Consider the role of the media plays in constructing people’s images of families and their problems. Identify your favorite television shows that portrays families, marriages, or relationships. How are families, marriages, or relationships portrayed on this TV show? Are these accurate portrayals? Why or why not? Explain your reasoning.

From the perspective of a sociologist, choose one of the theoretical perspectives (interactionism, functionalism, or conflict theory) to examine the film, "Inequality for All". Provide examples of how the film presented the economic inequality from your chosen theoretical perspective.

In December 1999, IBM-GSA was one of three tenderers for the IT outsourcing contract for the Departments of Health, Aged Care and the Health Insurance Commission (the Health Group), along with CSC and EDS. During the tender process, IBM-GSA was supplied with computer disks containing critical information relating to final pricing of their rival tenderers. IBM-GSA subsequently revised its tender after the due deadline and the minister announced they were the successful bidder. At the time, the Office of Asset Sales and Information Technology Outsourcing (OASITO) described giving IBM-GSA details of their rival’s bids as an ‘inadvertent error’. The minister dismissed the Opposition's call for an immediate halt to the tender process. Three years later, the minister, now retired, admitted that the $350 million tender should have been cancelled. He told the Audit Office in September 2002: “When the disc containing all three bids was delivered to IBM GSA in error my reaction on being informed directly by OASITO was to cancel the tender. I could not see that a tender process with integrity could continue. At the conclusion of the tender I was both disappointed and annoyed at the limited role of the Probity Auditor and the absence of a separate report on the issue.” Not only did the tender continue, with IBM-GSA being awarded the contract, but the minister's claim that the Probity Auditor’s role was limited was contradicted by evidence provided by OASITO to a Senate Estimates hearing on 8 February 2000. OASITO representatives told Senate Estimates that the management of the tender: “…was conducted in accordance with the advice from both the probity auditor and our legal advisers engaged for the initiative. All parties concurred at the time that the process could continue unchanged [OASITO] briefed the probity auditor in person [who] immediately came back to us with a proposed course of action…We engaged the probity auditor to participate in all of our discussions to make sure that he fully witnessed the nature of the discussions…and he was happy that we had delivered the messages in accordance with his proposed course of action.”

Q1. What are the ethical issues and implications?

Q2. What can be done about it?

Q3. What are the options?

Q4. Which option is best - and why?

Skill acquisition theory states that learning a second language is similar to learning how to drive. Explain the logic behind this statement and explain why you agree/disagree with this statement.

Please write in detail (175-225 words)

Andrew, a highly qualified and experienced software developer, has just started work with a government health department on a project that has been underway for about 9 months. He is replacing a novice developer who has decided to move on to a new project with another organisation. Even though the current system is incomplete, it has is being used with 'live' data. On analysing what's been done so far, Andrew discovers that the system is poorly designed and is riddled with bugs due to the former developer's lack of expertise, and that the choice of technologies are incompatible with the department's infrastructure, leading to corruptions and loss of financial data on a daily basis. In fact, much of Andrew's time is initially spent unsuccessfully attempting to recover corrupted data. His vast experience leads him to the conclusion that the system is so unstable that it will eventually corrupt beyond repair and that all its data will become unrecoverable. He therefore advises the supervisor of his findings and recommends that the system be redeveloped using appropriate technologies and quality control measures. He indicates that the entire redevelopment effort will take less than 6 weeks. The supervisor rejects Andrew's recommendation, stating that their IT Department will not agree to a change in technology, and directs Andrew to complete the project using the existing technologies. What should Andrew do?

Q1. What are the ethical issues and implications?

Q2. What can be done about it?

Q3. What are the options?

Q4. Which option is best - and why?

How do you think technology and medical advances related to conception, pregnancy, and childbirth impact the role of the social worker?

Consciousness

Psychologists have discovered that human beings experience several different states of consciousness during the course of a day. For example, people have times when they are especially alert and times when they are awake but not alert, often called "daydreaming." Also, while people are asleep, they experience different stages of sleep, each characterized by different patterns of brain and bodily activity.

