What kind of social media behavior is acceptable for your employees? What are they permitted to do during working hours and even on their own time?

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Your task here is to write a Social Media Policy. Your policy should consider questions like:

What kind of social media behavior is acceptable for your employees?
What are they permitted to do during working hours and even on their own time?
What information can employees share about their job on social media?
Is any platform off-limits?

Consider these and other questions as you write your policy document. Submit it alone or as appended to your Security Policy Manual.

Describe your personal history by documenting experiences with discrimination you may have experienced and how your cultural background impacted these experiences.

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Refer to the “Social and Cultural Paper Instructions” for a detailed explanation of the requirements for the Social and Cultural Diversity Paper that you will be developing throughout the course.

In preparation for writing this paper, write an outline that contains the following:

Introduction
Definition of cultural diversity
Main body containing the content guidelines provided in “Social and Cultural Paper Writing Instructions”
Conclusion

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Upon receiving feedback from your instructor on the outline, you should begin working on the first draft immediately, even though the draft is not due until Week 7.
Attachments
Social and Cultural Diversity Paper Instructions
Overview
The Social and Cultural Diversity Paper (1,000 to 1,200 words) requires the student to identify and reflect on possible personal biases regarding gender, religion, sexual or gender orientation, race, socioeconomic status, disability status, or culture. The purpose of this paper is to raise the student’s personal and professional level of awareness regarding the subject of diverse populations.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Process Schedule
The Social and Cultural Diversity Paper assignment will be accomplished in a five-step process, with individual steps submitted and graded regularly throughout the course, according to the following schedule:

Content Guidelines
When constructing this paper, use a three-part structure according to the following guidelines:
Part 1: Personal Reflection
The first part of the paper requires you to identify information from your own personal history. Use the following questions to help guide your reflections:
1. Identify your personal biases and how those biases may present challenges to you as a mental health professional. Remember, everyone has biases. The point is not to project them onto your clients.
Note: It is preferred you discuss your cultural biases.
2. Describe your personal history by documenting experiences with discrimination you may have experienced and how your cultural background impacted these experiences.
3. Identify memories of contact with those who were culturally different than you, and your experiences associated with these differences. Be specific.
4. How has your life experience affected how you may relate to persons different than you? Be specific.
Part 2: Racism and Discrimination
The second part of the paper requires you to demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of racism/discrimination. Use the following questions to help guide your reflections:
1. Distinguish between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.
2. What does it mean to be a subtle racist? Please include a referenced definition and example.
3. Why could there be significant differences in perceptions and values of members within the same ethnic group? Be specific.
Part 3: Multicultural Competence
The third part of your paper requires you to review and reflect on multicultural competence as a professional. Use the following to help guide your reflection:
1. What did you learn about the importance of cultural sensitivity in providing professional services to clients?
2. How do communication styles differ across cultures?
3. How might strategies to build rapport be differentiated based on culture?
4. What resources could help you to become more informed regarding cultural diversity? Cite resources you can use to dispel your personal biases.
5. Provide an example of cultural bias in counseling/psychological research and support your answer with at least one scholarly reference.
6. How could you apply your learning to your future practice as a mental health and wellness professional?

Compare and contrast at least two approaches to measuring poverty (e.g. below 60% median income, minimum income standard, material deprivation, material deprivation & low income, multidimensional poverty, persistent poverty etc.).

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Compare and contrast at least two approaches to measuring poverty (e.g. below 60% median income, minimum income standard, material deprivation, material deprivation & low income, multidimensional poverty, persistent poverty etc.). Produce descriptive statistics to show how many and what kinds of people experience poverty using these measures from (the latest version of) at least one of the survey datasets we have been using in class (or any other survey dataset from https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/).
Background (500 words)

Short background literature review of concepts and measures of poverty. The bibliography is part of the marks for this section.
Methods (1,000 words)

A short outline of the survey you have used including: coverage; purpose; sample size and methodology.
A description of the poverty measures you are using, including their strengths and limitations. Provide summary information on the variable/s that make up your measure.
Results (1,000 words)

Produce appropriate descriptive statistics that might include, for example: mean, median, frequencies or proportions, crosstabulations, comparison of means etc. You will need to decide which measures are appropriate and useful to report.
Compare and contrast the findings from the two poverty measures; how do they differ?, why?, what is it about the measure of poverty that leads to different results? Explore this further with the data.

