Q Instructions: Please read the instructions carefully and contact me if you have any questions prior to submitting your work. After reading the chapter and reviewing the PowerPoint and supplemental readings on the course site, you should complete the following tasks: Answer the questions below. Your responses should be about one, 5 to 7 sentence, paragraph per question set (meaning numbers 1,2,3, etc should be about one paragraph in length.) Your responses should demonstrate a clear engagement and understanding of the course material, critical application of the sociological concepts/theory and should include clear grammar and sentence structure. Please review the assignment rubric under 'Course Resources' for clearer indication of grading distribution and let me know if you have any questions/concerns. Questions: 1. Can you think of examples from your everyday life that can illustrate Popper’s falsifiability? Include the falsifiability 'equation' in your responses. (Give at least 2 examples) 2. Think about how you could approach a study of the relationship between gender and driving over the speed limit. How could you learn about this relationship using an inductive approach? What would a study of the same relationship look like if examined using a deductive approach? Try the same thing with any topic of your choice. How might you study the topic inductively? Deductively? 3. Take one social phenomena (e.g. social media use, divorce, education systems, etc.) and use two of the social scientific paradigms (theories) describe in the reading and PowerPiont as your analytical framework for that phenomena. That is to say, how would you add theoretical explanations to the social phenomena? (describe how the paradigm would explain the social phenomena). Please use this link to upload your work. Assignment is due on Monday September 7 by 11:59 pm. Worth 15 points. Late assignment will be accepted,but deducted 2 points for every 24 hours they are late. Note: Please only submit word docs or pdf files !!!!DO NOT SUBMIT ANY .PAGES FILES!!!! PreviousNext
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