Reference no: EM133348217
Part 1
Use JSTOR to locate Kate O'Neill, "Regulations as Arbiters of Risk: Great Britain, Germany, and the Hazardous Waste Trade in Western Europe," International Studies Quarterly 41,4 (1997): 687-717.
- Identify the dependent variable, the independent variable(s), and the hypothesis/es.
-How were cases selected to be included in the analysis?
Part 2:
- Could you learn about a social event or phenomena from reading a novel?
-What advantages might novels have over scholarly research?
-In what situations might make novels preferable to academic non-fiction?
-How might novels be inferior to scholarly research?
Part 3:
- If you observe two things happening at the same time - say someone expressing an opinion about a policy while voting on election day, or two people or groups fighting
-how would you ascertain the causal order where the independent variable precedes the dependent variable?
Part 4:
-How would you design an experiment to see what messaging strategy about COVID vaccines would be most effective?
-How would you select participants and measure success (or failure)?
-What problems might you encounter
Part 5:
-How would you measure social class on a public opinion survey of students with five questions or less?
Part 6:
Fried, Brian J., Paul Lagunes and Atheendar Venkataramani. 2010. "Corruption and Inequality at the Crossroads: A Multimethod Study of Bribery and Discrimination in Latin America." Latin America Research Review 45:1
-Explain why we read this article and what that article illustrates or demonstrates.
Article Summary 1A: Efficacy and Self-Confidence
-Would you characterize the later article (Wolof 2020) as advancing Condon and Holleque, reconsidering their findings, or using their research as a base to explore entirely new directions? Why?
Article Summary 1B: Meritocracy & equality
-Would you characterize the later article (Sachweh and Sthamer 2020) as advancing Roez et al, reconsidering their findings, or using their research as a base to explore entirely new directions or populations? Why?
Part 7:
-Find a recent column, op-ed or social media rant published since January 1, 2010 and evaluate the argument(s) made by the author in light of Frankfurt's analysis.
-Do you suspect that the author conforms to Frankfurt's expectations of someone who is likely inclined to BS? Why?
-What systematic or scientific research might be able to be completed to test the author's claims (or has such research already been carried out)?
You are especially encouraged to be alert to arguments made in US Politics (where such examples are quite common, around issues like CRT, election outcomes and more).
Part 8:
So, that op-ed we read wasn't Friedman's best work. But Iran is still a source of tension for the US and others...
-How would Blaydes and Linzer's work inform a new op-ed about how to best engage Iran (or Iranians) to persuade their leadership to limit their nuclear development?