Describe how knowledge related to social psychology and personality will better equip you when interacting with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds or belief systems. memories arent always as
Individual, Group, or Societal Behavior
Regarding life, every one of us has our own viewpoint and set of beliefs. These have to do with how two crucial elements are interpreted: the environment in which a person is raised and their subjective perception of that environment. I hope this section of them may help you gain some understanding of the intricate aspects of physical health. Growing up, I was raised by my uncle and aunt, who instilled in their three children the values of respect for elders, others, and taking responsibility for our actions. I experienced personal problems in life, like many others, and I’ve learned from them. I used to be social. I participated in a lot of activities and sports throughout high school. but gained knowledge over time. That the majority of the individuals I would consider friends would simply use me for their own gain. This experience has had a significant impact on who I am now, and I believe it has contributed to my current job path. From a very young age, I developed the ability to be quite independent of myself, and with time, I strengthened that life skill. I struggled with family issues in my later years, which had an impact on how I conducted business, moved states, and obtained new employment.
Christian Worldview Incorporation
Explain what Christian Worldview principles could be used to improve interactions between individuals from diverse backgrounds. Use the Statement on the Integration of Faith and Work in the Class Resources to further develop your response. Provide specific examples that show how Christian Worldview principles are helpful when interacting with others. Support the information presented with scholarly sources/research (in-text citations). Paraphrase and cite information that you are borrowing. Avoid the use of direct quotes. Brief Biblical passages may be used in this section of your paper, but they are not required.
Diverse Backgrounds and Beliefs
Describe how knowledge related to social psychology and personality will better equip you when interacting with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds or belief systems. Apply terms from social psychology and personality in your response. Support the information presented with scholarly sources/research (in-text citations). Paraphrase and cite information that you are borrowing. Avoid the use of direct quotes.
Writing Tip: Paragraphs should be a minimum of three sentences. In addition, they should begin with a topic sentence and be followed by sentences that directly support the topic sentence.
Conclusion
Describe the attributes of a skilled consumer of research. Include the following: The most helpful perspectives a consumer can utilize A description of how you know when you have enough information A description of how you scrutinize the credibility of data
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SCS 285 Project Two Guidelines and Rubric
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Analyze the benefits and drawbacks of collecting various types of data
Scenario
You have recently applied for another position in the company you work for and have been called in for a second interview! For this round, youve been asked by the interview committee to present an analysis of the collected data from the research you initially reviewed, with a specific focus on data-collection types. This will be presented in a formal interview presentation.
Directions
Second Interview Presentation
You are analyzing studies related to a research topic in your field by discussing different types of data collection, their benefits and drawbacks, and how your chosen research studies utilize different collection methods. In your first project, completed in Module Four, you completed your initial analysis of the methodologies used. In your second milestone, also submitted in Module Four, you finalized your research choices by submitting two of each type of research methodology and flexing your skilled consumer of research skills by looking at your gathered research as a whole in order to identify patterns in data-collection types and some high-level credibility threats to the research. For this project, complete the following:
Describe the attributes of a skilled consumer of research. Include the following:
The most helpful perspectives a consumer can utilize
A description of how you know when you have enough information
A description of how you scrutinize the credibility of data
Identify multiple potential threats to the credibility of your research results for each of your selected research studies. Include the following:
A description of potential biases or perspectives that might threaten the credibility of the results
An explanation of ethical issues that might threaten the credibility of the resultsconsider the following:
Disclosure
Blind or double-blind studies
Cultural awareness
Humane treatment of subjects
Unethical structuring of studies (methods, selection, etc.)
Analyze the relationship of data-collection types to social science research methodologies. Use your analysis from Milestone Two in Module Four. Include the following:
The most commonly used quantitative data-collection types in social sciences based on your analysis of your research articles. Consider why this choice of data collection method might be so common.
The least commonly used quantitative data-collection types in social sciences based on analysis of your research articles. Consider why this choice of data collection method might be less common.
The most commonly used qualitative data-collection types in social sciences based on analysis of your research articles. Consider: why might this choice of data collection method be so common?
The least commonly used qualitative data-collection types in social sciences based on analysis of your research articles from Consider: why might this choice of data collection method be less common?
Explain the relevance of various data-collection types to research question(s). Include the following:
A classification of the data in each studyis it quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methodology? Be sure to include an example of each methodology.
