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Women have traditionally encountered strictly-defined roles

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This week discusses social institutions where women have traditionally encountered strictly-defined roles and focuses on two of them: the family and media and the arts. Refer to at least three learning resources assigned for this week in your response to this topic:
FIRST, in a paragraph or two, discuss what connects the expectations of women in all of the learning resources this week. Are there any common threads despite the differences in the various resources and the institutions they present?
SECOND, choose one of the following options:
A. Pick a single institution described in the readings, and talk about how perceptions of and expectations of women have changed. In addition to referring to the learning resources, include specific examples from history, the news, the media, art, or your own life. Remember to consider intersectional identity in your response.
B. Discuss what needs to change to see equality in one or more of the institutions presented in this week’s learning resources. How will we know if it has been achieved? In addition to referring to the learning resources, include specific examples from history, the news, the media, or your own life. Remember to consider intersectional identity in your response.

 

 

 

DashLocker

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Read the Case Study entitled, “DashLocker” on page 535. Then, answer questions 1 (both parts), 2, and 5 at the end of the case.
I selected the most applicable cases for the class. Please be sure to back up your answers with facts from the textbook.

 

 

 

Journalist or a consumer of the news

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Think like a journalist or a consumer of the news. Now, the Research Component asks you to think like a Women’s Studies’ scholar:
How does the information reported in the news article connect to scholarly research in the field?
What do scholars already know that can deepen our understanding of the information reported in the article?

 

Nondemocratic country of your choice

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write a 2- to 3-page paper. You will evaluate a nondemocratic country of your choice. In particular, evaluate the
geography, economics, identity, culture, and demographics. To guide your thinking, reflect on how your chosen country’s current government is structured. You
should also consider how the structures of government and other characteristics compare with the characteristics of democratic nations, as discussed in
Milestones One and Two.
At this point, you should be comfortable working with the skills required of you in the rubric. You should be building on the skills you’ve been working on in
Milestones One and Two. In this milestone, you will need to be able to discern the differences between democratic and nondemocratic countries in a compareand-contrast format. The final project will ask that you access all the skills you have used throughout the course. By completing this assignment, you are
demonstrating the following skills employers in the field may be looking for:
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
• Analytical skills and critical thinking
• Professional writing communication skills
Prompt: Specifically, you must address the following critical elements:
III. Characteristics of Nondemocratic Nations
a. Evaluate how each key characteristic has shaped the United Kingdom’s political and social institutions. Use scholarly peer-reviewed sources to
support your claim.
i. Geography: characteristics related to the location of the country
ii. Economics: characteristics related to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
iii. Culture: a society’s commonly held customs, norms, habits, and values
iv. Demographics: characteristics of a population that could include age, race, gender, ethnicity, income, education, and so forth
v. National identity: an identity that locates one’s social position in relation to national membership
vi. International relations with external states: how countries interact with one another and the policies they have toward those
relationships

Idea of society is the soul of religion

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“If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.”
A MUST-WATCH VIDEO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgb-3e8CWA
QUIZ: https://play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/can-we-guess-how-religious-you-are-on-a-scale-of-110
Share and briefly react to your results at the end of your summary.
Being culturally sensitive and respecting your’s and others’ spirituality and religious traditions, in general, is seen as an important sociological competence tool. Applying your spiritual or practical awareness to specific personal encounters or interactions requires even greater sociocultural skills. These can be, but are not limited to:
• Effective communication
• Conflict resolution
• Active listening
• Empathy
• Relationship management
• Respect
In turn, these skills are used to guide conversations and interventions that affect the following social issues:
• abortion
• LGBT rights
• domestic violence
• migration
• police violence
• racism
Match one of the six (6) sociocultural skills with one of the six (6) social issues and put both elements into conversation with one (1) of the three religious figures above:
• Based on their personal histories, and the way they carried out their missions, how do you think your religious figure would respond to your two (2) elements?
• What led you to choose your religious figure as an intermediary for your two elements?
• In relation to your two (2) elements, create an example of how your religious figure’s specific spiritual beliefs, and the way they professed them, might make a difference in today’s society if your religious figure was alive.

Self-Realization and Transcendence: Martin Luther King

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Studies in Self-Realization and Transcendence: Martin Luther King, (Mother Teresa, Tim DeChristopher, comment recommended but not required)
Martin Luther King’s Nobel Lecture (Chapter 6): Questions that might guide your Viewpoint contributions: What are some of the major concerns expressed by King about American society and the world? What are his views about non-violence? What are some of the relevant literary sources does he cite, and why? In what ways would Martin Luther King be a textbook case as an example of Maslow’s concept of self-realization (especially, think of the concept of transcendence in the diagram before Maslow’s article)?
Watch this video for a source:

 

Nature Vs. Nurture

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In thinking about the nature versus nurture debate, explain why you think nature, nurture, or both has/have the strongest impact on development. Include information from the video and scholarly resources to support your viewpoint. Please give specific examples from your own development or the development of someone you know.

 

The Trends and Ethics portions

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Creation of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) addendum. The CSR addendum will include a brief discussion of the
mission, vision, and values of the company; the impact of trends in organizational culture and corporate social responsibility on business ideas; and the potential
ethical or regulatory issues that affect the corporate strategy and brand development. The CSR addendum will conclude with a discussion of the best potential
outcome of the company’s CSR efforts and the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for the company.
Trends
A. Business Environment: Analyze the current internal and external factors related to the intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial idea. In other words,
what are the internal and external factors, and how do the factors influence the intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial idea and organization?
B. Description: Maintaining the context of your intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial idea, describe the trends in CSR, sustainability, and business
ethics that may impact your business.
C. Impact: Next, identify how the above-referenced trends in CSR, sustainability, and business ethics may impact your intrapreneurial or
entrepreneurial idea, and how your company may prepare for the trends.
III.
Ethics
A. Issues: Describe the potential business ethics and regulatory issues that could impact your intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial idea. How could
these ethics and regulatory issues affect your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes?
B. Alignment: How will you align your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and regulatory
issues that you described?
C. Sustainability: How will the alignment of corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and
regulatory issues you described optimize the sustainability of your intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial idea?

 

 

Ben Casselman’s “Shutup About Harvard”

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Summary/Analysis on Ben Casselman’s “Shutup About Harvard”
For this essay, choose one reading we have not discussed in class thus far from Acting Out Culture. Read the essay carefully as you must summarize the
author’s argument and analyze the rhetorical appeals the author makes. Recall what you learned about rhetorical analysis in English 1101, as well as our
review on rhetoric. For the summary portion, imagine you are explaining the main points of the reading to a friend or relative who has never read it. Be
thorough and reserve authorial judgment. Your goal is to explain (objectively) the position for which the author is arguing while providing key quotes from the
text that demonstrate their position. For the analysis portion, you will show how the author argues their point. Consider the author’s various appeals (whether
to pathos, logos, or ethos), their intended audience, their rhetorical situation, and the overall persuasiveness of their piece. Pay special attention to the
author’s use of outside sources. What kind of evidence does the author cite? Is the evidence reliable/credible, or questionable? Do some digging to find out.
Cite any outside sources that you choose to consult that shed light on these questions. In order to earn full credit, this essay must be written in MLA format,
750-1000 words (excluding the Works Cited), and should include
an introduction and thesis statement; your thesis should state the author’s claim along with their main rhetorical appeals and strategies. one, fully-developed
paragraph of summary, as described above. fully-developed body paragraphs with analysis and evidence (direct quotations from the text, properly cited in
MLA) of the author’s rhetorical choices and use of outside sources. a conclusion. a Works Cited page (include the text you are analyzing, along with any other
sources you choose to consult).