Instructions
In this module you have focused on learning about the principles and logic behind research design. As you work with your team on your research design project in this course, it is important to know what type(s) of research design is (are) appropriate for the proposed research question. For this discussion, you will write an original post in which you address the questions listed below.

Which type of research design (experimental or quasi-experimental) do you think is more likely to have higher validity? Why?
What type of methodology would you use to evaluate the effectiveness of a family preservation/child welfare intervention aimed at reducing the risk for future neglect or abuse in families referred for abuse or neglect?

Readings:

Auerbach, C., & Zeitlin, W. (2015). Making your case: Using R for program evaluation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Read Chapter 5

Grinnell, R. M., & Unrau, Y. A. (2014). Social work resear

Instructions
"A Class Divided" takes a look at a two-day experiment conducted by a third-grade teacher, Jane Elliot, in Iowa. The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, Jane Elliot knew that merely telling and preaching to her third-graders against discrimination wasnt enough. The shooting of Martin Luther King could not just be talked about and explained away. There was no way to explain this to little third-graders. . . .

It was Tuesday during National Brotherhood Week and the teacher asked her students What is brotherhood? The students answered with the golden rule and also said its about treating everyone like theyre your brother. She then asked her students: Is there anyone in this United Stated that we dont treat as our brothers? The children answered "Black people and the Indians." The students responded to the teachers next question: What kinds of things do people say about these people? One of the students answered, Look at the dumb people, and another said somet

Instructions
The current news cycle is in constant flux and traveling at warp speed. This discussion board will be used to highlight current articles about a specific topic. These articles will be selected by the assigned group and will focus on specific stories related to the topic. As social work students, it is imperative that you are constantly attuned to the environment, social policy, and specific events that impact the lives of your clients.

This discussion board will be about race, racism, ethnicity, and privilege.


1. Read all of the articles that your classmates post.
2. Create your initial post. Answer the following:
    How have these articles increased our understanding of the topic?
      What impacts do these issues have on contemporary society in the United States? In your discussion, include the effects on both the targeted population as well as the population as a whole.
Respond to posts from at least two other

What specific research methodology (ies) will the study utilize (see above)?  What is your lens?  Why are those particular methodologies appropriate for the study?  There may be more than one methodology.  Indigenous theories (Traditional knowledge, Medicine Wheel)?  Critical? Decolonizing? Critical Theory?  Settler-colonial? Anti-colonial? Feminist? Life histories?  Grounded Theory? Participatory? Phenomenological? Constructivist? Case study?
In addition, there are many specific methods that can be utilized including: interviews, a survey, focus groups, sharing circles, historical research, life histories, photo voice, history of their families, performance research or environmental research.
A three page single spaced paper (approximately 1500 words) outline the methodology (ies) and methods that will be used in the study and a rationale for each will be submitted.  Also include a sampling strategy that indicates who will be included in t

This objective will explain the links between social classes discussed by Karl Marx (Proletariat, Bourgeoisie) and its relation to crime and deviance.

This objective includes a power point presentation assignment (Serial Killers)

Each student will choose from a list of serial killers (from instructor) and complete the assignment. - I am choosing WAYNE WILLIAMS. - https://youtu.be/lnqpNDxy70k

Crime & Deviance Assignment

In my opinion, WAYNE WILLIAMS is a victim, murderer, psychopath OR ALL THREE. Please define what a MURDERER VICTIM or PSYCHOPATH is and be able to support your opinion. Please make sure you use ONE OF THE THREE MAIN SCHOOLS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT AND USE EXAMPLES OF WHY YOU CHOSE THAT SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.

5-7 SLIDES OF CONTENT USE REPUTABLE REFERENCES!!!!!! PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR REFERENCES ARE CORRECT!!!  FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULT IN A 40 POINT DEDUCTION!!

Please refer to the link section of canvas in order to view t

Use a current event(Unemployment in America) and analyze it using two theoretical perspectives(Karl Marx-Theory of Social class) (Emile Durkheim-Division of Labor in Society). I suggest having an introductory paragraph where you introduce your current event, and then where you indicate that you will analyze it using the two theoretical perspectives. In the first part of the paper you must thoroughly explain the current event that you will analyze.
For the second part of the paper, introduce and summarize your chosen theoretical perspectives(Karl Marx-Theory of Social class) (Emile Durkheim-Division of Labor in Society). Make sure that you cover the important components of these theories by explaining them clearly and correctly. Then apply these theories (one at a time) to your topic. In other words, answer this analytical question: How would [such and such theory] explain what you see happening with your chosen topic? How does this theory elucidate what is going on? What concept

Each question must have about 350 words in the answer. There are 5 questions.

1. Is gender-neural socialization possible? Why or why not?

2.What is the connection between normative masculinity and violence?

3.Why are reproductive rights also called reproductive politics? What makes the
subject of womens bodies open for political discussions? Or in other words, why are
womens bodies, and/or bodies with a uterus open for political discussions?

4. Researchers have analyzed the role sports or images around sports play in the
construction of femininity and masculinity. What have they concluded?

5.In which ways can feminist ideas and approaches create more equity and equality for
all genders.

(One reference page for all citations, you may use outside sources, but please include at least two or three of the sources I have provided *see additional materials*

Design a comprehensive curriculum for sex AND gender education to be used in
middle schools around the U.S.; describe the content and why you focus on these
aspects that you have chosen.
Give facts in support of why this policy should be
implemented.

APA Citation, separate reference page.

Milestone Three involves proposing how social research can be used to collect additional information on the workplace problem that would provide a more
comprehensive assessment of what has occurred. You will identify the types of information further required, and consider which research methods could be
used to gather reliable and valid data.

Prompt: Submit a 23-page draft of your Application of Research Methodology, addressing all critical elements from Section III below. In thinking sociologically
about the root problem (as summarized in Milestone One), you will craft questions about it that need to be answered to provide a fuller, more in-depth analysis
of it. A research method will then be discussed with respect to how it could be used to gather reliable and valid information to answer these questions.
Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed:

III. Application of Research Methodology: Based on the problem, identify questions that n

To prepare for this assignment, navigate the Drop the I-Word Campaign website, including the links (1) Three Reasons Why We Should Drop the I-Word;(Immigrant) (2) Journalist Reference Guide; and (3) I Am stories.

Watch the documentary Love, Life & The Virus, and thinking about the power of storytelling,  what is the contribution that firsthand immigrant stories make in the task of undoing the adverse effects of using the expression illegal immigrant such as dehumanization, cruelty, hate, fear, racism, and mass criminalization?