...I agree on it being a mix. A lot of our characteristics are already in our genes, aspects of race that are being passed by from generation to generation. Those are the things we acquire to survive, things that are mainely based on our environment, and due to evolution these things get embedded in our system. So, in a way, I believe that the Nature aspects are in fact influenced by our environment. The Nurture aspects influence the Nature aspects and vice versa. The skills we are born with influence the things we pick up from our environment. Cause and effect.A big debate in psychology is nature vs nurture. The argument is as to whether a person's gene's (nature) mold them into an individual or whether their environment and how they are raised plays a part. The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest issues in psychology. The debate centers on the relative contributions of genetic inheritance and environmental factors to human development. Some philosophers such as Plato and Descartes suggested that certain things are inborn, or that they simply occur naturally regardless of environmental influences. Other well-known thinkers such as John Locke believed in what is known as tabula rasa, which suggests that the mind begins as a blank slate. According to this notion, everything that we are and all of our knowledge is determined by our experience. For example, when a person achieves tremendous academic success, did they do so because they are genetically predisposed to...
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...Executive Summary In businesses today, diversity initiatives have emerged as a core component of many companies’ mission statements and driving human resource practices (Andrulis & Sanchdev, 2009). As companies expand globally, there is one corporation that has expanded in diversity globally. Starbuck’s is one of the largest coffee companies in America and a cross the world that is diverse culturally. So, how does Starbucks utilize its cultural intelligence to increase the awareness of diversity in the workplace? Is workplace diversity important to employees at Starbucks? Starbucks’ believe that to operate successfully in a global marketplace, embracing diversity in every aspect of their business is absolutely essential (www.starbucks.com). Diversity is something that brings everyone together, race, gender, religion, cultural background, experience etc… Diverse workplaces do the same as well, learning from one another and being able to work in an environment with different ethnicities. Diversity brings opportunities within the organization and the learning capability increase from the many cultures. By Starbucks being a global corporation, the company has to maintain their diversity not just for the workplace but also for the community. In this paper I will describe and explain the foundation of Starbucks Company, and how diversity is implemented in the workplace. I will also discuss how diversity is implemented in my work organization and my opinion of the importance...
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...Constantine-Simms University of Essex (UK) & Marciea Monique McMillian University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) ABSTRACT The publication of Hernstein & Murray’s (1994) “The Bell Curve” appears to be the latest expression of pseudo scientific theories with respect to race and intelligence. This paper gives an historical and ideological insight behind the development and application of intelligence tests by citing examples of their impact on legislation, social policy and intervention programmes in relation to Blacks. More importantly, a discussion of cultural bias in test design focuses on the response of Black psychologists who developed Black intelligence tests that portray whites as intellectually inferior in the same manner that Blacks are portrayed as intellectually inferior on tests devised by white psychologist. Furthermore, The hereditary perspective of intelligence is challenged by empirical evidence that centres on children with white ancestry to assess whether white genes influence intelligence while citing several sources that support the environmental explanation of the race gap in test scores. Consequently, this discussion questions the reliability and validity of intelligence tests that are used to reinforce the Black intellectual inferiority myth. The conclusive argument suggests in no uncertain terms that the Bell Curve is nothing more than the repackaging of racist pseudo-scientific conclusions by right wing academics, intent on rekindling a political...
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...Animal Equality: Effects of Giving Animals Rights PHI 103 Informal Logic June 2, 2014 Argument When it comes to animal equality it can be hard to imagine a dog, cat, or even a hamster of having equivalence. When I think of animals, I picture our pets, wild animals, and even those in which are consumed. The question of what is and what is not ethically appropriate in the treatment of animals has is debatable. Peter Singer’s provides a utilitarian arguments for why animals with a certain level of perceptive justify equal moral attention with humans. Introduction Singer calls for the establishment of a “liberation movement” comparable to those that remained emerging up throughout the dated in which he wrote his essay and attentive on such problems as gay, women’s and African-American rights. Noting how previously “legitimate” forms of judgment and prejudice, over time, correctly came to be observed as unfairly and immorally damaging towards definite classes of people, Singer argues that the time has come for a similar pledge to the rights of species that walk on four legs instead of two. The animal liberation movement, which was essentially begun by Singer’s book, Slate.com (2001) argues “It is ethically wrong to use animals in such a way that we cause them suffering, either by deprivation of essential components of a happy existence, or by causing them pain.” (Slate.com, 2001) The animal liberationists would like to disallow most medical experimentation using animal...
