Please help! Giving 23 points! 1. Annually, more than a million American students drop out of high school. This greatly reduces their lifetime income potential and in turn hurts the national economy. How might a sociologist argue that research about high school dropouts can be used to effect social change and promote social justice?
2. Nearly half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. Briefly describe how sociologists might view this situation from the structural-functional approach, the social-conflict approach, and the symbolic-interaction approach. Also indicate whether each approach takes a macro-level orientation or a micro-level orientation.
3. What is the difference between validity and reliability? Give an example of each.

4. Suppose you work at a museum that displays this photograph, which was taken by Jacob Riis in New York City in the early 1900s. You are asked to write three different one-paragraph descriptions of the photograph for three separate museum brochures.
For the first brochure, describe the photograph objectively in one paragraph that includes at least three details.

For the second brochure, describe the photograph in terms of interpretive sociology using what Max Weber called Verstehen.

For the third brochure, describe the photograph in terms of what it shows about the power of society to shape individual lives and indicate what public policy point the photographer was probably making in this photograph.

The total value of your portfolio is $10,000: $3,000 of it is invested in stock a and the remainder invested in stock b. stock a has a beta of 0.8; stock b has a beta of 1.2. the risk premium on the market portfolio is 8%; the risk-free rate is 2%. additional information on stocks a and b is provided below. return in each state state probability of state stock a stock b excellent 15% 15% 5% normal 50% 9% 7% poor 35% -15% 10% what are each stock’s expected return and the standard deviation? what are the expected return and the standard deviation of your portfolio? what is the beta of your portfolio? using capm, what is the expected return on the portfolio? given your answer above, would you buy, sell, or hold the portfolio?

You decided to charge $100 for your new computer game, but people are not buying it. what could you do to encourage people to buy your game?

Table 1. shows the expected demand for the dvd at different suggested donation levels, and they can act as a single-price monopolist if they choose to. thereceipts will be used to fund gstcg supplies for their data collection and conservation work. at the end of each sea turtle nesting season, any excess funds are donated by the gstcg to a local non-profit sea turtle research and rehabilitation facility. table 1 suggested anticipated total marginal profit donation per number of dvd revenue revenue dvd request requests $19.00 0 $15.00 2 $9.50 4 $7.75 10 $3.00 15 $0.00 20 a. complete table 1 by computing the total revenue, marginal revenue, and profit columns. b. the president wants the gstcg to provide videos to generate the most possible donations (total revenue). what price, if any, is the president of the gstcg favoring and how many people will receive the dvd if this becomes the price of the suggested donation? explain your answer. c. the education outreach committee wants the gstcg to provide videos to the highest possible number of people. what price, if any, is the educational outreach committee favoring and how many people will receive the dvd if this becomes the price of the suggested donation? explain your answer. d. the treasurer of the gstcg wants the dvd program to be as efficient as possible so that the marginal revenue equals marginal cost. what price, if any, is the treasurer favoring and how many people will receive the dvd if this becomes the price of the suggested donation? explain your answer. e. the fundraising committee wants the dvd program to generate as much profit in donations as possible. what price, if any, is the fundraising committee favoring and how many people will receive the dvd if this becomes the price of the suggested donation? explain your answer.