{"id":432510,"date":"2018-10-04T00:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T00:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/?p=43609"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:40:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:40:51","slug":"sociology-paper-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/sociology-paper-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology Paper Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-lg-10 col-md-9 col-sm-16\">\n<h2 class=\"form-control-static orderTopic\" title=\"Sociology paper\">Sociology Paper<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-10 col-md-9 col-sm-16\"><label class=\"control-label\">Description<\/label>Pick any of the listed ones and research<br \/>\nDescription<br \/>\nPick any combination of the following topics &#8211; provided the sum-total of possible points does not exceed 300. Label each of your responses using the number of the topic it addresses (you do not need to include the actual topic). Combine your responses in one document,<br \/>\nTailor the length of your responses to a. the point-value of the topic and b. the level of detail required by the topic; the resulting combined document may not exceed 10 double-spaced pages, using at least an 11 pt \u2018regular\u2019 font.<br \/>\nList and briefly discuss a. the basic characteristics and b. main elements of scientific theories, based on the Instructor&#8217;s Introduction and one of, or both, K.D. Allan (Chapter 1, Imagining Society) and Appelrouth &amp; Edles (STCoE, Ch. 1), (50 points)<br \/>\nBriefly compare and contrast the &#8216;scientific&#8217; and &#8216;interpretist\u2019 perspectives on the nature of society (social \u2018ontology\u2019) and how it (society or social phenomena) can be studied and theorized, based on the Instructor&#8217;s Introduction and K.D. Allan (Chapter 1, Imagining Society). (50 points)<br \/>\nBriefly compare and contrast the \u2018critical\u2019 and \u2018descriptive\u2019 (or detached and non-evaluative) perspectives on social\/sociological theory, based on the Instructor&#8217;s Introduction and K.D. Allan (Chapter 1, Imagining Society) (50 points)<br \/>\nList, define, and briefly discuss the five role-adaptations to the U.S.\u2019s cultural and social structures according to R.K. Merton. (50 points)<br \/>\nDefine and briefly discuss the concepts of \u201cstatus\u201d, \u201crole\u201d, \u201crole-set\u201d and \u201cstatus-set\u201d, according to R.K. Merton (50 points)<br \/>\nPresent a summary of Malinowski\u2019s contributions\/legacy to modern sociological functionalism, according to Turner and Maryanski (50 points)<br \/>\nList and briefly discuss a. \u201cthe [two] basic and irreducible functions of the family\u201d and b. \u201cthe conditions under which effective [primary] socialization can take place\u201d, according to T. Parsons (75 points)<br \/>\nList, define and briefly discuss the pattern-variables, according to T. Parsons (and collaborators). (75 points)<br \/>\nList and briefly discuss a. the sources of structural change in social systems, b. what the structure of social systems consists in, and c. what structural change in and of social systems entails, according to T. Parsons (75 points)<br \/>\nSummarize and briefly critically evaluate R.K. Merton&#8217;s critique of abstract, analytical grand-theorizing (producing all-inclusive conceptual schemes) and his argument in support of concentrating on \u201cdeveloping theories of the middle range\u201d as the appropriate theory-building strategy for Sociology. (75 points)<br \/>\nList and briefly discuss why, and mechanisms whereby, deviant individual role-adaptations to the U.S.\u2019s cultural and social structure are generated according to R.K. Merton. (This is about RKM\u2019s \u2018anomie and strain\u2019 theory of deviance, not the adaptations as such) (75 points)<br \/>\nList, define, and briefly discuss the four types of independently variable \u201ccomponents\u201d (or \u201ccategories\u201d) in terms of which T. Parsons claims the structure of social systems may be analyzed. (75 points)<br \/>\nList, define, and briefly discuss \u201cthe [four] essential functional imperatives of any system of action, and hence of any social system\u201d, according to T. Parsons. (75 points)<br \/>\nPresent T. Parsons\u2019 argument in support of conceptualizing and analyzing social systems as cybernetic systems of control over personality systems (and through them of actual human behavior). (75 points)<br \/>\nList, define, and briefly discuss the social mechanisms, the presence and operation of which may reduce conflict and incompatibility in the role-expectations faced by incumbents of a particular social status or position, according to R.K. Merton. (75 points)<br \/>\nPresent, discuss and critically evaluate the \u201canalytical frame or map\u201d Appelrouth and Edles put forth and used to \u201cexplore, compare and contrast the work of each [contemporary social\/sociological] theorist\u201d (STCoE: 13 and ff). (Instructor\u2019s Introduction, items 17-31 may be useful) (100 points)<br \/>\nIdentify and discuss (manifest and latent) functions (i.e. objective consequences contributing to the adjustment and adaptation) and dysfunctions (i.e. objective consequences undermining the adjustment and adaptation) FOR bureaucratically structured public and private organizations and their staff OF the patterns of negative attitudes towards (and actual behavioral reactions to) bureaucratically structured public and private organizations and their staff. (100 points)<br \/>\nCritically evaluate whether (if at all) and how identifying the latent (as defined by R.K. Merton) functions of a cultural item, institution or social practice (&#8220;a standardized practice or belief&#8221;) for specified systems (personality or social) aids a sociologist in causally explaining the genesis and\/or persistence of that cultural item, institution or social practice. (100 points)<br \/>\nUse Parsons\u2019 pattern-variable conceptual scheme (STCoE: 44 \u2013 50) [you may ignore the self \u2013 collectivity pair] to describe and compare\/contrast the \u201crole-expectations\u201d in the role-set (as defined by R.K. Merton) of the incumbents of the status\/position of \u201ccollege student\u201d and \u201chigh-school student\u201d (Consider at least TWO role-relationships in which incumbents of each status\/position MUST enter; e.g. student-instructor\/teacher and student-student). (100 points)<br \/>\nSummarize and briefly critically evaluate R.K. Merton\u2019s middle-range theory of the \u201crole-set\u201d. (150 points)<br \/>\nUse T. Parsons\u2019 analytical framework for describing and analyzing the \u201cAmerican Family\u201d to compare and contrast today\u2019s \u201ceffective kinship unit\u201d (its role structure, relationship to broader kinship structures, other institutions and institutional spheres, cultural patterns, etc.) to the \u201ceffective kinship unit\u201d T. Parsons described and analyzed in the 1940s and 1950s. What are the contributions of contemporary families to meeting the functional requirements of today\u2019s adults and minor children, and of non-family institutions in which today\u2019s adults and minor children participate (at their current or later stage of their life-cycle)? If those functional requirements are no longer primarily or exclusively met by, and in, families, how are they met and to what extent are they met? 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