Science Question

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Course Outcomes

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

• Develop questions about fundamental aspects of human behavior that inform personal assumptions, beliefs, and values using evidence from the social sciences
• Investigate major developments in the progression of social scientific thought for informing critical questions that drive social scientific inquiry
• Utilize fundamental approaches to social scientific research in addressing questions related to human behaviors
• Articulate the value of the social sciences for their impact on contemporary issues

Overview

Advertisements can tell you a lot more than just what products to buy. If you analyze them using social science questions and approaches, they can also tell you a lot about individuals, groups, cultural identity, and a society. Biases, beliefs, and values of the companies selling the products and the people they are marketed to can also be found. Sometimes these reflections can be positive, sometimes negative. Using social science approaches can help you analyze the ads you see and make sense of the large amounts of information you are presented with every day.

Directions

Complete this project by addressing the criteria below. The document will be included that you need to follow. You will work on parts of the project in each module and receive instructor feedback. Your final submission will be revisions of the work you do throughout the course. Be sure to incorporate instructor feedback from each assignment along the way. Read these guidelines and rubric criteria closely, and reach out to your instructor if you have any questions.

Part One: Advertisement AnalysisIn this section, you will analyze the four advertisements you selected earlier in the course (document included). Use social science approaches to gather specific information from them. As you conduct your analyses, think about what these advertisements say about the companies selling the products, the organizations making the ads, the people purchasing the products, and society as a whole.

1. Determine how individuals and groups are represented in the advertisements.What audiences are the advertisements trying to reach?What unspoken or underlying messages do you think the ads might be sending?
2. Identify stereotyped group behavior in the advertisements.What are the advertisements saying about the behavior of the groups represented in them?What underlying messages do the advertisements send about the group behaviors in them and the audiences they assume will be consuming the products?
3. Determine how different cultures are represented in the advertisements.How do the ads represent culture? Are any stereotypes being used?What unspoken or underlying messages do you think the ads might be sending about culture?
4. Discuss how ethical issues in the social sciences impact advertising. Look beyond the economic effects of advertisements and consider the following questions to help address this prompt:Do the ads confirm biases? Do they rely on stereotypes? Do they support social change? Do they stay neutral on social or political movements? Should they get involved in social or political movements?Why might it be important for advertisers and companies in a diverse world to be as inclusive and unbiased as possible?

Part Two: Social Science QuestionsThe answers that come from an analysis can often lead to more questions. In this section, you will use the information you found from your advertisement analyses to ask a broader social science question. You do not need to answer the question, but you do need to talk about how you might study your advertisements using the skills and knowledge you’ve gained in this course.

1. Propose a finalized social science research question based on your analysis of the advertisements you chose.Think beyond the minor details from your analysis and consider what the ads say about individuals, groups, institutions, or society.What is the meaning or significance of the ads? For example, you might be interested in ethical issues related to advertising. You might want to explore how current events influence the content of ads. Or maybe you would like to ask how common themes in ads could impact an audience’s self-concept.
2. Discuss how you used a social science perspective to develop your research question.Explain how you used social science concepts, perspectives, or approaches to write your research question.
3. Explain one major development in the social sciences that may have influenced your research question.The major development could include an important event, a discovery, the rejection of an old theory, acceptance of a new theory, or a change in culture that affected the field.How might these changes in thinking and research have affected the conclusions drawn about your advertisements and the questions asked about them?

Part Three: ReflectionIn this section, you will reflect on your experience using social science perspectives to analyze advertisements and ask research questions. You will consider how your personal beliefs, assumptions, and values influenced the question you developed, and explain why knowledge of the social sciences is important to understanding yourself, other people, and the world around you.

1. Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and/or values influenced the way you analyzed your advertisements.Consider how your perceptions of the social world may have influenced the way you viewed your advertisements. Did it/they cause you to make assumptions about the people in the ads? Did you focus on certain advertisements, or parts of advertisements as a result? How might someone with a different set of beliefs view your advertisements?
2. Discuss how social science perspectives or approaches could be used to process information.Focus on the social science perspectives or approaches you feel would be the most beneficial for analyzing the information you are presented with every day.For example, would analyzing ads on social media from the political science perspective help you better understand a company’s political stance on issues? What perspective would help you determine if there was a possible link between the length of a commercial and its intended audience? Would examining an ad targeted at caregivers from a sociological perspective help you understand the meaning of family in various cultures?
3. Explain how looking at the world from social science perspectives may impact your personal life.How might using social science skills help you process and understand the information you use in your life?
4. Explain how examining issues from social science perspectives may affect your community relationships.Think about challenges or opportunities in your community. How might applying social science perspectives to those issues benefit your community?
5. Discuss how being more informed about the social sciences may help you understand global contemporary issues.Consider how understanding the ways social scientists examine human behaviors could influence the way you approach global challenges and questions.

SCS 100 Module One Activity Template
Replace the bracketed text below with your responses. Support your responses with specific details and
examples. You do not need to conduct outside research, but if you use sources, cite them using APA
style.
Select four advertisements for analysis:
• Google: Body Type
• Olay: #Makespaceforwomen
• Haagen-Dazs: Beard Bibs
• Pantene: #SeeBeautyNotGender
Explain why you selected your four advertisements to analyze.
• What grabbed my attention was first the music and then as the commercial went on I started to
see the good message it was conveying and I love how it let’s people express themselves
creatively through font and music and you can even buy it to keep! Someone with self-esteem
such as myself can relate to this and feel welcomed by Google showing off body types, shapes,
colors, and fonts which will welcome me and others.
• I selected this because it shows that women deserve space and helps girls who want to go into
stem and into space because while there are women who do that, the number is very small.
Women are just as important in coding as men are and deserve that respect, but are pushed
aside a lot of the time and with this ad, money can go to coding schools for girls by just buying a
product!
• This was just funny to me and kind of true because there’s a stigma on men eating ice cream or
certain foods with a beard so why not give the men the chance to enjoy it was bid. This made
me laugh in so many way. Haagen-Dazs wanted to give these men the opportunity to enjoy ice
cream without being self-conscious.
• I chose this last one, because it’s right, see beauty no gender over anything else. A man can
wear makeup or do his nails just like a woman can and shouldn’t be regulated to social norms
because of it.
Explain how your advertisements relate to current events or to modern society.
• [The advertisement talks about how music and fonts can give us power. Mostly music and it’s
true, our typeface stems from basic font, but we can create our own typeface that makes us feel
welcome and love our body type. We need that in this climate of hate and anger and issues
without body. We nee4d to know we control our bodies, no one else does.
• The number for women who code or go into space is much lower than men and it’s sad to see so
knowing that a makeup company of all things is aiding in helping women learn to code and work
in the science field in a dream come true! We need more women coders and such in this
climate!
• Haagen-Dazs wanted to give these men the opportunity to enjoy ice cream without being selfconscious. In a joking manner no less, which was a funny thing to read, but also true, men with
beards do have trouble eating and need something to protect food from getting into them. It’ll
make a man have a good laugh while enjoying ice cream and if anyone wants to judge him,
that’s their issue.
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Women and men should know that gender shouldn’t dictate what you use or how you use it.
We live in a still very sexist climate and need to change that to make them feel better in the
world, both genders!
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