.Erving Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. (Anchor Books, 1961)

All of the information with all of the texts are provided above along with what has already been written to work off of and make changes to.

human sexuality and sexual health

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Reaction paper

REACTION PAPERS:Each student is required to participate in 2 learning activities outside class this semester and then write 2 reaction papers summarizing what you did and learned. The purpose of this assignment is for you to learn something about yourself, your relationships and/or any topic related to human sexuality and sexual health.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR REACTION PAPERS:

3. Watch relevant TV programs and documentaries. A great source for

documentaries is www.topdocumentaryfilms.com. Netflix also has

many interesting documentaries.5. Take surveys and/or give them to others to take/discuss with you. 6. Attend a relevant lecture, workshop or conference.7. Read a book related to sexuality or relationships. Look at the list of

recommended books I’ve provided. You are not limited to that list. 8. Watch a movie relevant to class. Do look at the list of movies I’ve

recommended. You are not limited to that list. Films On Demand –

available through the OCC Library website – offers many film options. 9. Individual “Field Trips” to community agencies, sex toy stores, Museum

of Tolerance, or more controversial places like an adult book store, erotic dancing, gay establishment/event, dungeon, or nude beach. In order for these to count it needs to be a new experience for you. You are only allowed 1 paper per activity. For example you can’t write about visiting 2 sex toy stores or going to 2 gay clubs.

10.Interview persons whose sexuality or sexual experiences/socialization is different from yours. Prepare by making a list of relevant questions.

11.Have a detailed conversation with a friend or someone you’d like to be closer with about each other’s sexuality. Prepare by making a list of relevant questions.

12.Participate in small group discussions with other classmates or friends. 13.Explore non-pornographic sexual websites. See list of recommended

websites. You are not limited to these websites.14.Accept some of my challenges!15.Anything else that would be meaningful to you. I do encourage you to

think about activities or projects that would be personally meaningful. You may create a special project or do some research of your own.

Do not participate in activities that are against the law for reaction papers.

REQUIRED FORMAT FOR REACTION PAPERS:

  1. All papers should be properly identified with your name and class, and whether it’s Reaction Paper #1, Reaction Paper #2, or Extra Credit Papers.
  2. Clearly identify what you did and what it was about. Include your reasons for choosing this activity or topic. List reference. For example:

    a. Title of article, author, source, date.b. Title of TV program/documentary, channel, date. c. Name of place you visited, cityd. State your project (interview, challenge, etc.)

  3. List 5 statements of information or facts you learned (things you learned about topic, person, yourself, etc). Please number your statements and make sure they are clearly visible. Do not imbed them in paragraphs.
  4. Summarize your reactions, feelings and opinions regarding your learning activity. How does this relate to your life? This should be the main part of your paper. I want to know what you got out of the activity and why you responded the way you did.