Describe sociology’s structural/institutional approach to understanding racial inequality. What is it? What sort of evidence does it rely on? What does this perspective contribute to our understanding of inequality?
Review the Resources and reflect on the web article Big Data Means Big Potential, Challenges for Nurse Execs. Reflect on your own experience with complex health information access and management and consider potential challenges and risks you may have experienced or observed. By Day 3 of Week 4 Post a description of at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Then, describe at least one potential challenge or risk of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Propose at least one strategy you have experienced, observed, or researched that may effectively mitigate the challenges or risks of using big data you described.
Canada’s Role in Global Development… Charity or Social Justice? IMPORTANT: The country given is Kenya looking into their poverty. The CSO is Red Cross Canada. This is the specific topic given to me. Background: Throughout this course we have examined how the lives of people in different parts of the world are interconnected through processes of economic, political and cultural globalization. In recent decades there has been a significant growth of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Canada and across the globe. CSOs (also called non- governmental organizations, NGOs, non-profit organizations, and sometimes faith-based organizations) are independent of government, though they sometimes accept government funding. In the lectures you are learning about the work of CSOs in raising awareness of issues of human rights, social justice and environmental sustainability. But what exactly is ‘civil society’? And what is the role of CSOs? To what extent do they use a ‘charity model’ versus a ‘social justice model’ to frame and guide their work?