Throughout the course, we have been talking a lot about ethnographic research. As we all know, this is the type of research Duneier used to write Sidewalk. Now, you will be given a change to get out of your chair, and take a stab at this type of research yourself!
Step 1: Move to a place where you can easily observe a groups of people interacting. You can choose a scenario where you are also part of the group (like Duneier) but you should be transparent about this in your reporting/field notes.
Step 2: Get out a notebook, and take field notes on what people are saying/doing for a minimum of 20 minutes. Yes, you really have to do this part! Taking field notes can be exhausting, especially if you are transcribing! I really want you to have the experience of a sociologist in the field.
Step 3: Take your notes back home, and consider the following:
What type of group was observed (dyad, tryad, etc)?
Was the level of group cohesion high? low? How could you tell?
Was there a group leader present? How did you know? If so, what type of authority did they demonstrate?
How were decisions made within the group? Who seemed to have the power?
What other facets of group dynamics were present?
Step 4: Write a description of your findings, highlighting the prompts above. Your submission should be a minimum of 300 words, and clearly demonstrate an understanding of this week’s reading. You must cite your sources (the textbook) and attach your field notes for full credit.
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Emile Durkheim wrote frequently about the concept on anomie – or the sense of “normlessness” that can occur when we become disconnected from social bonds and experience and/or an increased pace of change. It’s easy to argue that the vendors are in a near constant state of “normlessness”. Many of the vendors are unhoused, and engage in high-risk behaviors, like substance use. Despite this, others may argue that the vendors remain protected from anomie by their commitment to each other, and their collective sense of purpose. What do you think?
In a 400 word response, address the following:
In what ways are the street vendors protected from a sense of anomie?
In what ways are the street vendors at greater risk for anomie?
Where can we see examples of this?
Are the risks and protections different, vendor to vendor?
Be sure to cite your sources for full credit
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Research one legal case or recent event involving a tort and one legal case or recent event related to criminal law. Each case or event should have taken place within the past two years.
Write in-depth briefs explaining your selected cases using the IRAC method.
Each case brief should be 350 to 525 words and include an explanation of how the legal concepts in the selected case can be applied within a managerial business setting including considerations such as but not limited to:
Insurance
Internal auditing and reporting procedures
Explaining what could have been done differently in each case to avoid or reduce harm/risk
IRAC Method
Legal cases are usually examined using the following critical legal thinking method. First,
the facts of the case must be investigated and understood. Next, the legal issue that is to be
answered must be identified and succinctly stated. Then the law that is to be applied to the case
must be identified, read, and understood. Once the facts, law, and legal issue have been stated,
critical thinking must be used in applying the law to the facts of the case. This requires that the
decision maker—whether a judge, juror, or student—analyze, examine, evaluate, interpret, and
apply the law to the facts of the case. Last, the critical legal thinker must reach a conclusion and
state his or her judgment. In the study of law, this process is often referred to as the IRAC
method (IRAC is an acronym that stands for issue, rule, application, and conclusion), as
outlined in the following:
IRAC method
A method used to examine a law case. IRAC is an acronym that stands
for issue, rule, application, and conclusion.
• I = What is the legal issue in the case?
• R = What is the rule (law) of the case?
• A = What is the court’s analysis and rationale?
• C = What was the conclusion or outcome of the case?
This text—whether in its print or electronic version—offer students ample opportunities to
develop and apply critical legal thinking. The text contains real-world cases in which actual
disputing parties have become embroiled. The law cases are real, the parties are real, and the
decisions reached by juries and judges are real. Some cases are easier to decide than others, but
all provide a unique set of facts that require critical legal thinking to solve.
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Ethical Consideration on Human Subject Protections
Ethical Consideration on Human Subject Protections
I’m doing a research proposal and my research topic is What happens to children left within the system and what’s life like after they’ve aged out of the system?
For this particular assignment, I have to answer the following questions below in apa format.
What safeguards are in place in your study to protect human subjects? Consider both emotional and / or physical harm. Consider who the subjects are and if children or some other vulnerable population such as elderly or mentally ill.