An explanation of why this data-collection type fits well with the research question from your chosen studies from Milestone Two in Module Four
What to Submit
Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following:
Interview Presentation
This interview presentation, on a research topic of your choosing in your field of study, should include the information given in the directions to meet rubric requirements. Your project should be presented in Microsoft PowerPoint and must include visual representation in addition to talking points. Make sure to utilize the speaker notes function in the presentation if you do not include a video or voiceover.
Supporting Materials
The following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:
Reading:
PowerPoint: Guides, Tips and Help
This site gives helpful tips for creating a professional presentation.
Reading:
Slide Layout
This site gives tips for making sure your presentation slides are readable, which is an important aspect of creating a professional presentation.
Reading:
Fifteen Strategies for Giving Oral Presentations
This site gives specific tips on how to perform public speaking well.
The following rubric will be used to assess Project Two. Familiarize yourself with this rubric as you work on the project, and return to this rubric before you submit Project Two to make sure you’ve included everything you need to be successful.
Project Two Rubric
Criteria
Exemplary (100%)
Proficient (85%)
Needs Improvement (55%)
Not Evident (0%)
Value
Articulation of Response
Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner
Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling
Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling
15
Attributes
Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner
Describes attributes of a skilled consumer of research
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include a description of helpful consumer perspectives, how skilled consumers of researcher knows when they have enough information, or how one can scrutinize the credibility of data
Does not attempt criterion
20
Threats to Credibility
Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner
Identifies multiple potential threats to the credibility of research results
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include a description of potential biases or perspectives that can threaten credibility, or an explanation of ethical issues that threaten the credibility of the results
Does not attempt criterion
20
Data-Collection Types and Social Science Research Methodologies
Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner
Analyzes the relationships between data-collection types and social science research methodologies
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include an identification of the most or least commonly used quantitative data-collections type, or an identification of the most or least commonly used qualitative data- collection type
Does not attempt criterion
20
Relevance of Data Collection Types
Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner
Explain the relevance of various data-collection types to research question(s)
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include a classification of the data in each study, an example of each methodology, or an explanation of why this data type fits with the research question
Does not attempt criterion
20
Citations and Attributions
Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errors
Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors
Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors
Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution
5
Total:
100%
Identify ways to adapt to the changing business environment.
Content-Wk#4-Bus Plan Content (Same Company Week#2, Week#4, & Week#5)
Using your analysis of the strategic plan from the Wk 2- Strategic Plan Research assignment, complete the following:
(THIS IS the continuation of TAKING YOUR IDEA FOR A SPIN!!!)
Analyze in 350 to 525 words the following:
Purpose of the strategic plan
Key objectives:
· Market development and how your ideas fit
· Process improvement
· Development of people
· Product/service How do you deliver? Is there a way to improve quality over time to differentiate?
Key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure performance over time
Recommend initiatives to support your objectives to improve the strategic plan.
Identify ways to adapt to the changing business environment.
Submit your assignment.
Look for three credible web sites that are dedicated to addiction prevention and another three web sites for addiction treatments. Read about the addiction prevention and treatment methods that each describes. Share these web sites with each other in the Forum. Describe any prevention and treatment methods you have learned from these web sites that are not covered in this learning topic. Provide your critical evaluation of the different prevention and treatment types you’ve read about.
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Discussion 1:
Look for three credible web sites that are dedicated to addiction prevention and another three web sites for addiction treatments. Read about the addiction prevention and treatment methods that each describes. Share these web sites with each other in the Forum. Describe any prevention and treatment methods you have learned from these web sites that are not covered in this learning topic. Provide your critical evaluation of the different prevention and treatment types you’ve read about.
Discussion 2:
A high school in your community is updating their drug prevention curriculum. The principal of the school, Catalina, is a good friend of yours. Knowing that you’re taking this class, Catalina would like some input from you to help their school with the curriculum revision. She wants to know the three most important components their curriculum should cover. What advice would you give?
Discussion 3:
How do gender and ethnicity affect the effectiveness of 12 Step Programs?
Discuss stylistically appropriate writing strategies for various audiences, subjects, and purposes.
