Sociology

Assignment, DeYoung #2. REMEMBER THAT I AM ASKING FOR YOUR INTERPRETATION OF DEYOUNG’S TEXT, NOT WHAT YOUR OPINION MIGHT BE.  Textual analysis is the game. So it might be a good idea to cite the text (DeYoung p. 12) in each answer of 5-10 sentences. 1. What is envy?  (5 sentences) / 2. What are its ‘ugly cousins’? (1 sentence) 3. In what is it rooted? (5 sentences) 4. In what way does envy lack love? (10 sentences) 5. How does envy arise from vainglory? (10 sentences) 6. What is vainglory? (5 sentences) 7. How is it different from ambition? (10 sentences) 9. How is magnanimity opposed to vainglory? (10 sentences) DO NOT USE OUTSIDE SOURCES!!!!

4. What are some of the specific challenges (economic, social, etc.) faced by pregnant teens? What is the role of the social worker in helping them overcome or manage these challenges? 5. Based on what you have read and what you already know about teen pregnancy prevention, make predictions about the future of teen pregnancy prevention. How will it change? In what ways will it stay the same? What new models for teen pregnancy prevention might arise? What might these look like?

Please watch the 6 vignettes in the video that demonstrating various group dynamics and group leader interventions. The videos will start from the beginning, so to bypass the “pre-session commentary”, go to the right of the video screen, under “Chapters”, and select “Vignette 1” then “Vignette 2a” and then “Vignettes 2b, 3a, 3b, and 4” respectively. Group Therapy for Addictions: A Relapse Prevention Approach – approximately 1 hour and 23 minutes, including the commentary. A transcript of the video will be uploaded in case you do not have access to the video. What stage of group development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing) would you identify was likely the stage for each group vignette?  What main group theme or specific group dynamic did you observe in each vignette? What did you see as the role of the group leader, and was the leader role group focused, individual focused, or leader focused? What specific group leader interventions did you observe, i.e. at least one intervention that you noticed in each of the 5 vignettes?   What advantages did you see in the approach of group counseling/therapy with addicted populations? What were are possible disadvantages of this approach? How well did the group members understand group purposes and task to help each other address their addiction and any related thinking and behaviors?  What might you have done differently if you were the group leader?

A report about ONE of the following concert videos The Bad Plus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11YQwpNM1ng Robert Glaspar Trio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAOpj3Jyosc Herbie Hancock Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdEnTbYv008 Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, Christian McBride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Nc_m58TYc Esperanza Spalding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSBc_08GrA8 Snarky Puppy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gu8q_fJeVU 1. a description of the band (the types of instruments/singers) 2. descriptions of the music—This is the most important part! Describe the overall style Point out any musical techniques that you recognize Describe one of the pieces that was played: who played the melody, who played improvised solos., and how did the piece end? Point out any aspects of the performance that you either liked or didn’t particularly like. Was there anything that you found surprising or unusual?

Answer the following five questions in this essay. 1. What are some of the most common forms of unethical behavior in our workforce today? How could leadership in organizations help to minimize this ethical misconduct? Explain and support your positions with relevant course content and outside sources. 2. As our businesses have developed over the last 100 plus years, have our modern day businesses evolved to be more ethical today? What are some of the factors that helped you come to your conclusion? Take a position and support your thoughts. 3. Would you describe the financial meltdown in our 2007-2008 financial markets as a failure of “people” or of our “capital market processes”? Why? Support your thoughts with ethical theory and examples. Use our library for added research if needed. 4. Tell me about why diversity and discrimination are two important ethical factors that leaders should focus on while attempting to manage their workforce? Provide one example of how mismanaging these issues have had an impact on an organization. How would you explain the importance of these to your employees? 5. Are corporate outreach and company sponsored volunteer programs a good idea for organizations to implement? Why? From an ethical leadership perspective, why would you choose OR not choose to implement these programs? Use course theory and specific examples to support your conclusion.

