The desire for stability, involvement, belief, and conformity can have a dark side. Consider how mechanisms of social control, narrowly conceived, an support new religious, political, and psychological cults or sects. How does social control theory help explain the attractions to Heaven's Gate, the Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, or the Branch Davidians?

Many researchers suggest that there is great inequality in America today (e.g. class, race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin). Using one theoretical framework (social conflict, structural-functionalism, Feminist/Gender-Conflict Approach, RaceConflict Approach, Symbolic Interactionism), explain how and why inequality persists in America

What challenges and opportunities do non-English speakers face in the United States? In schools? In the workplace or workforce? In other everyday environments?

Is there any way of measuring how much happiness is brought about by an action? Do we have any method for comparing the happiness of two different people? If the answer is no, is there a problem for utiliitaritanism?

Describe the reason behind the difference between the language in APA’s and ACA’s ethics codes regarding Conflicts between ethics and law. Briefly describe the difference and reasons why

Discuss the manifest and latent functions of education? Identify rules or regulations that some educational institutions may use to encourage students to maintain the status quo and discourage individual creativity, can you also relate? What trends in education are beneficial and which are not? (Is mandatory testing/STAR doing its job? Is bilingual education working? should students learn a language before graduating?) Consider the high school you attended, do you feel like you received a good education; did it prepare you for college?

1) Why is the American president often called the most powerful leader in the world? If that is true, what special responsibilities does this reality entail? Should we limit the president’s role in world affairs? Why or why not? 2. Are the responsibilities of the most powerful leader in the world, the American president, too large a job for one person? Why has the American presidency as an institution grown so large? Are there any powers you think should be taken away from the president?

Discuss the dangers of the unchecked internet in the political world. Can these dangers be combated? If so, how??

Olaudah Equiano

Introduction
Olaudah Equiano was a West African who had been sold into slavery and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to a new life of servitude. In the New World, Equiano converted to Christianity and learned to read and write. Ultimately, he was able to secure his freedom and moved to London where he wrote and published an account of his life as a slave. Equiano's memoir is a rare piece of evidence providing us with the views of an enslaved West African.

Questions to Consider
•Why did Equiano say he would have preferred death to continued existence on the slave ship?

• How did Equiano find himself is such a terrible predicament? Did he seem to hold any grudge against his original captors?

Source
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon converted into terror, which I am yet at a loss to describe nor the then feelings of my mind. When I was carried on board I was immediately handled, and tossed up, to see if I were sound by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had got into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me. Their complexions too differing so much from ours, their long hair, and the language they spoke, which was very different from any I had ever heard, united to confirm me in this belief. Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that, if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I would have parted with them all to have exchanged my condition with that of the meanest slave in my own country. When I looked around the ship too, and saw a large furnace or copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted of my fate; and, quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted. When I recovered a little, I found some black people about me, who, I believed were some of those who brought me on board, and had been receiving their pay; they talked to me in order to cheer me, but all in vain. I asked them if we were not to be eaten by those white men with horrible looks, red faces, and long hair? They told me I was not; and one of the crew brought me a small portion of spirituous liquor in a wine glass; but, being afraid of him, I would not take it out of his hand. One of the blacks therefore took it from him, and gave it to me, and I took a little down my palate, which, instead of reviving me, as they thought it would, threw me into the greatest consternation at the strange feeling it produced, having never tasted any such liquor before. Soon after this, the blacks who brought me on board went off, and left me abandoned to despair. I now saw myself deprived of any chance of returning to my native country, or even the least glimpse of hope of gaining the shore, which I now considered as friendly; and I even wished for my former slavery, in preference to my present situation, which was filled with horrors of every kind, still heightened by my ignorance of what I was to undergo. I was not long suffered to indulge my grief; I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life; so that, with the loathsomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste any thing. I now wished for the last friend, Death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and, on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across, I think, the windlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely....

Source: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (London: 1793), in David Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade (Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1994) 77-78.

Industrial psychology.

I am supposed to desgin motivational intervention that improves job satisfaction, improves job performance, reduces job stress, and reduces turnover. This intervention can, and should, include multiple parts, as it’s unlikely that one change will provide a solution to all four problems.

- describe the intervention in detail. What changes will be made to the organization and/or the job itself? How will the intervention be implemented?

- Use at least three work motivation theories (can also use theories related to job stress and/or work attitudes and emotions) to explain why this intervention will improve job satisfaction, improve job performance, reduce job stress, and reduce turnover.