ENG 122 Project Two Guidelines and Rubric
Course Outcomes
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
· Discuss stylistically appropriate writing strategies for various audiences, subjects, and purposes
· Interpret the writing process as a means for generating ideas, drafting, and revising for improving the quality and effectiveness of ones own writing
Overview
In this assignment, you will review some of the valuable writing skills you have learned in the course. You will also be asked to consider how you might take those skills forward into future writing situations.
Directions
For this reflection assignment, you will consider the choices you made about your approach to writing based on your understanding of revision and the feedback provided by your instructor. Address the criteria below in complete paragraphs. Start each paragraph with a main idea and support it with detail. Ensure that you proofread your final draft and correct any errors you may find. This assignment will be submitted in Brightspace.
Specifically, the following
rubric criteria must be addressed.
1.
Feedback and Revision Reflection: Use this reflection to look back on the work you have done and the feedback you have been given throughout this course. Think about how you might use what you have learned when writing in the future.
A. Think about your experiences with revision in this course. What
approaches to revision worked well for you?
B. What
revision strategy will you take with you to your next course? Explain your reasoning.
C. How did the feedback you were given
influence the way you will approach the writing process in the future?
2.
Audience: Use this part of your reflection to consider how you might apply what you have learned about writing to an audience in the future.
A. What
choices did you make to your writing to speak to your audience in your essay?
B. What
potential audiences do you think you will be writing for in the future?
C. What
questions will you ask about your audiences in the future to help you connect your writing with them?
What to Submit
Submit your project as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. If references are used, follow
APA or MLA
citation guidelines when citing references both throughout and at the end of your paper. While you will not be graded on the quality of your citations in this assignment, you may receive guidance from your instructor on how to properly cite sources.
You are a newly promoted manager for one of the business units in your organization. As such, you need to consider how to manage yourself before you can really manage others. You need to think about what your personal and professional stress levels are what might be the breaking points between succeeding and failing? How can I manage that stress? What emotions come to light that could be viewed as positive or negative? How else can I get my message across?
Competency
Create individual strategies for self-management.
Student Success Criteria
View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the This item is graded with a rubric link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.
Scenario
You are a newly promoted manager for one of the business units in your organization. As such, you need to consider how to manage yourself before you can really manage others. You need to think about what your personal and professional stress levels are–what might be the breaking points between succeeding and failing? How can I manage that stress? What emotions come to light that could be viewed as positive or negative? How else can I get my message across?
What items that you frequently use do you think have the greatest negative impact on the environment? Explain how the use of the item or items impacts the environment and the people in your community.
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
Option 1: What items that you frequently use do you think have the greatest negative impact on the environment? Explain how the use of the item or items impacts the environment and the people in your community.
Option 2: What steps might individuals in your own community taken to lessen negative impacts on the environment? What are some approaches communities could take to encourage members to reduce waste or negative impacts on the environment?
– APA format for in-text citations and list of references
– Minimum of 1 source cited
Based on your clinical practice area and location. What are some of the greatest cultural issues and trends that are frequently encountered? How do we as professional nurses rise to these challenges?
Based on your clinical practice area and location. What are some of the greatest cultural issues and trends that are frequently encountered? How do we as professional nurses rise to these challenges? Provide examples of cultural recognition while implementing evidence-based standards of care.
Sections of the assignment must include:
Introduction
Focus points covered in the discussion posts
Any arguments and rationales for your stance
Conclusion or Summary
The components of your APA Assignment includes the following:
Your APA Assignment must include a title pg (Refer to Purdue OWL).
All in-text citations must be used when paraphrasing or quoting a previous author.
All references must reflect the in-text citations used.
All reference sources must be within the past 5 years unless it is the works of a nurse theorist or a significant reference material.
The length of the assignment must be 750-1000 words. Please pay attention to spelling and grammar. Points will be deducted for repeat offenders.
Upon completion of the assignment, you must submit it via Turnitin.com, and please note that your plagiarism score should be no more than 20%. If you score higher, please make adjustments.
What is structural functionalism?How do structural functionalism, conflict perspectives, and symbolic interaction work together to help us get a more complete view of reality?
Author Names
, Book Title, Edition Number:
Instructor Resource
Instructor Resource
Korgen,
Sociology in Action, 3e
SAGE Publishing, 2023
Lecture Notes
Chapter 2: Understanding Theory
Learning Objectives
2-1 What is structural functionalism?How do structural functionalism, conflict perspectives, and symbolic interaction work together to help us get a more complete view of reality?
2-2 What is a conflict perspective?