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...College Source # 1: Interpersonal Communication Seventh Edition (book) Summary: This book is a book that I used last year in my Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication class online. It contains principles, concepts, and skills that will help you build the skills that you need to become a better communicator. It contains issues as the ethical challenges and choices that affect interpersonal communication emotional intelligence and forgiveness, interracial relationships, safe sex, ways to deal with abuse from intimates, race related differences between conflict styles, and the power of language. It contains quizzes that you can take to test your knowledge and skills. Evaluating Criteria: I will use reliability to evaluate this source. There is an author listed in the book which means someone wrote the book. He has verifiable information in the book. There is a website that you can go on to find out more information about this book. The website is www.cengage.com/wadsworth. Is the source credible? This book is very credible. The book uses verifiable information and helped me trace the sources of information. The information was reliable. There were dates on the information in the writing. Source # 2: The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) Clinician’s Guide to prevention and treatment of Osteoporosis. National Osteoporosis Foundation, Washington, DC.2014 (web article) www.nlm.nih.gov Summary: It contains information on how you can prevent yourself from getting osteoporosis...
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...(2002). IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Westport, CT: Praeger. Citation: Berhanu, Girma. (2007). Black intellectual genocide: An essay review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Education Review, 10(6). Retrieved [date] from http://edrev.asu.edu/essays/v10n6index.html. Abstract I review the book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, written by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. I critique the authors’ major assertion that a significant part of the gap between rich and poor countries is due to differences in national intelligence. The authors claim that they have evidence that differences in national IQ account for substantial variation in per capita income and growth of a nation. This essay review debunks their assumptions that intellectual and income differences between nations stem from genetic differences. This critique provides an extended review of the research literature that argues against these assumptions and presents a different picture from that presented by Lynn and Vanhanen about the concept of intelligence, what IQ measures and does not measure. The essay exposes the racist, sexist, and antihuman nature of the research tradition in which the authors anchored their studies and the deep methodological flaws and theoretical assumptions that appear in their book. The low standards of scholarship evident in the book render it largely irrelevant for modern science. This essay specifically deals with the IQ value of Ethiopian immigrants that came from Israel, used by the authors as representing...
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...Modern Management & Cultural Intelligence Today is the global village prospering with globalisation. During this interactive communication age, it is critical for administrative managers to understand and accept a diversity of cultures and traditions for all the stake holders of different areas: staff, consumers, partners, rivals and local administration authority, as modern management concept. Utilizing cultural intelligence delicately can assist exploring endless resources, hidden in the social communication of the sophisticated nature of business. As every individual is inherited with different education, experiences and culture, accompanied by advantages and divergence, it is only necessary to properly manage them. Leaders should prompt to achieve the target goal by means of global cultures based on modern management capacity as well as religion, social customs: innovative management models based on integration of diverse culture: and adjusting existing practising principles with varied culture. Even though the development of all these approaches are some of the characteristics of each manager reflecting mutual understanding, inspiration and innovation, most of them heavily rely on the cultural quotient. In brief, beliefs, values, perceptions, expectations, attitudes and assumptions derived from IQ and EQ are on the other hand, getting along with Cultural Intelligence occurred in his or her social environment of regional, national, economic and livelihood. In general...
