Activity four advertisements

1-4 Activity: Four Advertisements :SCS-100-R1839 Perspectives in the Social Science 1 page
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Writing

School
Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University

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1-4 Activity: Four Advertisements :SCS-100-R1839 Perspectives in the Social Science

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Overview Your first longer-term assignment in this course is to complete a comparison template, where you will examine four advertisements of your choice for various aspects that are interesting from a social science perspective. The work you do on this comparison template will directly support your work on two other longerterm projects—an observation journal and a presentation—which are due later in the course. This comparison template assignment will assess the following course outcome, which you focused on throughout the first two modules:

 Utilize fundamental approaches to social scientific research in addressing questions related to human behaviors Prompt To start this assignment, you will gather a set of four advertisements from the provided Advertisement Examples document that features multiple people. You will then use these advertisements to fill in the provided Comparison Template document, in which you address specific social science aspects of each advertisement in preparation for your next project, the observation journal. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed and will be graded using the rubric at the end of this document:

I. Question how individuals are represented in the ads. In your template, ask questions about the individuals in the ads that social scientists might ask.

For instance, you might ask why a person in the ad is standing outside the larger group, or why individuals are depicted in certain ways.

II. Question how groups and group behavior are represented in the advertisements. In your template, ask questions about groups/group interactions that social scientists might ask. For instance, you might ask why the women are grouped together separately from the men, or why the group seems to have very little diversity.