2-3 What is symbolic interaction?
2-4 How do structural functionalism, conflict perspectives, and symbolic interaction work together to help us get a more complete view of reality?
Annotated Chapter Outline
I. What Is Theory?
A. Theory helps us see some aspects of society more clearly, while obscuring others.
B.
Theoretical perspectives:
i. Groups of theories that share much in common.
ii. Sociologists develop and use
theories, explanations for various social patterns within society.
II. Understanding the Structural Functionalist Perspective
A.
Structural functionalism: interdependent parts working together for the good of the whole.
B. Individuals work for the larger societys interests due to social solidarity (moral order of society).
C. Families, religion, education, and other institutions teach individuals to help society function smoothly.
D. Durkheim and Types of Societies
i. Mechanical solidarity by Durkheim:
a. In smaller, preindustrial societies, social solidarity derived from the similarity of its members.
b. Most did similar types of labor (working the land) and had similar beliefs (based on religion).
ii. Organic solidarity formed as science gained predominance over religion. Sociologists using this perspective:
a. Overlook issues of conflict and inequality.
b. Focus on social harmony and social order.
c. Emphasize the role of major social institutions and their help to provide stability to society.
E.
Social Institutions
i. Sets of statuses and roles focused around one central aspect of society.
ii.
Micro level of analysis: Used by sociologists to look
at people filling roles.
iii.
Macro level analysis: Used by sociologists to examine large-scale social processes.
iv. Seven primary social institutions: family, religion, economy, education, government, health care, and media.
v. Each institution fulfills tasks on behalf of society; two types: Manifest and Latent functions.
vi.
Manifest Functions: Obvious, stated reasons that a social institution exists.
a. Structural functionalists maintain that the manifest functions of each institution fulfill necessary tasks in society.
b. Institutions can have more than one manifest function.
vii.
Latent Functions: good or useful things that a social institution does but are not the institutions reason for existing.
a. Sometimes behavioral patterns have unintended negative consequences, called
dysfunctions.
F. Seeing the Social World Using Structural Functionalism
i. Structural Functionalism is a macro-theoretical perspective: It looks at society as a whole, and focuses on the institutions, rather than individuals.
ii. Structural functionalists:
a. View society from a distance and look for social order and harmony.
b. Focus less on discrete individuals and more on social institutions and how they fit together to build social harmony and stability.
iii. Several institutions cooperate to socialize each of us into adhering to the same set of cultural norms and values.
iv. Curbing Violations of Social Norms
a. An individual who chooses to act against shared cultural norms is violating social norms.
b. Punishment is required for two reasons:
1. Accepting ones punishment is a step in the rehabilitation or resocialization process.
2. Without punishment, bad behavior will spread like an epidemic in the community.
v. Social Change
a. Large-scale, macro, structural shifts in society or institutions within one or more societies.
b. Functionalists are not sure that social change is necessarily a good thing.
c. If change is needed, it should be done slowly to not upset the equilibrium.
G. What Doesnt Structural Functionalism See?
i. Gradual social change would allow continued discrimination.
ii. Structural functionalism, by focusing on the need for social order and harmony, can overlook times where rapid social change even if it may lead to some social chaos, is the just thing to do.
H. Using Structural Functionalism to Analyze the Case of the Meitiv Family
i. Structural functionalist perspective on the case of Danielle and Alexander Meitiv and their two children in 2015.
a. Free-range parenting: Meitiv parents allowed children to walk home alone.
b. The case shows the interrelatedness of social institutions (e.g., family and government), which is at the core of structural functionalism.
c. Child Protective Services initial review was meant to teach the Meitivs how to better parent their children and, simultaneously, to reinforce proper parenting behaviors to all who live in the county.
d. Questions based on the second manifest function: Parents are expected to teach their children to be self-reliant and independent.
III. Understanding the Conflict Theoretical Perspective
A. Second macro-theoretical perspective.
B.
Conflict perspective is different from the functional perspective: Instead of society as groups working together for the good, conflict theorists see societies as groups competing for power.
