Assignment Content

1. Instructions:
   The purpose of this assignment is for you to apply what you learned about sociology concepts, methods and perspectives during this week’s learning activities. Use this week’s reading and discussions and your personal experiences to inform your answers.
   Consider the two themes of the Sociology Matters box below: Sociology matters because it raises your awareness of cultural patterns you would otherwise take for granted; and because it shows you how you became who you are: 

Sociology Matters below
Sociology matters because it raises your awareness of cultural patterns you would otherwise take for granted.

• What culture and/or subcultures do you belong to? Have you ever questioned your culture’s norms and values?
• How does your culture relate to cultures in other societies? Do you feel comfortable in mainstream society?

Sociology matters, too, because it shows you how you became who you are.

• How do you view yourself as you interact with others around you? How do you think you formed this view of yourself?
• What people, groups, or social institutions have been particularly important in helping you to define who you are?
  Select one bullet question listed in the Sociology Matters box as your topic to illustrate these themes.
  Write a 700-word essay that shows how sociology matters in helping to explain your chosen topic. Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of this week’s readings by correctly applying Key Terms related to your selected topic and supporting your answers with appropriate examples from the course readings or your personal experience.
  Organize your essay in paragraphs with introduction, body, and conclusion sections.
  Quoted and paraphrased material should be less than 30 percent of your paper.
  Provide complete APA style citations and references for all research materials used in the essay.
  Format your document in APA style according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines available at the Center for Writing Excellence.
  Submit your assignment.

Discussion Topic  Due April 29 at 11:59 PM

Fear of Crime

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.
For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial postings. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Cite sources in your responses to other classmates. Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of the week.
For this assignment, you will submit five research questions on five topics that could be used in a survey on fear of crime that you could give to people in their neighborhood.
In your response, include answers to the following:

• Describe each topic.
• Explain the intended approach toward each research question for each topic.
• Describe the ways in which these questions will support your survey analysis.

Review at least two of your classmates’ posts on the basis of the following questions:

• Discuss if the topics chosen by your classmates are relevant to a survey on fear of crime in a neighborhood and how this applies in the field of criminal justice or for operations of a criminal justice agency.

Do the research questions support the topics chosen by your classmates? Are these research questions appropriate for analyzing the topics? Justify your answer.

Discussion Topic  Due April 29 at 11:59 PM

Fear of Crime

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.
For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial postings. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Cite sources in your responses to other classmates. Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of the week.
For this assignment, you will submit five research questions on five topics that could be used in a survey on fear of crime that you could give to people in their neighborhood.
In your response, include answers to the following:

• Describe each topic.
• Explain the intended approach toward each research question for each topic.
• Describe the ways in which these questions will support your survey analysis.

Review at least two of your classmates’ posts on the basis of the following questions:

• Discuss if the topics chosen by your classmates are relevant to a survey on fear of crime in a neighborhood and how this applies in the field of criminal justice or for operations of a criminal justice agency.

Do the research questions support the topics chosen by your classmates? Are these research questions appropriate for analyzing the topics? Justify your answer.

chapter 14 Coping with fluctuating services
1.Identify a service type,other than those listed in Table 14.1 to illustrate the following :
a.How service demand can vary over time.
b.Each of the reasons for fluctuation services demand.
2.Billy Ardd recently opened an upscale pool parlor in this mid-sized hometown of Cuestick,Kansas.Like many service operations, Billy’s establishment,’Stripes and Solids,”faces uneven customer demand.Using Table 14.2 and material from the chapter as a guide,offer Billy some suggestions for solving his problem by(1)chasing demand and (2)smoothing demand.
3.Consider a recent visit to a service organization that required you to wait a long time before being served and the principles of waiting presented in Table 14.3.
a.How long did you wait?
b.How did you feel during the wait,and why?
c.How did the wait make you feel about the organization?
d.What do think could have been done to make the wait more pleasant?
e.Did the organization do anything to alleviate the tedium of your wait?
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