...WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A “GLOBAL CITIZEN” We live in a “global” world now. Corporate globalization is prevalent nearly everywhere. Travel is more common than ever before. We get news in our homes about any place in the world seconds after it happens. The internet allows us to connect with people all over the world. It allows us to stay in touch with people as we move all over the world as well. We even have an international language! English is spoken (by at least some portions of the population) nearly everywhere you go. Everyone has the potential of being a Global Citizen if they wish to but it takes courage, commitment, and a sense of humor to become one. Global citizenship might sound like a vague concept for academics but in fact it’s a very practical way of looking at the world which anyone, if given the opportunity, can relate to. In the context of globalization, thinking and acting as a global citizen is immensely important and can bring real benefits. To have a full insight of what it means to be a “global citizen”, one needs to understand what it means to be a citizen. A citizen is a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection (distinguished from alien). It also refers to a person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation. According to some accounts, citizenship is motivated by local interests (love of family, communal fairness,...
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...manufacturer (maybe a Kia)? In a world of global supply chains, it is very difficult to argue that there is any such thing as a car ‘made in Australia’ or any other manufactured good for that matter. But just suppose you could identify goods that create local jobs. Is that good reason to buy them? Why should we be more interested in creating jobs for locals than for workers in say Japan, Korea or Germany? In a time when the global economy is struggling to climb out of recession perhaps it is understandable your first priority is to local workers, but from a standpoint of need alone, it is hard to argue that helping local workers is better than helping unemployed workers in China – yet it is also hard to argue that we do not have a special obligation to fellow citizens who fall on hard times. This question raises the issue of reconciling sometime competing values and priorities. Just how wide (or narrow) should the circle of concern be for a business? One way of looking at this problem is to use the idea of ‘stakeholders’ (discussed in detail in chapter 3 of your unit text). The table below lists some types of stakeholder [pic] (Brom, de Bakker, Deblonde, and de Graaff, 2006, CMR Manual) The idea of stakeholders has become closely associated with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The question is though, on what ethical basis does this rest on? It is clear that CSR is founded on businesses voluntarily incurring obligations to stakeholders which places it in the...
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...Date RACISM ON CAMPUS & I OWE IT ALL TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE RACISM ON CAMPUS Race has always been an issue, and wherever there are people, there will be some form of racial profiling at one level or another, this article talks about the several aspects of racial encounters that mostly students have encountered in school and at college level(Ziegler and Hazeur 36) in the United States. Though some are mild and subtle, others are very strong but not shocking since I guess things are better today than several years back. The United States has come a long way in tackling issues regarding race, but that’s not to meant that people have reached a place where we can say race is gone. It’s in the TV shows we watch and even in comedy where comedians especially seem to be bringing out the racial issues in a funny way, however as they do this they continue perpetuating the racial stereotypes because people are social and they learn from hearing and imitating the cycle continues(Andreasen 653). Eventually one person will make a comment or whisper something that another will find offensive, whether its young people in school or just regular old citizens the psychological bondage of race is something hard to rid ourselves of. Being Korean, it’s easy to identify to the kind of comments in the article(Liang and Fassinger 28). It’s not that when you look in the mirror you see a stranger, it’s a constant feeling of being conscious about what you might do or say to trigger thoughts of racial...
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...RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: - The researcher will have a doctrinal approach towards the Project. Information for the Project will be collected from Books, Journals and Internet. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This Project couldn’t have been successfully completed without the support and guidance of our Sociology Professor, M. Lakshmipati Raju Sir and we would like to express our immense gratitude to him for his constant support and motivation that has encouraged us to come up with this project. Lastly, we would like to thank our classmates for their whole hearted support at all times during the course of the Project. Thanking You Rahul Kr. Dubey CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………..4 2. WHAT IS POWER?.......................................................................................................5 A. THE EMERGENCE OF POWER…………………………………………6 B. THE DIVISION OF POWER……………………………………………..9 3. WHAT IS AUTHORITY…...…………………………………………………………9 A. POLITICAL AUTHORITY……...………………………………………11 4. THE DEMOCRATIC CONCEPTION OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY………..….15 5. THE RELATIONSHIP AND DISTINCTION BETWEEN POWER AND AUTHORITY…………………...................................................................................20 6. WEBER’S ANALYSIS...
