SOC 315 Week 1 Cultural Background Summary
Resources: You as a Culturally Diverse Entity
Prepare a 700-word Cultural Background Summary of your personal cultural background using You as a Culturally Diverse Entity, which is located on your student Web site. This paper should highlight the different sources that have contributed to your cultural background. Additionally, speculate on the extent to which your current identity has been molded by assimilation, acculturation, and/or a climate of pluralism.
Your Response should address the following elements:
– What reactions do you have to your own cultural diversity
– Do any aspects of your culture come into conflict with each other? If so, where?
– Speculate on the extent to which your current identity has been molded by assimilation, acculturation, and/or a climate of pluralism
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SOC315 Week 2 Individual Assignment: Multicultural Matrix and Analysis Worksheet
Instructions:
Part I: Select and identify six groups in the left-hand column. Complete the matrix.
Part II: Write a summary.
Part III: Format references consistent with APA guidelines.
Summarize what you learned from this activity in a 350-700 word analysis of the advantages of a multicultural society and labor force. Use the following questions to guide your writing:
- How has U.S. society used each group’s culture to construct the group identity? How has each group been stereotyped? How accurate are these stereotypes
- As United States and as unity we experience different type of behavior that may experience and trigger stereo type. They aren’t really stereotype for the simple fact that was curtain cultures do thing that maybe weird and becomes a stereotype to other. The accurately on the stereotyping is not true it just the way the families are raised.
- How does the social concept of race relate to each group? What prejudice has each group faced?
- The social concept of race relate to each group is simple which is the diverse culture that lets the roof there ethnic background and reputation process them.
- How do the behavior and thinking patterns of U.S. culture apply to each group, especially regarding class systems and employment?
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SOC315 Week 2 Media Reaction Paper; The Avatar Movie (Film)!!!
Prepare a 700 to 1,050-word Media Reaction Paper reviewing a current newspaper article, magazine article, television show, or motion picture that discusses or illustrates the portrayal of diversity in the media.
In this assignment, address the following questions in relation to the selected article, motion picture, or television show:
a. Did the article, television show, or motion picture attempt to address the diversity represented in the American landscape?
- To what extent do the media rely on stereotypes when depicting a certain group?
- Assess whether or not you believe the selected article, television show, or motion picture fostered a better understanding of diversity and multiculturalism. Justify your answer.
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SOC315 Week 3 Individual Assignment: Intercultural Communication in the Workplace Paper
This assignment asks you to describe, explain, and rectify a situation that illustrates an intercultural communication issue within a work environment. The paper should include the following:
a. A full description of the communication issue. Describe the context, the principle players, and the outcome of the situation. Be attentive to verbal and nonverbal components in the experience you describe.
b. A diagnosis of the communication issue. Using two outside sources, research the cultural norms of the principles players involved in the given situation. Explain how these cultural norms may have impacted the communication transaction.
c. Strategies for dealing with the issue. Using your text, provide several recommendations that would have prevented the issue and paved the way for more effective communication.
This paper should be 1,050 to 1,400 words. Your final paper must include at least two sources (other than the class text) cited properly in the text and with proper reference listings at the end of your paper.
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SOC315 Week 4 Individual Assignment: Value of Diversity in the Workplace Paper
From personal experience, select an issue in the work environment that may have been more successfully resolved by the presence of a diverse workforce. This paper should be 1,050 to 1,400 words. The paper should include the following:
a. Include a thorough description of the issue. Be sure to describe the ramifications of the issue on the organization.
b. Do not simply state that a diverse workforce would have been beneficial in the selected issue. Provide specific details regarding how diversity would have prevented the situation or would have facilitated a more successful resolution to the challenge. Justify your answer.
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SOC315 Week 5 Individual Assignment: Legal Issue Analysis Paper; “Ortega Melendres, et al. v. Arpaio, et al.”
Prepare a 700 to 1,050-word written legal issue analysis of a newspaper or magazine article that discusses a legal aspect of a specific diversity issue (e.g., harassment, ADA, and so forth). Summarize the diversity issue, analyze the legal concerns, and present your thoughts and beliefs regarding the issue. In presenting your thoughts and beliefs, contextualize your opinion in terms of the challenges of managing that diversity issue within your workplace.
In this assignment, address the following items in relation to your selected article and legal issue:
- Summarize the legal issue.
- Analyze the legal concerns. Do you feel they are they important? What rights might they violate, and how are those rights similar to or important in terms of civil or other rights in the U.S.? What are the laws, and should the laws be different regarding this issue? If so, how?
- Contextualize your thoughts in terms of the challenges of managing that diversity issue within your own or a hypothetical workplace you might be in. How would you personally have felt had this happened in your workplace? How would you have dealt with it had you been the victim of this issue? How would you deal with it if you were a manager or administrator facing this issue? How difficult is it for workers to stand up for their rights in the workplace? What steps would you like to see happen in your workplace?
- You must include a minimum of TWO references to deepen your discussion and add to your points.
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