...PROJECT OPTION #2: SOCIOLOGICAL MEDIA ANALYSIS Purpose: We are constantly bombarded with messages from the vast and pervasive social institution, mass media, yet much of these messages are gone unnoticed. As critical consumers of mass media, what might we see? It is often argued that mass media is simply a means of obtaining information and/or a source of entertainment. With an in-depth analysis, is this really the case? Assignment: First: For this option, you are to pick an example from mass media that you will be able to relate to sociology. Your item can be from an advertisement, a magazine, a movie, a television show, a cartoon, a comic, a song, etc. How does this media relate to something sociological? Look at media through sociological perspective (theoretical approach). For instance, how might you analyze beer/liquor advertisements through Goffman’s dramaturgical approach? Or, how might Goffman analyze Facebook? Another example: How would one analyze the film, Gone in 60 Seconds, through a feminist approach? Second: Write a paper explaining this piece of media through sociological perspective. You may want to consider using the following theories/terms: Feminist theory, conflict theory, functionalist theory, symbolic-interactionism, hyper-reality, Frankfurt school of thought, moral panic, or narcotizing dysfunction. Please define/summarize the term, theory, or idea, and then apply it to your media. This paper needs to have a central thesis (topic). The thesis...
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...Self Presentation through Appearance: A Manipulative vs. a Dramaturgical Approach Author(s): Efrat Tseëlon Source: Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 1992), pp. 501-514 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si.1992.15.4.501 . Accessed: 14/02/2014 01:39 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and Wiley are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Symbolic Interaction. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 137.158.153.205 on Fri, 14 Feb 2014 01:39:42 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Self Presentation through Appearance: A Manipulative vs. a Dramaturgical Approach The sincerity of self presentation through personal appearance was examined through contrasting an interac- Efrat Tseeion* tionist interpretation o Coffman’s dramaturgy with an The University of Sussex f “impression management” approach. “Impression...
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...Goffman Paper The Struggle Everyone once had a certain job in their lives at which they never had experience in that would show their perfection of an idea great customer service. Although, we may not like the job, but why? Because we are not used to everyday social interaction with new people, some of them you would have to end up remembering their names and use it each time they visit your work place. My job was a teller at bank of America here the pay was good but your social interaction, friendliness and manner with customers has to be the best. After all, outside work I’m not good at interacting, nor do I have the best manners and neither am I a friendly team player. There have been several times working there and I got involved with different personal experiences on social interaction in which have links towards what Goffman has analyzed in his framework concepts. I have been caught up acting different towards customers (audience) and my co-workers at work unlike outside of work. In regards, I would like to give several examples of these personal interactions. Day by day we get harsh impatient customers for instance, there was a time a customer who had a big cash difference in his account on some transactions that he didn’t permit. My role was to help him discover and claim back the differences. Unfortunately I was a new hire and I lack knowledge of viewing his account and helping him, he got angry and starting yelling at me. But it’s my responsibility as...
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...GUIDELINES FOR STAGE PLAY ANALYSIS FORMAT OF PAPER 1. Use 8 ½ x 11 white paper. 2. Use Times New Roman font, Font size 12, no Boldface, and use of All Caps 3. Put page numbers. 4. Double spaced. 5. 1 inch margin in all sides 6. Put your STUDENT NUMBER (NO NAMES, SURNAMES OR NICKNAMES) on the upper right hand of the paper. And your section across it. 7. Include your own title of your essay. GUIDE QUESTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS 1. Word Count SHALL NOT BE LESS THAN 3,000 WORDS. 2. As you ponder these elements, answer the following questions about the play, in paragraph format. Use complete sentences and good grammar to develop a good paragraph response to each question. Your style need not be formal, but it should be polished and thoughtful. WRITE YOUR OWN THOUGHTS, and DO NOT use outside internet sources or any other resources, other than for context. Steps to follow in writing a play analysis: CONTEXT: Consider the period setting of the play, and then research the events of the world during that time period. For example, if you are analyzing a play that takes place during the great depression, you will need to research and understand the current events and everyday human concerns of that period in order to write a dramaturgical analysis. The time setting is the most important part of dissecting the inner workings of a play. Characters are defined by their environments, just as we human beings are. So understanding the world events of a play's...
