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• SOC 490 Entire Course (Ash)

• SOC 490 Week 1 Capstone Topic Selection (Ash)

• 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 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.

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• SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 1 Personal and Professional
  Relevance (Ash)

• SOC 490 Week 1 DQ 2 Methodology for Selecting a
  Sample Population (Ash)

• 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?

• 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

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• SOC 490 Week 2 Annotated Bibliography (Ash)

• SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 1 Social Theories (Ash)

• SOC 490 Week 2 Annotated Bibliograph
• 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

• 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,

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• SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 2 Annotated Bibliography Best
  Practices (Ash)

• SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 1 Psychological Perspectives on
  Social Issues (Ash)

• 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.

• 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

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• SOC 490 Week 3 DQ 2 Psychological Reflections on
  Online Academic Dynamics (Ash)

• SOC 490 Week 3 Proposal for Statistical Research
  Project (Ash)

• 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.

• 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,

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• SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 1 Ramifications of a Solution
  (Ash)

• SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 2 Ethical Research in the
  Social Sciences (Ash)

• 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

• 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

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• SOC 490 Week 5 Capstone Project (Ash)

• SOC 490 Week 5 DQ 1 Final Reflection (Ash)

• 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.

• 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

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