PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS Identify at least three of the most challenging principles in this module and their key attributes.

PART 1. PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS Identify at least three of the most challenging principles in this module and their key attributes. Provide one example and one non-example for each principle, and explicitly identify the key attributes that each example meets and each non-example misses (Examples must meet all key attributes of the definition, while non-examples do not meet all key attributes). PART 2. ASR AND COMPREHENSION CHECK ITEMS Identify at least one item in the ASR Check I that you found challenging. Share your individual perspective on these items with each other. You may or may not agree on the challenging items. Regardless, for each item identified, address the below two prompts:

What states have paid parental leave vs. unpaid parental leave?

What states have paid parental leave vs. unpaid parental leave? Does the size of the company make a difference in whether the company has to provide paid parental leave? How does not providing paid parental leave impact the economy?  If you were unable to research this with the internet, how would you find out the regulatory difference between the states? Would making college tuition free at state-run community colleges and universities be an effective method for the government to address the racial wealth gap? Why or why not?Would increasing the minimum wage be an effective method for the government to address the gender wealth gap? Why or why not?Which is the most important attribute when deciding whether to become an entrepreneur: emotional intelligence, financial aptitude or digital acumen? Explain your reasons.  

Think about your earliest memories of when you realized you were a member of your gender. Describe the situation and any feelings and behaviors associated with prescribed roles and expectations.

Think about your earliest memories of when you realized you were a member of your gender. Describe the situation and any feelings and behaviors associated with prescribed roles and expectations.In general, what messages did you receive about your gender in your family of origin?What opportunities have been available to you because of your gender? What barriers have been present?Which gender roles do you still adhere to as an adult?How has your gender and related opportunities and barriers affected your physical and psychological well-being?How do you think your life would be different if you had been born to the opposite gender?How do you think your gender might be helpful as a school counselor? Challenging?

United Healthcare Group.Products/Services: Describe the range of products or services offered by the company. Provide a concise overview of what the company specializes in and how its offerings contribute to the healthcare industry.

Company: United Healthcare Group.Products/Services: Describe the range of products or services offered by the company. Provide a concise overview of what the company specializes in and how its offerings contribute to the healthcare industry.Current Marketing Objectives: Discuss the company’s current marketing objectives. What are they aiming to achieve through their marketing efforts? This could include expanding their customer base, increasing brand awareness, launching new products, or addressing specific healthcare needs. Take note becuase you will be offerring recommendations at the end of the audit. You must search or gather information about this topic to answer the two bullets above this question. Use this to answer it. Gather Information: Research and gather information about the chosen healthcare company. You can use a variety of sources to gather relevant details. Potential resources include:

Using all the sociological ideas you have learned so far in this course, write a reflection on yourself and your story in sociological terms.

One of sociology’s central tasks is to show the ways in which an individual’s life is inextricably embedded in and influenced by the social world. Using all the sociological ideas you have learned so far in this course, write a reflection on yourself and your story in sociological terms. You may ask such questions as:Note that you do not have to go into detail about anything you feel is too personal or sensitive. Most importantly, make sure you are making clear the connections you are drawing between yourself/your story and the concepts, theories, and ideas you have learned in this course. What are the sociological ideas you’re drawing from and how are they relevant to you?

How do you see ICT working in corporations, governments, and globalization projects in the future?

Information and communications technology (ICT) is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems, and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning.The revolution of ICT is considered as the main driving force for globalization (Ogunsola 2005) by promoting trade, investment, and business both domestically and internationally. It contributes to the globalization process by contributing to infrastructure for trans-world connections (Faye 2000).1. What is the role of information and communication technologies in outsourcing?2. How do you see ICT working in corporations, governments, and globalization projects in the future?3. What about AI (artificial intelligence)? USE: McMichael, Philip, and Heloise Weber. 2022. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. SAGE Publications 

“Is Woman to Male as Nature is to Culture” and reflect on Kincaid’s 2. “Girl” in conjunction. Post to the discussion section about your observations and reactions. What did the readings reveal about your assumptions and perceptions of gender, self, and “other”?

Instructions Prompt: Choose at least 3 quotes from the readings –  Ortner’s 1. “Is Woman to Male as Nature is to Culture” and reflect on Kincaid’s 2. “Girl” in conjunction. Post to the discussion section about your observations and reactions. What did the readings reveal about your assumptions and perceptions of gender, self, and “other”? Use key concepts in these readings to draw relationships and insights. Considering the time when these were both written, what is it like today “to learn” gender? Put another way, how do these writings illuminate our thinking and observations about gender today? 

Once you have collected and evaluated the relevant studies on your topic, you need to think how best to present the information in a way that captures the common themes you have found. What multiple discrete themes emerged from your review?

 Once you have collected and evaluated the relevant studies on your topic, you need to think how best to present the information in a way that captures the common themes you have found. What multiple discrete themes emerged from your review? You will need to determine these categories and concepts or themes you think are important to understanding your topic and defining your research problem. Consider what ideas surfaced across your studies and how the content from these studies can fit within some higher-level themes based on the focus of your own research. Even after you have grouped ideas and determined themes, you will need to decide how to order them in a way that makes your argument for your research problem compelling. These themes will eventually be the structure of your literature review. 

What is your understanding of Encoding/Decoding as a way of analyzing television messages?

In the PDF file “Chapter 2: Television,” Storey offers a closer look at Television and how it is understood as a realm of analysis. Answer the following questions below: What is your understanding of Encoding/Decoding as a way of analyzing television messages? Have you read about this theory before this course? Does your understanding of it change after reading this chapter? why or why not? Whether you watch television or not, chapter 2 explored the phenomenon of “television talk” or the idea that watching television denotes a type of class and social capital. Do you see this in your own lives? In what way? 

Discuss how Le Ly Hayslip’s memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places represents the important perspective of a Vietnamese peasant woman’s trauma of war. Discuss how as a witness to war she represents her own and her family’s struggle as peasants dislocated from their agrarian life and caught in the middle of a brutal, senseless assault on their values and mores.

Discuss how Le Ly Hayslip’s memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places represents the important perspective of a Vietnamese peasant woman’s trauma of war. Discuss how as a witness to war she represents her own and her family’s struggle as peasants dislocated from their agrarian life and caught in the middle of a brutal, senseless assault on their values and mores.(3 Pages) Discuss how Oliver Stone’s adaptation Heaven and Earth offers new meanings and can be viewed as a war film. How does Stone showcase war as external spectacle, while internal conflicts and individual agency are muted?How does Tommy Lee Jones add heroism to the war, especially given the “rescue” trope, which is emphasized in the film. (3 Pages)