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...notes on what they observe. Successful sites are those in which, to some extent, what is considered ‘normal’ differs from the observer’s own sense of normal. In other words, students are asked to go to a place where taken-for-granted knowledge differs from their own and report on their experiences and insights. In doing so, you make something that was previously strange slightly more familiar, and write about it. Students are then asked to write their papers in two parts, including both a description and analysis of their experience (total 1800 words maximum). Analyses should be no more than 400 words. Papers will be assigned a grade based on the success with which they, (1) demonstrate they have chosen a site appropriate for anthropological observation, (2) richly describe what they observed, and (3) draw out and support interesting interpretations rooted in their experience. Assignments count for 30% of the student’s final grade. Unexcused late submissions will be penalized five points per day of lateness. Papers must be submitted in word format electronically before 2:30PM on Tuesday, October 20th. Please note that as this is an electronic submission, you will be locked out of the system if you try to submit late. Listening Students are asked to describe their experience visiting the site. Tell the reader what you observed. You may want to spend one or two sentences offering context regarding why you chose a particular site. Still, be careful, as your number...
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...Over time, management professionals have derived these principles through in-depth analysis and observation of events that businesses face in actual practices. They constitute the underlying and essential factors that form successful management foundations. These management principles are used in initiation as well as aiding of change, decision-making, organization, and skill management principles (Mullins, 2005). Management principles provide the framework that guide organizations in improving their performance. Customer focus is important since organizations usually depend on customers to understand future and current customer needs in meeting customer requirement. It constitutes a major principle utilized by the management in striving to exceed their customers’ expectations. Management principles help in enhancing effectiveness of organizational resources as far as customer satisfaction, corporate goals, and management as a whole is concerned. To assist inform research related to management principles especially, a review on literature is integral. This literature review will primarily focus the postulation that Taylorism as a fundamental system premeditated to make best use of management control over employees. This paper will examine how this position has been in use to-date. However, recent systems of management are focusing especially on promoting and empowering employee initiatives. This paper will seek to examine what management professionals and consultants have come to...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract................................................................................ 2 1.0 Introduction........................................................................... 3 2.0 Literature supporting issues...................................................... 7 3.0 Literature not supporting issues................................................ 12 4.0 Discussion............................................................................. 17 5.0 Conclusion............................................................................. 26 6.0 References............................................................................ 28 . ABSTRACT This study is based upon research previously that have been investigates and studied. Therefore the previous study will be main reference and it will state on literatures review, and then will be discussed in this study. The literature supporting issue suggest that women often have great success in performing their expatriates’ assignments than men and the literature not supporting issue will discuss about advantages over male side rather than women in expatriates assignments. These both literature issues will be discuss and compare on details in perspectives expatriate gender between male and female. The previous study have found, suggest that women often have great success in performing their foreign assignments, certain have stated that women and men performance expatriates equally same and also...
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...colorful and fragrant flower. To be the flower that will rightly represent his identity, he needs someone to call his name. In this poem, identity is not seen as something that is solid and concrete but as something that is situated and constructed by others, a glimpse of poststructuralist view on identity. Recently, language learning has been seen as participation and negotiation of self (see Higgins, forthcoming; Kinginger, 2004; Lam, 2000; Morita, 2004; Ohara, 2001; Pavlenko & Lantolf, 2000; and Solé, 2007 among others). The trend is resonated in the growing interest in language learner identity and the studies in narratives. In this paper, a case of heritage language learner will be investigated upon the theoretical frame of poststructuralism. Narrative inquiry will be used to analyze how she negotiates her learner identity. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: First, by looking at the struggle a language learner makes to acquire her heritage language, I reclaim the centrality of identity in defining heritage language learners. Second, to widen the horizons of narrative studies to the cyber space as it provides an ample source of easily accessible data and it has become one of the commonplace media of daily communication. Heritage Language Learners and Identity To refer to the Heritage Language Learners (HLLs), various terms have been implemented such as ‘native speakers,’ ‘quasi native speakers,’ ‘bilingual speakers,’ or, from the dissatisfaction with the prior terms, ‘home...
