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SOC 490 Entire Course (Ash)

SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 1 Personal and Professional Releva
nce
SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 2 Methodology for Selecting a Sam
ple Population
SOC 490 Week 1 Capstone Topic Selection
SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 1 Social Theories

SOC 490 Week 1 Capstone Topic Selectio

n (Ash)
Capstone Project Topic Selection. Read the final Capston
e Project instructions in the Components of Course Eva
luation section of this guide or in the Week Five section
of your online course. Each weeks assignment will be a
major component of the Capstone Project. Chapters 1 t
hrough 3 will guide you in the process of outlining your
topic.

SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 1 Personal and Prof

essional Relevance (Ash)
Personal and Professional Relevance. Your research pro
posal for your Capstone Project should be written on a t
opic in which you feel an investment and that also is rel
evant to fields within the social sciences. What relevanc
e does this issue have in your own life? Does it relate to
your interests, and if so, how does it relate? What is

SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 2 Methodology for

Selecting a Sample Population (Ash)
Methodology for Selecting a Sample Population. Your C
apstone Project will focus on a specific sample populati
on for future research. In this discussion, you will need
to do two things. First, explain the attributes of the sam
ple population that you plan to study. Then explain the
research methodology you will use to study that popula
tion. Will you use a quantitative approach, qualitative a
pproach, or a mixture of both? Which approach do you f
ind most

SOC 490 Week 2 Annotated Bibliography

(Ash)
Annotated Bibliography. The purpose of the annotated
bibliography is to assist you in developing research anal
ysis skills including critical thinking, writing, and literatu
re research skills. Using the feedback that you received
from the assignments and the ideas that emerged in dis
cussions from Week One, focus your research on the sp
ecific population you selected and the issue that you co
nnected to this population.
The annotated bibliography

SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 1 Social Theories (A

sh)
Social Theories. There are three primary social theories
(functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction
ism) which are used to evaluate social problems. In this
discussion board, you are to evaluate the chosen issue/
problem that you identified for your Capstone Project fr
om these perspectives. Describe how a functionalist, a

SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 2 Annotated Bibliog

raphy Best Practices (Ash)
Annotated Bibliography Best Practices. As you approach
the end of your academic journey, think back to all the r
esearch that you have put into this accomplishment. Yo
u have been writing and honing your communication sk
ills throughout your academic tenure. This week your as
signment is to create an annotated bibliography

SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 1 Psychological Per

spectives on Social Issues (Ash)
Psychological Perspectives on Social Issues. A large port
ion of the social science major is dedicated to the study
of individual, group, and social psychology. Social psych
ology examines how the thoughts and behaviors of indi
vidual humans are influenced by the thoughts and beha
viors of other humans in the various social groups in wh
ich they find themselves. Individual psychological theori
es focus more on individuals and the thoughts and beh
aviors that they manifest as relatively autonomous indiv
iduals. There are numerous theories that orient researc
hers in both of these fields. In this discussion, please ex
plain a specific subfield of social psychology

SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 2 Psychological Refl

ections on Online Academic Dynamics
(Ash)
Psychological Reflections on Online Academic Dynamics
. Having studied group and individual psychological the
ories, as a follow up to this weeks first discussion, analy
ze your online academic experience from one of the per
spectives found in social psychology. What group behav
iors, beliefs, and interactions influenced your

SOC 490 Week 3 Proposal for Statistical

Research Project (Ash)
Proposal for Statistical Research Project. Having identifi
ed a population, an issue/problem that relates to that s
pecific population, and then gathered academic resourc
es that relate to the issue, you will now be asked to pro
pose a statistical research project that directly relates to
the social issue you identified for your selected populati
on

SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 1 Ramifications of a

Solution (Ash)
SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 1 Ramifications of a Solution

Ramifications of a Solution. If the key issue that you are

researching were solved, what would be the historical, p
sychological, ethical, and social ramifications of this sol
ution? How would the course of history change if this is
sue were

SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 2 Ethical Research i

n the Social Sciences (Ash)
Ethical Research in the Social Sciences. Find the most in
teresting, bizarre, or blatant example of a violation of g
ood ethical conduct in research in the social sciences. E
xplain the experiment. What theories, ideas, behaviors,
or phenomena were being analyzed? What were the attr
ibutes of the population that the researchers chose to u
se for their experiments? What did they do to the popul
ation over the course of the experiments? After you hav
e explained the experiment and its procedure, then pro
vide an argument that displays

SOC 490 Week 5 Capstone Project (Ash)

Focus of the Capstone Project
Develop a research paper, in which you analyze a key is
sue facing a population segment in order to propose an
area for additional research. Your research will:
Part I: Background
a. Describe your chosen population segment.
b. Explain one major social issue facing your selected p
opulation segment.
Provide statistics and background

SOC 490 Week 5 DQ 1 Final Reflection (A

sh)
Final Reflection. This is the final discussion, and becaus
e there is only one this week, there will be many tasks.
However, they should be quite enjoyable for most of yo
u. In the following discussion, you will reflect on your ov
erall academic experience. Remember that your answer
s will in no way influence your grade. Instead, they will
be used

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