What does Max Weber mean by the term “life chances?” Do you think life chances impact social stratification in the United States? Why or why not? Try and develop your response with concrete, real-life examples from your life, culture, and community.
Category: Social Science
Psychological and sociological theories of human development
Consider the psychological and sociological theories of human development and socialization. Which do you find the most compelling, and why? Be sure to briefly explain the theory you chose in your response.
Aspects of cognition, spirituality, and identity
• Analyzes how the three aspects of cognition, spirituality, and identity are intertwined in the development of young adults.
• Explains how these aspects have been most influential in shaping the psychological self of young adults.
Introduced healthcare technologies of any kind
What moral guidelines should we use when it comes to recently introduced healthcare technologies of any kind (you will note and engage with your own examples) and social technologies of any kind (you will note and engage with your own examples)?
Involve care-based ethics in your answer
“care” (care-based ethics) and “rights” ethics to social issues
Assess the moral solutions arrived at through “care” (care-based ethics) and “rights” ethics to social issues of ethical import such as poverty, drug use, and/or lack of health care,
That is, note any ethical problems that arise related to those particular issues. Then, say how both care-based and rights theory of ethics would solve those problems.
Are those solutions correct? Why or why not?
What is your own approach there?
Show You Care
Develop, in detail, a situation in which a health care worker might be confronted with ethical problems related to patients and prescription drug use OR patients in a state of poverty.
Your scenario must be original to you and this assignment. It cannot be from the discussion boards in this class or any other previous forum.
Articulate (and then assess) the ethical solutions that can found using “care” (care-based ethics) and “rights” ethics to those problems.
Assessment must ask if the solutions are flawed, practicable, persuasive, etc.
What health care technology is involved in the situation? What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Explore such guidelines also using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.
Say how social technologies such as blogs, crowdfunding, online encyclopedias can be used in either case. What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Develop such guidelines also using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.
The transition to adulthood
Explain how cultural and socioeconomic status may affect the transition to adulthood featured in your chosen case study.
Describe two practice skills you could apply when working with the individuals and families in your chosen case study.
Describe an additional strategy each colleague can use to assist working with the individuals and families in the chosen case study.
Recommend types of supports or resources each colleague could apply with the individuals and families from the chosen case study now or in the future.
Role of prejudice and racism
Explain the role of prejudice and racism in the creation of minority-group status.
“Girls Incarcerated”
On Netflix, there is a documentary entitled “Girls Incarcerated”. Watch the first episode and choose at least one episode after that. For your discussion board post, focus on one girl portrayed in the documentary. Using the information you read in Chapters 2 and 6 on theories related to victimization and offending, try to consider what theory best explains the behavior of the girl you chose. List your theory, describe why this is the best fit for your girl, and discuss anything that might be missing from the theory that could help to explain her juvenile delinquency history.
Confronted with a moral dilemma relating to cultural diversity
For this assignment propose a scenario where you or someone you know are confronted with a moral dilemma relating to cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It cannot be the same as what was covered in the week one discussion.
Cultural diversity refers to religious, sexual, racial, and other forms of social difference. A moral dilemma is a situation in which one must make a decision between two or more options such that the options involve seemingly ethical and/or unethical conduct.