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...A2 Sociology ASSESSMENT PACK 2015-16 A2 Level Sociology Student Tracking Sheet | |Current Grade |Target Grade |Lates |Attendance | |September | | | | | |November | | | | | |January | | | | | |March | | | | | |May | | | | | | |Families |Education | |UMS | | | |Grade | | | | |Handed in on |Mark |Grade |What is the target for my next piece of work? |Above/ On/ Under Target | |Assessment/Homework |time...
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...Design + Culture: New Directions for Interior Design Scholarship and Pedagogy Date: March 15-16, 2015 Fort Worth, Texas Guest Editor: Tasoulla Hadjiyanni Associate Professor, Interior Design University of Minnesota Title: Design as a malleable structure: Reframing the conceptual understanding of design and culture through George Kubler’s morphological approach to the history of things Author: Joori Suh, Assistant Professor, Interior Design Department, Iowa State University Under the banner of globalization and internationalization, what actually happens in design? Has today’s blended culture lost the identity unique to the context? What should be the interior design educator’s attitude toward teaching design and culture in the current age? We encounter dilemmas in global design, the results of which are sometimes almost identical regardless of unique settings because of our tendency to grasp design as a whole with respect to particular style or trend without fully apprehending the core and the deviation. Perceiving the entire design project as a mere symbolic expression also hinders our true understanding of design and culture. In this article, I attempt to answer fundamental questions regarding the complex, innate relationship between design and culture and suggest restructuring a conceptual framework applicable to related research and education that effectively reveals the multi faceted characteristics of design and culture in the present age. From the perspective of morphology...
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...Understanding Society – SOSC 1850 Notes Lecture 1 Common Question Answers 1) Britain and US highest teenage pregnancy 2) 36% of US believe in Aliens 3) Suicides highest number of deaths 4) 60% of gun related were suicides 5) False not double stress of US that results in higher rates of suicide 6) Over 65 most suicides 7) Canada and Australia have highest kidnapping rates 8) Sweden highest rape rate 9) ¾ steal in office 10) False couples live tgt more satisfied 11) True, Womens brain are smaller 12) 11 women in legco 13) Plumber is a women 14) Margaret Thatcher did Chemistry for undergraduate Lecture 2 What is Sociology? - The big picture. * The group, culture, of organization, rather than the individual. Lots of people talk about society, but are they sociologists? No they are individualistic thinkers. They talk about individual people and cases instead of the group. Individualistic thinking at Universities: Professors award individual students with grades based on their ‘individual’ merits. What would the SOCIOLOGIST ask? Do some students have to work to earn money? Do some students have to spend time commuting to campus (no dorms!)? Do some students have family responsibilities.? Do some courses/majors have more generous grading procedures than others? Why are there more A students now than there were twenty years ago??? When and Why did sociological thinking begin? SOCRATES: “An unexamined life is not worth living...
