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Outline Ernst Bloch’s contribution to the study of utopia and discuss the extent to which his conception of utopia remains relevant in the early 21st century

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The Impact of the Enlightenment on Modern European Society

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question 1 write about how you think marriage happens in modern society.


Select one of the following questions to explore:

How is the institution of marriage different in another culture?
How has the institution of marriage changed over time?
Create a list of 7 questions that you feel would be useful in exploring these topics.

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As a counselor, you will regularly use professional literature to inform your work. Many of the important questions that you will have as your career evolves will be answered by researchers conducting qualitative studies. The qualitative designs permit researchers to answer questions that cannot be answered by quantitative designs, by examining people’s subjective worlds as directly as possible, through their own narratives. 

For this assignment, you will create a mini research proposal. As you work through the units relevant to qualitative research concepts think through a possible qualitative study. Your work on this assignment will demonstrate that you understand the importance of the alignment of the elements of a study and how they work together. Use the Unit 8 Assignment Template to complete the assessment.

Assignment Instructions and Grading Criteria
In preparation for this assignment, think about a problem in counseling practice that could be researched using a qualitative approach. Create a mini research proposal that addresses the problem that you identified. Your proposal must include the elements listed below the numbered grading so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion in the Qualitative Mini-Proposal Scoring Guide to see how your work will be assessed: 

Synthesize scholarly literature that supports the study of a research problem. 
Write a mini-literature review.
Include a review of three recent empirical sources (required) and one non-empirical source (optional).  
Create qualitative research questions that are aligned to a research problem.
This specific question should be written in a way that it could be answered through qualitative data; this is the question that will be answered by the proposed study.  
Identify research designs for qualitative studies.
Identify the research design for the proposed study.
Choose from case study, ethnography, phenomenology, and grounded theory.
Provide a rationale as to why this particular design is a good fit for your study.  
Employ appropriate sampling strategies for qualitative studies. 
Describe your proposed sampling method, including a rationale for the sample you chose and how many participants would comprise the sample.  
Plan data collection strategies and sources that address a research question.
Identify the data that you would collect in your study.
Explain how you would collect the qualitative data that would answer your research question.  
Plan qualitative data analysis strategies.
Explain how you would analyze the data that you collected.  
Identify ethical and cultural concerns in qualitative studies.
Identify at least one ethical and at least one cultural concern that may be present in the proposed study.  
Describe how mixed methods might be applied to address research problems.
Describe how the problem that you investigated might be addressed by using a mixed-methods approach. Explain whether you believe that would be a stronger approach or not, in this particular situation.  
Communicate effectively in appropriate form and style, using APA guidelines for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

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The purpose of this assignment is to recognize sociological concepts at play in your lived experience.  Keeping a field log of your social and institutional experiences for one day, you will critically discuss how your daily life is shaped and constrained by society. This will allow you engage with many of the sociological concepts learned in class.

Writing expectations

The paper should be 4-6 typed pages, double-spaced, 12-point font, with 1" margins.  Remember to use APA format to cite and reference your sources.

A presentation that offers additional assistance in completing the assignment is available at https://prezi.com/view/DTakPcZ9NlkobNn93EMi/

Instructions

1) Observation 

Create a field log (example).  For one day, observe and record the key interactions and institutions in your lived experience.  Starting with waking up, who is the first person you talk to?  What do you do next- take family members to school, go to the gym, go to work and interact with coworkers?  Throughout the day you will take on different roles by interacting with different people and in different situations, and be in contact with different social institutions (education, government, health, etc). Type or photograph your field log and submit it with your written Assignment.

2) Application 

Try to wait one or more days before starting this step.  Revisit your field log and apply sociological analysis to your observations.
•Describe how our day is shaped and constrained by social norms. 
•Analyze how at least four sociological concepts learned in class (eg. roles, institutions, interactions, impression management, stage theory, emotional labor) apply to your field log observations.  This part of the paper should not be focused on the general social norms you described earlier, dig in with specific concepts in this from our text (refrain from using dictionaries).
•For at least two of the concepts, find and incorporate an appropriate source that highlights how sociologists study this concept in everyday society (for example, emotional labor in the restaurant industry).  Not sure what constitutes an appropriate source?  See our Announcement on this in the classroom- tips and a learning module are provided there.  For example, we discussed gender socialization: ◦In an article by Crespi (2011) that studied gender socialization and gender roles within the family, results showed that a cross-gender relationship between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons has emerged as significant in determining traditional and non-traditional gender attitudes. The research suggested that the relationship with the parent of the opposite sex could be a strong factor in reducing stereotyped attitudes regarding gender roles (Crespi, 2011). *Use a different example in your paper, the purpose here is to show your research skills rather than repeat my research skills.*


3)      Reflection

Reflect on your role as a larger part of society (i.e. your motives, instincts, feelings, and/or structural constraints).  Discuss ways other people affected you and the ways you affected others in the social experiences of your day.



Sample Field Log

Below is a brief field log to give you an idea of the social interactions and institutions you might look for in your day.  With the observations are sample course concepts that relate to the observations.  Be creative in exploring and applying concepts- we will all apply concepts differently even if the scenes we observe are very similar.

