Explain what is meant by the terms “ascribed status” and “achieved status.” Discuss a specific example that illustrates how a person’s ascribed status could influence his or her achieved status.

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Course activities, and lecture content assigned from Modules 1 through 3. Choose three of the five questions below. For each question chosen, write an essay response of 250-300 words. In your response, be sure to refer to specific concepts from the readings, lecture notes, and/or discussions, and use these concepts to support your points. Please state the question prior to your answer.

Choose a social problem, and explain how the sociological imagination, as defined by C. Wright Mills, can be used to understand the causes and consequences of that problem. Be sure that you address and apply the components of the sociological imagination in your response.
Explain what is meant by the terms “ascribed status” and “achieved status.” Discuss a specific example that illustrates how a person’s ascribed status could influence his or her achieved status.
Compare and contrast Karl Marx’s and Max Weber’s theories of social class. Explain which theory you think is more accurate and why.
What are the key components of culture? Discuss at least three components of culture, giving specific examples of each component.
Why is socialization so important to the development of our self-concept? Explain the role of socialization in shaping our lives, using at least three concepts from the course material in your explanation.

Discuss what the appropriate behavior for the situation you chose would typically require (for example, if you are violating a dress code, discuss what you would normally wear in that situation).

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Deviance is the label sociologists use to describe behavior that violates cultural norms. Norms include the expectations and rules that guide our behavior, appearance, manners, gestures, body language, conduct, et cetera. For this assignment, your task is to break a norm and write about your experience, as follows:

Choose one norm to break as long as it is within the guidelines for legal behavior. Examples of acceptable norm violations include dressing in a manner that would be considered eccentric or inappropriate for a given social situation or invading someone’s personal space.

In a 2- to 3-page paper, double-spaced, include the following:

Explain which norm you broke and why you chose it. Discuss what the appropriate behavior for the situation you chose would typically require (for example, if you are violating a dress code, discuss what you would normally wear in that situation).
Discuss why your behavior violated those norms and the reaction you received upon breaking them.
Apply one sociological theory of deviance to interpret the response to your behavior. Begin by briefly discussing the key aspects of the theory you have chosen and then explain why that theory is useful for understanding your norm-breaking experiment. The Why Are People Deviant? lectureprovides an overview of the major sociological theories of deviance.

Prepare a personal development plan (PDP) tailored to the needs of this particular individual and will require interviews with this leader and his or her key followers and supervisors.

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Topic: Assessing a Leader

Essay’s will be an assessment of an incumbent leader. During this process, you will create a consulting/coaching report to recommend how this leader can be more effective in his or her role. Thus, your job is to prepare a personal development plan (PDP) tailored to the needs of this particular individual and will require interviews with this leader and his or her key followers and supervisors.
The leader’s personal development plan (PDP) will allow the leader to better understand himself or herself, as an individual, as a member of teams, and as an organizational citizen, as well as to create opportunities for improvement goals. Thus, the PDP provides an understanding of this leader’s current characteristics and how the leader can become more effective in his or her roles as a follower, a leader, and as a team member.
First, articulate the leader’s strengths and weaknesses, values, and personality. An understanding of the leader as a person is needed before describing explanatory theories, concepts, and fit in teams and organizations. This section can include materials from observations, interviews, assessment instruments, and application of objective evidence.
Individual Assessment (4 pages)

Strengths/Weaknesses
Values
Personality

Next, an articulation of theories and concepts to explain the leader’s behavior at three levels of analysis (individual, team, and organization) is needed. In addition, a discussion of factors (contingencies/moderators) that may alter the theory/concept’s operation is needed. This section should include discussion of the following:
Theory/Concepts at the Individual Level (2 pages)

What theories/concepts describe your behavior as an individual?
What factors (i.e., contingencies/moderators) affect the operation of these theories/concepts?

Theory/Concepts at the Team Level (2 pages)

What theories/concepts describe your behavior as team member?
What factors (i.e., contingencies/moderators) affect the operation of these theories/concepts?

Theory/Concepts the Organization Level (1-2 pages)

What theories/concepts describe your behavior as an organizational citizen?
What factors (i.e., contingencies/moderators) affect the operation of these theories/concepts?

The final section looks to the future. Choose and describe at least one developmental goal at each of the three levels of analysis–the individual level, the team level, and the organizational level for the leader. For each development goal, please provide the development goal, development activities (how the leader can work toward accomplishing the objective), resources/support (that the leader has or can develop toward achieving the goal), timeline, potential obstacles, and evidence of progress (i.e., milestones), as shown below:
Development Goals (3 pages)

Development Goal (Individual Level)

Development Activities
Resources/Support
Timeline
Potential Obstacles
Evidence of Progress

Development Goal (Team Level)

Development Activities
Resources/Support
Timeline
Potential Obstacles
Evidence of Progress

Development Goal (Organizational Level)

Development Activities
Resources/Support
Timeline
Potential Obstacles
Evidence of Progress
References

Your Portfolio Project should be 12 pages in length, not counting title and reference pages, and conform to APA format. Include at least five scholarly references.

Identify a form of race inequality associated with the social institution and use theoretical perspectives to explain the social behaviors that perpetuate the inequality.

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Social Stratification Part II: Race
View RubricDue Date: Jan 21, 2018 23:59:59       Max Points: 100

Details:

Write a 750-1,000-word analysis on social stratification regarding race
Choose a social institution to describe and analyze the effect that the stratification elements of race have on that social institution. Include the following in your analysis:

Explain how race impacts the social institution.
Identify a form of race inequality associated with the social institution and use theoretical perspectives to explain the social behaviors that perpetuate the inequality.
Suggest measures for the social institution to implement to help alleviate the racial inequality you identified.

Provide a minimum of three to five scholarly sources to support your analysis and conclusion. Additionally, you will need to include statistical data of the expression of stratification regarding Race within the social institution.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

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You can use your own but please use the first source at least

1. Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes
Review Chapter 10.
http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/mcgraw-hill/2013/social-inequality_patterns-and-processes_ebook_6e.php

Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Anatomy of Racial Inequality, by Loury (2002).
http://site.ebrary.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/lib/grandcanyon/detail.action?docID=10328826

Introduction: Has the United States Really Moved Beyond Race?
Review “Introduction: Has the United States Really Moved Beyond Race?” by Neville, Gallardo, & Sue on pages 3-21 of The Myth of Racial Color Blindness: Manifestations, Dynamics, and Impact (2016).
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pzh&AN=2015-24372-001&site=ehost-live&scope=site