We may assume that someone is homeless due to some personal failing, but instead, it could be the cause of larger societal issues, such as the high cost of housing. Describe a current issue or social problem in your field and apply the sociological imagination to this issue.
Explore how culture influences communication by analyzing a real or fictional interaction between individuals from different cultural backgrounds. Reflect on how expectations, misunderstandings, or cultural norms shaped the communication. Use examples—from personal experience, media, or fictional characters—to support your observations. Be sure to organize your response clearly, with a strong main idea, supporting evidence,…
In this task, you will address a business scenario for a company that is wanting to become a more emotionally and culturally intelligent organization. You will be asked to first identify your own core values and assess whether your values will fit with the organization’s core values. Then, you will evaluate how you can apply…
B. Apply either the research of Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer or Daniel Goleman to explain two ways you can improve your intrapersonal areas of opportunity, self-awareness, and self-management from your GEIT results. C. Describe two EI communication techniques that can improve your interpersonal relationship areas of opportunity, social awareness, and relationship management from…
List the ten guidelines for addressing intractable conflict. Next, briefly explain each one using your own wo List all 8 of the Freudian defense mechanisms in our text and then describe what each one means in your own words from the Psychodynamic Theory. Explain in your own wo what is meant by "the…
List the five components that all intractable conflicts share to some degree and then explain each one in your own wo List the five paradigms currently employed in the framing of intractable conflicts and then describe in detail each one.
List and then explain the needs Maslow uncovered for his Hierarchy of Needs. According to Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs, what is required before one can begin to truly work on their self-actualization needs? Explain using your own wor
Respond to two (2) of the following prompts: Karl Marx studied the social impact of religion and believed religion reflects the material base, which is comprised of the means and modes of production and the relations of production. Marx argued that religion maintains inequality and perpetuates the status quo. Is Marx's argument that religion…
*The following information is relevant to each of the following discussion board assignments: During weeks 2 through 6, students will be required to create a discussion board thread sharing a newspaper or magazine article relevant to the week’s topics. Each student will need to create a thread on that week’s discussion board. Additionally, in order…
Respond to two (2) of the following prompts: Describe formal and informal education. From your experiences with schooling, provide specific examples of each and explain how they are built into the curriculum or culture of the school. (USLO 8.1) Reflecting on your own experience (or your child’s) with schooling, explain one sociological theory that…