Sociology

Income and wages are measurable indicators of how prosperity is distributed amongst the social classes. Wealth, often determined by an individual’s net worth (assets minus liabilities), is another indicator that is used to determine class. Wealth for working-class families is measured by their cars, savings, and home. As people improve their social and economic standing, wealth may include things like stocks and bonds, commercial real estate, and expensive jewelry. Wealth is an important indicator because it spans past, present, and future generations. For example, compare the children of parents who can save money and leave an inheritance with children of parents who economically struggle and have few assets to pass on to the next generation. Historically, the creation and accumulation of wealth provide evidence of the legacy of racism, sexism, and discrimination and their role in determining class. Black/African Americans, women, and Hispanic/Latinos have historically been denied the means to obtain assets and grow wealth. Consider the impact of chronic marginalization on the Black/African American community’s ability to build wealth. While the income gaps between various ethnic groups may be decreasing, the gap between assets remains wide. Data from the Pew Research center show that the median wealth of Caucasian households is 20 times that of Black/African American households and 18 times that of Hispanic/Latinos households in the U.S. (Pew Research Center, 2011). The class extends beyond wealth and other financial indicators. Class also includes details like the amount of free time you enjoy (because you are not working three jobs to make ends meet) or feeling like there is a “right” way to speak and act in order to be heard. For this Discussion, analyze how classism has impacted your life.  By Day 3 Post an analysis of how classism has factored into your life. Then, explain a strategy you might use as a social worker to address the impact of class and class differences on the lives of your clients. For more information on Income and Wages read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Income+and+Wages&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1

Power, privilege, and classism are interconnected. The more privilege you enjoy, the more power you have to access opportunities that build wealth. The more wealth you can amass, the higher your social standing. It is important to note that having wealth is not an indictment. However, the privileges that have often led to inequalities in wealth distribution are real. As a social worker, you may find yourself working with clients who do not enjoy the privileges you knowingly or unknowingly enjoy. The more you understand your own relationship to power, privilege, and class, the better you will understand your clients’ realities. For this Discussion, review how classism is represented in the Hernandez family. By Day 5 Post An explanation of how classism is demonstrated in the Hernandez video. Identify specific barriers to social services that the Hernandez family experiences because of their class status (e.g., working poor). Explain how the intersection of class (e.g., working poor), ethnicity (e.g., Hispanic), and migration history (e.g., move from Puerto Rico to the mainland) may further impact Hernandez’s experience. Identity 2-3 strengths in the Hernandez family. Provide recommendations for how social workers might address issues of classism present in the Hernandez case. Explain how recommendations would address class issues. For more information on Classism  read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_discrimination

 Go to this website and take the Race Implicit Association Test. After you have received your results answer the following questions. How do you feel about your results (you do not have to share what they are)? Due to the fact that most people have some unconscious racial bias, explain whether, given the same credentials, you think two candidates, of two different races, with an identical resume, have an equal chance at getting hired. Why or why not?  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ For more information on Race Implicit read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Race+Implicit&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1

Watch the video lecture ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXNH_JB-2Qg&feature=emb_logo ) and read the attached two readings then answer the following question: Explain how the pandemic affects one type of demographic or economic inequality in organisations and enrich your argumentation along practical examples (max. 400 words). For more information on Pandemic Effects read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic

 KIM WOODS  Introduction to Sociology – Week 3 Assignment Social Status Write a 500 or more word paper that provides a critical analysis and evaluation of the following questions.·  What are some of your ascribed, achieved, and master statuses?·  How are these different from your parents or grandparents?·  Do family, work, or other activities hold the same personal identification status for you as they did for your parents or grandparents? Additionally, in your paper discuss any differences that you notice.·  Did your parents or grandparents experience different conflict or strain than you?·  Discuss any differences that you notice.·  What future statuses do you expect for your life?  How will these differences in personal identification and conflict or strain from you current statuses?View your assignment rubric. For more information on Social Status read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_status

