Day: August 30, 2019

To understand behavior, sociologists look at their social location in society: their group memberships within categories like occupation, income, education, gender, age, race-ethnicity which influence their self-concept and behavior.

 

For this assignment, I’d like you to use elements of social location to explain voting patterns in the most recent Presidential election. In your analysis you should identify social location by referring to specific groups in society.

 

• If you voted, how did your social location influence your choice? If you didn’t vote, how would your social location have influenced you to vote?
• Now try to analyze elements of the social location of voters who cast their vote for a different candidate than the one you chose or would have chosen.
• Can you link any of the issues that influenced voters to larger social structures? (See the NYT article linked in required reading for specific ideas.) 

 

Finally, if you are able, please register to vote! 

 

In California (Links to an external site.)

 

In the US in general (Links to an external site.) (it will look up your state) 

 

In California, if you are 16 or over you can pre-register to vote in the next presidential election. 

 

 

 

 This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeUse Course Material

 

Specifically refer to course concepts in your discussion using material from assigned readings, videos and/or discussion.

 

 

 

 This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConnect Course Material to Your Experience

 

Write about connections you see between the course material and your life experiences. You can also relate course concepts to things you see, hear or read about in the media (if you do this, let me know where you found the media, i.e. NYTimes on 8/19 and include a link to the article or web page so I can check it out too!)

Organizational Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas

 

Human services professionals may occupy leadership roles (administration, research, management) or service roles, working directly with clients. The leadership responsibilities of a human services professional include the application of ethical standards in the primary role of administration, research, and management. In addition, one must understand and be able to apply ethical standards in the service role to effectively guide and support service personnel. The practice of ethics generally involves understanding standards set by the workplace and recognizing that what ought to be or might be the ethically appropriate decision or action is effectively carried out in either role.

 

Drawing on your readings, write a 1,500-word essay discussing an example of organizational ethics and two examples of ethical dilemmas that require intervention and resolution.

 

Instructions

 

Choose two ethical dilemmas to complete the following:

 

• Discuss two ethical dilemmas (one supervisory dilemma and one service-delivery dilemma) and offer an effective resolution for each dilemma.
• Analyze the differences and similarities between the ethical obligations of a leader in human services as compared with the obligations of service personnel.

 

Choose one cross-cultural dilemma to complete the following:

 

• Describe a cross-cultural dilemma (an ethical conflict arising from a diverse social interaction) that requires understanding of non-Western cultural ethics.
• Evaluate the most appropriate ethical practice for the cross-cultural dilemma.
• Communicate information in a concise, balanced, and logically organized written way, using appropriate grammar, punctuation, and syntax, as expected of graduate-level composition, while applying current APA guidelines.

 

Review the Organizational Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas Scoring Guide to verify you have addressed all the assignment requirements. 

 

Submission Requirements

 

• Structure: Submit a cover page stating your name, course title and number, and the date.
• Length: Your essay must be at least 1,500 words long.
• References: Use a minimum of 4 references and citations.
• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Use proper APA format for headings. In-text citations and references at the end of the paper must be in proper APA (current edition) style and formatting.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Historic legacies of schools can be assessed by collecting archival data that all public schools collect. What challenges do you foresee in acquiring and analyzing archival data? How might these challenges affect the data analysis? Explain.

No directly quoted material may be used in this project paper.

 

Resources should be summarized or paraphrased with appropriate in-text and Resource page citations.

 

Comparison Paper (Juvenile Justice/Adult Justice Systems)

 

The juvenile justice system is similar to the adult criminal justice system in many ways; however, fundamental differences do exist. In this assignment, you will:

 

• Compare and contrast the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems
• Analyze and describe how they are similar and how they are fundamentally different.
• Explain why the juvenile justice system is different, and the principles behind those differences.

 

Note that this is not a research paper, but rather a reflective paper that analytically summarizes the course material presented in the textbook and within the online Course Content.

 

Format Requirements

 

• Paper should be a minimum of 750 words or about three FULL narrative pages
• Double space
• 12 pt. font
• 1” margins
• Use APA citations for all sources (outside references not required)
• Include APA reference page (not included in word count)

 

Additionally –

 

· Create a cover page for your assignment (not included in word count)

 

• Include your name
• Course title and number
• Project title
• Topic selected
• Date of submission

Suppose you are the director of the food distribution program in a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit organization serves a rural Hmong community that is largely organized around the church. The church is not well funded, but the nonprofit organization receives funds from the state, allowing it ample staffing support.

