Popular Questions - Social Science – Sociology

Your Immersion Project for this course is essentially ethnographic research. When you hear the words ethnography or ethnographic research, you may think of Margaret Mead or Franz Boas performing...

Traditional experimental research dictates that there must be one or more experimental groups (groups receiving a treatment or intervention) and a control group (which does not receive the...

After you review all course materials  please answer the following questions. 1. What are manifest and latent functions? Give an example. 2. What is impression management? Give an example from real...

300 words or more 1. Go to page 10 of your textbook. Study the history of sociology, and the role of each principal contributor (Comte, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Weber, etc.) Go to page 14, and study...

When evaluating a program, there are numerous ways to collect data about its participation, impact, and success. A particularly powerful method that may be appropriate for program evaluation is...

As you explored in Week 1, ethical dilemmas are referred to as such because they involve conflicting values and are not easy to resolve. Furthermore, ethical standards and codes do not often give...