How did the microsystem that you grew up in differ from your parents’ or grandparents’ microsystems? Do you think this is a detrimental or an affirmative change to society as a whole?

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Using Bronbenbrenner’s ecological model, respond to the following questions:

  1. How did the microsystem that you grew up in differ from your parents’ or grandparents’ microsystems? Do you think this is a detrimental or an affirmative change to society as a whole?
  2. How do you think technology, specifically social media, influences a child’s mesosystems?

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.

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Agents of socialization include parents, siblings, extended family, community, culture, economic environment, religion, child care, school, teachers, peers, formal organizations, sports, mass media, and technology. In an ideal world, these agents would complement one another in order to best influence a child’s development. Choose three of the above agents and discuss how these agents can have both a positive and negative influence on a child’s development. Include examples from your own experience and share ways that you believe the agents of socialization could be improved.

Guided Response:

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Review all of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two classmates by Day 7. Choose one of the three agents of socialization listed that you think will have the most impact in the long run. Give specific examples to your classmates to show how you can further enhance this agent as the child’s teacher.

Cultural Influence on Human Organization

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topics in cultural studies

Cultural Influence on Human Organization

12-15 slides

As a senior manager in a medium-sized but highly profitable equipment manufacturing organization, you and other senior leaders have decided to partner with another company on several projects of mutual interest. Your company has the financial strength and market strength to join the partnership, and you have negotiated a tentative agreement with the other company. Your company is in Houston, Texas, in the United States, but the company you are partnering with is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The other company has some very valuable products and customers, it has an experienced workforce, and it has great brand recognition.

What are some of the cultural areas that you need to know more about before you make the partnership of the companies happen? Specifically, what might the comparison and contrasts be in language, religion, forms of address, holidays, other time off, dress, and food? Research the culture, with particular focus on the business culture, and determine what cultural areas you must address to build a strong working partnership, and discuss how you will address each of them.

Present your ideas in a set of PowerPoint slides intended as a summary for your company managers. Use the Notes area of PowerPoint for your narrative textual information, with restricted use of text on the slides themselves. Review PowerPoint guidelines if you are not sure of the recommended way to set up the slides. Also refer to the PowerPoint Lab in the Learning Center, if needed.

You should use APA reference and citation format for the sources that you use to support your explanation and argument. Place citations on the relevant slides with one or two slides at the end for your reference list.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Similarities and Differences between American and European Values

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Similarities and Differences between American and European Values

Different cultures have different values and reconciling these values is one of the most frustrating elements of foreign policy. Understanding and evaluating values is extremely important when it comes to influencing the conduct of a nation’s affairs.  Even amongst cultures that share the majority of their values, such as the United States and the countries of Western Europe, there may be differences of opinion regarding the relative importance of particular values. In November, 2011, the Pew Research Center conducted a poll based on American and Western European values.

After reading American Exceptionalism Subsides: The American-Western European Values Gapappraise the values of Europe and the U.S. when it comes to the following components:

  • the utilization of military
  • whether they should be engaged with and provide assistance to other countries or be isolated from other countries
  • their beliefs about being a superior culture
  • political beliefs, individualism, or the role of the state
  • the role of religion
  • beliefs about homosexuality

The paper must be three pages in length and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least five scholarly resources

Explain the general evolutionary lines of both the governmental and religious cultural histories of the country, giving probable reasons for evolutionary trends that you see.

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Select a country from the following list, and do some research into both the political history and the religious history of the country:

  • Japan
  • North Korea
  • Iraq
  • Syria
  • Afghanistan
  • Egypt

Write an essay in which you complete the following:

  • Explain the general evolutionary lines of both the governmental and religious cultural histories of the country, giving probable reasons for evolutionary trends that you see.
  • Analyze the ways in which the two lines of cultural tradition—government and religion—interact with each other. What influence does one have over the other?
  • Discuss the significance of religion and government on other characteristics of the country’s culture.
    • What influences and impacts do you see on the overall culture, both social and business, of the religious and political interactions?
    • What have been the primary influences on the people and their culture?
  • How do you think recent events affecting the people of the country have their roots in what you have learned about historical cultural trends in religion and government?

It is not necessary to follow APA document format, but you must use APA reference and citation format, for the sources you use to support your explanations and arguments.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.