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SOC 490 Week 1 Capstone Topic Selection
SOC 490 Entire Course
  SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 1 Personal and Professional
Relevance SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 2 Methodology for
Selecting a Sample Population SOC 490 Week 1
Capstone Topic Selection SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 1
Social Theories SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 2 Annotated
Bibliography Best Practices SOC 490 Week 2
Annotated Bibliography SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 1
Psychological Perspectives on Social Issues SOC
490 Week 3 DQ 2 Psychological Reflections on
Online Academic Dynamics
  SOC 490 Week 1 Capstone Topic
Selection   Capstone Project Topic Selection.
Read the final Capstone Project instructions in
the Components of Course Evaluation section of
this guide or in the Week Five section of your
online course. Each weeks assignment will be a
major component of the Capstone Project. Chapters
1 through 3 will guide you in the process of
outlining your topic. Identify and describe a
key issue that affects a specific population. a.
Who is affected by this issue? b. How are they
affected by this issue? Evaluate the population
that is affected by the issue.
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SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 2 Methodology for Selecting a
Sample Population
SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 1 Personal and Professional
Relevance
SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 2 Methodology for Selecting a
Sample Population   Methodology for Selecting a
Sample Population. Your Capstone Project will
focus on a specific sample population for future
research. In this discussion, you will need to do
two things. First, explain the attributes of the
sample population that you plan to study. Then
explain the research methodology you will use to
study that population. Will you use a
quantitative approach, qualitative approach, or a
mixture of both? Which approach do you find most
valuable and why?
SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 1 Personal and Professional
Relevance   Personal and Professional Relevance.
Your research proposal for your Capstone Project
should be written on a topic in which you feel an
investment and that also is relevant to fields
within the social sciences. What relevance does
this issue have in your own life? Does it relate
to your interests, and if so, how does it relate?
What is your connection to the population you are
researching? If the issue does not have relevance
to you or you do not have a connection with the
population, explain why not. What is the goal of
your research?
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SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 1 Social Theories
SOC 490 Week 2 Annotated Bibliography
SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 1 Social Theories   Social
Theories. There are three primary social theories
(functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic
interactionism) which are used to evaluate social
problems. In this discussion board, you are to
evaluate the chosen issue/problem that you
identified for your Capstone Project from these
perspectives. Describe how a functionalist, a
conflict theorist, and someone ascribing to
symbolic interactionism would explain the key
issue and the factors that have led to this
issue. Remember that you can draw on what you
have learned from your previous courses as well
as acceptable academic sources to refresh your
memory on these theories and then apply them to
your selected issue
SOC 490 Week 2 Annotated Bibliography   Annotated
Bibliography. The purpose of the annotated
bibliography is to assist you in developing
research analysis skills including critical
thinking, writing, and literature research
skills. Using the feedback that you received from
the assignments and the ideas that emerged in
discussions from Week One, focus your research on
the specific population you selected and the
issue that you connected to this population.
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SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 1 Psychological Perspectives on
Social Issues
SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 2 Annotated Bibliography Best
Practices
  SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 1 Psychological Perspectives
on Social Issues   Psychological Perspectives on
Social Issues. A large portion of the social
science major is dedicated to the study of
individual, group, and social psychology. Social
psychology examines how the thoughts and
behaviors of individual humans are influenced by
the thoughts and behaviors of other humans in the
various social groups in which they find
themselves. Individual psychological theories
focus more on individuals and the thoughts and
behaviors that they manifest as relatively
autonomous individuals
  SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 2 Annotated Bibliography Best
Practices   Annotated Bibliography Best
Practices. As you approach the end of your
academic journey, think back to all the research
that you have put into this accomplishment. You
have been writing and honing your communication
skills throughout your academic tenure. This week
your assignment is to create an annotated
bibliography. In this discussion board, please
present the five most important things you have
learned about research in your field of study
over your time at Ashford.
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SOC 490 Week 3 Proposal for Statistical Research
Project
SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 2 Psychological Reflections on
Online Academic Dynamics
SOC 490 Week 3 Proposal for Statistical Research
Project   Proposal for Statistical Research
Project. Having identified a population, an
issue/problem that relates to that specific
population, and then gathered academic resources
that relate to the issue, you will now be asked
to propose a statistical research project that
directly relates to the social issue you
identified for your selected population. Pay
special attention to Chapter 7 of the text as
well, as it has excellent information on
variables that one can adequately test and
general designs for experimentation involving
statistical analysis
SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 2 Psychological Reflections on
Online Academic Dynamics   Psychological
Reflections on Online Academic Dynamics. Having
studied group and individual psychological
theories, as a follow up to this weeks first
discussion, analyze your online academic
experience from one of the perspectives found in
social psychology.
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SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 2 Ethical Research in the
Social Sciences
SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 1 Ramifications of a Solution
SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 2 Ethical Research in the
Social Sciences   Ethical Research in the Social
Sciences. Find the most interesting, bizarre, or
blatant example of a violation of good ethical
conduct in research in the social sciences.
Explain the experiment. What theories, ideas,
behaviors, or phenomena were being analyzed? What
were the attributes of the population that the
researchers chose to use for their experiments?
What did they do to the population over the
course of the experiments? After you have
explained the experiment and its procedure, then
provide an argument that displays why this
research methodology was unethical. Remember to
support your arguments with factual evidence and
logical reasoning.
SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 1 Ramifications of a
Solution   Ramifications of a Solution. If the
key issue that you are researching were solved,
what would be the historical, psychological,
ethical, and social ramifications of this
solution? How would the course of history change
if this issue were resolved? How would the group
psychology of the population you are studying
change or how would it need to change in order to
solve the problem? How would the ethical
relationships within this group or surrounding
this group change if this key issue were
resolved? And finally, what would be the
ramifications in society at large if there was a
resolution to this key issue/problem? Would these
be positive or negative? Both? 
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SOC 490 Week 5 DQ 1 Final Reflection
SOC 490 Week 5 Capstone Project
SOC 490 Week 5 DQ 1 Final Reflection   Final
Reflection. This is the final discussion, and
because there is only one this week, there will
be many tasks. However, they should be quite
enjoyable for most of you. In the following
discussion, you will reflect on your overall
academic experience. Remember that your answers
will in no way influence your grade. Instead,
they will be used as engines for reflection on
what professors and course designers can do to
strengthen this program and the components of
this program. Please answer the following
questions a. What was the most useful or
enjoyable class that was part of your major
course curriculum (the courses in your major that
are not general education courses)? Why was it
the most useful or enjoyable?
SOC 490 Week 5 Capstone Project   Focus of the
Capstone Project Develop a research paper, in
which you analyze a key issue facing a population
segment in order to propose an area for
additional research. Your research will Part I
Background a. Describe your chosen population
segment. b. Explain one major social issue
facing your selected population segment.
Provide statistics and background data to
document the social issues facing your selected
population segment.
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