Choose 1 of the 3 sociological approaches to the study of cultural production (art worlds, the production of culture perspective, and fields of cultural production) and use it to analyze the creation of a cultural object or form.
Theories of Personality, for this assignment.
McCrae and Costa (Feist et al., 2018) theorized that personality traits can be categorized by five major factors:
• Openness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism
Like Allport, they claim that individuals will score at a specific point along a continuum for each of the five factors. For example, a high score in extraversion may reflect that someone is outgoing, or a low score may reflect that a person is reserved. Most people will score somewhere in the middle, with only a few who score at either of the extremes.
Combined, these factors can give us insight into recognizing and accepting our own dispositional traits as well as those of others. Such an understanding of personality can help us to self-reflect, predict behaviors, and demonstrate empathy in ways that can improve our relationships with colleagues in diverse workplace environments.
Part I: Trait Theories
Explain how dispositional trait theories (Allport, McCrae and Costa) are different from biological trait theories (Eysenck and Buss)
You have been invited to interview for a position as a salesperson in a retail store. Explain how well you would fit this role by describing your personality to the hiring manager.
2. You are considering a position as a bookkeeper for a small accounting firm. How well would your personality fare in this environment? Include at least one biological factor in your explanation.
3. National Geographic is looking for a photographer. Which personality dimensions would require high scores to be successful in this position?
4. Based on the results of the Big Five Personality Test, what might be the ideal career for your personality? Why?
Is Emily insane? What kind of insanity?Does she have more than one — identify any and all using the Diagnostic Manual, not your opinion. At what point in the text did you determine she becomes insane or perhaps sane for the first time in her life? How did she become insane or gain back her sanity? To what extent does her “insanity” free her from all that she has experienced? To what extent does her reclamation of her sanity free her soul? To what extent does she “masculinize” herself as she goes insane or as she gains sanity? To what extent does she adopt “toxic Masculinity”? Why does “masculinization” of self, basic or toxic, count? What are some of her growing and final acts of rebellion/gaining freedom? Do not call Emily a lunatic or use any other slang words. Use appropriate mental health terminology.
Keep your response literary, though you may use the Diagnostic Mental Health Manual . To maintain a literary focus, use appropriate concepts such as theme, foreshadowing, symbolism, irony, setting, allusion, character analysis, and so on.
Where do you get your news and information from? What steps do you take in order to prevent the spread of fake news? What is your opinion of local, state, and federal officials concerning their response to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Innovation is a key feature of modernism as a literary movement. We see innovation in form—for example, stream-of-consciousness narration—as well as innovation in ideas. During the modernist period, the world saw sweeping social, scientific, and technological advancements, and writers were keen on examining the human experience from all possible angles. Pick one author and discuss some of the ways in which their work pushed boundaries. You will need to support your points with examples. I would recommend concentrating on either form or ideas, though you are welcome to address how form contributes to meaning. Authors from which you can choose include Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, or Jorge Luis Borges.
2. Of course, not everything that happened during the modernist period was an “advancement.” The era was also filled with death and destruction, which had a deleterious effect on the collective Western consciousness. Western civilization experienced a period of crisis generated from within. This is captured in the work of T. S. Eliot. What are some of the problems in Western society that Eliot shines a light on? Does he present any kind of solution? You can discuss either work that we read, though The Waste Land might prove to be more fertile ground.
3. If the first half of the 20th century was marked by great progress alongside great destruction, the second half of the 20th century was marked by a different kind of reckoning. A number of countries in Europe had to come to terms with the harm they had wrought around the world through colonization, dispossessing peoples of their lands, disrupting cultures and instituting their own forms of governance, and often exploiting native populations and the environment. Many of the problems created by colonization have not yet been satisfactorily solved. What are some of the issues raised by our authors in the countries on which they focus? Choose one author and discuss their work. Possibilities include Doris Lessing, Albert Camus, Seamus Heaney, and Salman Rushdie. (We can include Heaney here because, in many ways, Ireland is Britain’s first colony.)
4. How was the text “The Second Coming” By Yeats, the most intellectually and why? You need to develop reasons and go into detail. Demonstrate how much you have thought about the text.
