Literature is abundant on the barriers Women of Color face in Higher education faculty and administration roles. This literature review will present research from articles and books. Women in higher education who seek leadership roles give up on working in administration for seen or unseen barriers. Jackson and Harris (2007) suggest nine barriers to Black and Minority Females in higher education. The barriers are: 'race and gender intolerance' ( p. 121), 'gate-keeping' (p. 121), 'glass ceiling' (p. 121), 'myths' (p.121),...
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Social psychology is the scientific study of how people’s behaviour, thoughts, feelings, actions, belief and moral conduct changes significantly when interacting with others in a social setting that could either be a real life, such as a prison institution, or an imagined one set up solely as a case study, or experiment to measure results (McLeod 2007). Two psychologists, Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram, carried out a number of conformity experimental studies to explore and understand why people’s behaviour changed...
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A community can be defined as “a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.” The aim of the community assessment is to determine the specific community’s strengths such as talents, skills and performance as well as the needs and challenges. Local institutions including religion, politics and education are important role players in the community and its influences. Butterfoss (2007) stresses the importance of the...
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Introduction This project allowed me to get in depth with two movies, The Breakfast Club by John Hughes and Indiana Jones Temple of Doom by Steven Spielberg. This project mainly focused on how gender, class, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation is pictured throughout the movies. By just having an understanding of the different sociological concepts portrayed in these movies, you can further have a good idea of people’s perspective on the society according to human personalities. Having a good understanding on...
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Abstract An individual sees approximately 3000 ads per day and the number is not likely to reduce anytime soon. Hence we explore the various effects of advertising strategies employed on the individual. It addresses the various forms of advertisements that an individual is exposed to in their day-to-day lives as well as the effects of the various persuasive psychological techniques on the psyche of the individual. These include the use of color, heuristics, emotional conditioning, and personalization in advertisements. It...
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Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015), Coates writes a letter to his fifteen-year-old son, Samori, to inform him and share his experience of racial hegemony in America today. Coates letter to his son is the version of “the talk,” the talk parents’ needs to have with their kids. This talk isn’t so much so of the typical talk that parents give about sex and etc. more so a preventative talk to inform Samori what it means to...
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Abstract Eating disorder is one among the common chronic conditions in the world today especially among adolescents. Eating disorder (ED) describe sicknesses that are represented by constant disturbance of eating patterns and extreme unhappiness or worry about body weight/shape which leads to poor physical and/or mental health. There is a huge misconception among some adolescents about “what is eating healthy” and they tend to skip meals and consume fad diets in order to be healthy and start developing eating disorder...
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Introduction “It’s changing out there, just like last time. There’s a storm brewing Harry and we’d best be ready when she does” - Hagrid says this to Harry in film harry potter and The half blood prince screen play by Steve Kloves (15 July 2009). For me that storm was the Harry Potter series and the worldwide phenomena it became. In my dissertation I will present a review of where I consider JK Rowling used classic archetypes, drawn from myths...
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Kate Chopin was a female author of New Orleans. She was notable for writing rather controversial short stories and a highly controversial novel, The Awakening. Growing up, Chopin knew very well about the “etiquette” that women had to follow in the 19th-century, mainly because she lived in this time period. She wrote the novel The Awakening to show some of these “social norms” that women had to follow and how many of them may have struggled with the thought that...
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Our actions and our actions and our way of living may be influenced by our surrounding environment or culture, however, some behaviours apply to all humans. Egoism is the action an individual performs for their own good and self-interest (Herbert,1892). On the other hand, altruism is defined as the act of increasing the welfare of others while decreasing your own (Douglas, 2009). Although these key terms are seen as opposites, the question remains whether genuine acts of altruism exist or...
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In today’s society the topic of if individuals with anorexia nervosa should be able to withdraw from life sustaining treatment is still an ongoing debate. On one side you have to weigh the option of how much the patient’s autonomy and competence play into their decisions of being able to assess their quality of life. When an individual is deemed competent the clinicians and doctors much respect their autonomy and let them withdraw from life sustaining treatment is they see...
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Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s works discuss the importance of mental health and the factors that might hinder the mind’s function and well-being. The Boston born writer is notorious for his cultivation of literary pieces that include elements of mystery and macabre. Writer Julian Symons believes that “the qualities that make Poe’s horror stories... unique in their kind are not to be found in plotting, characterization or style”; it is that “Poe is spelling out his personal agonies in fictional...
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Nowadays any attempt to consider social group identity means that social class cannot be avoided for long (Weltman, 2008). Indeed, class is one of the few concepts that we are able to recognise, understand and employ in every context (Biressi et al, 2013). Social class refers to divisions in society that are ultimately based on economic and social status. As social class is an issue that is so rampant in society and is “lived, formed and challenged” everyday (Scharff, 2008:332),...
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This report aims to provide business solutions to a multicultural issue that affects Uber Technologies Inc. Uber represents a visible multinational company that has received considerable negative attention in the media. However, few people know of the extent of its aggressive management approach that led to various problems such as sexual harassment scandals, discrimination, ethical issues, and so on. Much of the publicity about Uber is both a direct consequence of and a direct consequence for stakeholder relationships. This case...
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When thinking about criminal behaviour, one would name murder, rape and assault. Those are the crimes most people are afraid of. But those are not the most prevailing ones. White Collar Crime, first coined in 1939, defined as criminal behaviour committed by a higher social class is the most common type. Money laundering and insider trading are the first ones that come to mind as those can easily be associated with the stereotype of a rich, upper-class men. White collar...
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An attitude can be defined as a feeling or opinion about something or someone. In Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, there are several attitudes to the past revealed in the texts. These include escapism, regret, comfort, the view that the past is difficult to leave behind and comes round full circle. The past is something that has gone by in time or is no longer existing, a definition that Faulkner challenges by suggesting that “The...
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