C. Karl Marx and Advanced Capitalism
i. Karl Marx: Founder of conflict perspective.
ii. Ten stages of societal development; the last three stages most concerned him.
iii. Stage 8: Advanced capitalism; an economic system on pursuit of maximum profit.
iv. No labor laws; Cheaper to hire children than adults, Child labor.
v. Divides people into two major categories and a third, smaller group:
a. Bourgeoisie: the rich owners of the
means of production: the technology and materials needed to produce products, such as factories.
b. Proletariat: the poor workers.
c. Lumpenproletariat: the perpetually unemployed.
vi. No inspectors to ensure a safe workplace, and many proletariats were injured.
vii. No workers compensation insurance.
viii. Low wages.
ix. False Consciousness
a. Exploitation of proletariat by bourgeoisie.
b. Workers were in a state of
false consciousness: they did not understand that they and the owners had different self-interests and we were misled to believe that what was good for the owner also benefited them.
c. Media, religious, and political institutions all promoted that a good worker, in time, could strike it rich with many advantages.
d. False consciousness kept the proletariat from seeing the reality of their lives.
x. Alienation.
a. Proletariat lived in a state of
alienation: laboring for others and separated from what they created.
b. Monotonous jobs were small and repetitious.
c. They couldnt afford the products that they were making.
D. Karl Marx and Socialism
i. Proletariat could move from false consciousness to
true consciousness: understanding the depths of their exploitation.
ii. Proletarian revolution: Society moves from advanced capitalism to socialism.
iii. Stage 9: Socialism: working it out stage of social change.
iv. Socialist government laws:
a. The state would take over the means of production from the bourgeoisie through imposing a heavy progressive income tax hurting the bourgeoisie.
b. After a bourgeoisie died, the socialist government would inherit the rest of their money and goods and redistribute it to the citizens.
c. It might take a few generations under socialism before society would be ready for the tenth stage of social development: communism.
E. Karl Marx and Communism
i.
Communism: all citizens would be equal and, at long last, able to fulfill their species being.
ii. No social classes as every person makes the same wage for work done.
iii. Marx is called an economic determinist: Believed that as the economy changed through the last 3 stages, the other six social institutions would change and adapt.
F. From Marx to the Conflict Perspective
i. Marxs theory became the intellectual foundation for the conflict perspective.
ii. Conflict theorists recognize ways in which social rewards are unequally distributed.
iii. Haves: those individuals and social institutions that gain access to more of societys scarce rewards.
iv. Have-nots: those unable to get even their fair share of social rewards, due to their category membership.
G. Seeing the Social World Using the Conflict Perspective
i. Oppression: haves holding the have-nots back to maintain their own elevated status.
ii. Patterns of inequitable distribution of resources and rewards.
iii. Conflict theorists: social change to alleviate social injustice be done rapidly and help the have-nots now.
H. What Doesnt the Conflict Perspective See?
i. Focused on oppression and making life better for the have-nots.
ii. Overlooks societal harmony and equilibrium.
iii. Conflict theorists do not always acknowledge how disruptive and harmful change can be for the have-nots as well as the haves.
I. Theories Under the Umbrella of the Conflict Perspective
i. Feminist conflict theorists argue that men as a category of people have greater access to social rewards than women.
ii. Critical race theorists focus on the social construction of race and the White-dominated racial hierarchy.
iii. Common basis of conflict theories: Marxs insight that social rewards of society are not equally shared.
iv. Disability scholars use the conflict perspective to analyze how modern Western societies create the built environment that works for the able-bodied but not for people living with disabilities.
J. Using the Conflict Perspective to Understand the Meitiv Family
i. Police and CPS represented the state and all its power.
ii. The Meitiv parents had little or no power.
iii. The childrens feelings were ignored.
iv. Other possibilities of the incident:
a. The family in question did not have an intact set of two parents but instead was led by a single parent.
b. Had enough money to possibly sue CPS and law enforcement?
c. Would anyone even have called law enforcement if they had seen two children of color walking alone?
d. Or if there had been a call, would it be for the childrens
safety and more about what are those kids up to?
v. Comparison with the 2014 South Carolina case involving Debra Harrell, an African American woman, and her daughter, Regina: Race, education levels, and social class likely buffered the Meitivs from the full power of CPS and the police, whereas families of color living in poor neighborhoods are often denied those opportunities to quickly fix the situation.
IV. Understanding the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
A.
Symbolic interactionism provides theoretical balance for sociology.
B. Use of micro-theoretical perspective to:
i. Examine how one person develops a
self: a sense of our place in society and who we are in relation to others.
ii. Study how meaning comes to be constructed and shared by a group of people.
