SOC 120

Paper Topics:

Your paper must be submitted online through Canvas.

Must be at least 5 pages excluding the works-cited page, double-spaced, 12pt. font, standard margins. Your paper must include a ‘works cited page’ with no less than 3 sources, preferably more.

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a.) Abbott, Jack Henry. In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison

b.) Twenge, Jean M. Generation Me

c.) Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

d.) Kimmel, Michael, Guyland

e.) Wise, Tim White Like Me

f.) Deng, Deng, Ajak, Bernstein They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

g.) Desmond, Matthew Evicted

h.) Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the World and Me

Choose one of the prompts listed below and answer the prompt using your chosen book and outside sources:

1. Explain how changes in social norms, social roles, behavior, and expectations influence the development and social lives of generation Y. ‘Generation Me’
2. Social/Total institutions influence and shape our life chances. In what ways was Jack Abbot a product of the criminal justice system? Explain using specific examples and sociological concepts. ‘In the Belly of the Beast’
3. Discuss how and why genocide occurs in terms of the following topics: group behavior dynamics, and the perpetrators psychology. Use the book for examples. ‘Maus: A Survivor’s Tale’
4. Explain the social formation of “Guyland” and the role that masculinity plays in shaping gender dynamics in society as well as men’s lives. Guyland
5. What is racism? What constitutes ‘white privilege’? Can these concepts be applied to better understand race relations in America? If so, how? White Like Me
6. Please research and explain the social and political context that prompted the genocide for which the authors’ stories are based. Use their accounts to to explore the the genocide and how it affected their ethnic group and specifically the children in the region. ‘They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
7. We often hear news stories about the “housing market” and “public housing,” but not so much about the rental market, specifically the experiences of families who must spend most of their income on rent. Desmond writes, “We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.” Using his research, please explain the challenges Americans face finding secure housing. Evicted
8. Between the World and Me can be divided into three sections, each focused on a different era in Coates’s life: his early life, before attending Howard University; his time at Howard; and his life after Howard. What is Coates’s primary claim throughout the book? ‘Between the World and Me

In responding to the learning activities, please be sure to use the course material using in-text citations and a reference list to cite the source(s) used. Remember, an in-text citation cannot exist without having a corresponding reference list and a reference list cannot exist without having a corresponding in-text citation. Use of the course material using in-text citations and a reference list is always expected in the learning activities and good practice for the assignments in the course.

Theme One: Defining Organizational Decision Making

Read:

• Ethical Decision Making – Some Examples
• Compliance as a Subtle Precursor to Ethical Corrosion: A Strength-Based Approach as a Way Forward
• Ethics Leadership creating an ethical culture The moral Dimension of Organizational Culture
• Ethical Leadership
• Ethical Leadership (2)

Theme Two: Unique Ethical Organizational Issues

Read:

• Genetic Engineering in the workplace Read My Genes: Genetic Screening in the Workplace
• Ethics and Genetics: Susceptibility Testing in the Workplace
• Marketing Ethics
• Marketing to Children: Accepting Responsibility
• Ethics and Advertising: Moral Muteness, Moral Myopia, and Moral Imagination
• Ethical Marketing – Explore the Strategy of Ethical Marketing
• Is Business Bluffing Ethical? (Business Bluffing is not available as a final project topic)
• Carr and Business Bluffing/Lying – Making the Separation Thesis Work (Business Bluffing is not available as a final project topic)
• Getting to the Bottom of the Triple Bottom Line
• Ethics and the Triple Bottom Line

Assignment 3: Email Based on Listening Skills Scenario – Submit Here

Week 5 Assignment 3: Email Based on Listening Skills Scenario
Due Week 5 and worth 150 points

Your supervisor has asked to you write a brief email on the vacation
policy changes to be distributed to staff. You will need to listen to a
voice mail from your supervisor with instructions on how to create the
email to announce the new vacation policy. The voice mail will include
specific details that must be followed in creating the email. This audio
voice mail can be found in your course shell.

Create an email message in which you:

1. • transcript for this voicemail is here
2. Create a one to two (1-2) paragraph email with five to seven (5-7) sentences that follows your supervisor’s instructions.
3. Target the appropriate professional audience.
4. Use appropriate language for professional audience.
5. Use correct email formatting.
6. Follow appropriate netiquette rules for electronic communication.
7. Meet the 250-to-500-word minimum requirement.
8. Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.

Your assignment must follow these APA formatting requirements:

• Be typed, single-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
  1-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any
  additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.
  The cover page is not included in the required length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Demonstrate understanding of the basic fundamentals of communication.
• Develop and practice communication skills, including skills in
  verbal, nonverbal, listening, writing, interpersonal, perception, and
  critical thinking as appropriate for the audience.
• Use various electronic communication platforms in their academic and professional work.
• Relate to the interpersonal and organizational dynamics that affect communication in organizations.
• Analyze and assess effective communication.
• Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in communications.
• Write clearly and concisely about communications using proper writing mechanics.

Panic Disorders and Celebrities

Recently, some well-known individuals, such as Drew Barrymore and Robert Pattison, have spoken publicly about having a panic disorder.

On the basis of your understanding about panic disorders, address the following in your response to this assignment:

• Use the Internet and find three famous individuals who have reported experiencing a panic disorder.
• Discuss how this disorder has affected each of the individuals’ professional and personal life. Describe the symptoms that are associated with each person’s disorder.

Your submission should also include answers to the following:

• Why famous people might reveal to the public that they have an anxiety disorder.
• How does making this information public beneficial to the celebrity and others?