Use charts and/or tables to display your results where possible. Note that Tables/charts must be numbered. Only include those that you discuss/refer to. Including extraneous tables/charts is a sign of a poor assignment and will result in mark deduction. You may paste tables/charts directly from SPSS, or edit them (e.g. in Excel) before including them in your report: this editing choice is up to you.
All discussion should be written in full sentences, with any findings described as simply as possible. Neither charts nor tables count towards your total word length.
Conclusions (500 words)

Outline your most interesting findings. Discuss what, if anything, might you have done differently and how could you develop this analysis in the future. Discuss what your analysis brings to the existing literature on poverty.
Bibliography (it does not count towards the word limit)

Annex
You must include your SPSS syntax (it does not count towards the word limit).
I’ve included a past example paper of how it was structured and done for past dataset.
included dataset files you need.

How would you define religious freedom? What are the limits of religious freedom? Can you think of an example where you would limit religious freedom? Why?

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How would you define religious freedom? What are the limits of religious freedom? Can you think of an example where you would limit religious freedom? Why?

https://www.religiousfreedominstitute.org/cornerstone/2016/7/12/ranking-rights-does-protecting-the-right-to-proselytize-violate-religious-freedom

https://www.religiousfreedominstitute.org/cornerstone/2016/7/12/ranking-rights-does-protecting-the-right-to-proselytize-violate-religious-freedom

In your post, you MUST refer to the course readings – either to agree or disagree with them.

Evaluate its content according the designated components of an entry and its required elements (below).

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SOC 266 – SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS

Annotated Bibliography – Instructions

INSTRUCTIONS – TASKS

  • Write a 5-article (minimum) Annotated Bibliography. Submit it electronically in the corresponding Canvas assignment item. See “Annotated Bibliography Samples” document for example entries and references for writing annotated bibliographies.
  • Review one randomly assigned classmate’s annotated bibliography. Evaluate its content according the designated components of an entry and its required elements (below). Give suggestions for improving the entry in terms of content (information), conciseness (length), and communication (writing).

 

NOTE: Google Docs must 1) be downloaded as a separate document file to be submitted to allow access to instructor, and 2) then uploaded; ‘shared’ Google Docs are not accepted.

 

HOW TO WRITE AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY

Source (partially copied below): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/1/

Complete annotated bibliography entries have details about the following components:

 

“A. Citation – [list full bibliography reference in selected and consistent citation style]

 

[Definition: “A bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, Web sites, periodicals, etc.) one has used for researching a topic. Bibliographies are sometimes called “References” or “Works Cited” depending on the style format you are using. A bibliography usually just includes the bibliographic information (i.e., the author, title, publisher, etc.). An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation. Therefore, an annotated bibliography includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources.]

 

  1. Author: name of person writing annotated bibliography – not required, this is assumed as you.

 

“C. Summarize: What are the author’s main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how detailed your summary is. For more help, see our handout on paraphrasing sources.

 

“D. Assess: After summarizing a source, evaluate it. Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of authors? For more help, see our handouts on evaluating resources.

 

“E. Reflect: Once you’ve summarized and assessed a source, ask how it fits into your research (relevance). Was this source helpful to you? How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic?”

 

Go here for more information: – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/1/

 

ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS –

Each annotated bibliography entry must be at least 150 words, written in paragraph form, and use the template below to provide at least the following information in [brackets] as relevant to the article:

 

[citation]

[last name of annotated bibliography writer]:

  • [general research topic and specific study focus].
  • [purpose of research study].
  • [general description of research approach: quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method and scope of study focus].
  • [theory used and hypotheses explored by researchers].
  • [major key variables examined or measured].
  • [specific methods used to gather data, make observations, and sample/population measured].
  • [description of empirical data used in analysis].
  • [key findings]. [use, value or contribution of reported research to your study].
  • [weakness or research questions not examined].

 

SAMPLE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRIES

These illustrative examples are not perfect, nor written specifically to follow the required format above.

