For this Major Assignment 2, you will continue your work on the Part 3: Results section. Specifically, you will begin your analysis and prepare your presentation of your results from your three data sources. The three data sources include:

· Two Scholars of Change videos

· Phone interview

· Resources from the Walden social change website

Analyze and prepare your presentation of results from your three data sources. Also, part of your analysis is to create categories and themes of your findings.

To prepare for this Assignment:

· Review this week’s Learning Resources to guide you as you analyze and prepare your presentation of results.

· Analyze the three data sources to create categories and themes of your findings

o Two Scholars of Change videos

o Phone interview

o Resources from the Walden social change website

· Once you have completed your analysis, prepare your presentation of results from your three data sources.

Part 3: Results

During this course, you have coded your two Scholars of Change videos, you have conducted and coded your phone interview, and you have gathered data from the Walden social change website and any other documents or websites you might have included. For this Part 3 of your Major Assignment, you will write up the results of your findings. You will include the following in your write-up:

A. Data Sources—briefly describe each data source including location, duration of data collection, how data were recorded, and unusual circumstances.

o Two Scholars of Change videos

o One phone interview

o Resources from the Walden social change website

B. Instrumentation—briefly describe the type of instrumentation you used for your data collection.

a. Who developed each data collection tool and what is the date of publication?

b. Where and with which participant group has it been used previously?

c. How appropriate is it for current study and include whether modifications will be or were needed?

C. Data Analysis—based on the data sources in “A.”, provide a detailed analysis to include the following:

o Report the process used to move inductively from coded units to larger representations including categories and themes.

o Describe the specific codes, categories, and themes that emerged from the data using quotations as needed to emphasize their importance.

1. 1st cycle—describe, give examples.

2. 2nd cycle—describe, give examples/moving from codes to categories.

3. Identify themes—provide examples and illustrate your results with a figure or a chart.

PSYC 3007: Influence And Persuasion

 

People who join the helping professions, such as teaching, counseling, and crisis work, often speak about their passion to serve others. If you have ever been in a class or a work environment where you stood for others without a voice or for a cause you believed was right, you can be considered a social advocate. Social advocacy is one way as a Walden student and beyond that you can forward social change and fulfill the Walden University outcome to facilitate positive social change.

The persuasion theories and strategies that you are studying this week can add to your bank of knowledge and research to support you taking action as an advocate. This Assignment is an opportunity for you to practice use motivation and compliance strategies in your efforts to bring groups together to change minds and hearts.

For this Assignment, you will respond to the following scenario:

You are a social advocate for a group of individuals in your community who feel disconnected from the community because of their distinguishing characteristic(s) (e.g., language, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, beliefs) and have experienced discrimination. Members of this group want to use a room at the local community center for a much-needed program (e.g., language classes, an after-school program, a support group, etc). However, the individuals who run the community center, known as The Board, have a reputation of denying proposals from minority groups. As this group’s advocate, you believe that if you can get the two groups together, understanding and an agreement might be reached.

To prepare:

• Review the Week 5 Learning Resources.
• Fill in the details of this scenario. Choose a group that you would advocate for based on your experience or interests, and identify a focus of their proposal based on a realistic need.
• Consider that The Board’s funding contract has a clause about serving the whole community.
• Consider which strategy you learned about this week – either the “foot-in-the-door” strategy or the “door-in-the-face” compliance strategy – would be more effective in working with The Board; the goal is to get The Board to the meeting to hear your group’s proposal.
• Consider how to use cognitive-dissonance theory to persuade a change in view by The Board in your scenario.

By Day 7

Submit a 3- to 5-page paper that includes the following:

• Using either the foot-in-the-door strategy or the door-in-the-face strategy, explain how you will get The Board to attend an information meeting about the group’s proposal.
• Explain in enough detail to demonstrate that you understand the strategy, and why you believe the strategy you chose will work to motivate The Board to come to the meeting.
• Assume your strategy worked and The Board is now at the meeting where your group is going to present their proposal. Your next goal is to get the board to feel dissonance. Explain why you want the Board to experience dissonance. Next, based on your readings, discuss the specific activity that will believe will induce these feelings and why you chose this activity.
• Based on the techniques to relieve dissonance discussed in Chapter 11, describe an activity you will provide at the meeting to help The Board relieve their feelings of dissonance, and explain why your activity will be effective in helping them to relieve their dissonance. Why will relieving the Board’s dissonance be an important part of your meeting with them?

Evaluate the ethics of using these compliance strategies and explain your reasoning based on specific ethical guidelines.