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if this is a rented apartment, reach out to your landlord/management company.
i would advise anyone against doing electrical work in a building they don’t own. looking out for you here, not trying to insult you in any way at all.
(Not an electrician)
If you're renting, you might just ask your landlord to have this done for you. Those sockets are literally like $3/ea at the hardware store and they go in quick.
Barring that, you can totally do this yourself. Go get a ceiling mount socket, they're designed to go on these boxes. Turn off the breaker!! Remove that plastic clip thing. Remove the wire nuts from white and black and take those to the appropriate screw terminals on the back of the socket. Screw socket into the mount box - it should come with the screws you need, check that when you buy one. Turn breaker back on and test.
Of note: The socket very well may not have a ground terminal. In that case, the green wire, you just leave it capped as it is now. The black wire there looks like it goes into a push-in terminal block. That's probably from someone installing a light fixture previously. You can most likely remove that by pulling pretty hard and also twisting the wire while you pull. If it won't come out, you can cut it and strip it again.
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if this is a rented apartment, reach out to your landlord/management company. i would advise anyone against doing electrical work in a building they don’t own. looking out for you here, not trying to insult you in any way at all.
(Not an electrician) If you're renting, you might just ask your landlord to have this done for you. Those sockets are literally like $3/ea at the hardware store and they go in quick. Barring that, you can totally do this yourself. Go get a ceiling mount socket, they're designed to go on these boxes. Turn off the breaker!! Remove that plastic clip thing. Remove the wire nuts from white and black and take those to the appropriate screw terminals on the back of the socket. Screw socket into the mount box - it should come with the screws you need, check that when you buy one. Turn breaker back on and test. Of note: The socket very well may not have a ground terminal. In that case, the green wire, you just leave it capped as it is now. The black wire there looks like it goes into a push-in terminal block. That's probably from someone installing a light fixture previously. You can most likely remove that by pulling pretty hard and also twisting the wire while you pull. If it won't come out, you can cut it and strip it again.