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**Module Two Discussion Forum**
**Post your participation post for the week in this forum. Make sure to read the "**
**_Discussion participation requirements_" section of the syllabus before posting anything in this forum, and use the**
**_"Checklist for responses to discussion questions_" I provided in this area of the course to help you. The**
**minimum length requirement for your responses to the discussion questions in order to earn any credit is 600 words (does not include references). Not surprisingly, the most effective responses to discussion questions well-exceed the minimum. The minimum length for each of your replies to classmates in order to earn any credit is 150 words.**
**IMPORTANT #1 – In order to avoid problems with plagiarism, it is essential that you cite and reference all of the information you present in your analysis. But this is really easy to do! In-text citations must include author, year of publication,**
**and page number. APA recommends but does not require including page numbers in summarized or paraphrased information taken from sources. But in this course, we will follow the APA recommendation and include page numbers in ALL citations, for both direct quotes and paraphrased information. Don't forget to put direct quotes in quotation marks.**
**IMPORTANT #2 – A sample discussion question response from a previous student in this course has been posted in the Discussions section of the course. Please review this before doing your assignment. It will give you an excellent idea of what an A-level analysis looks like and what the expectations are in this course for A-level work on discussion assignments.**
**This sample essay also provides guidance on exactly how to do your in-text citations. Please see the instructions in that essay. The essay is entitled -"Student Sample Discussion Question Response" and is here in the Discussions section of the course.**
**With regard to references at the end of your posts, here is information to help you with your references directly from the APA.**
[**https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdfLinks to an external site.**](https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf)
**If you have any questions, please let me know. I will be more than happy to help you!**
**\_\_\___________________________________________________________________________**
**Durkheim is one of the major social theorists who wrote about wide-ranging topics.**
**A – Fully describe at least three major ideas/concepts in the work of Durkheim.**
**_Your post must include information from at least two of the articles written by Durkheim rather than just the commentary provided by Garner and Hancock (textbook authors). The writings by the theorists are always labeled "Readings" (such as "Reading 3.1.1: The Rules of Sociological Method (1895)")._**
**B – Apply them to the issue of crime to support your assessment of whether the work of Durkheim is useful in understanding crime in modern America. Present specific evidence to support whatever position you take.**
**Label each section.**
**In writing section A of this assignment, information on the theorist (Durkheim for this week's assignment) must be presented from only the textbook to support this part of the analysis, not any other sources.**
**In section B, in addition to information from the textbook, you must also use information on crime in modern America from at least**
**two outside sources. The outside sources can be but need not be from academic sources. They must, however, be credible sources. Someone's blog rantings or an opinion article would not be an appropriate source.**
**Reply**
**FEEBACK FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION:**
**In this assignment, you discussed innovation, exploitation of workers, and class struggle. All of these are important ideas in the work of Karl Marx. And the information you provided in this initial assignment is accurate. The assignment is also clearly written. However, it is too brief to give you an opportunity to display your understanding of the work of Marx. It barely met the 600-word limit. As noted in the instructions for the assignment**
**"The minimum length requirement for your responses to the discussion questions in order to earn any credit is 600 words (does not include references). Not surprisingly, the most effective responses to discussion questions well-exceed the minimum. "**
**In moving forward, I need you to present more specific information Incorporated and cited from the course material. You only have a single piece of information in each of the first three paragraphs in Part A. Keep in mind that this course provides you with an opportunity to develop the ability to respond effectively to the questions on the comprehensive exam you will be taking at the end of your program. The more thorough and detailed your responses are to those questions, the more likely you are to have a successful outcome. And remember that when you take the exam you will not have access to notes or any other resources. I posted a sample student discussion question response for everyone to review to give them an idea of what the expectations are regarding successful analyses. Please make sure to review this essay before doing the assignment for next week.**
**In Part B you demonstrated critical thinking in discussing each of the three concepts in the context of modern American capitalism. You also used information from all three required sources. To improve upon this in your future work I need you to more thoroughly cite the source of the information you present to support your opinion and explain what you mean. For instance, you wrote:**
**"The free market makes it easy for organizations to exploit workers."**
**This is a very good point but you need to tell your readers how the freeness of the market facilitates the exploitation of workers. What is it about the modern free market that allows companies to take advantage of the workers in those companies? Present the information on this and follow it with a citation.**
**You earned credit for your replies to your classmates. But please keep in mind that to earn the maximum 30 points you must incorporate, cite, and reference at least two pieces of information from the course material in each of your replies, as per the grading rubric.**
**If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to connect with me.**
**Here are a few tips to help everyone in moving forward on our discussion work.**
· In responding to the discussion questions, make sure to incorporate, cite, and reference plenty of information from the course material. The more thorough you are in doing this, the more effective your responses will be. Like all our assignments, and ultimately on the comprehensive exam, they represent an opportunity for you to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to apply the course material. Do not use information from outside sources unless specified in the assignment instructions. You will be using outside sources in the discussions in the part of the discussion assignments asking you to connect the theories with the modern world. The part asking you to describe the theories must come from the textbook only.
