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• Write a 5–7-page essay describing, examining, and reflecting upon a personal cultural diversity encounter.By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
  • Competency 1: Describe theoretical ideas of power in relation to policy.
    • Connect a personal experience to sociological concepts of power.
  • Competency 3: Analyze the effects of social policy using aggregated data.
    • Analyze data to make valid sociological inferences.
  • Competency 4: Analyze how laws are applied or created based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and social class.
    • Analyze how laws or policies are applied to a diversity issue.
  • Competency 5: Apply diversity strategies in professional, educational, and personal contexts.
    • Apply strategies for addressing a cultural diversity issue.
    • Discuss personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.
  • Competency 6: Communicate effectively.
    • Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

• Context

  Understanding cultural diversity from a sociological perspective first requires understanding the concepts and theoretical frameworks that guide sociological thinking. Cultural diversity encompasses a variety of social categories, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, social class, age, and physical or mental disability. Sociologists examine these categories at both the micro level (how they affect or are affected by individuals) and at the macro level (how they impact society as a whole).At the micro level, sociologists might explore, for example, how and why certain individuals may be prejudiced or racist while others are not. Yet prejudice and racism are not just individual problems, but are structural phenomena that are built into the way a society is organized. Understanding prejudice and racism requires not just focusing on individuals but also examining overall patterns of discrimination and racism within society. Sociologists study how those patterns have changed over time, as well as their causes and consequences for society as a whole and for individuals and families.

• Questions to Consider

  To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

  • What is the distinction between a dominant and a minority group?
  • What are the differences among prejudice and individual and institutional discrimination?
  • What are the key sociological theories used to describe relationships between dominant and majority groups, and how do these theories explain these relationships? For example, consider how conflict or functional theory approach race or ethnic relations or the theories of inequality proposed by Max Weber and Karl Marx.
  • What particular issues surrounding diversity are most important or prevalent in today’s society?
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  Resources

• Internet Resources

  Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.

  • Le, C. N. (2007). The downside of diversity? Everyday Sociology. Retrieved from http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2007/09/the-d…
  • Prince Inniss, J. (2011). What explains social inequality? Everyday Sociology. Retrieved from http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2011/09/what-…
  • Frontline. (1985). A class divided. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divi…

• Assessment Instructions

  For this assessment, you will be combining a micro- and macro-level analysis of diversity. You will discuss your personal experiences or observations regarding a diversity-related issue and apply sociological concepts and theory to your analysis. You will also research the broader trends regarding the diversity-related issue you have chosen to discuss. Finally, you will discuss existing or proposed laws or policies that are applicable to your issue and reflect on personal strategies that could be used to address or prevent the problem you have identified. One major thing to keep in mind as you begin to explore the sociology of cultural diversity is how the social categories we belong to—our race, ethnicity, social class, the generation we belong to—affect how we perceive the world around us and our interactions with other people.

  DELIVERABLE

  Reflect on an instance when you or someone else were unfairly excluded, discriminated against, or otherwise neglected or treated inappropriately due to race, ethnicity, age, gender, social class, sexuality, disability, or other category related to diversity. Depending on the setting in which the incident occurred, consider whether any laws or policies were violated, either those established by an organization, such as a business or school, or state or federal antidiscrimination policies.Write an essay in which you complete each of the following:

  • Part 1 – Describe your experience:
    • Describe the event and the underlying diversity issues at play.
    • Describe your opinions, feelings, actions, and what you learned from the event.
  • Part 2 – Examine your experience:
    • Discuss experiences from your personal background that might account for your feelings or reactions.
      • Consider areas such as your ethnicity, history, upbringing, local mores, recent events, et cetera.
    • Connect your experience to at least three sociological concepts and/or issues. For example, if you are writing about what if feels like to be an outsider, you could connect your discussion to the concept of power or social structure, or the broader issue of relationships between dominant and minority groups.
      • Examples of other concepts you could include are: prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, cultural pluralism, assimilation, structural mobility, social distance, and modern racism.
      • Examples of theories include functional or conflict theory, Marx’s and Weber’s theories of inequality, Park’s race relations cycle, Gordon’s theory of assimilation, human capital theory, scapegoat hypothesis, and the theory of authoritarian personality.
    • Incorporate research on the broader issue that your experience illustrates. For example, if the incident you describe involves discrimination in the workplace, research workplace discrimination and find data on the prevalence or nature of this problem. If the incident involves bullying at school, locate data on how extensive this issue is. Questions to consider include:
      • Is the type of incident you describe commonplace?
      • Where might this be most prevalent?
      • Among what groups is it most likely to occur?
      • What trends did you notice in your research? For example, does the kind of incident you experienced or observed seem to be an increasing problem, or is it declining over time?
    • Analyze how relevant laws or policies might be applied to this situation. These may be civil or criminal laws or, perhaps, policies established in the workplace or schools.
      • Consider whether any laws or policies were violated and how those laws or policies might be changed or better enforced to address the situation you describe.
  • Part 3 – Reflect on your experience:
    • Based on your reflections of the event and the research you have now done, share personal strategies that are useful for informing the interactions or relationships between the involved parties, as well as your own understanding or perspectives.

  ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Length: 5–7 pages, not including title and reference pages.
  • Format: Include a title page and reference page, and format the paper and your citations according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.
  • Sources: Cite at least two scholarly sources.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.

  Cultural Diversity and You Scoring Guide

  CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
  Connect a personal experience to sociological concepts of power.	Does not connect a personal experience to sociological concepts of power.	Connects a personal experience to sociological concepts of power that have little relevance to the experience.	Connects a personal experience to sociological concepts of power.	Connects a personal experience to sociological concepts of power, including mention of specific theories.
  Analyze data to make valid sociological inferences.	Does not analyze data.	Analyzes data but makes unsupportable sociological inferences.	Analyzes data to make valid sociological inferences.	Analyzes data to make valid sociological inferences and cites specific instances of data to support them.
  Analyze how laws or policies are applied to a diversity issue.	Does not describe how laws or policies are applied to a diversity issue.	Describes how laws or policies are applied to a diversity issue.	Analyzes how laws or policies are applied to a diversity issue.	Analyzes how laws or policies are applied to a diversity issue and cites support from scholarly sources.
  Apply strategies for addressing a cultural diversity issue.	Does not list strategies for addressing a cultural diversity issue.	Lists strategies for addressing a cultural diversity issue.	Applies strategies for addressing a cultural diversity issue.	Analyzes strategies for addressing a cultural diversity issue.
  Discuss personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.	Does not list personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.	Lists personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.	Discusses personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.	Analyzes personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.
  Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.	Does not write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format. Does not use correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.	Writes to support an idea. Format is inconsistent and contains major errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.	Writes coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.	Writes coherently, using evidence to support a central idea in a consistently appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.