Networks of Outrage and Hope by Manuel Castells…this is the book this assignment is based on and the only necessary source to be used. I will upload notes for the readings that will include page numbers from the book. This assignment is for a social movements class.
DIRECTIONS:
Select three of the insurgencies addressed by Castells book; compare and contrast them in terms of their major characteristics, and especially in terms of their use of the internet and social media.
Write a summary of the article “True Altruism: Can Humans Change To Save Other Species?”
To follow those instructions, you must first write a brief outline of the article, noting the main points in your own words. Then, write your summary from that outline.
Below is the essay topic based upon the ethnography Working the Night Shift by Reena Patel.
The central question is how globalization affects the gender roles and family dynamics of the young women doing call center work. In the assignment below, I have also posed subsidiary questions that should also inform your answer to the central question. Although I expect that you will engage with these questions, feel free to compose and organize your answer as you see fit. That is, you need not simply work through each question in the sequence in which I have posed them below. Instead, follow whatever organization makes sense to you as long as you address these issues. Be sure to state your thesis in response to the central question in your opening paragraph. Be sure to use terminology from this course (like gender roles, etc.) and define the term you use.
Working the Night Shift describes how young Indian women navigate the opposing pressures they confront in choosing to work in call centers. On one side, the pressures to conform to the traditional gender roles of Indian women come from women’s families, neighbors and society as a whole. On the other side, the pressures to live a modern lifestyle come from the globalizing economy and the opportunities it presents not only to work in the call center but also to participate in an emerging consumer culture. How do Indian women navigate these opposing pressures? What are the gender role expectations they confront? What are the new opportunities presented to them by this new labor opportunity? How does globalization affect the gender roles and family dynamics of women who work in the call center industry?
1. Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State said in Dublin 1999, “What is called globalization for the dominant role of the United States.” In what ways has globalization and corporate expansion promoted inequality in the United States and in the world? Be sure to discuss the role of the U.S. in relation to workers and corporations using specific examples from three readings.
“Globalization and Its Discontents: The Promise of Global Institutions,” Joseph Stiglitz
“Daughters and Generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker,” Cynthia Enloe
“Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy,” Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russel
1. Compare and contrast the histopathological changes that occur in ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s
disease.
Marking scheme
Outline inflammatory bowel disease
Requires biopsy for confirmation – histopathology – differential diagnosis:
cryptitis and crypt abscesses, transmural inflammation, granulomas, fissuring, neuromuscular
hyperplasia – CD
diffuse mucosal inflammation, crypt abscesses, crypt distortion, paneth cell metaplasia, mucosal
ulceration – UC
Macroeconomics
Paper on the strengths and weaknesses of monetary policy
This paper is based on Chapters 10 and 12 as well as Chapter 15 of your textbook, which deals with the Great Recession and explains what the government did to try to reduce unemployment and stimulate the economy at the time.
I expect this paper to be a minimum of 2 pages in length.
Paper topic:
Based on what we have studied in this class, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of using monetary policy (as opposed to fiscal policy) to combat unemployment. Provide at least two relative strengths and two weaknesses of employing monetary policy tools (rather than fiscal policy tools) to combat unemployment.
Objective:
The essential aim of this project is to strengthen student’s analytical skills and to assess their ability to use basic Micro economic principles and concepts to Explain certain economic events and their effects on the consumers’ decisions and choices.
Requirement:
Students are requested to form a group of 3 students and to answer two essay questions
• Analyze personal and collective identity (through its many components) and its construction as it determines everyday behaviors and choices.
• Identify and examine ideas and issues, values and beliefs found in literary and visual text.
• Interpret historical and contemporary social and political views influencing the production and the consumption of “black” culture.
• Improve critical thinking skills through careful description, analysis, interpretation and evaluation of readings, videos, and presentations.
• Refine skills in inquiry methods, expository writing and oral communication.
1) Read the attached article “Code Switching and Italian American Identity” and do some independent background research on the subject of code-switching
2) Write up a Conversation Analysis, in essay form, following the guidelines in the attachment “SOC310 CA Assignment”
Is waging a ‘war on terror’ an intrinsically flawed response to acts of terrorism
-the essay should generate an argument, it should be an argument .