· I see that some of you only used information from the commentary by Garner and Hancock. Your analyses should also include plenty of information from the writings of the theorists (labeled as "Reading"). And please do not take all the ideas from a single article.
· Make sure to cite the information you are presenting with author, date,
**and page number**. Whenever you present information from a source in your work, it should immediately be followed by a citation. Passages taken word for word from a source must also be enclosed in quotation marks. Almost everyone did this correctly, which is much appreciated.
· With regard to replies to your classmates, keep the following guidance provided in the syllabus in mind:
_We are not looking for statements of agreement but rather substantive discussion. Do not post replies to your classmates in which you simply articulate that you agree with what they posted. Pick some with which you disagree, indicate your opinion, and then explain your reasoning and the evidence you find persuasive. Support your replies to your classmates with evidence from the course material. In a sociology course, we naturally want you to support your replies with evidence from the course material. There is enough unsubstantiated speculation floating around and we don’t want to add to it! And this will help your grade (as per the grading rubric)._
· Remember that you need to post a minimum of
two substantive replies to your classmates for our discussion questions each week (150 words minimum each). To earn the maximum points for this part of the grading rubric, you must also incorporate and cite multiple pieces of information from the course material in each of your two required replies, in accord with the grading rubric.
· Make sure that all citations accurately refer to the correct pages from which the information you present is taken. Any citations to page numbers in our textbook that do not connect with the assigned course material but instead refer to information from outside sources violate the Troy University "Standards of Conduct."
· If you have not already don so, please review the
**AI Policy** for this course posted as an announcement before doing your Module 2 assignment.
· As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send them to me. I check for messages multiple times each day, including on weekends.
**## ModuleTwoDiscussionForum.docx**
**Module Two Discussion Forum**
**Post your participation post for the week in this forum. Make sure to read the "**
**_Discussion participation requirements_" section of the syllabus before posting anything in this forum, and use the**
**_"Checklist for responses to discussion questions_" I provided in this area of the course to help you. The**
**minimum length requirement for your responses to the discussion questions in order to earn any credit is 600 words (does not include references). Not surprisingly, the most effective responses to discussion questions well-exceed the minimum. The minimum length for each of your replies to classmates in order to earn any credit is 150 words.**
**IMPORTANT #1 – In order to avoid problems with plagiarism, it is essential that you cite and reference all of the information you present in your analysis. But this is really easy to do! In-text citations must include author, year of publication,**
**and page number. APA recommends but does not require including page numbers in summarized or paraphrased information taken from sources. But in this course, we will follow the APA recommendation and include page numbers in ALL citations, for both direct quotes and paraphrased information. Don't forget to put direct quotes in quotation marks.**
**IMPORTANT #2 – A sample discussion question response from a previous student in this course has been posted in the Discussions section of the course. Please review this before doing your assignment. It will give you an excellent idea of what an A-level analysis looks like and what the expectations are in this course for A-level work on discussion assignments.**
**This sample essay also provides guidance on exactly how to do your in-text citations. Please see the instructions in that essay. The essay is entitled -"Student Sample Discussion Question Response" and is here in the Discussions section of the course.**
**With regard to references at the end of your posts, here is information to help you with your references directly from the APA.**
[**https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdfLinks to an external site.**](https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf)
**If you have any questions, please let me know. I will be more than happy to help you!**
**\_\_\___________________________________________________________________________**
**Durkheim is one of the major social theorists who wrote about wide-ranging topics.**
**A – Fully describe at least three major ideas/concepts in the work of Durkheim.**
**_Your post must include information from at least two of the articles written by Durkheim rather than just the commentary provided by Garner and Hancock (textbook authors). The writings by the theorists are always labeled "Readings" (such as "Reading 3.1.1: The Rules of Sociological Method (1895)")._**
**B – Apply them to the issue of crime to support your assessment of whether the work of Durkheim is useful in understanding crime in modern America. Present specific evidence to support whatever position you take.**
**Label each section.**
**In writing section A of this assignment, information on the theorist (Durkheim for this week's assignment) must be presented from only the textbook to support this part of the analysis, not any other sources.**
**In section B, in addition to information from the textbook, you must also use information on crime in modern America from at least**
**two outside sources. The outside sources can be but need not be from academic sources. They must, however, be credible sources. Someone's blog rantings or an opinion article would not be an appropriate source.