Project Overview In this project, you will complete a questionnaire to help inform the design of a new office space. Then, you will write an article about the relationship between culture and workspaces. As you complete this project, think about places you have worked in the past: How did the culture and design of the workspace impact your creativity and productivity? Competency In this project, you will master the following competency: Draw connections between human creativity and culture Scenario You work for Gauze and Effect, a local humanitarian organization that provides emergency medical care to people in crisis. Two years ago, your friend Dr. Lee asked you to join Gauze and Effect as the organization’s first part-time employee. Recently, the organization received a large donation from a private donor. It also received a new government grant. These funds will allow the organization to expand its reach nationally. To prepare the company to respond to more natural disasters throughout the country, you will need to add more people to the administrative staff. And to accommodate the larger staff, you’ll be moving to a new, larger workspace. Dr. Lee wants a workspace that fosters creative collaboration and encourages social connections. Since your employees will be spending the majority of their daylight hours in the space, he wants them to be involved in the design process Directions You are moving into a larger workspace and want to get a sense of what types of workspaces have worked well for your staff in the past. You’re interested to know what types of things they think should be incorporated into the new office space. Dr. Lee has developed a brief questionnaire to encourage employee participation. He thinks it’s important that all employees participate in this activity, including you! Workspace Questionnaire Download and respond to all of the questions in the Workspace Questionnaire. You will submit this completed questionnaire as one of your deliverables for this project. Article for The Gauzette Angie O’Gram, the editor of The Gauzette, Gauze and Effect’s monthly e-newsletter, has approached you about writing an article. She’d like you to write about the workspace design initiative. Your article will help explain the initiative to the organization’s network of volunteers. Angie has given you a list of topics and questions that she would like you to discuss in the article. Using the resources about workspace designs (which is also linked in the What to Submit section), answer these questions: Compare and contrast cultural and historic definitions of work and workspace using examples How do different cultures define work and workspaces? What are some examples? How have definitions of work and workspaces changed over time? How do different groups in a culture define work and workspace? Explain how other definitions of workplaces compare to the culture of your current or former employer. Also consider how these definitions compare to the broader societal culture. Share some examples: How does your workspace represent the culture of your current or previous employer? How does the culture of your current or former employer relate to the larger societal culture? How do that employer’s values compare to the values of your society and culture? Describe the relationship between your culture and your ideas about work and workers: How does your societal culture fit with your self-concept as a worker? Explain your answer. Explain how studying the humanities can help you understand artistic merit: How has learning about the humanities changed the way you notice artistic merit? How has it impacted what you see in artifacts and your surrounding environment? You can use the provided resources and conduct some of your own research. If you decide to conduct your own research, make sure that the resources are authoritative. Remember that you must cite your sources in the article. 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: Workspace Questionnaire Download and respond to the questions in this resource, which will guide your analysis of a workspace and artifact. Then, submit it as a deliverable. Article for The Gauzette (500–1000 words) Write an article about the workspace design initiative for the organization’s network of volunteers. The Resources About Workspace Designs will help you write your article for The Gauzette. Be sure to cite these any source that you use in your article. Supporting Materials The following resources may help support your work on the project: Citation Help Need help citing your sources? Use the CfA Citation Guide and Citation Maker Writing Resources: Writing Guide Review the tutorials and resources in the Writing Guide document if you need help with the writing aspects of this project. Reading: The AMA Handbook of Business Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Style, Grammar, Punctuation, Usage, Construction, and Formatting Review the section of this Shapiro Library e-book starting on p. 505 to learn about the typical contents of a newsletter. It provides guidelines for writing articles, along with examples. Reading: Fundamentals of Writing for Marketing and Public Relations: A Step-by-Step Guide for Quick and Effective Results, Chapter 4 Read Chapter 4 of this Shapiro Library e-book to learn more about the content and formatting of e-newsletters. Reading and Writing Support Do you want to review strategies for reading Watch this short video on reading comprehension strategies from SNHU Academic Support. Do you need additional support on your writing? Watch this short video on brainstorming from SNHU Academic Support. Or try this video on paraphrasing and summarizing from SNHU Academic Support. For more information on Human Creativity read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

Q1  I personally do not believe that a bussiness owner has the right to deny service to same-sex couples. These are progressive times and the world has been coming to accept all different kinds of people over the years. Just because slavery was permitted under law a hundred or so years ago did not make it right. The law is not always correct or moral. We now have corrected that notion and have implented all people into society regardless of skin color. The same should be true for same-sex couples.  Using the argument of religion as an objection to bake a wedding cake for gay marraige means that African-Americans should still be objected under the same logic. The religon is not the problem in this case it is the problem of a person that is unwilling to adapt to society or accept anyone that is different from themselves. The “KKK” Is nowhere near the same as a same-sex couple. The “KKK” is a harmful organization that is hateful and disriminatory. Same sex couples do no harm to anyone and are just trying to express their individual sexuality. Opposition of same-sex couples is similar to a hateful/discriminatory organization and maybe in that case people should not be working for weddings if they are opposed to any type of gender getting married. The fact that this kind of behaviour is not outlawed can be considered a paralell from dicrimation of African Americans during segregation. Eventually it was adopted by the government as public opinion gained tracion in favor towards equality of skin color. The same will happen with gay marraige over the years as public opinion towards it has increased tremendously over the years. Aporximately 10,000,000 people in the United States are considered part of LGBT so this issue definetly is not small. Not giving rights to a certain group of people is basically admitting that they are less than anyone else in society when this is false.  I hope to one day see a world where skin color, race, sexuality and any other types of human discrepancies are not an issue in day to day society and we can all live in harmony and peace as under one label of people/citizens of America all protected under equal law. Question2  No, business owners and/or government officials should not be allowed to deny service to same-sex couples because of religious beliefs. Yes, we have the right of freedom of religion, whether it be Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or no religion at all. Yet our government was also founded on the idea of separation of church and state. So why is it acceptable to allow Christianity to govern us, when fundamentally our government is supposed to respect the separation of church and state. “He does not have the absolute right to exercise and practice such beliefs in utter disregard of the clear constitutional rights of other citizens.” That is the best line I have heard and gets right to the core of this issue, and I will definitely be using it in the future. Members of the LQBTQ+ community have the right to be happy, should have the right to the same services as straight people, and absolutely should have the right to be themselves. You can feel one way about something, but if that belief goes against the rights of others, you can not practice that belief because it interferes with someone elses rights.I think (and hope) that the case with the wedding cake will result in the motion that refusing to bake a cake for same-sex marriage is inherently discrimination. If a bakery were to turn down a woman who wanted a cake because she is a woman, that would be discrimination. I cannot be refused service from a place because I am a woman. A black person can not be turned down from a restaurant just because of the color of their skin. Everyone has the right to live the exact same way as everyone else. LGBTQ+ people have the absolute right to be with the ones they love, and celebrate it too. Personally, if I was gay I would want to go to a bakery that supported me. I don’t want to give my business to someone who is disrespectful to who I am. I am honestly amazed at how we are in 2020, almost 2021, and same-sex marriage is still an issue. If you are arguing against the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, remember that the Bible calls us to love everyone. For more information on Same-Sex  read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_sex

