DEFM332 Week 6 Discussion Economic Stress Factors

W6: Economic Stress Factors

The average American household holds nine credit cards. What's in your wallet (please don't disclose debts or personal info).

1. Economic stress can be listed as normative or situational. What are the differences and which do you think causes more stress?
2. List some (at least two) available resources military members or families can draw on when faced with economic crisis.
3. How does marital status affect financial stressors? (Discuss singles, married, divorced and widowed).

DEFM332 Week 5 Discussion Grief and Loss

Unexpected loss or traumatic grief are experiences that can significantly impact a military family.  Please review the resource: from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network on Childhood Traumatic Grief Resources for Military Children and Families.  Be sure to review all of the resources, for Educators, for Families, for Medical Providers.

What have you learned about the grief that is experienced by Military Families?  How is it different from traditional grief?  What are some factors that may impact how the grief is experienced?

   

DEFM332 Week 4 Assignment – Detailed Paper Outline

Week 4 – Detailed Paper Outline

Instructions

Once your topic has been approved for your paper, create a detailed outline for your paper identifying a a minimum of four “scholarly” references. Please review the material provided in the Writing@APUS found in the APUS Library to be sure that you understand scholarly references.  Your outline must be in APA format and contained detailed information of what your paper will cover.  Your outline will be about 1 page in length excluding your references. 

Topic: Military Career Transition

  

 

DEFM332 Week 3 Discussion Parental Stress

Discuss stress at the parental level and some consequences of stress as a parent. Also, form your own opinion to list and discuss two differences that military families vs. civilian families face in regards to parental stress.

 

DEFM332 Week 2 Discussion Military Family Challenges

What do you feel are the top 3 challenges that a military family may face and why?  Research any 2 appropriate coping skills for each challenge.  Be sure that your response is grounded in fact and not opinion. 

  

DEFM332 Week 2 – Identify Research Topic and Proposal

 Instructions

Your final paper that will be due at the end of week 7 is a 5 – 7 page research paper on a military transition or other similar issue of your choice. This week you will identify your topic and develop a proposal/problem statement that you will be researching as well as explaining its importance to the topic and what you hope to accomplish through your research. Please choose a topic that is of interest or importance to you as a military person or one who hopes to work with military families. Before writing your proposal/problem statement for this week's assignment, you MUST get your professor's approval of your topic.

This link has an excellent example of how to write an informal proposal. Please let me know if you need any help.

Remember that you have 2 tasks this week:

1. Email your topic for approval (do not wait until the last minute to do this step)

2. Once your topic is approved, develop a problem statement/proposal

Final Research Paper Directions due in Week 7

To help you plan for your final assignment that is due at the end of week 7, the instructions for the final assignment is as follows. You can also find this in the week 7 assignment section:

Your paper must be 5-7 content pages. Content pages does not include the cover page, abstract page or the Reference page. Your writing must be supported with a minimum of 4 scholarly references. Your paper must show how and where the references are used in your paper with the use of citations. Your writing must be well supported by your research. Your paper may contain few, if any direct quotes. It is best to write in your own words and to cite indirectly. Your Turnitin Score must be no more than 20%. Any Turnitin Score over 30% will be reviewed carefully and may be graded with a significant loss of points or a 0 depending on the interpretation of the TII report.

Each student will prepare a research paper on a Military Transition or another similar issue of his or her choice. However, regardless of the student preference, the professor must approve the topic beforehand.

Some examples of topics are as follows:
– Discuss fully the different facets of Military Retirement or Separation. What is most important? What do you think will become more important over the next two decades?
– Describe fully the role of the family in military retirement.
– Describe the major types of relationships that exist today in military families and problems associated with the military family.
– How does education interact in the choice of when a veteran retires?
– Identify some of the unique challenges that military families face and ways to address these challenges

These are only examples and other topics may be selected based on military life or your future career in working with military families.

  

DEFM332 Week 1 Discussion Reflection on Military Families

There are 2 parts to your initial post.  Both parts should be included in the same post. Your initial post should be a minimum of 300 words.  

First, Introduce Yourself. Include a short introductory paragraph about yourself to include:
a. Your name and the courses you are taking
b. Your degree program and educational goals
c. Where you are living and little about your personal background
d. Why are you taking this course?  

Second, Discuss what you feel are some of the major challenges facing military families today.

Post 2 reply posts to classmates.

I hope you enjoy establishing a learning community in the Discussion Board and I look forward to interacting with you in this course and in the future.

   

SOCI331 Week 7 Discussion Unobstrusive Measures and Evaluation

Week 7: Unobstrusive Measures and Evaluation

Content analysis is the study of communication. Content analysis is a technique for gathering and analyzing the content of a text. The content refers to words, meanings, pictures, symbols, ideas, themes, or any message that can be communicated. The text is anything written, visual, or spoken that serves as a medium for communication. Content analysis lets a researcher reveal the content in a source of communication. It allows the researcher to probe into and discover content in a different way from the ordinary way of reading a book or watching a television program.

Content analysis utilizes two methods of coding or analysis: (1) manifest coding, and (2) latent coding.

Manifest coding means that a research counts events within communication.  For example, if we were studying violence on television shows, we could count the number of violent events in each television show that we were examining.  Another example would be examining the speeches in the last presidential campaign to see how many times the topic of terrorism was mentioned by the republican candidate and the democratic candidate.  Manifest coding is quantitative and involves counting.

Latent coding is qualitative and involves ratings. For example, if we were studying violence on television shows, we could rate each television show on a scale from 1 to 5. A rating a five would mean a show is very violent and a rating of one would mean a show is not violent at all.  Another example of latent coding is the current Movie rating system of G, PG, PG-13, and R.  Latent coding would give one show or movie and overall rating, rather than counting events.

 

Research Exercise:  Have cartoons become more violent?

 

You will choose two cartoons, (1)Bugs bunny and (2) Phineas and Ferb.  Bugs bunny was one of the most popular cartoons in the 1950s.  Phineas and Ferb is one of the most popular cartoons in the  2000s.  Please watch 2 episodes of both types of cartoons on Youtube.  You do not have to watch an entire episode of Phineas and Ferb, you can just watch 5 minutes.  However, feel free to watch an entire episode, because your data may be much better.  The primary variable (dependent variable) for this research study is violence.

 

(1) First, conduct a conduct analysis of the cartoons.  Use manifest coding and latent coding.  I actually want you to collect data and post your findings.  For manifest coding you should create a table that shows your findings.  You can also create a table for you latent coding scheme. You would therefore have two tables.

(2) Second, write about your findings in paragraph.  What did you find interesting about your findings.  Do you believe watching violence on TV or movies can lead to violent behavior?  Do you believe playing violent video games can make a person more violent or aggressive?