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This activity gives you practice building arguments, counterarguments, and rebuttals—skills you’ll need for your following assignment. In the field of psychology, just about everything is controversial, and you’ll need to develop your ability to look at things from multiple perspectives. This activity is an example of how we can apply critical thinking.
Preparation
For this assignment, you will choose one of the four following controversial topics and write a position paper of 4–5 content pages (plus a title page and references page) that answers the question posed by the title.
Do we need a common identity?
Is racial profiling defensible public policy?
Review the media piece about how to define what constitutes
Reliable Evidence
.
Review the Activity: Controversial Topic Preparation.
Resources
Do we need a common national identity?
Is racial profiling defensible public policy?
Coleman, M. & Kocher, A. (2019).
Rethinking the “Gold Standard” of Racial Profiling: §287(g), Secure communities and racially discrepant police power.
American Behavioral Scientist, 63(9),1185–1220.
Dizon, J.P.M. (2021).
Protecting the university, policing race: A case study of campus policing.
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Is the emphasis on a color-blind society an answer to racism?
Mekawi, Y., Todd, N. R., Yi, J., & Blevins, E. J. (2020).
Distinguishing ‘I don’t see color’ from “Racism is a thing of the past”: Psychological correlates of avoiding race and denying racism.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(3), 288–302.
Yi, J., Todd, N. R., & Mekawi, Y. (2020). Racial colorblindness and confidence in and likelihood of action to address prejudice. American Journal of Community Psychology, 65(3/4), 407–422.
Is gentrification another form of segregation?
Hwang, J., & Ding, L. (2020). Unequal displacement: Gentrification, racial stratification, and residential destinations in Philadelphia. American Journal of Sociology, 126(2), 354–406.
Krings, A., & Schusler, T. M. (2020). Equity in sustainable development: Community responses to environmental gentrification. International Journal of Social Welfare, 29(4), 321–334.
Mordechay, K., Ayscue, J. B., & Civil Rights Project, P. D. C. C. for C. R. R. (CCRR). (2019).
School integration in gentrifying neighborhoods: Evidence from New York City.
In Civil Rights Project – Proyecto Derechos Civiles. Civil Rights Project – Proyecto Derechos Civiles.
Instructions
Using the Capella library and other appropriate sources, explore scholarly research on both sides of your selected issue.
Organize your paper as follows:
Title page.
Introduction.
Your position and arguments.
Counterarguments to your position.
Rebuttals to those counterarguments.
Evidence to support your rebuttals (i.e., data and research), including how the evidence supports the rebuttals.
Summary and Conclusion.
References.
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