5:45am: Wake up, interact with children.

                Gender roles, nuclear family, folkways

6:30am: Interact with spouse and children.  Eat breakfast, run, shower.

8:00am: Arrive at airport, check in interaction with airline customer service; interaction with TSA.

                Social structure, bureaucracy, norms, mores, social control

9:00am: Wait with other passengers to board flight; purchase a drink at coffee shop; employees have a tip jar; a family sitting close by is watching the news and commenting on what they think is wrong with other cultures.

Emotional labor, ethnocentrism, Piaget’s stages of development

9:30am: On flight with family having a difficult time with small children; flight attendant offers to help them. 

Emotional labor, gender roles, family

12pm: Arrive at destination airport; drive two hours to see extended family.  Along the road there are farmers with fruit stands.  See homeless person asking for assistance in exchange for work. 

Poverty, inequality

4pm: Extended family arrives for potluck dinner; look at family photos together and share family memories.  Watch evening news-  local robbery and assault.

                Social deviance, material culture

6pm: Stop at church to meet family friend, see a bible study group inside; lots of religious symbols; someone remarks on a new church being built to accommodate a different racial group.

Religion, race, monotheism

This course has “Resubmission” status enabled to help you if you realize you submitted an incorrect or blank file, or if you need to submit multiple documents as part of your Assignment.  Resubmission of an Assignment after it is graded, to attempt a better grade, is not permitted. 

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Discuss what is needed to move forward in pursuit of advancing human rights

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Discuss ethical implications of the proposed social work practice intervention in the context of a public agency, non-profit, for-profit, grassroots community setting, etc. of choice

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Discuss how the social justice issue intersection with the NASW Code of Ethics and Core Values

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Respond to at least two colleagues:

Evaluate one identified strength and one identified limitation your colleague may encounter when employing an individual-related theory and a structural/cultural-related theory to formulating interventions for poverty.
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      If a social worker is helping a client that is in poverty for example due to generations of their family being in poverty I would use a Family life cycle theory and the systems theory to help the client create a plan that will design ways to break the cycle along with creating a support system on a micro, macro, and mezzo level. An example would be if the client is in high school and wants to go to college but because the family has been in poverty for generations and was not able to afford to send anyone to college.

  How this conceptualization differs from an individual-related versus a structural/cultural-related theoretical lens. With the family life cycle theory and systems theory on a micro level the client looks at their life experiences through their eyes instead of what family, society, school, friends view that persons life. With a structural/cultural theoretical lens the clients life and experiences will be viewed by family, relationships, schools, extra curricular activities, religion etc instead of the individuals.

    Compare how the two theoretical lenses differ in terms of how the social worker would approach the client and the problem and how the social worker would intervene. How the two lenses differ is by the individual's own life experiences effected them and  how society, family, school, church views how the individual's life experiences effected the individual. How would the social worker approach the client and the problem is the social worker would help the client see from a personal point of view an example would be by having the client create a Geno gram of their family so the client could see the cycle of poverty. Then to intervene the social worker can help the client come up with a plan to break the cycle of poverty such as saying to the client you want to go to college and no one in your family has been able to afford it due to poverty. What are some ways we can make college happen? can you get a part time job?, can you apply for scholarships?, grants, do you play sports can you get a ride on a sport you play? and have the client brain storm.


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While reading Turner, K., A. J.(2007). Psychological theories of poverty, I discovered many theories of poverty both individually related and structural/culturally related to poverty. 

Conceptualize a presenting problem of poverty-

Carr (2003) describes the McClelland approach, a theory of NAch ( Need for Achievement) or the lack thereof, thus preventing them from achievements in life. McClelland focus was on poverty stricken citizens and the individual causes. This theory according to Carr (2003) was due to the poor not developing a  need to achieve.  As a social worker it is our obligation to educate the poor to agencies available which can help them towards success.  Social workers can help clients who are struggling with poverty by helping them build self confidence and a need for achievement. 

Moreira (2003) presents globalization as a cause of structural or cultural poverty. She states that ,“globalization works in a selective fashion, including and excluding segments of economies and societies from information networks, giving us pockets of rich and poor” (Moreira, 2003, p. 70).  As social workers we can intervene through the support of our clients on an international stage.  

How does this conceptualization differ from individual related vs structural/cultural

This view of poverty contrasts the causations between individual lack of motivation or need for achievement. Thus the poor are not capable of reaching success because of lacking the trait of achievement.  Moreover, Moreira explains poverty on a different level supported through the lack of international trade leaving pockets of rich and poor in its wake.  

Compare how the social worker would approach the client and the problem through intervention.

Individually, I would approach the client with a strengths based approach building on their strengths and confidence. Portraying them as resilient in the face of adversity. 