 

Field, Donald, R., A.E. Luloff, Richard S. Krannich.  “Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology.” Society and Natural Resources 15 (2002): 213-226

 

Smith:  The Society of Natural Resources Journal wished to create a scholarly forum which focused on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs and problem solving capabilities represented in the literature. This article provides a perspective on the roads that environmental sociology and natural resource sociology have taken. Distinctions are drawn based on their origins, concepts, theories, and problem solving focuses. Clarifying the differences between natural resource sociology and environmental sociology do not only aid in tracing intellectual foundations for these subfields, but also point to areas where synthesis and convergence are possible. Environmental sociology, which has emerged as a distinct subfield much later that natural resource sociology, has its core connections in general sociology, humanities, and philosophy. All most all commentators link its birth to the late 1960s.

 

Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., & Witsberger, C. (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51 (4), 541‐554.

 

Unknown: The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males.  Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self‐sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.

 

Glassman, J., & Sneddon, C. (2003, November). Chiang Mai and Khon Kaen as Growth Poles: Regional Industrial Development in Thailand and its Implications for Urban Sustainability. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , pp. 93-115.

 

Hall: Jim Glassman and Chris Sneddon, both assistant professors in the Geography Departments at their respective colleges (Sneddon also teaches in the Environmental Studies Program), explore urban sustainability in Thailand. The Thai government has attempted to promote sustainability by attempting to decentralize and develop urban centers other than Bangkok. They examine Chiang Mai and Khon Kaen, two such growth poles, and find that state “policies have helped induce some growth in the secondary cities in question but in doing so have induced new problems of sustainability in these cities and their surrounding rural areas without alleviating problems of sustainability in Bangkok” (94).

Of particular interest to this presentation was the large section in the article exploring the apparent uneven development in Thailand and the role of the state in that development. The article, however did not appear to use any new research for its conclusions and the majority of cited resources appear to be from the 90s. It also focused heavily on environmental issues pertaining to sustainability which was not necessarily relevant to this presentation.

 

London, B., & Anderson, K. L. (1985, Summer). Population Density, Elites, and the Distribution of Infrastructural Resources in Thailand. The Sociological Quarterly, pp. 235-249.

 

Hall: In another study, London and Anderson further explore the influence of the elite in Thailand. This article focuses on the distribution of infrastructural resources in Thailand. London and Anderson believe that demographic factors (per capita income and density) are not the only causes of infrastructural distribution. They use measurements of amount of paved road and percentage of households with piped water and electricity in each province in Thailand from 1970. They include a description of the various indexes and indicators used to measure the various elites both governmental and nongovernmental. In order to compare the elite factors with demographic factors, London and Anderson also include population density, gross provincial product (GPP) per capita and urbanization variables. They found that, like previous research, population density and urbanization can help predict infrastructure distribution, but that combining these factors with elite variables gives a better explanation. They conclude that “the distribution of infrastructural resources is primarily a function of two ecological-economic variables—gross provincial product and density, and the political-economic factors of presence of governmental and non-governmental elites in the province” (235).  While, like their previous research, this article includes dated research, it provided helpful insights into the power and influence of the elites. It also highlighted the utility of using the Political Economy approach in understanding development in Thailand.

 

Garroutte, E. M. (2001).  The racial formation of American Indians: Negotiating legitimate identities within tribal and federal law.  American Indian Quarterly, 25 (2), 224-239. Retrieves April 9, 2011 from JSTOR database.

 

Leonard: Garroutte discusses how Native Americans are defined in the modern USA.  Certain benefits are awarded to Native Americans because of their history of exploitation and abuse by the US government; however there are legal and cultural factors that ‘define’ who is included and excluded from the race-category of ‘Native American’.  ‘Blood quantum’ is the most common governmental and tribal condition for labeling an American as ‘Indian’.  This stipulation, introduced by Euro-Americans, means that a Native has to prove through their ancestral lineage that they have a certain percentage of native blood.  The information presented in this article relates to sociological theories especially concerning ‘race’.  It considers how ‘race’ is a socially constructed phenomenon and addresses how the system through which Americans are racially defined is essentially slanted toward favoring and benefitting the government.  For example, the ‘blood quantum’ requirement for African Americans is much lower than that of Natives.  Therefore, it is harder for an African American to be considered ‘white,’ while on the other hand, it is harder for Natives to be legally considered ‘Native.’  If the ‘blood quantum’ requirement were lower for Natives, the government would have to give benefits to a much larger population of people.