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...White, Chinese and Indian heritage students. • There has been concern about the achievement levels of certain Black minorities: in particular, African Caribbeans and Bangladeshi students under-attain in schools. • Sociologists have difficulty in measuring the impact of ethnicity on achievement because other factors may be involved. Poverty, class and cultural factors may all form part of reasons why some Black ethnic groups underperform. Key questions (AO1) What is ethnicity? (AO1) What patterns of attainment on the basis of ethnicity are there? (AO2) Is the education system institutionally racist? (AO2) What other social factors may influence ethnic attainment? Summary of key points Ethnicity is a word used in sociology to describe the culture that you belong to. Everyone has an ethnicity. For most people in Barry, this ethnicity or sense of belonging to a culture is Welsh. Some people have more than one ethnicity; they might be Welsh/Chinese or English/African. The majority ethnicity in Britain is white British. People who do not fit into that group are said to belong to an ethnic minority. There are many ethnicities in Britain. The majority of the UK population in 2001 was White (92 per cent). The remaining 4.6 million (or 7.9 per cent) people belonged to other ethnic groups. It has been known for a long time that different ethnic groups appear to have differing rates of attainment in the education...
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...Eros and Agape Mr. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Wilmington University Eros and Agape Love is a powerful intoxicating emotion; it has prevailed over centuries of tribulations, and has helped mankind endure countless attacks of evil, and the unfortunate privation of life. Original sin unveiled intelligence that essentially hardened mankind’s hearts; it set us upon the path of hardships that spawned a need for redemption. It is important to note that there are actually four types of love which I suppose we’ve all experienced sometime in our lives. First there is Philos, which means friendship or brotherly love, the word is derived from Philadelphia, known as the “City of Brotherly Love”, second is Storge, which is a family love, referring to the close bond among mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, third is Eros, which refers to natural or sexual love that can exist between a man and a woman, and lastly Agape, also known as supernatural love, which refers to the unearned love God has for humanity, and, the love we should have for our neighbors’ salvation. Although there are several types of love, let’s evaluate and make distinction between Eros and Agape. Lets’ refer back to the beginning to explain the present. When I was young, I’ve heard that for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. This may be the best example of agape, the unearned love God has for humanity. Consequently...
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...black doesn’t mean she’s not intelligent. I understand fully why the writer felt her “pressure start to rise”. Some people set out to purposely humiliate innocent people which I believe is a disgrace. The jury use their “way of speaking and communicating, to give them power” (line 21), this should be shunned upon because Rachel is still smart as she speaks Hatican Kneyal, Spanish and English while the average person can usually only speak one language. I feel pity when I read this article because I believe everybody should have equal rights and everybody should be able to voice their own opinions. Racism will never go away because children nowadays are following in their parent’s footsteps and being encouraged not to mingle with different races. In the country which I live in 10000 school children were suspended or expelled in the last year for accounts associated with racial abuse or misconduct. The fact that Rachel was branded as “precious” due to her “lack of polish” shows that they thought she was confused and didn’t know what she was talking about. I agree with the article because I believe that black people can be powerful too...
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...CHAPTER 4: Psychological Testing I/O psychologists generally agree that no other selection technique is superior to intelligence or cognitive ability tests for selecting the best employees. They carry fewer risks of adverse impact in hiring decisions, they are good predictors of performance on the job and in training programs for many kinds of occupations. Even NFL, football teams administer psychological tests to prospective players. The New York Giants team has used personality tests to detect whether a player would tend to be overly aggressive, undisciplined or likely to cause trouble on and off the field. Characteristics of Psychological Tests Carefully developed and researched psychological tests have several characteristics. A proper test is: standardized, objective, based on sound norms, reliable, and valid. ➢ Standardization Standardization refers to the consistency or uniformity of the conditions and procedures for administering a test. Every person taking the test reads or listens to the same instructions, is allowed the same amount of time in which to respond, and is situated in a similar physical environment > any change in the testing procedure may produce a change in individual test performance. E.g. if the air-conditioner has broken down on a particular day, then the ppl perfoming the test that day may not do as well as others. The test administrators should...