Background: Complete the Cortez Family interactive media in this week’s resources. Conduct a literature search related to the chronic issues related to HIV/AIDS and bipolar mental disorder. Search for additional research related to assessing outcomes and theoretical frameworks appropriate for this client. For example, your search could include terms such as motivational interviewing and outcomes and goal-oriented practice and outcomes. You might also look at the NREPP database, to search for interventions related to mental health and physical health. Link for Cortez Family:  http://mym.cdn.laureate-media.com/2dett4d/Walden/SOCW/6311/CH/mm/case_study/index.html Assignment: Submit a 5-page proposal/research plan for single-system (subject) evaluation for your work with Paula Cortez. Identify the problems that you will target and the outcomes you will measure, select an appropriate intervention or interventions (including the length of time), and identify an appropriate evaluation plan. Outline: -USE HEADERS and a minimum of 3 scholarly references! Introduction The problem(s) that are the focus of treatment The intervention approach, including the length of time, so that it can be replicated A summary of the literature that you reviewed that led you to select this intervention approach The purpose for conducting a single-system (subject) research evaluation The measures for evaluating the outcomes and observing change including: Evidence from your literature search about the nature of the measures The validity and reliability of the measures How baseline measures will be obtained How often follow-up measures will be administered The criteria that you would use to determine whether the intervention is effective How the periodic measurements could assist you in your ongoing work with Paula Conclusion For more information on Theoretical Frameworks read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory

 Week 2 ProjectAssignment  Overdue – Last Sun at 11:59 PM Assignment Overview For this assignment you will learn what makes each culture and subculture unique. Sociologists use the “components of culture” in order to identify cultures and subcultures. The components of culture are language, material objects, behaviors, and symbols. For this assignment, you will use existing resources to compare and contrast two different cultures or subcultures. Information about the components of culture and different cultures/subcultures can be found using the textbook, online materials, and the South University Online Library. Below you will find a step-by-step guide for completing this paper: Make certain you have read the chapter “Culture,” in Sociology in our Times. Choose two separate cultures or subcultures to compare and contrast. Examples could be India and the United States or Gothics and Emos. Once you decide which cultures/subcultures you will research, use relevant keywords in your library search. Compare and contrast these two cultures/subcultures, specifically analyzing the components of culture (language, material objects, behaviors, and symbols.) Be sure to include an introduction with a thesis, the conclusion that reviews all main points you present, and an integration of your personal views on the topic. Remember to use APA format for the essay style as well as in-text citations and when listing the references. Submit your 2–5-page essay (maximum 12 pt. font) describing your application project and your findings to the Submissions area. For more information on Components of Culture read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Components+of+Culture&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1

Slavin and Schunk (2021) posit that intentional teachers, both individually and collaboratively, purposefully create ways to foster learning and to meet the needs of each one of their students. The word “intentional” is very profound. It implies that one takes the initiative to purposefully carry out a task for an intended objective. When it comes to individuals with exceptionalities and diverse needs, some individuals warmly embrace these individuals and welcome them into their classrooms while others do not for a myriad of reasons. In this module, you are studying learner differences and individuals with exceptionalities. When Germany was under the Nazi regime the phrase “life unworthy of life” (in German: “Lebensunwertes Leben”) was used since some felt that some individuals had no right to live. There were times throughout history that people felt that individuals with disabilities or diverse needs should be treated differently. When you examine the realities of history, the power of language, and the ethical or unethical behaviors surrounding caring for and educating individuals with differences, it provides a deeper understanding as to why laws have been created throughout the years to promote ethical practices and to cultivate effective learning opportunities for all individuals. It is essential for educators and future leaders to have an understanding of history, critically analyze it through a biblical lens, and determine how to approach, nurture, and educate these individuals with diverse and special needs. Review the 1968 documentary, “Suffer the Little Children: Pennhurst Pennsylvania State Home for Disabled Children.” Regarding what happened at Pennhurst: How does this affect you as an educator, aspiring educator, and individual now, and in what ways has your own attitude and language changed over the years? What is a biblical approach to welcoming, nurturing, and educating learners with diverse needs or exceptionalities that you can intentionally apply in your own life? For more information on Diverse Needs read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_needs