 

Brook, D. (1998). Environmental genocide: Native Americans and toxic waste.  American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 57 (1), 105-112. Retrieved April 8, 2011, from JSTOR database.

 

Leonard: Dealing with environmental issues is an essential aspect of development.  For the Indigenous peoples of America, who represent a large portion of those living in poverty in America, toxic waste and pollution is hindering their physical and cultural well-being.  Because of the high rates of poverty on reservation land in the US, Native Americans are essentially solicited or coerced into agreeing to host toxic waste dumps and treatment plants on their lands.  Toxic waste however poses a threat to the health of Native peoples if not presently than at least for future generations.  As more and more corporations illegally dump toxic waste on reservation lands, the sovereignty of tribal authorities is jeopardized because the federal government eventually steps in to control the issue and the “Native Americans are viewed as irresponsible” (p. 109).  General pollution is also a problem for Indigenous Americans because there are indirect effects that eventually reach their lands.  Many Native Americans however have been forming groups to address the environmental issues of, not only their own lands, but of the US as a whole.

 

Assess how, and to what extent, corporate social responsibility can be coordinated with an organization’s obligation to maximize profits for its shareholders.

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Assess the impact of corporate social responsibility policy on the workplace and the corporate world.
Assess how, and to what extent, corporate social responsibility can be coordinated with an organization’s obligation to maximize profits for its shareholders.
Identify a potential ethical issue at a real-world organization. You may use the organization and issue you used in the first and second assessments.
Assess the ethicality of the organization.
Identify the major stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities regarding the issue.
Assess the potential impact of the organization’s choice to address or not address the issue via corporate policy. Address the financial and legal impacts of this choice on the organization, employees, and other stakeholders. In addition, address the potential impact on the organization’s reputation.

Describe your reasoning/method in choosing internet sites and explain why they were appropriate to fulfilling your objective in the assignment.

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The Myth: Emotions are Individual

Emotions and feelings are qualities of being human that are generally assumed to be unique to each individual’s physical and mental state and naturally or spontaneously expressed within various contexts. Contrary to this popular assumption, sociologists conceptualize emotion and feeling as social and cultural expressions that are part of the presentation of self. As such, they are subject to feeling rules and strategies of emotion management that are enacted by the self and others in different types of social interaction and social context. Further, within a sociological perspective feeling rules are understood to be differentially followed, and applied, according to social status (i.e., age, gender, sexuality, occupation, social class, ethnicity, etc.) and cultural background.

The Activity

To demonstrate understanding and comprehension of a sociological approach to the analysis of emotion (e.g., sympathy, frustration, happiness, contempt) this exercise asks you to objectively and systematically analyze your own emotional response to content you view on the internet. The type of content you focus on for this exercise should be something quite general, such as news articles or advertisements.

Before setting out to complete the fieldwork component of this activity (i.e., surfing the internet) read: “Arlie Hochschild: The Presentation of Emotion”(pdf in BB). Use the content of the article to develop a conceptual mapping of what you are looking for in order to objectively observe using a sociological perspective, the feeling rules that are operating as you view the selected sites on the internet. A review of the content of Modules 5 and 6 will also be useful at this point.

To select your sites, keep it in the public domain (I do not want to be privy to your private sites) and keep it simple…this is, after all a course in the analysis of everyday social reality, not the extreme, exceptional or bizzare. Select two sites that evoked very different emotional reactions on your part to their content (e.g., like, dislike; sad, happy; etc.). Use your conceptual mapping of Hochschild’s theory of feeling rules to explore how your various social statuses (male, female, parent, offspring, employee, employer, citizen, consumer, client, majority, minority, etc.) corresponding roles and individual experiences may have coalesced to produce your emotional reactions to the selected sites. Not an easy undertaking, I appreciate, but definitely one that you are capable of.

