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Part 1) Reading assignment -RA1:This RA is based on ch.1, Families Past and Present. For this part you’ll need to log into my Blackboard account then go to the class, sociology of the family and then click on reading assignments. Here’s my information: username: IANDRY.SOTO95@login.cuny.edu, password: Iandry12 Part 2) Family is one of the most prominent societal institutions and as an institution, it performs some crucial societal functions. Typically, researchers recognize a few major and a number of minor functions. First - families serve to replenish society with new, socialized members. Second, they provide the emotional stability to the family members. Third, families provide economic support for their members. In addition to these major functions of replacement, emotional stability and economic support, other functions of the family include physical care (care for children and aging parents, as well as sick spouses), regulation of sexual behavior (expectation that spouses confine their sexual behavior to each other), status placement (family of the origin having a lot of impact on one's class and status), and social control (family likely to curb delinquency or criminal behavior). For this discussion question I would like for you to consider the question of family 'malfunctioning.' Please pick one of the functions and discuss what happens when family as an institution fails to successfully carry it out. What happens to family members when that is the case? Are there other institutions that can take over that function, and at what cost to the individuals and the society?

Use Table 1.2 "Common Protective Factors for Childhood and Adolescent Problems by Level of Influence" on page 12 in your text and discuss the protective factors that you have experienced or observed.

Part 1) watch the video and answer the questions. https://youtu.be/ZIwyNIdgJBE?si=GOk3dnFvpCZvPGos w1v1q1 According to the video, what is positivism? w1v1q2 According to the video, what is positivist sociology? w1v1q3 According to the video, what is interpretive sociology? w1v1q4 According to the video, what is critical sociology? https://youtu.be/QwhK-iEyXYA?si=ZRfnqGDiQx0bkbos w1v2q1 According to the video, what is a research method? w1v2q2 According to the video, what research did Alice Goffman conduct in Philadelphia? Part 2) Read Chap 1 (Introduction) of the textbook and answer the following questions. Please keep the following in mind when you submit your answers. This is a reading assignment. The whole purpose of this assignment is to see if you have read the assigned reading. I need to know that you have read the reading by examining your answer. Thus, your answers must be based on the info presented in the reading. How do you know that your answer is based on the info presented in the reading? If you read the assigned reading and write your answer based on the info presented in the reading, your answer is based only on the info presented in the reading. Do not include in your answer any info not presented in the reading. If you need to include such info in your answer, clearly indicate the source of the info. Any such info presented without indicating the source will be negatively graded. Do not submit AI (such as ChatGPT) generated answers as your answers. Such answers are totally inappropriate for this assignment and will not earn any points. Read the assigned reading and write your own answers based on the info presented in the reading. w2r1 According to the textbook, there are three important characteristics that set research apart from common sense or mere opinion. Explain what they are.(Click on the question number listed above to submit your answer.) w2r2 Explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative research in terms of the types of data each deal with. w2r3 Explain the difference between basic research and applied research. w2r4 The textbook says: The most important rule for writing research questions is that your question must be answerable. That is, it must be a question that can be answered with data, not a philosophical question whose answer is unknowable, or based on personal values. Create an answerable research question about the death penalty. w2r5 Create an unanswerable research question about the death penalty. w2r6 The author says that a research question must be “feasible”. What does she mean by this? w2r7 What is a unit of analysis? w2r8 Given the following research question, find the unit of analysis. “What is the average height of Lehman students?” w2r9 Given the following research question, find the unit of analysis. “Which country in the world has the highest birth rate?” w2r10 What is a literature review? w2r11 According to the textbook, what do you look for in your data analysis? Part 3) watch the video and answer the following question https://youtu.be/RCGCtv0fIbI?si=v1721yswnz6WNjPh w2v1 What kind of research is this - basic research or applied research? Explain your answer. part 4) Open another browser and go to: www.lehman.edu/library/Once you have reached the library webpage, minimize the browser so that you can read the lab instructions in Blackboard. Please note that at this point you have two browser windows open: One shows the lab instructions and the other shows the library’s webpage. You can switch these windows by clicking on the browser icons listed at the bottom of the screen.At the library's webpage, spend some time to examine what kind of info you can find on this webpage by clicking each link listed there.Once you have examined the links, answer the following questions. Optional videosGet to Know the Leonard Lief Library Website (6:32) Literary Research Demo (4:59) w2L1a Liahna E. Gordon. Real Research: Research Methods Sociology Students Can Use, 2nd ed. (2019), Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.>> Does Lehman College's library have this book? If it has, what is the call number? >> If it does not, does any other CUNY library have this book? Which CUNY library has these books? What is the call number? >> If no CUNY library has this book, find out which library in New York City has this book. What is the call number?If you do not know what a call number is, read the following webpage:https://www.lib.sfu.ca/find/what-call-number w2L1b Lawrence C. Hamilton. Statistics with Stata: Updated for version 12. (2013).Boston, MA : Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.>> Does Lehman College's library have this book? If it has, what is the call number? >> If it does not, does any other CUNY library have this book? Which CUNY library has these books? What is the call number? >> If no CUNY library has this book, find out which library in New York City has this book. What is the call number? w2L2a American Journal of SociologyIs this journal available online (i.e., entire articles downloadable) as an e-journal?[Note: These journals available online are called "E-Journals" at the library's webpage.].To find e-journals, click “E-Journals”. >> If it is not available online as an e-journal, which CUNY college library has it in the stacks? w2L2b Journal of Social and Behavioral SciencesIs this journal available online (i.e., entire articles downloadable) as an e-journal?[Note: These journals available online are called "E-Journals" at the library's webpage.].To find e-journals, click “E-Journals”. >> If it not available as an e-journal, which CUNY college library has it in the stacks? w2L3a Click “Databases” and then click “Browse Databases A-Z”. (w2L3a & w2L3b) This lists all the databases available at the library’s webpage.Scroll down the list and check each database by reading the title of a database and a short description attached to it.Which databases do you think are most appropriate for research in sociology or social work?List the names of the three databases that you think most appropriate for sociology or social work. w2L3b List the names of three databases that you think least appropriate for sociology or social work. w2L4 What do you do to access and use electronic databases from your home computer? Find the instructions posted on the library's webpage and explain what to do. w2L5 Using a sociology or social science database available at the library's webpage, find: Which journal published the following article. List the journal’s name, volume #, page numbers, and publication year. Explain how you have located the article (i.e., list the name of the database and keywords you used). “Effect of server introduction on restaurant tipping” by Douglas Degelman and Kimberly Garrity

