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Midterm 2 study guides study guide -- politics http://soc6.blogspot.com/2014/03/study-guide-desmond-and-emirbayer-3.html study guide -- economics http://soc6.blogspot.com/2014/03/study-guide-economics.html

Study Guide – Economics Desmond and Emirbayer: 4. Economics 1.        What benefits were created from the New Deal legislation? 2.        Which group had to be accommodated with compromises in order to draft New Deal legislation? 3.        What percent of blacks nationwide could not take advantage of the benefits offered by the Social Security Act of 1935? 4.        The U.S. spent more than 95 billion dollars on what program in the three decades following World War Two, making it the single most comprehensive set of social benefits ever issued by the federal government under a unified initiative? 5.        Were the benefits of the G.I. Bill were extended with equal generosity to whites and nonwhites? 6.        Was it only during the last part of World War II that nonwhites were adm...

Study Guide -- Desmond and Emirbayer: 3. Politics 1.        What is sharecropping? Describe it. 2.        What tactics employed to keep blacks from voting after they had won the right to legally participate in elections? 3.        Which institution served as an institutional hub for the Civil Rights Movement? 4.        What were some direct results of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? 5.        The Voting Rights Act of 1965 resulted in what? 6.        George Wallace, when he blocked entrance to two black students at the University of Alabama, taught Republican politicians what lessons? 7.        Give examples of couching a race-specific issue—segregation--in race-neutral language. 8.        According to your textbook authors...

Soc 206 Spring 2014 Activity Assignment 2 (Option 2) Due date: The day of the second midterm How to turn in: Turn in a copy to Turnitin.com on the day we take midterm 2. Point value: This activity is worth 20 points. Considerations: We will discuss this topic in class and you are encouraged to talk about this topic with your classmates outside of class. You can even read each other’s papers. However, simply copying and editing another person’s paper is considered plagiarism and you will, at a minimum, get a zero on this assignment. Turnitin.com is very good at catching plagiarizers. Please do not attempt. Resubmission policy: Any paper that receives a score of less than 19 (93%) can be revised and resubmitted. However, the resubmit option can only be used once. And the maximum score possible for a paper that is resubmitted is 19. There is a section on Turnitin.com where you can turn in a resubmission. Also, you must turn in a hard copy as well. You will have until the next...

Soc 206 Spring 2014 Activity Assignment 2   Due date: The day of the second midterm   How to turn in: Turn in a copy to Turnitin.com on the day we take midterm 2.   Point value: This activity is worth 20 points.   Considerations: We will discuss this topic in class and you are encouraged to talk about this topic with your classmates outside of class. You can even read each other’s papers. However, simply copying and editing another person’s paper is considered plagiarism and you will, at a minimum, get a zero on this assignment. Turnitin.com is very good at catching plagiarizers. Please do not attempt.   Resubmission policy: Any paper that receives a score of less than 19 (93%) can be revised and resubmitted. However, the resubmit option can only be used once. And the maximum score possible for a paper that is resubmitted is 19. There is a section on Turnitin.com where you can turn in a resubmission. Also, you must turn in a ha...

Race and Ethnic Relations Spring 2014 Research project draft works cited and literature review Assignment: Now that you have a research question, do a review of the literature and write a works cited page. Find at least one article or book that uses the same method that you will use. For example, if you are going to do a survey, find an article that uses the survey method. The other sources do not have to use the same method you use. Cite at least two sources. Use any format you want for the works cited page, APA, MLA, or other. Write a draft literature review section. In this section, you will summarize relevant previous research and talk about how your research adds to what is already known. Since you have not conducted your research yet, you will have to guess a bit and revise later. Write a draft works cited page. If after doing the literature review, your research question and method has changed, note that as well. Due date: Due the day of ...

Study Guide – Rankism and Weightism Lecture on rankism 1.        Which types of bias are forms of rankism? 2.        Characteristics of social hierarchies What Makes You Click? — Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating 3.     According to the study “What Makes You click,” how much additional income is needed for a woman taller than median height (5’ 5.5”) to be as successful on online dating sites as a median height woman? 4.     According to the study “What Makes You click,” in order for a 5’ 2’’ tall man to be as desirable to a woman as a man who is 5’ 11.5’’ tall (median height) and who earns $62,500 per year (median income), he needs to have an additional income of how much? Women’s Increasing Wage Penalties from Being Overweight and Obese 5.     Since 1981, what has  happened  to the percent of white women overweight or...