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...University of Phoenix Material Week 1 Assignment Worksheet Matching Match the following descriptions to the correct perspective: 1. ___B.___ perspective focuses on how learning experiences affect behavior, and focuses on behavior that is observable. 2. __E___ perspective focuses on the effect of unresolved conflicts from childhood, and how those conflicts unconsciously shape behavior. 3. __D___ perspective focuses on free will, conscious choices, and self-awareness, and views humans as distinct individuals with unique characteristics. 4. ___C__ perspective examines the mental processes used to obtain knowledge, and focuses on how information is processed, stored, retrieved, and manipulated. 5. __A___ perspective focuses on how factors like age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and income level influence behavior, attitudes, and mental processes. A. Sociocultural B. Behavioral C. Cognitive D. Humanistic E. Psychodynamic Table Provide a description of the function of the structures or hormones listed. |Structure |Hormone(s) released (if applicable) |Description or function | |Frontal lobe |CRH Corticotropin-releasing hormone |Helps with decision making | |Somatosensory cortex |CRH |Sensory receptive area for the sense of touch...
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...an individual. Justice also requires us to compare cases to avoid discriminating or treating people differently who are alike in relevant respects. Succinctly, it means treating people fairly. Issues involving questions of justice and fairness are usually divided into three categories, that of distributive justice, retributive justice and compensatory justice. Distributive justice, a theory based on writings of John Rawls, perhaps the most basic category, is concerned with the fair distribution of society’s benefits and burdens. Rawls felt that everything must be done in an act of achieving fairness throughout. He also did not want anything to be done that may hurt or damage another person. For example, Rawls felt that throughout a society, every demographic should be allowed the same treatment and goods as any other. The poor should receive the same health care as the rich, etc. (Lamont, 2002). Questions of distributive justice arise when different people put forth conflicting claims on society’s benefits and burdens and all the claims cannot be satisfied. The essential cases are those where there is a insufficiency of benefits such as jobs, food, housing, medical care, wealth and income as compared with the numbers and desires of the people who want these goods. The other side of the coin is that there may be too many burdens, that of unpleasant work, labor, health injuries of various sorts and not enough people willing to shoulder them. If there are enough goods to...
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...visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/leg-500-wk-5-midterm-exam/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM LEG 500 WK 5 MIDTERM EXAM LEG 500 WK 5 Midterm Exam Questions 1. Select the best definition of ethics: a. a fairly clear cut set of guides for decision making. b. a set of relatively unclear principles regarding what we must do. c. a set of relatively unclear principles regarding what we should do. d. religious views about the world. 2. Laws must be static and unyielding in order to provide stability for a society. a. True b. False 3. Choose the statement regarding duty to rescue that is false: a. There is no general duty to rescue an individual. b. One basis for not imposing individual rescue liability is: An individual should have a right of freedom of action, privacy and personal autonomy not to intervene and perform rescue. c. Under a liberal–communitarian approach, citizens owe a duty to the state to rescue other citizens based on reciprocal rights and duties. d. When one taunts another person who then puts themselves in danger in response to the teasing, the teaser has a duty to rescue the other. 4. All of the following are considered exceptions to the general rule that there is no duty to rescue except: a. Contract – lifeguards, for example, have signed contracts agreeing to rescue people in exchange for pay and benefits. b. Witnessing an accident – this creates a duty to step in and help the injured c. Child abuse- statutes in...
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...In this paper, I will discuss how social responsibility and ethics interacts with the business world. I will discuss different styles to management ethics, the benefits companies will find from acting ethical and socially responsibly and some examples of unethical behavior in the workplace. I will also look at social responsibly and its benefits, as well as give my opinion on both topics. Businesses have always been known to shoot for maximum profits in order to please both those inside and outside their company. However, the concept of business ethics and social responsibility has put principled boundaries on organizations so that they cannot achieve their profit goals in any way they please. In order for a company to function within today’s global business society, they must be able to take a strong stance ethically on how they are going to sell their products and conduct their everyday work activities. Alongside being ethical, companies must also take on social responsibility; showing their community that they are involved, alert and willing to be philanthropists even in tough times. Corporate ethics and social responsible, if overlooked, can be detrimental to an organizations outward appearance and customer base. It is not only the right thing to do, but it has always been seen as good business. Both business ethics and social responsibly, although different, play fundamental roles in an organization’s successes. Ethics can be defined as the study of standards...