**
**Reply**
**FEEBACK FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION:**
**In this assignment, you discussed innovation, exploitation of workers, and class struggle. All of these are important ideas in the work of Karl Marx. And the information you provided in this initial assignment is accurate. The assignment is also clearly written. However, it is too brief to give you an opportunity to display your understanding of the work of Marx. It barely met the 600-word limit. As noted in the instructions for the assignment**
**"The minimum length requirement for your responses to the discussion questions in order to earn any credit is 600 words (does not include references). Not surprisingly, the most effective responses to discussion questions well-exceed the minimum. "**
**In moving forward, I need you to present more specific information Incorporated and cited from the course material. You only have a single piece of information in each of the first three paragraphs in Part A. Keep in mind that this course provides you with an opportunity to develop the ability to respond effectively to the questions on the comprehensive exam you will be taking at the end of your program. The more thorough and detailed your responses are to those questions, the more likely you are to have a successful outcome. And remember that when you take the exam you will not have access to notes or any other resources. I posted a sample student discussion question response for everyone to review to give them an idea of what the expectations are regarding successful analyses. Please make sure to review this essay before doing the assignment for next week.**
**In Part B you demonstrated critical thinking in discussing each of the three concepts in the context of modern American capitalism. You also used information from all three required sources. To improve upon this in your future work I need you to more thoroughly cite the source of the information you present to support your opinion and explain what you mean. For instance, you wrote:**
**"The free market makes it easy for organizations to exploit workers."**
**This is a very good point but you need to tell your readers how the freeness of the market facilitates the exploitation of workers. What is it about the modern free market that allows companies to take advantage of the workers in those companies? Present the information on this and follow it with a citation.**
**You earned credit for your replies to your classmates. But please keep in mind that to earn the maximum 30 points you must incorporate, cite, and reference at least two pieces of information from the course material in each of your replies, as per the grading rubric.**
**If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to connect with me.**
**Here are a few tips to help everyone in moving forward on our discussion work.**
· In responding to the discussion questions, make sure to incorporate, cite, and reference plenty of information from the course material. The more thorough you are in doing this, the more effective your responses will be. Like all our assignments, and ultimately on the comprehensive exam, they represent an opportunity for you to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to apply the course material. Do not use information from outside sources unless specified in the assignment instructions. You will be using outside sources in the discussions in the part of the discussion assignments asking you to connect the theories with the modern world. The part asking you to describe the theories must come from the textbook only.
· I see that some of you only used information from the commentary by Garner and Hancock. Your analyses should also include plenty of information from the writings of the theorists (labeled as "Reading"). And please do not take all the ideas from a single article.
· Make sure to cite the information you are presenting with author, date,
**and page number**. Whenever you present information from a source in your work, it should immediately be followed by a citation. Passages taken word for word from a source must also be enclosed in quotation marks. Almost everyone did this correctly, which is much appreciated.
· With regard to replies to your classmates, keep the following guidance provided in the syllabus in mind:
_We are not looking for statements of agreement but rather substantive discussion. Do not post replies to your classmates in which you simply articulate that you agree with what they posted. Pick some with which you disagree, indicate your opinion, and then explain your reasoning and the evidence you find persuasive. Support your replies to your classmates with evidence from the course material. In a sociology course, we naturally want you to support your replies with evidence from the course material. There is enough unsubstantiated speculation floating around and we don’t want to add to it! And this will help your grade (as per the grading rubric)._
· Remember that you need to post a minimum of
two substantive replies to your classmates for our discussion questions each week (150 words minimum each). To earn the maximum points for this part of the grading rubric, you must also incorporate and cite multiple pieces of information from the course material in each of your two required replies, in accord with the grading rubric.
· Make sure that all citations accurately refer to the correct pages from which the information you present is taken. Any citations to page numbers in our textbook that do not connect with the assigned course material but instead refer to information from outside sources violate the Troy University "Standards of Conduct."
· If you have not already don so, please review the
**AI Policy** for this course posted as an announcement before doing your Module 2 assignment.
· As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send them to me. I check for messages multiple times each day, including on weekends.