Review Notes Questions 18-19   Just need the answered without rewriting the questions but just numbered.  1.       1. What is the definition of international sport? What factors are considered in determining whether a sport fits this definition? 2.      2.  Name three factors that served to redefine international sport. What was the effect of each? 3.      3.  What five key changes over the past few decades have contributed to the expansion of international sport? How have they done so? 4.      4.  How have advances in the recruitment of athletes and a focus on more globalized marketing affected international sport? 5.       5. Name some of the emerging economies that are becoming attractive hosts for international competitions. What makes them attractive 6.       6. Identify the various stakeholders, policy experts, and governing bodies that are involved in the staging of environmentally sustainable Olympic Games. Elaborate on the efforts the IOC has put forward to address sustainability within the Olympic Movement 7.       7. What are some of the current issues that affect female athletes and women’s sports in international sport? 8.       8. What skills, experiences, and competencies would help aspiring international sport managers prepare for the job market? 9.        9. What is the definition of sport sociology? How and why is it related to examining the social context of sport? 10. How and why do sports come to symbolize broader social concerns throughout society? 11. What do we mean when we say that sport is a socializing agent? How does participation in sport allow us to learn important societal roles? 12. What is Title IX, and how has it influenced sport participation patterns for girls and women nationwide? 13. Why has the number of women in key leadership positions in sport declined dramatically over the past four decades? 14.. What are the two key patterns of sport media coverage of female athletes that scholars have documented over the last three decades? 15. What are the various ways in which sport sociologists study the intersection of race in sport? 16. How can homophobia negatively affect all athletes regardless of sexual orientation? 17. What are some current examples of the ways sport can serve as a catalyst for social change? 18. Why does sport sociology have significant implications for sport managers?