Culturally social workers can advocate for agencies which deal in trade creating a stronger infrastructure within their respective countries. An underlying process affecting pervasive changes is typically referred to as 'globalization' and in simple terms means the increasing interaction and interdependence of world society (Giddens 1993) 

Carr,S.(2003).Povertyandpsychology:Anintroduction.InS.Carr&T.Sloan(Eds.), Povertyandpsychology:Fromglobalperspectivetolocalpractice(pp.1-15).New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Giddens, A. (1993). Sociology. 2nd Ed, Cambridge: Polity Press

Globalization and Social Work Education and Practice ... (n.d.). Retrieved from http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3253&context=jssw

Moreira, V. (2003). Poverty and psychopathology. In S. Carr & T. Sloan (Eds.), Poverty and psychology: From global perspective to local practice (pp. 69-86). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Turner, K., A. J.(2007). Psych
ological theories of poverty

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http://www.insightintodiversity.com/trumps-tense-relationship-with-hbcus/ 

HBCU's & Trump Relations

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/01/06/guvs-support-of-hbcus-laudable-though-financial-other-struggles-continue/

Commonwealth of Virginia and HBCU's

http://www.americanradioworks.org/segments/hbcu-history

1.Read the 3 articles above. .

2.You must summarize each article in separate paragraphs beginning with the history of HBCU's. Summarize with details that will contribute to the reader having a thorough understanding of the plight of HBCU's in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Note: to understand the future of Virginia's HBCU's, there must be an understanding of how top political officials value or de-value HBCU's..

3.How should HBCU's plan for the future and why? Be thorough and specific.  .

4.Reviewing the PRWORA details of  family status and political parties assessment of PRWORA, discuss in a paragraph how might the family status for African Americans be reflected in fate of HBCU's? .

This is a reflection and critical thinking analysis editorial. Be careful that although you are providing your opinion, there should not be any references to "me" "I" "my" or any personalizations. Your opinion should have substantiated support from the articles above. You may research other articles, please include all articles as references. The articles I have provided will get you started. These articles are quite an array of areas but they have one thing in common, higher education and the impact of government funding.

This is a 2-3 page double-spaced assignment with all scholastic APA formatting.

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Your best friend Anthony Drums has asked your help in securing a job where you work. You want to help your friend, but you know his social media sites have photos and other material that violate your company’s social media policy. You also know that the human resources department of your company always does a thorough search of social media sites of prospective hires. You need to write an email to your friend that explains which content needs to be deleted from his social media accounts and why. You need to discuss how refusal to delete the inappropriate photos and material might impact his ability to get the job. Your email should clearly and specifically state the relevant rules from your company’s social media policy.

Click here to view Anthony's social media site.



Click here to view your company's social media policy.

Create a one (1-2) paragraph email in which you:

Create a one to two (1-2) paragraph email.
Target the appropriate professional audience.
Use appropriate language for professional audience.
Use correct email formatting.
Follow appropriate netiquette rules for electronic communication.
Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
Provide the following heading on your email and then begin your email:
TO: Anthony Drums
FROM: Insert Your Name
SUBJECT: Create a title that relates to your topic and gets your audience’s attention

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Family Dinner Paper

Please review and incorporate previous readings from all units in this paper. Be sure you are using proper APA formatting and citing all work properly. 

For this assignment, you will write a paper that presents family dinners as you were growing up (choose any time or age/s you wish) and analyzes how those family dinners represent the social behaviors, values, and beliefs you carry into your adult life and future relationships.

An important reminder: While I ask you to be honest in your discussions and replies, you are not required to divulge personal information or stories. Your examples can be from other classes, books, magazines, visual media, or observations.

Note: I understand that family dinners can be complex and look quite different. Please be honest, do your best, and know that your personal information is private.

Your paper will have three parts:


1. Family Dinners

Describe in as much detail as possible, family dinners in your family when you were are a child, teenager, or young adult. Consider these questions and organize this section so that it clearly evokes the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and emotions of your family’s dinner.

Who bought the food? Who prepared it?

Who set the table? Cleared the table? Took out the garbage?

What were some of the foods/dishes that your family ate regularly? Why did you have these foods?

Where did the people sit? Did they have regular places? How and why did these change? What did the table look like (dishes, tables cloths, utensils, etc...)?

How was the food distributed? What happened first? Then what?
What was the conversation like? What was the mood or feel at the table?

How were holiday dinners similar? How were they different?

2. Analysis of Social Themes

Analyze the social (and possibly cultural) themes your family dinners displayed.

Consider these questions:

What practices indicated ethnic or racial influences?
What practices indicate Religious influences?
What values were conveyed through family dinner practices?
Were gender roles displayed?
How did social class influences (of your parents) impact your meals or dining practices? What practices do you continue from these early family influences?

Which have you discarded? Why?

3. Implications for Future Relationships

Identify the social (cultural) influences, values, and practices that you have identified.

How will these themes impact your future relationships with family, partners, children...etc? What are the positives and negatives of these effects? Consider these questions:

How do background perspectives shape my views on my future family?

How do my values/beliefs shape my assumptions about family, gender roles, stereotypes, power/ oppression, and individual rights within the family?

How does my family status (social class, language, ethnicity, race,) and status within my family (gender, birth order, sexual orientation, sibling roles, abilities/disabilities...) affect my future family?

Please use the following criteria for your paper:

12 point font, double spaced, page numbers, free of grammatical and spelling errors, organized, vivid descriptions and personal voice