What is your basic ethical approach? How will you protect the participants/subjects from any possible abuses? What steps are you taking to ensure informed consent? Provide a copy of any letter and consent forms in the appendix.
When and how will you submit for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval (for this class you were not required to submit the proposal for IRB, but this is an important procedure which you need to be aware off)? You can indicate that you have completed the human subject training and pass the test with 80% or above which indicate that you do have an understanding of the importance of human subject protection in research etc., You can also state that as a social work student research you are aware of the importance of ethical consideration and make mention to the NASW Code of Ethics…by quoting what it said.
Bias
We all have biases; the most insidious are those of which we are unaware or unacknowledged. What makes you different from your subjects? Is it race, ethnicity, social class, education, work experience, physical or mental ability, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.? How might these differences impede your investigation (invisibility, insensitivity, overgeneralization, or perhaps double standards)?
Limitations
Now that you have an idea
(from your literature review)
how broad your topic could be, tell the reader what it is that you are deliberately not going to study. What aspects of the problem are outside the scope of your
interests at this point (or at least for this paper)? Then, if you had 3 years and $1,000,000 what are some of the things you could or would improve about your design, sample, analysis, etc. for your research proposal.
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Conduct Research Idea of Going Green 1st question The idea of “Going Green” is a fad that has quickly turned into a phenomenon, at least in the middle class. Conduct research on “Going Green” and write a 1-2 page reflection paper about Going Green.
Conduct Research Idea of Going Green
Your paper should address the following:
What is the definition of going green?
What are your opinions about going green? Include any practices that occur in your home that you would consider as going green.
As stated above, going green seems to be a fad in middle-class homes. Do you think families who “just trying to make ends meet” should also go green? Include why or why not.
Describe at least three (3) benefits of going green.
Describe at least three (3) suggestions you would give a family on how to go green.
Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
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2nd question
Module 04 Course Project – Family’s Human and Environmental Resource Plan
Now you’re getting into the heart of your Family Resource Packet! Keep your chosen family in your mind as you develop this valuable resource devoted to managing human and environmental resources.
Conduct Research Idea of Going Green Assignment
This assignment has two (2) parts. In Part 1, you will assess the internal and external human resources that are available to your chosen project family. In Part 2, since you do not have access to your project family’s home, you will examine the energy usage in your own home.
Download and open the Human and Environmental Resources Worksheet provided below:
File: Human and Environmental Resources Worksheet
Part 1 of the worksheet focuses on Managing Human Resources. You will need to assess the internal and external human resources that are available to your project family, complete the table provided, then answer the reflection questions that follow the table.
Part 2 of the worksheet is focused on Managing Environmental Resources. Since you do not have access to your project family’s home, you will need to collect data about your own home to represent your project’s family home.
Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
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Four Steps Involved in Working with Data Background: Kirk (2016) designed his text to help understand the four steps involved in working with data. Kirk (2016) discusses the following working with data steps: Data acquisition, data examination, data transformation, and data exploration.
Four Steps Involved in Working with Data
Each step is important and the individual steps depend on each other. As a researcher, you cannot jump from data acquisition to data exploration without completing the process of the previous steps. Assignment: Write a research paper that contains the following:
Your research paper should be at least (1000 words), double-spaced, have at least 4 APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in MS Word format). Your cover page should contain the following: Title, Student’s name, University’s name, Course name, Course number, Professor’s name, and Date. Submit your assignment on or before the due date. Reference: Kirk, A. (2016). Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (p. 50). SAGE Publications
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This essay should be about logistic function and its application in predicting the infectious rate of different epidemic diseases.
It should involve lots of calculation steps and accurate math terminologies.
It would be better if the essay makes use of calculus (high school level differentiation and integration) and statistics.
The academic standard is IB mathematics HL (higher level).
Infectious rate of different epidemic diseases
What is your current aim and rationale with the project?