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...As Canadians, we live in a society that is defined as being free and democratic. The Government of Canada works extensively in order to ensure that the country’s laws are regulated and maintained and eventually followed by society. These rules and regulations arrive from the decisions made by the court systems and the government. Politicians are elected by us, the citizens, in order to represent our views on the regulation of certain laws but also assist in taking care of society and the economy by influencing public policies and making critical decisions. Living in a democratic country, these elected officials are expected by society to be honourable and fair when it comes to making decisions that are in the best interests of the community. Premier Dalton McGuinty, however, overlooked this concept when he decided to hold a private meeting behind closed doors with a stakeholder. In 2007, the Ontario Government announced that it would increase the minimum wage of workers every year until it reached the maximum of $10.25 in March of 2010. McGuinty’s private meeting involved a discussion with the stakeholder about cancelling the remaining increases due to Canada’s economic placement. This unethical decision by Premier McGuinty caused an uproar within communities mainly due to the fact that this action did not represent a democratic society. But is democracy the only issue present in this case? How does procedural fairness play a role in McGuinty’s unethical act? The answer to these...
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...of care (DOC):Did D owe P a DOC? (consider RF type of person) PHYSICAL INJURY:P suffered physical injury, so we apply the Lord Atkin’s ‘Neighbour Test’: : which is we owe a duty of care to people who are so closely and directly affected by my act or omission that, as a reasonable person, I should think about those people when I am about to act or to not act . The law applicable is stated in the case of Donoghue v. Stevenson which states a defendant owed a duty of care if it was reasonably foreseeable (RF), prior to the accident, that its actions could cause harm to the type of person as the plaintiff. (write down the logic of actions, from the careless act to what and to what… then conclude it is FR…) When A carelessly drove 150km/hour on his motorcycle at noon through Phu My Hung, it was RF that pedestrians such as B could be injured, because…) the human brain's reaction and response time to visual images is not fast enough to safely control a heavy, hard steel motorcycle at such high speed, and when it goes out of control, the laws of motion and inertia will cause it to veer off the road and hit anything including people near the road, whose bodies are soft and will sustain injury upon impact. Also, at noon in Phu My Hung there are many pedestrians, so you can expect such injuries to happen. (Any person should be able to reasonably foresee that some types of people such as (pedestrians...) Recognized of duty of care:1/ drivers owe a duty of care to other drivers, passengers...
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...of Concepts: starting Week 7 of the quarter -Civil Law and Litigation What types of evidence is there? What are the rules of evidence? What are the requirements for evidence to be admissible in court? Explain how evidence can be excluded (exclusionary rules) What are the types of privileged evidence? -Torts What is a tort? Name the different types of torts What happened in the McDonalds story discussed in class? Explain Intentional Torts: Battery, Assault, Mental Distress Explain what elements are required for a tort to be negligent What is professional negligence? What are defenses to negligence? Compare and contrast Contributory Negligence and Comparative Negligence What is strict liability? What is products liability? -Contracts What is a contract? What are the types of contracts? Details about executory, enforceable, void, express, implied, and voidable What are requirements of contracts? What happens when a contract is breached? -Real Property What things are considered real property? What is an interest in real estate? Details about fee simple absolute, leasehold, life estate, joint tenants, subsurface interests, above surface interests, easement, and restrictive covenants What is a deed? Details about Statutory Warranty and Quit Claim What is title insurance? What are the types of title insurance? Know the process for buying a house, with a lender, with a contract What is adverse possession? Right to survivorship? Statute of Frauds? Know...
