Create an informative public information piece that presents research on institutional discrimination within a specific social institution.

Create an informative public information piece that presents research on institutional discrimination within a specific social institution.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

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    • Create an effective public information piece that conveys a clear, cohesive message about institutional inequality.
  • Competency 2: Identify historical and contemporary influences of discrimination in U.S. culture.
    • Analyze data on the factors contributing to racial, ethnic, or other disparities within a specific institution to make valid sociological arguments.
  • Competency 3: Analyze the effects of social policy using aggregated data.
    • Explain ways in which public policies are linked to racial, ethnic, or other disparities within a specific institution.
  • Competency 4: Analyze how laws are applied or created based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and social class.
    • Assess the impact of institutional discrimination on minorities and minority communities.
  • Competency 5: Apply diversity strategies in professional, educational, and personal contexts.
    • Describe policy strategies for reducing institutional discrimination.
  • Competency 6: Apply in text the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, tone, and citation formatting.
    • Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Often, discrimination is discussed as a primarily individual phenomenon—one-on-one actions in which one person discriminates against another. But as you have learned through your studies and research, some discrimination occurs at the institutional level, despite laws and policies that have been created to reduce or eliminate structural racism.

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It is important to consider how different experiences for minority groups may reflect a dominant culture that practices systemic discrimination in terms of treatment or access to valued resources. In other words, if there are many individuals in a society who are not racist or discriminatory, can the same also be said of the institutions in U.S. society as a whole? Often, institutional discrimination involves the intersection of race or ethnicity with other variables, like social class and gender. For example, patterns of residential segregation may be connected to both race and ethnicity, as well as socioeconomic status.

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

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  • What are some examples of institutional discrimination in U.S. society? To what extent are these examples the result of historical patterns of relationships between whites and minorities or among upper, middle, or lower classes?
  • Why do discussions of discrimination often focus on individual acts of discrimination rather than systemic discrimination built into institutions like the education or health care systems?
  • What factors, in the justice system, explain why certain racial or ethnic groups are more likely to be stopped, searched, or arrested by the police? What is the connection between policing strategies and incarceration rates?

Building on the reading, research, and analysis you have done in the previous assessments, this final assessment asks you to more closely examine the causes and consequences of discrimination that occurs within one of society’s core institutions. For this assessment, you will explore both the causes and consequences of institutionalized discrimination, from the perspective of the individuals it directly affects, the institution you have chosen, and society as a whole.

To complete this assessment, presume that you work for a think tank that conducts and publishes social and economic research to inform economic decisions and local, state, and federal policy making. Your manager asks you and the other members of your team to create a public information piece based on research and analysis of the prevalence and persistence of discrimination in a particular social institution.

Deliverable

First, choose one of the following major institutions for this assessment: criminal justice system, health care system, educational system, housing market, or the U.S. workplace. Then complete the following:

  • Research institutional discrimination in your chosen institution, locating reliable, scholarly sources. Examples are provided in the Resources for this assessment.
  • Choose one of the following public information pieces in the list below. It is your job to create a public information piece that highlights your findings regarding inequities (based on race, ethnicity, religion, age, disability status, or sexual orientation) within your chosen institution. You will need to support your conclusions with credible data and scholarly research, rather than relying on opinion, and demonstrate your ability to apply sociological thinking to your topic.
    • Information booklet targeted to the general public.
    • Position paper or brief targeted at state or federal legislators.
    • Mock website or blog.
    • Public service announcement (a script for a radio or television program).
    • PowerPoint presentation targeted to a specific audience, with a description of the audience and detailed speaker’s notes (in PowerPoint, use the Notes area below each slide to provide speaker’s notes and explain the information on your slides in more detail).
    • A recorded speech to be given at a national meeting of practitioners who work in the institution you are researching. If you choose this option, include your script and references in a Word document along with your audio file.
  • Create a final, professional-quality product in which you accomplish the following:
    • Create a public information piece that effectively conveys the causes and consequences of the problem of institutional discrimination in one of society’s major institutions, with support from data and scholarly sources.
    • Describe factors contributing to racial, ethnic, or other forms of inequality within a specific institution.
    • Analyze data on the factors contributing to inequality in a specific institution.
      • Keep in mind that, to be accurate in your assessment, you will need to look at raw data and percentages as well as to consider the data in relation to each racial or ethnic group’s percentage within the overall U.S. population.
  • Explain ways in which public policies are linked to inequalities within a specific institution.
    • Consider any historical or contemporary influences that may have contributed the disparities you have identified. Example: If you are studying institutional discrimination in the justice system, you would need to consider national policies such as the War on Drugs, as well as law enforcement policies.
  • Assess the impact on minorities and minority communities caused by institutional discrimination within a specific institution.
  • Describe specific, measurable policy strategies for reducing institutional discrimination.
    • These can be community based, legislative (at the local, state, or federal level), or law enforcement strategies.
    • These strategies should focus on institutional policies, not individual solutions.