Report your findings using the following format: Communicate your results. Which means: Report on your objective, theory, method, findings and conclusions in two pages or less, plus appendices. For example:

Provide a substantively meaningful title that informs readers of the central topic and focus of your report
State your objective in this research activity? (Hint: Are emotions individual and spontaneous, or socially produced?)
Summarize (in your own words, with appropriate references) the theoretical insights that informed your approach to this research activity. This would involve a brief textual description of your conceptual map which you may attach as an appendix if you choose. (Gives you an extra page to make your argument, as appendices do not count in the page limit, nor do reference pages).
Describe your reasoning/method in choosing internet sites and explain why they were appropriate to fulfilling your objective in the assignment.
Describe what you found as a result of your empirical research.
Discuss what you have learned about the relationship between your emotional reactions to information on the selected sites, your social statuses, roles and individual experiences.
Conclude with a discussion of whether, based on your findings, emotions are individual and spontaneous, or socially produced.
The completed report should be no more than two type written pages, plus references and appendicies.

Develop a description of the typical skills, interventions, functions, and duties of the professionals involved in addressing the need.

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Your final paper should identify and analyze a specific need identified by a community. This includes:

Writing a mission statement for the agency you would create to respond to this need. Constructing an effective community organization model to address the identified need utilizing all the information you have researched in this course.
Conducting an external search using at least three to five journal articles, in addition to the textbook material, to create an adjunct referral sources list outside the agency for added support. View the “Conducting an Organizational Needs Assessment” YouTube video located in the Week 6 Overview (in the “Required Reference” section) to gain a clear understanding of the key components to needs assessment within an organization.
By utilizing the videos, the text, and a minimum of 3-5 peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, write a 4200 to 5250 word paper. Develop a model of an effective agency. Be sure to include these points:

Develop your mission statement by reviewing mission statements of similar agencies.
Develop a description of the typical skills, interventions, functions, and duties of the professionals involved in addressing the need.
Identify an established needs assessment tool to be used as enrollment criteria for potential service users.
Construct a flow chart, which indicates organizational structure, specific roles, duties, and functions of the various professionals in the model.
Provide a list of referral agencies. Include what need each referral agency will be able to address that your agency cannot.
Discuss what ethical guidelines are appropriate for the agency.
Recommend a needs assessment survey instrument and state your rationale for the choice.
Project 5-10 years in the future; envision and explain how the needs of your agency might have changed based on trends and issues we are beginning to see now.
Include a brief summary of your self-care plan to help avoid burnout as a human services professional.
Must be double-spaced, meet specified page length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.
Must include an APA style cover page.
Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
Must use APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide to document all sources.
Must include a reference page that is completed according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.

What point will you be making that supports your thesis?What scholarly research will you use as evidence to support your point?

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Sociology 2010: Research Paper Outline

Weight: 5%

Purpose

The research paper outline requires project groups to generate a preliminary argument, map the sections of their research paper, identify key readings, and assign responsibilities among the project group.

Assignment Details

Research paper outlines should include the following elements:

  1. A clear thesis statement that reflects the question being addressed, the general approach of the paper, and the perspective you are taking on the topic.
  2. A list of the sections and sub-sections you plan to include in the paper.
  3. A preliminary reading list for your paper. Outlines should identify at least 4 readings to be used in your research. List these in APA format and provide 3-5 sentences describing the content of each reading and its value for your project.
  4. Use the template provided below to structure and write-up your outline.
  5. If you do not follow the instructions, you will receive a zero for this assignment.

 

Title of essay:

  1. Introduction
  2. What topic does your essay address? One sentence only
  3. What is your thesis statement? One sentence only
  4. Body of Essay

Paragraph 1: What point will you be making that supports your thesis? One sentence only.

What scholarly research will you use as evidence to support your point? Use APA format

Paragraph 2: What point will you be making that supports your thesis? One sentence only

What scholarly research will you use as evidence to support your point? Use APA format

Paragraph 3: What point will you be making that supports your thesis? One sentence only

What scholarly research will you use as evidence to support your point? Use APA format

(You will add as many paragraphs as you need to support your thesis).

 

 

Analyze the role of the professional in terms of inter-professional working.

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Compare and contrast the service provision for children and adults where mental ill health and well being is a factor.

Analyze the role of the professional in terms of inter-professional working. Include an evaluation of factors which may influence the quality of life for people using the respective services.

Critique the assignment and back up with evidence, include legislation, talk about mental health social services, person-centered practice and inter-agency working
include a variety of reference, such as journals, articles, books
(can include more or less then then the stated number of reference, its about the quality )
follow the attached document which gives instruction and guideline on how to the essay