In a multi-paragraph essay, discuss the different states of consciousness that you have experienced in the past 24 hours, including any periods when you were asleep, alert, or "daydreaming." Be sure to describe both the brain and bodily activity you experienced during each state of consciousness. Include information from class materials, readings, and research on states of consciousness to support your discussion.

Suppose an employee engages in an office romance that involves in-office sexual activity. The employee is originally from Chile, where there are sanctions against such behaviors, and the behavior is against the law in the state. The employee feels "liberated" away from the home country and believes that "freedom" means the ability to do as you wish. This approach to situational ethics demands a response from the leadership in the organization.

Select a psychological test, and describe how it is used in the workplace. What are some ethical issues arise when using psychological testing?

Problem:

On Monday morning when you enter your law office, you find Dr. Ben Heartache, the fastest scalpel in the West, waiting. He needs legal advice.

Two weeks earlier, Dr. Heartache explained, he emerged from the operating room after completing an exhausting three hour operation. He was immediately asked to go to the emergency room in order to assist with a diagnosis regarding an accident case. When the doctor arrived in the emergency room, he found an unconscious Professor Smith being attended to by his son, David

David was so upset it was difficult for the doctor to find out exactly what had taken place. Apparently, the professor and his son were out for a Sunday drive when his car was hit by a large truck. The doctor immediately concluded that the professor needed emergency brain surgery, and advised David that a request had already been made for a prominent brain surgeon from the State University to come and operate on his father. Unfortunately, the university medical facility was located 78 miles away, and the professor's condition was such that he might die before the

surgeon arrived.

David pleaded with Dr. Heartache. "I know you're exhausted, but I'm begging you. I'll give you $45,000 if you will operate on my father. Please, please, operate!" The doctor, moved by David's plea, decided to operate. Fighting back fatigue, Dr. Heartache performed valiantly. I certainly earned that fee, the doctor said to himself, as he emerged from the operating room.

The doctor truly put everything he had into the operation, but the injury was too great, and the professor died a few hours after the operation. When David learned what had happened, he fainted.

Two days later, Dr. Heartache received an angry letter from David. "Your incompetence was responsible for my father's death," he wrote. "Obviously, I'm not paying you a red cent.

Try and collect, and I'll make your life a living hell!"

Dr. Heartache feels that a valid contract entitling him to $45,000 was entered into by both parties. He feels that he has earned the fee, and would like to collect. How would you advise the doctor?

Q1.During class we discussed some of Durkheim’s findings; here is your chance to apply those ideas to a current situation. The Federal Government released the following data in late 2016: “The suicide rate among U.S. middle school students (defined as between 10-14 years old – tom’s note) doubled from 2007 to 2014, surpassing for the first time the incidence of youngsters aged 10 to 14 who died in car crashes … Those figures contrast sharply with figures from 1999, when the rate of middle school students killed in car crashes, was four times higher than the rate among those who died from suicide that year.” A researcher involved in analyzing the data stated: “In time we might uncover somFor this question, you are to become Durkheim and explain why we see each of these results. Remember to focus on the idea of social bonds. Which of Durkheim’s 4 types of suicide is represented by this data? Explain your choices.e reasons…”

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How does a psychosocial development approach that enhances the maturity level of youth compare with the repentance process in our faith? Does the repentance process enhance the maturity of those who confess and forsake their personal issues? Why or why not? Explain. (300–400 words)

• Compare and contrast Offender-based PSR and Offense-based PSR.

  • Which do you think is a better determinant for the court? Explain your answer.

• What is the difference between a short-form and long-form PSR?

  • Which do you think is a better representation of the offender’s history? Explain your answer.

Describe similarities among the triplets from the film “Three Identical Strangers”, specifically how they were similar in their physical traits, personality traits and their upbringing/ environment.