Post a description of one motivating factor for joining the military and one motivating factor for military personnel to remain in the service

Why might an individual choose to enlist in military service rather than seek employment elsewhere? In the United States, no one has been drafted or forced into military service since 1973. In other countries, forced military service may occur, and the service members’ reasons for staying in the service may vary. Unlike forced military service, voluntary military service is a personal choice. There are a myriad of reasons why someone would engage in service before self in an institution that requires one to relinquish certain personal rights. To understand military personnel from the lens of a helping professional, it is imperative to understand what motivates a person to choose this career path as a way of life regardless if it is for short or long term.

As you investigate the motivating factors of joining, staying in, or separating from military service, consider how military culture can influence these decisions.

Post a description of one motivating factor for joining the military and one motivating factor for military personnel to remain in the service. Explain how these factors motivate individuals to join and remain in military service. Finally, describe one way military culture might influence a person’s decision to remain in or separate from the military. Justify your response by citing references to the resources and the current literature.

Be sure to support your post with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.

Post an explanation of how relinquishing certain rights to a chain of command might present challenges for military personnel.

The highly structured and complex U.S. military chain of command is a critical component of the military. It contains many levels and arms to which and from which reporting and responsibility flow. Without the chain of command, missions would fail and chaos would ensue.

As a helping professional, you must understand why the chain of command exists, how it is structured, and how military personnel navigate it. You must also understand the impact that the chain of command may have on the lives of military personnel and their families. This understanding equips you to help military personnel and their families adjust to living within the chain of command.

As with any organization or workplace, there are typical protocols and procedures that military personnel follow. For example, in the typical workplace, reporting procedures, time-off requests, and specific instructions for work duties parallel military personnel procedures to a degree. The extent to which the chain of command touches or influences the lives of military personnel, however, is a significant contrast to the typical workplace.

Unlike the typical employee, military personnel cannot leave their jobs when they find other preferred job opportunities. From boot camp training—which demands recruits to follow specific training orders—to daily life on or off a military installation, the chain of command is ever present.

For example, when a military service member receives a collection notice, oftentimes collection agencies contact that individual’s chain of command who may in turn demand that the individual pay the outstanding debt. In cases of domestic violence, the chain of command will get involved and can impose punitive action, demand counseling, or even remove items, such as weapons, from a home, if the command believes they may be used to harm family members. When a military service member faces legal charges, the chain of command will impose punitive action that may include withholding pay or leave time or even discharging the individual from the service.

Review the Chain of Command Flow Chart media piece and the “Chain of Command Scenarios” document (accessed in this week’s resources) for this Discussion. Select one of the scenarios to address in the Discussion.

Post an explanation of how relinquishing certain rights to a chain of command might present challenges for military personnel. Justify your response. Then, as a helping professional, explain one way you might support military personnel or military families to adjust to following a chain of command in the chain of command scenario you selected. Use the current literature and resources to support your response.

Be sure to support your post with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ posts.

To complete your Discussion, click on Discussions on the course navigation menu, and select “Week 3 Forum” to begin.

Developing a Strategic Plan

APA

 The fundamentals of a strategic plan include the core values, mission, and vision which represent the organizational identification (ID). Your Assignment this week requires you to develop the organizational ID for your chosen Capstone Project agency, organization, or community.