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...1 CHAPTER OUTLINE Ranking Groups Types of Groups Listen to Our Voices Problem of the Color Line Does Race Matter? Biracial and Multiracial Identity: Who Am I? Research Focus Multiracial Identity Sociology and the Study of Race and Ethnicity The Creation of Subordinate-Group Status The Consequences of Subordinate-Group Status Resistance and Change WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? How Does Society Rank Different Groups? What Are the Four Types of Groups? Does Race Still Matter? How is Biracial and Multiracial Identity Defined? How Is Sociology Applied to the Study of Race and Ethnicity? What Leads to the Creation of Subordinate-Group Status? What Are the Consequences of Subordinate-Group Status? How Does Change Occur in Race Relations? ISBN 1-256-48952-2 2 Racial and Ethnic Groups, Thirteenth edition, by Richard T. Schaefer. Published by Merrill Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. Exploring Race and Ethnicity Minority groups are subordinated in terms of power and privilege to the majority, or dominant group. A minority is defined not by being outnumbered but by five characteristics: unequal treatment, distinguishing physical or cultural traits, involuntary membership, awareness of subordination, and ingroup marriage. Subordinate groups are classified in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, and gender. The social importance of race is derived from a process of racial formation; any biological significance is relatively unimportant to society...
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...Race/ Color Based Employment Discrimination Racially based discrimination carries a painful history in America and the aftermath is still very present even though government prohibits discrimination through constitutions, state statutes and acts, which are exemplified in cases largely through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC is dedicated to enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to practice inequality against applicants or employees. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs outlines the basic needs of an employee and can show how someone could be affected by inequality. Such intolerance can be seen across the country with recently occurring events such as the EEOC v. Yellow Transportation case, the EEOC v. DHL Express case and the current top position hiring conflict in the NFL. To fully understand the issue of discrimination in the U.S. today, we must understand the long-standing history our nation has with intolerance. As unfortunate as it seems, our country was built with this notion of inequality. Slaves were brought over from Africa to work fields for wealthy or soon-to-be wealthy Americans. At the time it seemed like a way of life, though the reality is that it was extremely oppressive and today such an inferior take on differences in cultural background is considered unethical. In 1865 the 13th Amendment was passed abolishing slavery, although the Civil Rights Movement did not occur until the 1950’s lasting through the 1960’s. The Civil Rights Movement officially...
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...A Case Analysis for “TheVidSoft Triangle (A)” A Case Analysis for “The Vidsoft Triangle (A)” I. Summary In what could prove to be his defining moment, Alaji Babatunde, senior technical support manager of a medium-sized & multicultural software company, is facing a crucible in the form of an interpersonal conflict in one of his teams which necessitates his quick but calculated decision that would impact the employees‟ harmonious & effective interaction in his department and that could question the integrity of a procedurally correct business decision he made. Discerning the conflict‟s apparent origins & consequences and considering probable answers will lead Alaji to an evenhanded resolution to this intense trial and secure against a potential repeat. II. Analysis When VidSoft Technologies, an internet company, opened in 1996 it was developing enterprise software focusing on procurement for its customers. Both its revenues and employee base increased after going public in 1999. The rapid growth of the company could be mainly attributed to the customer-centric corporate strategy and team-oriented work culture that was introduced and implemented by the organization‟s mild-mannered and charismatic CEO, Keith Nash. Teams are highly treasured in the company. They satisfy most employees‟ need for affiliation as McClelland‟s theory of needs explains (Robbins & Judge, 2009:180). Teams in the company can be classified as self-managed as they „can not only solve problems but implement...
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...UNDERSTANDING LEARNING – STUDY NOTES WHAT IS LEARNING? * Reflective teaching * Classroom experience * Technical teaching * Knowledge about learning * Reflective teaching * Classroom experience and knowledge about learning provide students with a constructive learning environment * Understanding learning * Individual differences, Learning theories, Managing learning in classrooms, Teachers * Constructivist – refers to the idea that learners construct knowledge for themselves; each learner individually (and socially) constructs meaning as he or she learns. * Humanist – a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established doctrine or faith (fideism). * Cognitivist – believe that learning is a change in individuals' mental structures enabling them to show changes in behaviour. It is based on the thought process behind the behaviour. * Behaviourist – believe that learning takes place when knowledge is separated into smaller bits. Students are rewarded for successful answers. Instruction focuses on conditioning the learner's behaviour. Learning involves repetition and association and is highly mechanical. Behaviourist leaning teachers focus on a new behavioural pattern being repeated until it becomes automatic. *...
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