Cultural Anthropology Critical Assessment on Chapter 5, "Low Wage in High Tech". Type a critical assessment (no summaries acceptable for credit) on Chapter 5 only from “Low Wage in High Tech”, an ethnography of Service Workers in Global India by Kiran Mirchandani, Sanjukta Mukherjee, and Shruti Tambe. Do not assess or judge the local culture. Assess the concepts, perspectives, interpretations and/or methods of the researcher/author.

Complete the “Judiciary Worksheet.” Utilize the Grand Canyon University library to locate a minimum of three to five scholarly, relevant sources to support your content. This assignment uses a scoring guide. (Scoring guide is uploaded) Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

After reading Chapter 2 and watching the video, write a post addressing the following: Do you believe that humans have free-will and free-choice in terms of whether or not they commit crimes?  Based on your belief, what theory of punishment from the chapter is most appropriate to deal with people who commit crimes?

please respond to Katie  Humans definitely have free will and the free will to make their own choices especially when it comes to committing crimes. Although it is also true that there are factors such as the place or environment a person has grown up in and the people that person grew up with could also play a part in that person's decision making. A person could live in an environment where bad behavior is common. That person has the choice to allow that factor to affect their decision making on whether or not to commit that same crime and face the consequences for it. People who choose to commit crimes are completely aware of the consequences and they had the choice to not commit the crime so yes humans have free will to make the decision to commit a crime.  Protective retribution is the theory I find the most appropriate to deal with when it comes to people who have committed crimes. The theory of protective retribution explains that punishment is a means in order to manage balance morally in society. Society treats the person who committed a wrongdoing guilty and deserves punishment, making that person responsible for their wrongful act making everything about morals. I found this theory appropriate because society treats that person responsible for their actions in order to make things equal morally meaning that society gets to choose whether the person is guilty for the rule they might have broken. The protective retribution theory is very interesting and appealing.

Do you believe jurors should have to explain why they came to a certain verdict? Do you support the idea of juror nullification?

please respond to Wendy I do believe that humans have that free-will and free choice when it comes to committing a crime. However, I am aware that there may be cases that involve situation of humans with mental illnesses or were raised a certain way that may have corrupted their minds into believing what is wrong is right. An example I like to use is a child raised in a household with an abusive father who beats their mother. The child may end up believing it is normal to beat a wife since it was normal in their household. If a child is not guided in the right direction, then I feel that they will not be aware of what they are doing is wrong, or may not care at all about who and how it impacts another person. As for a human who commits a crime due to economic struggles; they are aware of what they are committing is wrong but do not necessarily care about the punishment.  I believe that each theory works for different types of crimes, the age of the person, and how many times it has occurred. Retribution would best work for someone who has committed a horrendous crime more than once and not learned from it. While I consider rehabilitation for the least and moderate crimes that involve minors, orphans, and people who have confessed to a low crime. A juvenile may benefit more from rehabilitation punishment to learn from their mistakes and have help guiding them to the right path. One type of punishment may not work for everyone. At times the wrong type of punishment may lead someone into committing more crimes due to the reputation that is now attached to them.

I do not believe that jurors should have to explain their decision. The main reason being is that it's completely redundant. The defendant knows why he is on trial, if he's guilty he knows he did it and doesn't need it to be explained to him. On the other hand, if he's innocent he knows that he's innocent and that doesn't need to be explained to him. The entire courtroom has seen the facts of the case, have witnessed the arguments made, have even had a hand in picking the jurors, so there is no reason as to why they should doubt the jury's decision. By requiring jurors to explain their verdict, it may impact the decision they make due to public backlash, especially if they do not argue the verdict well, which could lead to someone who is guilty being declared innocent due to the jury not wanting to receive backlash. Generally I am against the idea of juror nullification because it makes the individual the sole arbiter of the law and what is right and wrong, rather than the Constitution. By being an American citizen, you agree with the social contract and the norms of society, which includes obeying and abiding by the laws of the land. As a member of the jury, you are doing your duty to see that the law is properly carried out. By engaging in jury nullification, you make yourself the sole arbiter of the law and put yourself above the Constitution and the social norms that our society has laid out. That is assuming that the law you are protesting is constitutional; if not, then jury nullification is justified because it is our duty as Americans to protest against unconstitutional laws. But, if it is a situation like the one outlined in the PowerPoint, in which a juror doesn't want to prosecute someone who did a crime because of their skin color, then it is absolutely ludicrous because at the end of the day, we need the law to be applied equally to all men, and if we don't then we have no society to live in.