 

Members of the community rely on the church pastor and believe that the church should be providing food support to members of the community who are unable to feed themselves, since there are very few jobs in the community that pay a living wage. The community is thankful for the food distribution program you direct, but they want the church to control distribution, especially of the foods they prefer. Your program relies on an outside charitable warehouse for foods that are generally available to commercial outlets, but mainly canned foods and packaged foods. The community wants fresh food and the pastor agrees they should have fresh foods, including greens and fresh meat.

 

You are responsible to the state for providing food to this impoverished rural community; however, the community does not want to rely on your organization, but the church instead. You must make an ethical and programmatic decision that satisfies both the community and its church, as well as the state authorities providing the money.

 

Explain your decision, based on ethical principles. Assess the ethical obligations you have to the state versus those obligations to the community. 

 

Your initial post must:

 

• Be at least 250 words in length.
• Contain a minimum of two references with citations in APA style.
• Follow APA style guidelines.

As a human services professional, you are obligated to respect the right of self-determination, and the principles of confidentiality and maintaining boundaries.

 

Consider the following case study: a client in the county halfway house for battered women had been seriously injured on three occasions as a result of confrontations with her husband. She was placed in the halfway house by court order and the husband was required to remain separated from his wife.

 

The supervisor was informed that the service provider working with the client had been asked repeatedly by the client to allow her husband to visit with her, since she “just knew she can make up and they will be okay.” The service provider was unsure and turned to a counselor for advice about what to do. The counselor said she felt compassion for the client and believed that she was ready to begin “working things out with her husband.”

 

Still unsure, the service provider decided to turn to the supervisor for guidance. The halfway house has an ethics code that emphasizes self-determination and confidentiality for the protection of the clients. The county laws strictly follow the court decisions. 

 

Suppose you are the supervisor responsible for directing both the service provider and the counselor. Taking into account the halfway house ethics code, National Organization of Human Services’ “Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals,” and the county law, how will you decide? What is your decision in providing direction and guidance to the service provider? What is your responsibility toward the counselor?

 

It may be helpful to refer to the Organizational Ethics Concerning Mental Health media presentation in the Resources as you complete this discussion.

 

Your initial post must:

 

• Be at least 250 words in length.
• Contain a minimum of two references with citations in APA style.
• Follow APA style guidelines.

In this module, you will be reading about plot and narrator in fiction, both of which are necessary for an effective narrator.  In “Sonny’s Blues,” Baldwin has two main characters:  Sonny and his brother.  They each choose very different lifestyles and have a very difficult time understanding each other’s choices.  Sonny’s brother often narrates with a sense of bafflement over Sonny’s love of music and drug addition–both part of the world that he inhabits.

 

After reading the story, reflect on an incident when you and a family member took a very different perspective.  Why did you “see” this event differently?  How was it resolved?

 

 Guidelines

 

Your initial response should be around 250 words. Your response to a classmates’ discussion should be around 100 words and add to the discussion (i.e. posing questions, reflecting on their response, etc.). All posts and responses should contain proper grammar, be free of spelling errors, be substantial, and reflect critical thinking. 

 

Remember: Be supportive, considerate, and constructive when replying to your classmates.

 

Useful reference:  http://farsite.hill.af.mil/vmfara.htm part 26 and 19 cover the topic in the essay. Other information can be found online about the topic. 

 

 

 

The essay needs to be written to the grading rubric that is attached. Look for essay 1. 

 

 

 

 

 

Essay 1:  Socioeconomics 

 

In this essay, students will write a paper on the major socioeconomic programs, the policy behind them, and how socioeconomic programs impact contracting.  Students will then analyze one specific socioeconomic program.

 

 

 

 

 

Required Elements to include in this Socioeconomics Essay:

 

• Using the course material and individual research, describe and identify the major socioeconomic programs and the policy behind them, and explain their impact on contracting.  Support your reasoning.
• Select one specific socioeconomic program and explain the advantages and disadvantages of the selected program.

 

 

 

Required Formatting of Socioeconomics Essay:

 

• This report should be double spaced, 12-point font, and four to five pages in length excluding the title page and reference page.
• Title page with your name, the course name, title of paper, the date, and instructor’s name.
• Include reference page.
• Third person writing is required.  Third person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second person writing).  If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person.
• Contractions are not used in business writing, so you are expected NOT to use contractions in writing this assignment. 
• Use APA formatting for in-text citations and reference page. 
• The expectation is that you provide a robust use of the course readings.  No other books besides the course eBook can be used.   When using a source document, the expectation is that the information is cited and referenced with a page or paragraph number.  
• Students need to paraphrase and avoid direct quotes.