C. Symbolic interactionists view society as a social construction, continually constructed and reconstructed by individuals through their use of shared symbols.
D. The Social Construction of Reality
i. Interactionist theorists study how
culturethe way of life of a particular group of peoplecomes to be created.
ii. Group constructs its culture.
iii.
Primary socialization: socialization experienced during childhood.
iv. The Looking Glass Self Theory
a. A childs 3 steps of developing a sense of self.
1. Imagine how she appears to relevant others: her parents, siblings, and others.
2. The child reacts to feedbacks from parents and others toward the child.
3. The child integrates the first two into a coherent and unique sense of self: Interaction with
primary groups (small collections of people of which a person is a member, usually for life, and in which deep emotional ties develop, such as ones family of origin) shapes the childs sense of self. Others in effect become the mirror by which each person sees oneself.
b. Socialization continues throughout a persons life.
v. Dramaturgy Theory
a. Erving Goffmans work helps us see that the world is a stage and we are all actors as we interact with one another.
1. He analyzed the interaction between small groups by looking at the social actors, the social scripts the actors follow, and the props that the actors use to enhance their performances.
2. He considered two settings of interactions:
front stage (where the interaction takes place) and the
back stage (where one prepares for the interaction).
3. He gave the term, Impression management: Each of us uses
presentation of self skills, shaping the physical, verbal, visual, and gestural messages that we give to othersto (try to) control their evaluations of us.
b. Dramaturgy explains why individuals behave differently in various social settings.
vi. Social Constructionism
a.
Social Constructionism: every society creates norms, values, objects, and symbols it finds meaningful and useful.
b. Social stratification is ultimately created and sustained through social systems, which must be made more just.
c. It is more important to study the construction of the ideas behind stratification (e.g., poverty) than individual people.
E. What Doesnt Symbolic Interaction See?
i. Social problems and social change are macro-sociological concepts.
ii. Symbolic interactionism is a micro-level theoretical perspective.
iii. Concentrates on how individuals become socialized, shape their sense of self.
F. Using Symbolic Interactionism to Understand the Meitiv Family
i. Meitiv parents felt they were properly socializing their children; others did not see the childrens behavior in the same way.
a. Danielle claimed that these authority figures were attempting to socialize her children to be fearful.
ii. Social movement for free-ranging parenting; Petition to change Marylands laws: Utah became the first state to pass a free-range parenting law in 2018.
V. Full Theoretical Circle
A. Each family creates, within reason, its own norms to raise children and implements it.
B. We have come full circle: A small group creates its own norms: Over time, norms get shared, which is what symbolic interactionists study.
C. Power differentials arise between the haves and the have-nots in social institutions.
D. Theoretical perspectives give us ways to analyze human behavior.
i. Each perspective offers the sociologist a unique viewpoint.
ii. Each perspectives gives sociologists a particular lens with which to see human society.
iii. Structural functionalists focus on social order and institutions and agreement on the basic values that create and sustain that social order but tend not to notice conflict and inequality.
iv. Conflict theorists see social problems caused by oppression and injustices but overlook moments of order and social harmony.
v. Symbolic interactionists examine how groups create culture and pass it on to the next generation, but ignore macro issues of power and control, social harmony, and balance.
Discuss the role of advocacy and social change when working with ethnic-minority children.
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For this assignment, you will discuss the role of advocacy and social change when working with ethnic-minority children. Begin by choosing an ethnic group other than your own (African Americans, Latinx people, Indigenous people, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, etc.) that you will focus on for this paper. Additionally, you may select a social location of this ethnic group further by selecting an additional characteristic of intersectionality (age, ability, class, gender, language preference, religion, sexual orientation, etc.), but you do not have to.
Please answer the following:
· Identify the ethnic group you have selected.
· Briefly discuss the historical background and changing demographics of this group, including factors of socioeconomic inequalities and poverty.
· Choose one social problem that is unique to the group. Explain why you chose this problem and how it has impacted the group.
· Describe in detail five cultural competency skills human services professionals can apply towards advocacy and social change for cross-cultural service delivery. What steps can you take towards addressing the social problem you have chosen for this group?
· What are some ethical challenges you might face as a human service professional when advocating for social change for this group? Discuss how the NOHS Ethical Standards can guide you when addressing the ethical challenge(s)