Recently, the outburst of Ebola in the west Africa has claimed more than 4,800 lives and this number is sure to rise. Other epidemic diseases around the world or in the history has affected the society or even the basis of civilization, such as the notorious Black Death, influenza, bird flu, SARS and HIV.
The essay aims to explore the speed of the infection of different diseases and see how factors such as technological advancement, mode of transmission, nature of the virus and locations affect the rate of infection. After a general formula of the infection rate is generated, these factors would be represented as mathematical constant in the equation.
Ideally, after comparing different epidemics, the essay would also propose a graph that plots he fatality ratio against the chronological order of history to see how development is hygiene and medical sciences has helped reducing the fatality and infection of different epidemics (though I am afraid the number of different epidemics that can be incorporated into this final graph would be limited because of time constraint, which may lead to an insufficient conclusion).
How will you use mathematics to achieve this? What mathematics will be used? Include specific topics you believe you believe will have to use in your exploration.
The epidemic model of infectious rate involves the appliance of various functions (exponential, logarithm and etc.) and potentially simple knowledge in statistics.
The actual interpretations of the statistics and the model built would largely rely on the knowledge of differentiation and integration, especially methodology introduced in 16.9 (differential equations)
What opportunities will there be for you to critically reflect on your work? Have other people attempted what you are trying to do? Make a note of these people here.
Limitation in statistics: It may be difficult to acquire accurate data of patients and death because identifying the disease needs time and there might be misjudgment in the early stage of diagnosing that some deaths would be attributed to other disease or vice versa.
Different diseases might have different ways of transmission, thus having different pattern of infection over time. If the essay fails to give a conclusion about the universal pattern of epidemics, reflection can be done
The statistics in terms of infection of the diseases should be available online from different resources. The modeling of infection rate has already been widely discussed and well established. Terminologies such as the basic reproductive rate (Ro) and fatality ratio would be useful in elucidating the concepts
How will you be able to demonstrate a significant amount of personal engagement with this topic? Is there an opportunity for you to use the mathematics you discover in a new or creative way? Can you extend your work to take into account other areas of mathematics?
Since the topic involves a lot of biology, I will have to read more about the background information of diseases as well as the contemporary medical condition. The actual process of using differentiation and integration for mathematic model is also new to me, so I will have to learn this portion of math by myself.
The data collected can be presented in a very creative way and thus knowledge in statistics can be applied to optimize the graphical representation.
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Using intermediate goals to better understand the problem,
Being aware of implicit goals,
Refining, revising and reformulating as needed,
Using multiple goals to recognize system relationships
For this portion of the discussion, students should select one of the bulleted points above and defend why they feel it is the most important. Students should use at least one real life example (either hypothetically, makeup a situation or use a recent news story) to support their claim.
The course textbook discusses creating a supportive culture and teams in healthcare. For this portion of the assignment, talk about one of your favorite teams and why you feel it is successful. This can be a team that you are currently part of at work, school club, a volunteer organization (i.e. church choir), or even a sports team
Use the 4 questions on page 128 of the course textbook to leverage your response:
What is the purpose of the team?
What is the ideal step-by-step process or approach to achieve that purpose?
What is the most appropriate structure to support and carry out that process?
How does the team define and measure success?
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Summary of EACH article (1-2 paragraphs) and methodology of the article (2-3 paragraphs)
EACH ARTICLE, EACH SUMMARY AND METHODOLOGY. THERE SHOULD BE 3 SEPARATE POST.
FOR EACH ARTICLE, THERE SHOULD BE AT LEAST 2 SOURCES.
Methodology is about how they studied what they studied. You are meant to look at the different methods used (e.g., participant observation, surveys, genealogical methods, etc.). You are meant to explain what they did- for example how long they studied or how many people were surveyed (was it random or focused), give as many details as you can about all of the methods used. Then, go ahead and discuss if you think these methods were appropriate, problematic, effective, and why or why not. So if they used participant observation and only lived in the community for a month, you might highlight the problems of building rapport/ truly understanding a community in a short period of time. Or say they practiced longitudinal research- you could highlight how useful it might be that they returned to live in the community over the course of multiple years.
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