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...A Tale of Two Steves 1 A Tale of Two Steves Joanne Greene-Blose Boston University AD643 Project Communications Professor Steve Leybourne A Tale of Two Steves 2 Joanne Greene-Blose Abstract Good leadership is key, particularly in today‟s competitive global economy, and can make the difference between the success or the failure of the organization (Bennett, 2009). This paper looks at the CEO of the top tech company in the world, Apple Inc., and analyzes his leadership style. Steve Jobs, as Jack Welch called (Elkind, 2008), “the most successful CEO today” exhibits characteristics of both transactional and transformational leadership styles. He can be perhaps best labeled as a composite of both. He possesses micromanagement tendencies, is quick to judge, frequently yells and berates his employees, and reduces them to tears. Yet he also inspires a transcending vision who can connect emotionally with both his customer base and employees (Fannin, 2005; “Transformational Leadership”, 2002). Jobs is unquestionably an enigmatic, polarizing figure – yet his formula for success cannot be denied. A Tale of Two Steves 3 Joanne Greene-Blose A Tale of Two Steves The importance of good leadership in today‟s environment cannot be overstated. Bennett (2009) identifies leadership as determining the ultimate success or failure of the organization and Ismail, Mohamed, Sulaiman, Mohamad, and Yusuf (2011) view it as the primary force in determining competitiveness in a global...
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...and creating ‘killing products’ 5Trust in success and the chosen strategy 7Summary 7Jobs’ leadership ideas within hospitality industry 8Conclusion 11 2 Leadership: Steve Jobs The aim of the work is to consider the leadership style of the Apple's CEO Steve Jobsthrough the analysis of the articles and works connected with his business activity; it is alsonecessary to contemplate on the way his leadership style and ideas can be applied withinhospitality industry. Introduction Leadership ideas at present acquire new meaning in the hospitality industry;leadership is subjected to close research from the theoretical and practical viewpoints, as wellas from the viewpoint of its relevance and application to the hotel and hospitality business ingeneral. It has become evident, that hospitality industry needs talented leaders no less thanother economic and business areas, but as far as hospitality sector possesses very peculiar features, and is concentrated on providing its customers with unique services, leadership inthis sector is not universal, but is clear that leadership ideas taken from other prominententerprises and personalities can be used, modified and applied to the sphere of hospitality business. This paper is an attempt to analyze one of the prominent leaders of the present timethrough the key features, which make him that prominent, and to see, whether and how thesefeatures can be used for the improved performance in the hospitality sector. The key issues to be analyzed are...
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...International Journal of Hospitality Management 35 (2013) 225–236 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Hospitality Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhosman Employee performance outcomes and burnout following the presentation-of-self in customer-service contexts Catherine Prentice a,∗ , Po-Ju Chen b , Brian King c a b c Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, Florida, FL, USA SHTM, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Burnout Occupational commitment Emotional intelligence Emotional labour Organizational citizenship behaviour Task performance Moderation a b s t r a c t This study examines how emotional intelligence and occupational commitment have a moderating effect on the relationship between emotional labour and its potential outcomes. Two acting strategies reflect emotional labour, namely surface and deep acting, with burnout and performance as the prospective outcomes. Burnout is operationalized into emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and diminished personal achievement; whereas performance is operationalized into task performance and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB). The study investigates employee responses from several tourism and hospitality organizations in Florida, USA. The results show that emotional...
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...Communication—Epistemological and Methodological Reflections from a System Theoretical Perspective Victoria von Groddeck Key words: Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reflect the epistemological and methodological aspects of an communication empirical research study which analyzes the phenomenon of increased value communication within theory; form business organizations from a system theoretical perspective in the tradition of Niklas LUHMANN. analysis; Drawing on the theoretical term of observation it shows how a research perspective can be functional developed which opens up the scope for an empirical analysis of communication practices. This analysis; Niklas analysis focuses on the reconstruction of these practices by first understanding how these practices Luhmann; stabilize themselves and second by contrasting different practices to educe an understanding of organization different forms of observation of the relevant phenomenon and of the functions of these forms. studies; George Thus, this approach combines system theoretical epistemology, analytical research strategies, such Spencer-Brown; as form and functional analysis, and qualitative research methods, such as narrative interviews, system theory; participant observation and document analysis. value communication Table of Contents 1. System Theory and Empirical Research: Epistemological Preposition 2. The Context and Research Question of the Case...
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