To prepare:

  • Review Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan –Part 1: The Fundamentals media in the Weekly Resources.
  • To prepare for this Assignment, review your Discussion 2 post from Week 1. Research the core values, mission, and vision of your selected agency, organization, or community.
  • In addition, consider the key stakeholders involved with the agency, both internally and externally, including other professions.
  • Consider whether this agency addresses or supports the mental health and welfare or human rights of individuals.

By Day 7

The Assignment (3–4 pages):
For this Assignment, perform the following:

  1. Identify and describe the core values of the agency.
    1. Discuss the degree to which those core values are aligned with advocacy, leadership, or social change.
    2. State how those core values contribute to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
  2. Identify and describe the mission of the agency, organization, or community.
    1. Evaluate whether the mission statement is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc.
    2. Describe whether the mission statement promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change.
    3. Discuss whether the mission statement provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
  3. Identify and describe the vision of the agency.
    1. Evaluate whether the vision is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc.
    2. Describe whether the vision promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change.
    3. Discuss whether the vision provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
  4. Identify and describe key stakeholders involved with the agency.
    1. Discuss whether each stakeholder is internal or external to the agency/organization.
    2. Describe the role each stakeholder has in the organization (i.e., leadership, management, staff, recipient of services, etc.).
    3. Discuss how each stakeholder can be an essential element for gathering information to develop the strategic plan.

How Cultural Incompetence Leaves Many Wellness Programs Incomplete”

 How Cultural Incompetence Leaves Many Wellness Programs Incomplete”

After reading “A Failure to Communicate: How Cultural Incompetence Leaves Many Wellness Programs Incomplete” assigned above, go back and consider the section beginning “Some questions every company with wellness offerings should ask of themselves.” Assuming you have experience in an area of health care, in essay form (APA format) prepare at least 5 questions that you believe should be asked to assess cultural competence appropriate to your field.

Do not plagiarize the article’s questions; adapt them, if necessary to your field and give additional insight with your own questions. For each question give the context so that the question can be easily understood and perhaps, applied to other health care fields. Document your assertions that support your questions.

  Social Inequality Essay

Social Inequality Essay

Your assignment is to write an argumentative essay in which you take opposition on inequality. This can be one of the specific issues from the Real World text, or you can write on a topic that affects the world today.

Your paper should follow the guidelines below:

I. Introduction- give background or perhaps an illustrative example to show the significance of the subject or the nature of the social problem. Consider stating the conclusion of your argument here as the theses of your essay.

II. Opposing argument- give a brief statement of the opposing view(s) to present that you have considered the opposing views.

III. Presentation of argument- Throughout the body of your essay you should build your case with evident and meaningful content that is creditable.

IV. Conclusion- Once your evidence has been presented and/or your position is defended, provide grounds for your position and conclusion.

Format:

Your essay should be written using ASA format to include references and citations. Your paper should be 3-4 pages and incorporate at least 2 different scholarly resources.

: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice

Your participation in a foundation field practicum will demonstrate your ability to carry out the nine core competencies.  Meaning, you must be able to do the following things as demonstrated by specific duties and activities that you will do as a field practicum student.   In preparation for doing these things in the field and to aid you with your learning contract,  think specifically about a population you wish to work with during your practicum.  List 2 activities for each competency that you desire to do that will show your competence at the foundation level.     No response to your peers in necessary, but encouraged.  Instead, read everyone’s responses to get an idea of the multitude of activities you can do to demonstrate your ability to perform the core competencies.  

Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior

Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice

Competency 3: Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice Competency 4: Engage In Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice

Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice

Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Competency 9: Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Distinguish between deductive and inductive approaches to research.

Please post thoughtful responses and comments to the following questions.

