Category: Sociology

What are the key propositions of conflict theory and how do they impact the character’s chances of becoming deviant?

Sociology of deviance.

Write a story about someone who engages in primary deviance and then becomes a secondary deviant. Make sure your story teaches the reader about the concepts of primary and secondary deviance and how one becomes a secondary deviant.

How would conflict theory explain the secondary deviance committed by the character in your story?

What are the key propositions of conflict Theory and how do they impact the character’s chances of becoming deviant?

How may conflict theory explain the character’s chances of being convicted of a crime?

Be sure to address the role of social institutions and the effects of inequality in your answer.

What do you think are one or two weaknesses of conflict theory?

How would Merton’s Strain Theory explain the secondary deviance committed by the character in your story?

What are the key propositions of strain theory and how do they impact the character’s chances of becoming deviant?

Be sure to address the role of social institutions and the effects of inequality in your answer. What do you think are one or two weaknesses of strain theory?

How would labeling theory explain the secondary deviance committed by the character in your story?

What are the key propositions of labeling theory and how do they impact the character’s chances of becoming deviant?

Be sure to address the role of social institutions and the effects of inequality in your answer. What do you think are one or two weaknesses of labeling theory?

Expectations and Criteria for Success:Your essay should be approximately 500 words
The essay should follow instructions

The essay uses correct, standard English grammar and mechanics, and is free of typos as well as punctuation, capitalization, and word choice errors

The essay incorporates multiple, accurate references to online and text content as support for thesis/claims/argument. Parenthetical references at the end of the sentence using said material is sufficient.

They essay should use accurately one style of citations (MLA, ASA, or APA).

The essay demonstrates superior, academic knowledge of the topic under study, and is free from general statements, fluff, and summary

The language is clear and concise with logical flow

The essay is submitted prior to the due date/time

Refer to the Lesson 5 Writing Assignment Rubric (LO1, 4, 5) for more specific criteria to attain maximum essay score.

Describe the original source for its active ingredient, the original world region from where it came, and how it was originally used in this cultural context.

 

Describe the original source for its active Ingredient, the original world region from where it came, and how it was originally used in this cultural context. Outline the key innovations that have made the drug more potent, more available, and less expensive over time. Finally, describe how and for what purposes it is used today.

give citations to course readings or to other scholarly work to support your statements (websites are not acceptable). The Courtwright book and the textbook are excellent sources of material for the assignment.

use APA style for citations and references. You can find guidelines on how to use APA citation and reference formats at the following website.

If you choose to use evidence from a book, please include page numbers in the in-text citation.

see syllabus for the specific details of assignment length and submission. The written portion of the assignment is limited to a page, but you can add the citations on a second page.

Identify two specific changes in social norms which occurred because of COVID-19 that will likely continue after the in the “reopening of the US.”

 

In this discussion, you get to practice being a Sociologists by using Theoretical perspectives to explain what is happening in society with what is supposed to happen in society.

More importantly, you get to do so through a case that is currently happening and unresolved, which means you are doing the very work that sociologists are doing as we speak!

Write a three paragraph discussion based on the following

Identify two specific changes in social norms which occurred because of COVID-19 that will likely continue after the in the “reopening of the US.”

Use at least one theoretical perspective to explain how those changes impact particular social institutions.

In your answer, consider polices and processes at the national (and international) level and how that has impacted specific changes in norms and behaviors that have changed for you.

While you may consider values and beliefs, the focus of this discussion is on behavior.

Be sure to include concepts and theory/theoretical perspectives from the modules and also focus on the chapters that address social institutions.

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