Assigned Readings:
#21, Gwynne Dyer, “Anybody’s Son Will Do”
#23, Lynn Zimmer, “How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role”
#24, Pattie A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams, “Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients
McIntyre asserts that socialization involves the acquisition of “cultural competency.” In your informed judgement, what is the most important kind of cultural competency that must be acquired by people in each of the following groups:
(a) the soldiers studied by Dyer
(b) the prison guards studied by Zimmer
(c) the health care practitioners studied by Giuffre and Williams
Paper should:
· Be 3 pages, typed, and double-spaced
· Include proper in-text citations
· Demonstrate that you read and understood assigned readings; demonstrate critical thinking skills and ability to synthesize information
· Demonstrate college-level writing (i.e., proper spelling, grammar, proper use of paragraph breaks, proper sentence structure, proper in-text citations)
· No cover page needed!
Grading Rubric:
· What is cultural competency? (3pts)
· most important cultural competency of soldiers (5pts)
· most important cultural competency of prison guards (5pts)
· most important cultural competency of health care practitioners (5pts)
· College level writing (3pts)
· Proper use of in-text citations (2pts)
· Minimum 3 pages (2pts)