Instructions
You are working for a local department store in the Operations Department. You notice that their business practices and use of technology are not up to date. One day while working, you are having a discussion about technology and identity formation with your supervisor. Your supervisor continues to explain that individuals and organizations have digital identities that are formed and impacted through various methods. Your supervisor continues, saying, "They can develop or change through social media, positive or negative press, word of mouth, and so on."
You begin to understand that the digital footprint of a business or organization can greatly impact their success or failure due to many factors, including the rapid dissemination of information that can occur digitally.
Your supervisor, through the course of the discussion, acknowledges that you are very fluent in the area of digital identity and asks you to conduct research and create a v
Instructions
You are working for a local department store in the Operations Department. You notice that their business practices and use of technology are not up to date. One day while working, you are having a discussion about technology and identity formation with your supervisor. Your supervisor continues to explain that individuals and organizations have digital identities that are formed and impacted through various methods. Your supervisor continues, saying, "They can develop or change through social media, positive or negative press, word of mouth, and so on."
You begin to understand that the digital footprint of a business or organization can greatly impact their success or failure due to many factors, including the rapid dissemination of information that can occur digitally.
Your supervisor, through the course of the discussion, acknowledges that you are very fluent in the area of digital identity and asks you to conduct research and create a v
For this paper, you will complete 1 of the IATs available, and you will answer some questions about the experience. There is no need to prepare for the test. Keep in mind that there are no right or wrong answers.
Take the test here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html IAT. In case you need it, here is some Navigation Help for the Test.
Then, write a paper to respond to each of the following assignment questions. Your response to each question should be 12 paragraphs and supported with examples.
Describe the difference between implicit and explicit biases.
Discuss how you believe people develop implicit biases. Be sure to consider social constructs and socialization.
Describe the purpose and process of the IAT, why you believe this process was used, and your overall thoughts and experience on taking the test.
If implicit attitudes are subconscious, how do you think such negative implicit attitudes can be reduced?
Submit y
Assignment #1: Read the excerpt from C. Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination. Then answer the following questions in one essay.
- What is the sociological imagination? Why might it be useful?
- How does Mills differentiate between a personal trouble and a public issue? Why is this
distinction important?
- Using your sociological imagination, explain how a personal trouble from your own life could
actually be part of a public issue. Be sure to support your position that the problem is indeed a
public issue by citing either a newspaper article or a peer-reviewed article that reinforces the
public nature of the problem.
The essay shall not exceed three pages (double-spaced, 12 font).
Cite the sources (using either MLA or APA format) within the body of your essay as an in-text citation.
Also provide a works cited page.
You are the Regulator
You are on a U.S. Congressional committee tasked with improving the quality of our information ecosphere. (Note: this could include professional journalism broadcast on mass media channels and/or less professional content shared through social media or the web.) Before getting started, you need to do some background research on recent regulatory issues, inhibitors of a free press, information quality, etc., and then explore possible solutions. Your objective is to write a brief report recommending reform of one regulatory issue that you believe will most drastically improve the information ecosystem in the United States.
First, provide a brief explanation of the problem as you see it. For example, if you are concerned about the power of owners/conglomerates, indecent content, or (un)equal web access, then you might discuss FCC regulations governing those issues. Alternatively, you might be concerned about digital platforms (Go
Instructions
After you have completed your assigned readings and reviewed the lecture content, respond to all of the discussion board questions. Take into consideration the requirements as you create your response.
For this week's discussion, please respond to the following case.
You are a clinician in an OASAS Licensed Program. Richard Ortegada (Ricky) has seen you for 5 individual sessions of treatment for his opioid use disorder (in early remission). He is a very charming , persuasive and likable 32 year old Puerto Rican American male. He is married with 3 pre-school children and has a good union job providing heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) services to the Marriott hotel chain in the NYC Burroughs. Despite wearing steel toe boots, he managed to break 3 toes on his left foot last year and was out of work for 4 months debt has piled up. He was over prescribed an opioid medication and became dependent. He began buying pills from a coworker before he w
Read the NASW code of ethics taking note of where the terms, "evaluation and research" are written. Summarize, in approximately 500-800 words, the main points of guidance that the NASW Code of Ethics provides to social workers regarding research and evaluation. here is think to the NASW CODE OF ETHICS https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English
Instructions
Review the Barnes Family Timeline for the years 1994-2004 and focus on Samantha. Then, respond to the prompts below.
For this discussion, I would like for you to assess the possible challenges that Samantha will face when she is 9 years old and her adoptive mother dies. Please discuss how you believe her previous life experiences will influence Samantha's resilience, or lack thereof, regarding the loss of her adoptive mother and the grief of her adoptive father. In your initial post, please include:
Experiences that you infer will affect Samantha's reaction to her adoptive mother's death.
Behaviors you suspect Samantha will exhibit.
Identified intervention principles that should be employed to help Samantha.
video:
https://youtu.be/tsV7tXwPBn0
https://vimeo.com/15851924
Please submit as a single document (PDF or word)
Total 20% of final course grade
General guidelines
There are two objectives for this assignment.
Objective A: present a critical sociological analysis of a chosen social problem in the Canadian context
Analysis: More than just identifying or describing the problem, but breaking it down into smaller units to understand the whole, using the sociological imagination and conceptual/theoretical tools. You may of course combine your analysis with empirical data using statistics, graphs, charts, etc. to illustrate the issue as well as your sociological stance.
Objective B: discuss considerations for policy and practical solutions
Based on your analysis, discuss the practical directions that policy should take to address/mitigate the issue. You can think of this part as policy evaluation and recommendation:
- Evaluation
Students have options for effective chapter discussions:
(1) Describe how different social problems are constructed as gendered issues (think about various social institutions, such as work, religion, education, etc.). Then relate these to the continued inequality in housework and child care that exists and how this perpetuates inequality in society in general. Take a position on whether social problems are constructed to perpetuate the status quo or whether they are simply social problems. Make sure you discuss both sides and how each impacts the larger societal issue of gender inequity
