Social Science

Week 3: Psychoanalytical Theories and Attachment TheoryPsychodynamic theory and its derivatives can be traced to the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. You likely are familiar with the image that often conjures Freud: A client lying on a couch with a therapist sitting nearby, notepad in hand. The psychoanalytic terms “id,” “ego,” “superego,” “repression,” and “unconscious” […]

Discussion: Individual vs. Structural-Cultural TheoriesTheories help frame more than presenting problems—they also frame social problems, and both types of problems can be linked in relation to client issues. For example, many scholars and social workers have attempted to understand the social problem of poverty. Turner and Lehning (2007) classified various psychological theories to explain poverty

PART 1:Congratulations! The United Nations has hired you as a consultant on global issues.Many of the UN members are not satisfied with the progress of the Millennium Development Goals. They believe that the goals focus on the wrong issues. There is a disconnect between the types of issues the developed countries in the UN believe

Threats to the Global EnvironmentDue Week 9 and worth 150 pointsCongratulations! The United Nations has hired you as a consultant on global issues.Many of the UN members are not satisfied with the progress of the Millennium Development Goals. They believe that the goals focus on the wrong issues. There is a disconnect between the types

In 2014, the problems with lead contamination in the municipal water supply in Flint, MI became front page news. This and several other incidents around the country have raised concerns about the safety of our tap water. As consumers, we have the choice of using the water provided by our local municipalities or purchasing water,

Throughout the reading for this module, you have seen that there are major controversies around the world about the safety of GE organisms. The public is confronted with a great deal of information from reliable scientific and unbiased sources, as well as a tremendous amount of slanted information used to support the positions of particular

What’s in Your WaAfter reading about water quality issues in the U.S. and around the world, we will be examining the water quality in our local communities. There are two types of sources for all fresh water. We get it either from underground sources, such as aquifers, or surface water from lakes, reservoirs, and rivers.

Take-Home Paper Assignment 1Please answer any one of the following paper topics/questions. If you want to write about any other topic/question listed below, you must clear it with me one week before the writing assignment is due. Explain, reconstruct, and evaluate only the first version of the Argument from Evil discussed by Sober. Make sure

There has been an increasing interest on the part of American consumers in having genetically modified or engineered foods labeled. Currently, 64 countries require these labels and efforts are underway in over 30 states to require labeling, even though the federal government has shied away from any uniform labeling requirements. The science does not seem

Recently, scientists have confirmed that the Zika virus is implicated in the dramatic rise in catastrophic birth defects in infants of mothers who are infected by this mosquito borne virus. The first confirmed cases were in Brazil, but the mosquito that carries this virus is widespread around the world in warm climates, including the southern