WESTERN CIVILIZATION
1. How do our methods for dating and interpreting artifacts impact our understanding of history and Western civilization? What are some examples of these methods?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
2. Identify the most important technological advance prior to 3000 BC. Support your conclusion by comparing this impact to the impact of at least one other innovation on the culture that created it.
Your response should be at least 300 words in length.
3. What were the consequences of the Code of Hammurabi for ancient society, and how does this system of justice compare to modern American laws? To explain your point, draw on information about how the Code of Hammurabi emerged, the overall theme, and what you see as some of the more striking statutes listed.
Your response should be at least 300 words in length.
SOCIOLOGY
For this assignment, complete both Part A and Part B as follows:
Part A: Apply the concept of sociological imagination while answering the following question. What are at least two specific groups that you belong to (family, race, age, gender, ethnicity, class, level of education, work, etc.) that influenced your choice to pursue a degree at this University.
Describe how relevant the functionalist view, conflict view, and interactionist view were in making your choice to attend college?
Please make sure to address all three of these sociological views in your assignment. Hint: pp. 15-16 and 21 of the textbook explain the three different sociological views and p. 16 in the SOC THINK box provides specific questions students can use to apply the three sociological views to their choice to attend college.
Part B: Imagine you are a sociological researcher studying academic dishonesty at a University. Identify at least one research question you would address.
What type of sociological research design method that recognizes patterns of behavior would you use to study academic dishonesty at the University? Identify and explain at least one advantage and one disadvantage of the research method type you chose.
Hint: A table of research design methods are provided on p. 36 of your textbook.
For this assignment, ensure you follow the requirements below: 1. Answer ALL questions listed in both Part A and Part B of your essay. 2. Please answer the response questions in essay style format. You will not rewrite each question and answer it.
You will create an essay that addresses the response questions. 3. Use sociological terms and concepts from the textbook reading in your essay to demonstrate you understand and can apply the concepts. 4. Cite the textbook at least one time in the assignment.
The essay should contain one or more APA style in-text citations showing how the course textbook was used. Other sources may be used in addition to the textbook. An APA style reference list containing the textbook and any other sources cited in the essay is also required.
The assignment should be a minimum of two pages and should use the following APA style components: APA style title page, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, and 12-point font. (Will provide the pages to the teacher I give the homework to if you need them.)