American Sociological Association (ASA) Style Guide, 6th Edition

Task:Directions for Final Assignment-PowerPoint presentation The purpose of this project is to encourage you to reflect upon what you have learned in the course and synthesize this information into a deeper understanding of a topic under Applied Social Psychology. Early in the semester, select one of the topics from the modules. This topic will be … Read more

I’m presenting in document form: The presentation must cover the following information: – Summary of the introduction – Main independent and dependent variables – Hypotheses – Brief review of the literature – Population and sample characteristics + how you will obtain informed consent – Description of the instrument to collect data and a discussion of … Read more

Task: The methodology covers four key parts to describing what will be done in the study.  1) The first part is the participant’s section in which you are discussing the target population, your sample and how you are going about obtaining the sample, the demographics of the participants, and how you will get informed consent.  … Read more

The final part of this class considers mixing research methods, evaluative research, participatory action research, and meta-analysis.  These are approaches to data collection and knowledge generation that cannot neatly fit into the two main branches of research that are quantitative and qualitative approaches. 1) Mixed methods are becoming increasingly popular.  What are the pros and … Read more

You are to write a review of the existing literature for your chosen topic utilizing at least fifteen academic peer-reviewed papers, preferably from scholarly journals.  You will focus on describing the results of each of the studies reviewed and narrowing down the theoretical framework driving the study. You will then relate it to your own … Read more

Task:Please answer 1 of the questions 1 through 3, then everyone answers question 4. 1. Using Hofstede’s tool on the website: How is your country of interest different than the U.S. on each of the dimensions of the taxonomy? This includes individualism/collectivism, power distance, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long vs. short-term orientation, and indulgence/restraint? 2. With … Read more

Now that we have explored some of the descriptive statistics and important basic data values in quantitative research and begun an exploration of inferential statistics, let’s make sure we can sort these concepts out before moving forward.  We have units of analysis about which we collect our data.  The data we collect are categorized.  Data … Read more

Answer any 2 of the following questions this week. 1. Watch the video about water shortages in Mexico.  Consider the issue of resource dilemmas and Table 13.1.  What is a resource dilemma in your area?  What are the issues at stake? 2. Discuss the impact that the surrounding environment has on our behavior.  Please be … Read more

REBUTTAL NEEDED:Given our understanding of how prison situations act on the mind of the individual (as demonstrated by the Zimbardo study), what recommendations or changes would you suggest for our nations prison environments? (In answering this, please be sure to note concepts from the sections of the chapter that directly discuss this). The Zimbardo experiment … Read more