Using information gathered from the “Begay Family Case Study,” Complete the Topic 3 chart that is attached to this assignment. Write 50-100 words per section in the chart. The chart will include four family members for whom you will identify the following: Role in the family Tasks associated with specific roles How roles may have been established Rules (covert and/or overt) that maintain the roles APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected. Refer to the scoring guide, “Family Roles, Tasks, and Rules,” prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Do professionals have ethical obligations that ordinary citizens don’t? In addressing this question you should think about: how do we define a professional, over and above a person who makes money doing what they do?  What sorts of ethical obligations do ordinary citizens have? What sorts of ethical obligations do professional have just because they are professionals? And then, finally, do professionals have ethical obligations that ordinary citizens don’t? Written assignments are due by 11:59 pm Eastern time on Sunday. They need to be 2 pages double spaced, include citations where appropriate and refer to and incorporate the material in the text book and other sources. Written assignments draw on the topics raised in the forum discussions and you may refer to and use the material in your posts in your written assignments. However, a written assignment may not be a simple recycling of your posts but needs to go further to bring in additional materials and to elaborate on, respond to, or refute points made in discussion posts. Finally, writing is a component part of your grade and I will grade down for grammatical errors or poor writing. I have posted a handout called “The Sinful Seventeen” in the week 1 materials that outlines some of the most common grammatical mistakes and their corrections. Im posting below An article we had to read,  PLAYING IN THE MAJORS Herbert J. Keating, M.D. “What does it take to be a professional?” The year was 1980. Dr. Ralph Reinfrank, chief of medicine at Hartford Hospital, was running “morning report,” a time-honored teaching method in medical training programs. Each morning, second- and third-year residents, people two or three years into their postmed-school training, would assemble in a circle in a Spartan conference room, Styrofoam cups of bad coffee close at hand. There the “on call” resident would present cases, essentially telling patients’ clinical stories from the night before. The chief doctor, in this case, Ralph, would help provide instructive feedback, which he did in a Socratic style. Except for the case that prompted this memorable question, most of the feedback concerned nuances of internal medicine diagnosis and therapy — not critical “life and death” stuff. (Ralph is now, himself, dead, which is sad. Although he was diminutive and bespectacled, and wore off-white hush puppies, which were distinctly uncool, we residents were profoundly respectful of Ralph’s brainpower.) “Tell me exactly what you were thinking,” Ralph said to the admitting resident, a petite, self-confident, brown-eyed woman with straight black hair. A three-headed silver stethoscope draped around her neck like a tribal necklace. “Are you telling me, Doctor, that you started heparin last night on a patient who was bleeding from the GI tract?” “Yes, I started the heparin, ” she answered. “I thought he might have pulmonary embolism. And the blood was only on the Hemoccult slide.” (Heparin, a blood thinner, interferes with the generation of clot –a good idea if there is pulmonary embolism, but a bad idea if there is bleeding.) Ralph took a loud, deep breath, and then exhaled as if he were in pain. Some of us near him could smell the tobacco from cigarettes he would sneak and smoke sometimes, a weakness he was not proud of. “Let me recap,” he said, his face deadpan. “How old was this man?” “Forty,” she muttered. “What precisely were his risk factors for a pulmonary embolism?” Silence. Then, she said, “He had chest pain, worse when he took a deep breath, and he was short of breath.” Ralph paused a moment, then asked quietly, “Did I ask you what his symptoms were?” The resident looked confused. Then came the point of Ralph’s blade: “Please pay attention, Doctor. These words have meaning. Medical words mean something. I said risk factors, not symptoms.” The admitting resident flushed red and seemed as if she might cry. Then she regrouped, almost as if she were telling herself, “Buck up, you went to Vassar and UVA, you can handle this.” “He was obese.” Ralph looked around. “He was obese,” Ralph restated, tersely. “Forty and obese. Hmmm.” Ralph looked at each of the rest of us residents, one at a time, as if his eyes could look into the gray matter of our brains. Some of us squirmed a bit. “What are the established risk factors for pulmonary embolism?” he asked. Several voices shouted out responses: Virchow’s triad, post-op state, drugs that promote clotting such as estrogens or birth control pills, etc. Ralph returned to the resident. “Did your patient have any of these, Doctor?” “No.” Her answer came with an edge to it, a bit defiant. “And yet, you started him on heparin knowing that he had blood in his stool?” No answer for a while. Then a reluctant “Yes.” At this Ralph paused. Evenly, without a touch of irony, he said, “Doctor, at the end of our little conference, I should like you to go back to your patient and check and see if he has not yet bled to death.” The admitting resident looked down at her lap, and closed her eyes, as if she were feeling sick. And then Ralph posed the question. “What does it take to be a professional?” It seemed like an odd question; no one spoke. Ralph ended the silence. “I don’t care what kind of professional. Any professional. Let’s take Ted Williams. Or Joe DiMaggio. What made Joe a professional baseball player?” The surprise reference to a ballplayer eased the tension, and several of us nervously laughed. “‘Cause he got paid to play?” one of us offered. “No, that’s not it,” Ralph said. “Plenty of people get paid to do jobs that they cannot do. Even ballplayers.” Silence followed, and then Ralph answered the question. “Joe was a professional for many reasons. He didn’t waste a lot of energy. He showed a special “economy” in his movements; he had `good moves.'” “But most importantly,” Ralph continued, “Joe was a professional because he was selfconscious about his craft, constantly analyzing what it was that he was doing. He didn’t just hack away at it.” The room was totally quiet. No one moved a muscle. “What you, ladies and gentlemen, are doing — taking care of complicated problems in human beings — needs professionals. Like Joe DiMaggio. Don’t just hack away at it.” Ralph allowed a few more seconds of silence and then concluded. “An automatic decision that pleuritic chest pain and shortness of breath equals heparin is the medical equivalent of hacking away.” Suddenly, the admitting resident got white in the face, bolted out of her chair and flew out of the conference room, the tails of her white lab coat trailing after her. We learned later that her patient had pneumonia, not pulmonary embolism. As a result of the heparin, he had, indeed, bled significantly from what turned out to be a colon polyp. But he did OK. And from then on, the rest of us, the residents, did better. Dr. Keating practices internal medicine and geriatrics and is clinical professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Patients’ identities are concealed for confidentiality. You can e-mail Dr. Keating at [email protected]

The Waldo Moment is not about any particular politician but rather about the ways in which politics is being made into soundbites. This builds on similar and much earlier work by Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985). There is a brilliant web comic by Stuart McMillen  Amusing Ourselves to Death: Huxley vs Orwell https://highexistence.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-huxley-vs-orwell/ In what way does our newer technology promote a different form of political communication and what does this entail for society?

Chosen popular culture artifacts/expressions:  Music/Food How does the distribution mechanism control the issues addressed in the artifacts’/expressions’ context? Determine who controls the distribution of your chosen popular culture artifacts/elements. In what ways does the controller of distribution affect the shared experience of the audience and community? Keep in mind that a community maybe local, regional, national, or global. Be specific in your discussion.