human geography and international relation week 5

Human Geography:

Welcome to week 5 of your course.  This discussion question will help you prepare for your CLA2 paper and final CLA2 PPT and as such will have a fair amount of detail.  Read the CLA2 assignment listed in week 8 of the course.  Then please provide an outline that itemizes the concepts that you will include in your CLA2 paper and final PPT.  Please be sure to include concepts learned in the course and information (findings, conclusions) from your PA1 and CLA1 papers.  Provide some brief details for each item that is outlined.  Please keep in mind that you should have placeholders for material not yet covered in lecture from weeks 6 and 7. Here is an itemized list that summarizes the requirements of this DQ (include every item in the bullet point list below, or you will not receive full credit):

1.      Outline that itemizes concepts learned in the course

2.      Include information (findings, conclusions) from your PA1 and CLA1

3.      Brief details for each item that is outlined

4.      Placeholders for material not yet covered

This is my PA1:

Different scholars propose several articulate, authoritative, and thorough review concerning the application and actual nature of models and theories related to diffusion in a sociological point of view. It is essential to note that the aspect of human culture is a complex system made up of values. The aspect of cultural values implies specific ideas, items, and concepts that get either negative or positive connotation. This paper analyses some of the choices or behaviors in human life influenced by diffusion.

Responsibility and diffusion: this is the first choice/behavior influenced by diffusion, other scholars call it diffusion of responsibilities, which is phenomenon influenced by human psychology and it is where a person displays less chances of taking an action in presence of people. For many years, social psychology recognizes the aspect that human behavior regarding social responsibility is significantly influenced by the presence of people. The simple way to understand this is attributed to the ‘bystander effect’ where the probability of people taking actions to assists other in case of an emergency is low especially if there are many people in that place, Beyer (2017).

Another common example regarding responsibility is the “social loafing” effect. Although people strive to work as a team with a primary objective of achieving a similar goal, the likelihood that individual will put in less efforts on average is always high. The possibilities of taking a risk at an individual level are always low, but when working or deciding on something as a group, the possibilities of taking risks are always high. These examples shows that a person’s behavior changes within the social context. The presence of people develops that virtue of becoming less responsible.

Conformity: the changes in personal behavior or opinion to conform to what the rest of the group or team agrees. In most cases, the aspect of conformity takes place voluntary and the person may not understand that they are gradual changing to conform to what the rest of the group wants. Several studies show that opinion of others has significant influence on human behaviors. The aspect of making even the simplest decisions is influenced by the opinion of others. According to the diffusion model, social conformity is influenced by an aspect of biased intake of several stimulus information, which is the followed by a critical stimulus processing of the information, Germar (2016). The N1-amplitudes indicates that social influence increases the attentional resources related to identification and discrimination of stimulus. People don’t directly or blindly follow the opinion of the majority but critical evaluate any stimulus information.

Compliance: according to Maslow (1943) argued that peoples’ behavior is always motivated by the needs hierarchy. This aspect implies that human psychological needs should always come first and they are attributed to abstract goals which include social status, freedom, and companionship. Several previous studies aimed at identifying the determinants that affects individual’s compliance to laws and regulations. However, despite the several studies, one aspect remains ignored. The aspect of diffusion is possibly evaluated on the perspective of interconnections that allows compliance. Compliance is a behavior influenced by direct requests. On primary aspect of MT (Mindfulness Training develops from an IA (Interceptive attention). Human compliance behavior is highly influenced by behavior, feelings, thoughts, and social.

References

Beyer, F., Sidarus, N., Bonicalzi, S., & Haggard, P. (2017). Beyond self-serving bias: diffusion of responsibility reduces sense of agency and outcome monitoring. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 12(1), 138-145.

Germar, M., Albrecht, T., Voss, A., & Mojzisch, A. (2016). Social conformity is due to biased stimulus processing: Electrophysiological and diffusion analyses. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 11(9), 1449-1459.

This is my cla1;

Like many in modern society, you probably see yourself as evolved and tolerant regarding people who are different from you because of skin color, age, gender, etc. You think of yourself as open to and appreciating of other cultural practices. You possibly have even become an advocate for those without a voice, fighting for the rights of others when misconduct or impropriety is observed. However, what you believe based on your opinion and what can be proven by assessment and data-based results can be very different.

For the first part of this assignment you will write a one-page reflection on how ethnocentric you perceive yourself to be. Please include suggestions about changes you have seen in yourself, outside factors that have influenced you, and any other information that will explain what you think about your level of ethnocentricity. Be honest with yourself and decide using a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the least ethnocentric and 5 being the most ethnocentric.

Part Two assesses you and two friends or family members. You will take/administer the assessment found at the link below to see if your perception (as written about in your part 1 reflection) and reality (quantitative assessment results) are the same. Scores can range from 10-50. The higher the score, the more ethnocentric the test taker is.

With assessment scores calculated, the third part of the project will be to reflect on the results of the entire group. How did everyone do? Were you correct on your own assessment? What were the results of those people you assessed? What patterns, if any, did you see in the results? Were there any surprises in any of the results? This report will be 2-3 pages and include a full-page table that shows the results of your assessments on separate page.

 

Neuliep & McCroskey’s Ethnocentrism Scale/Assessment:

http://www.midss.org/content/ethnocentrism-scale

THIS IS MY CLA2:

The human development index (HDI) has been used to gauge the true

level of a country’s development beyond gross national income per capita.

As such, it has been adopted by the United Nations. The HDI is often

closely associated with income levels, but there are several areas of

divergence.

For this activity, choose five (5) countries that interest you. Then go to the

website listed below which includes data for every country and allows

you to build your own index. By just selecting the income indicator, you

can determine the rank of your countries in terms of purchasing power

parity and then in the conventional human development index as

calculated (HDI Rank). However, you can also select other indicators that

you are interested in by exploring this interactive worksheet. You can

select different indicators, determine their weights if you like, and build

an index that you think is more accurate. In each instance, you need to

scroll down to find the ranks of your selected countries. How do the ranks

of your countries change when you use different criteria?

In addition to creating the index, you will report on your findings for each

city with an analysis that includes historical information and current

factors that are relevant. Suggestions for future development that will

benefit citizens in each of the five (5) countries should be presented in

conjunction with your analysis.

The research, index, and analysis will be written in an essay, APA format.

Include maps, tables, relevant graphics, and the index you created.

Remember to include your reference page.

http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/