  1. Watch the video ‘Sociological Research’ on the Week 3 Videos and read Chapter 2. Sociological Research on the Week 2 Learning Resources. Explain the steps of the sociological research using your own sociology topic. Discuss also your reaction of the sociological research.
  2. Explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative methods. Give examples of each from the sociological research (not from the Internet examples).
  3. You wished to understand a social phenomenon, such as what causes poverty, what kind of research do you think would be necessary? What would be the advantages or disadvantages of asking a large number of people a set of fixed questions about poverty, or alternatively, of interviewing a group of poor people by asking open ended questions?
  4. Distinguish between deductive and inductive approaches to research. Provide examples of each from the sociological research (not from the Internet examples).
  5. Imagine you are a researcher interested in the effect TV watching has on schoolchildren’s grades. Identify independent and dependent variables. How might you go about setting up a design to measure this effect?
  6. If you wanted to conduct research that examined the relationship between family background and student alcohol use, what indicators would you use to measure these two variables? Identify independent and dependent variables. How might you design your study?
  7. Discuss the role of ethics in social science research. Include in your discussion examples of research that presented ethical dilemmas for the researcher and the importance of human subjects’ review committees.

‘Sociological Research’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHuEoZ97BgA&ab_channel=Janux

OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e – Chapter 2 – https://d3bxy9euw4e147.cloudfront.net/oscms-prodcms/media/documents/IntroductionToSociology2e-OP_tbTLqMj.pdf

You will write an influence letter to the president of united states in which you want to persuade for a new healthcare reform for immigrants.

FOR TOMORROW AT 8:00 PM

Topic: Healthcare reform for immigrants.

Send to: The president of USA

You will write an influence letter to the president of united states in which you want to persuade for a new healthcare reform for immigrants. You will write from a social worker perspective. Make sure that you are using the appropriate language as well as addressing the correct person who can be influenced on your issue of concern.

This should one page, brief and factual. Concise yet detailed. It should be written in a professional format using appropriate language. Be specific in your requests as well as persuasive in your arguments.  Grammar matters if you want to be taken seriously. Make a strong argument. Use various reference articles and use citations. Letter should be persuasive to your reader as well as easily managed in a political situation.

Template:

Dear President (name)

Paragraph 1: state your name (Nuris Leiva) I am a student majoring in Social Work at the university of Florida who came to the united states 12 years ago with my parents looking for a better future and opportunities from Colombia. State the purpose for writing (healthcare reform for immigrants)

Paragraph 2: provide specific examples, information or evidence to support your beliefs.

Paragraph 3: in your last paragraph, make a call to act.

Research Questions and Literature Reviews

Discussion: Research Questions and Literature Reviews

In this week’s video, you meet Eboni Logan, a teenager who reveals that she is pregnant. Eboni explains to her social worker that no one at her school talks about methods of birth control, as their only focus is on abstinence. Imagine that you are a social worker in Eboni’s school and you begin to notice an increase in teen pregnancy. This causes you to wonder about the effectiveness of abstinence-only education. This curiosity propels you to investigate further, but you are not sure what you should do first—develop a research question or conduct a literature review.

For this Discussion, review the literature on abstinence education. View the Sessions episode on the Eboni Logan case.

By Day 3

Post your explanation about what should come first—the development of a research question or a thorough literature review. Justify your answer by adding your thoughts about which process you believe to be more realistic and/or appropriate, and why. Finally, describe potential consequences of deciding on a research question without conducting a review of the literature. Please use the resources to support your answer.

Logan Family Episode 1

Program Transcript

MS. WARRICK: Hi, Ebony. It’s good to see you. I saw you at the track meet. Nice

job on the 100 meter dash.

EBONY: Oh, thanks. Thanks for seeing me, Ms. Warrick.

MS. WARRICK: So what’s on your mind?

EBONY: I’m pregnant.

MS. WARRICK: Are you sure?

EBONY: Two months.

MS. WARRICK: Oh, Ebony. Why? Did you want to get pregnant? Didn’t you use

protection?

EBONY: Nobody talks about birth control here. All they teach is abstinence. I

made a mistake.

MS. WARRICK: Do you know who the father is?

EBONY: Darion, my boyfriend. We’ve been going together for about four months.

MS. WARRICK: Have you told him?

EBONY: He told me to do whatever I want to do. I know what that means,

though, but he won’t say it. He thinks we’re too young to have a baby.

MS. WARRICK: Have you told your family?

EBONY: My mom. She wants me to have an abortion. Says I’ll ruin my life if I

have a baby now. But not my dad. He says it’s god’s choice, not mine. I don’t

know what to think. I’m all mixed up. What do you think I should do?