• Competency 1: Examine how theory and sociological concepts apply to everyday life.
  • Identify gender-specific childhood clothing and/or toys.
• Competency 2: Evaluate the basic tools of sociological inquiry.
  • Evaluate the validity and helpfulness of gender socialization sources.
  • Summarize gender socialization sources.
• Competency 5: Evaluate the impact of social change on society and social institutions.
  • State and defend a personal approach to ethical decision-making.
  • State and defend a position on a contemporary ethical issue.
• Competency 6: Demonstrate written and verbal communication skills for effectively presenting sociological concepts, ideas, and analyses.
  • Write in a professional style using APA 6th edition referencing and format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.

The purpose of this assignment is twofold:

• It will help you to start thinking about the impact of socialization on your life as a starting point for your final project.
• It requires you to locate and evaluate resources on socialization that may be used in your final paper.

Socialization, the lifelong social experience through which we learn culture, is vital to becoming members of a society. One type of socialization that occurs at a very early age involves gender roles. For this assignment you will analyze how gender is created by society, specifically looking at children’s toys and/or clothing.

From birth, parents act toward children on the basis of the child’s sex. Children’s clothing and toys reflect their parents gender expectations. For this assignment, complete the following:

• Thinking back on your childhood, were your toys and/or clothing gender-specific? Identify the clothing and/or toys you had and how they reflect gender expectations.
• Describe what messages your toys and/or clothing sent about gender and on yourself.
• How do these messages reflect larger societal expectations?
• Analyze gender-specific messages that arise from childhood clothing and/or toys.
• What impact do you think these messages had on you? In doing so, be sure to utilize concepts introduced in this section as well as course readings on socialization.
• Your analysis should also include information from two additional outside resources regarding gender socialization—one from a popular source and one from a scholarly source. A critical component of this assignment involves evaluating these outside resources.
  • Provide a summary of the outside articles (one scholarly and one popular) and how they will be helpful in your final project. Evaluate the information you receive from these sources—both in terms of validity and helpfulness—using specific course materials from Unit 2. For example, how can each source be evaluated in terms of accuracy, objectivity, audience, and content? What conclusions can you draw about these sources?
• Use APA format for citations, references, and general paper formatting. Your writing should use correct grammar and mechanics.
• Your paper should be at least three pages in length, excluding the cover page and the references page.

MUST CITE FROM ATTACHED SOURCES AND OUTSIDE SOURCES

You are the superintendent of the Centervale Juvenile Detention Center. Centervale’s mayor has been discussing juvenile justice policy with several advisors and has now requested your input. Specifically, the mayor is interested in your thoughts on the various justifications for correction, challenges associated with running a detention center, and steps that might be taken to address those challenges.

Here Is What You Need To Do . . .

Part I (500 words memo)

Using the memo template, prepare a memo to the mayor that examines the following:

The mayor is aware that different rationales for the correction of juveniles exist. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the four primary models of corrections and make an argument for the one that should be utilized at the Centervale Juvenile Detention Center. Indicate which primary model will represent the best interests for the youth and the Centervale community. Compare the selected model to the other three models of corrections, identifying the pros and cons of each. Use examples from empirical research as foundational support for your case.

The mayor has been advised at different points on a number of challenges currently facing juvenile corrections, particularly juvenile detention. Based on your knowledge of detention facilities, identify the single greatest challenge to successfully administering the Centervale Juvenile Detention Center. As superintendent, you have unique insight into the struggles of the administration, staff, and detained youths. Describe and analyze the various challenges and point out one that is the most critical. Using empirical research to identify three or four other challenges, examine and explain the significance of these challenges as they relate to successfully administering the Centervale Juvenile Detention Center

part 2 (750 words)

As the detention center superintendent, you are responsible for choosing from a wide variety of programs and services for implementation within your facility, each with its own goals, processes, and methods. Based on the challenges you outlined in Part I, which program, policies, or initiatives would you select for your detention center? Remember, advocates from multiple programs and initiatives that claim to address the various ills of the justice system routinely approach the mayor touting a particular course of action. As the superintendent, it’s your job to educate the mayor on which program best fits the unique challenges of your community.

Using empirical research, identify and analyze several possible initiatives that would best fit the Centervale Juvenile Detention Center, making sure to point out the strengths and weaknesses of each along with your recommendations. Remember, too, that your recommendations must fit within the general tenets of the correctional rationale you selected in Part I for utilization at the detention center. Also, remember to point out how the programs you recommend might affect the community as well as the youths being housed in the detention center.

Unit 2… For this assignment, you will be choosing the project for which you wish to formulate your project plan. Please click here to complete the template. (template is provided). Your completed document should be at least two pages in length.

Unit 3… In this assignment, you will continue working on the project plan that you began in Unit II. Just like in Unit II, you will be responding to prompts within a template. Click here to access the template. (template provided)

Your completed document should be at least two pages in length. Once you have completed the template, save the document and upload it to the assignment area of Blackboard.

Resource: Tools and Decision Making for Ongoing Performance Management Presentation Grading Criteria ON ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL

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Select one organization type from the various organizations your Learning Team analyzed as part of your Week Four assignment. Build on your knowledge acquired from all previous assignments to complete the final Learning Team presentation.

Conduct research about decision-making processes in risk management and quality management in health care, including the following:

• Common problems encountered by your chosen organization type
• How to acquire relevant information required for decision making
• Common tools used to enhance decision making
• Challenges that may be encountered in making risk-management and quality-management decisions
• Current and future trends in risk and quality management
• What strategies should be adapted to improve ongoing performance

Outline your organization’s decision-making processes that will be used to address risk- and quality-management issues. A 1-page list of steps, a flow chart, or a decision tree format is suggested.

Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Tools and Decision Making for Ongoing Performance Management Scenario Worksheet located on the student website. Submit the worksheet to your facilitator separately from the presentation materials.

Create a presentation of your findings. Your presentation may be in one of the following formats:

• A 10- to 12-minute in-class poster presentation
• A 10- to 12-minute recorded presentation uploaded to a video sharing website such as YouTube with a link submitted to the facilitator
• A 5-6 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, including detailed speaker notes
• Another format approved by your facilitator

Support your presentation with a minimum of six sources, four from the University Library and two from either the course textbooks or this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Prepare a list of all resources used in your research.

Include the following in your presentation:

• Why the process, information, and tools were chosen and how they should contribute to a response
• The decision your team made regarding the scenario and how you reached your decision
• How any changes resulting from your decisions could be disseminated and implemented in the organization
• References
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