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...Tackling Conflict and Poor Teamwork - Prevention Ultimately there is no guarantee that we will be able to prevent conflict. The point was made in the section entitled, What causes conflict? that the complex dynamics between people in social interaction will inevitably lead to conflict sooner or later. However, there are steps that we can take to try to keep conflict to a minimum - not to prevent it altogether (as that would clearly be unrealistic), but rather to prevent certain occurrences at least. Many conflicts can be seen to arise as a result of a breakdown in communication. A key issue, therefore, in preventing conflict is the importance of ensuring that communication takes place as effectively as possible. Conflict frequently arises from people having different perspectives on a situation or different interests in relation to that situation. The differences in their perspective can therefore easily lead to a communication breakdown in which each party fails to take on board the perspective of the other, and they therefore fail to 'connect' with one another in a meaningful way. Conflict can also arise as a result of the misuse or abuse of power (for example in the case of bullying or harassment). At certain times at least, therefore, preventing conflict is likely to involve making sure that policies and procedures in relation to bullying and harassment are in place and are actively used, rather than simply being pieces of paper on a shelf gathering dust. The same...
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...taken philosophies from other teachers from my past, my personal experiences and my personal beliefs to make up a philosophy of education that I use in teaching today. I found that the philosophy of my fundamental beliefs of educational teaching is progressivism and social reconstructionism. My philosophies of education are based totally on the students, which in other terms its student-centered philosophy. I believe each student should be treated as individuals and that the focus is for the students’ individual needs. Student-Centered philosophy will allow the students to be involved in their own learning process. As an educator in this process, I can act as a facilitator and help guide the students. Basing my philosophy of education on progressivism, I agree that students should test ideas by active experimentation or real-world applications. Using learning as a way to critical think and solve problems to make meaning through his or her experience in the physical and cultural context. Pragmatism is considered to be the real-world application of the philosophy of progressivism. John Dewey applied pragmatist philosophy in his progressive approaches. Like Morrison (2008), Dewey states individuals and their environments (however defined, whether cultural, intellectual, social, emotional, physical) shape each other origin of existence. Social Reconstructionism is also incorporated in my philosophy of education. Students should be able to address social challenges and take individual...
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...reasons for doing so. It could be the employee feels the company may owe them something, there could be personal financial issues that the individual is dealing with, or maybe because they feel they are in a position to perform such an act and not get caught. Not all embezzlement cases involve an employee stealing money from a firm. There are some cases that involve employees having access to customers’ accounts in order to misappropriate funds to those accounts for a personal gain. In February 2014, an employee at Dover Downs Hotel and Casino was arrested for allegedly placing unauthorized credits on patrons’ player cards. Jane (whose name has been changed) had worked for the casino for two years. She became employed initially as a Line Cook and then later on, she was hired to work in the Capital Club department in August 2013. This department is responsible for issuing player cards to patrons. These cards serve as a means for customers to earn and redeem points. The ways for a customer to earn points is through playing the slot machines or having points physically placed on their card by a Capital Club representative. The points serve as cash, so for example, 1 point equals $1. The more points you earn, the more money you have to play with. During her employment with the department, Jane befriended two other patrons. They would come see her on a regular basis. This was not seen as an issue because each employee had their own customers that they have built a relationship...
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...on September 17th, 2011, where it was named Occupy Wall Street (OWS). This is an international protest movement where the moral foundation of the OWS Movement appears to be focused around fairness, care, and liberty from oppression. The main moral issues are against social and economic inequality, greed, corruption, and the undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS primary goal is to make the economic structure and power relations in society fairer. The majority view of the protesters and moral implications is to fight for more government involvement and concern for the 99 percent that are not rich. OWS protesters believe the economic system is not fair and is set up in way such that now only the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. The rich--those on Wall Street (“the “1 percent”) got rich by taking without giving. OWS protesters view the rich as cheaters who often exploited their way to the top. They further suggested that the taxpayers had to bail out the “1 percent” after they crashed the economy. The moral economic implication is that “…they really owe us [the taxpayers] for saving their necks. It’s high time they started paying what they owe.” (Haidt, 2011) http://reason.com/archives/2011/12/30/the-moral-foundations-of-occupy-wall-str...
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