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• SOC 490 Entire Course

• SOC 490 Week 1 Capstone Topic Selection

• 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 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

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

• 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?

• 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?

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• SOC 490 Week 2 Annotated Bibliography

• SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 1 Social Theories

• 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.

• 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.

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• SOC 490 Week 2 DQ 2 Annotated Bibliography Best
  Practices

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• SOC 490 Week 3 Proposal for Statistical Research
  Project

• 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. What group behaviors,
  beliefs, and interactions influenced your own
  psychological states and behaviors in the
  classroom when you began in online education? How
  did you initially respond to those behaviors? Has
  your response changed over time? If so, how have
  you changed? If not, how have you maintained
  consistency?

• 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.

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• SOC 490 Week 4 DQ 1 Ramifications of a Solution

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

• 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?

• 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?

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• SOC 490 Week 5 Capstone Project

• SOC 490 Week 5 DQ 1 Final Reflection

• 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

• 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

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