Marjorie Benton

Making Contacts for the Future

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  1. Competency

    Design a personal plan to use social media to benefit the student both personally and professionally as well as minimize online mistakes and their impact.

    Student Success Criteria

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    Instructions

    Regardless of the career that you pursue or are currently pursuing, it is likely that the action of securing the resource of friends and professional acquaintances will be as valuable as any other action you could take.
    Part 1:First, take some time to reflect on your career and/or future career. If this includes more than one career path, then focus on the one that you are most concerned with in the long term. This might include working in a specific field, starting a business, or any other pursuit you are currently working on or plan to work on in the future. The choice behind the pursuit you will focus on is a personal choice.
    Write two pages on why this particular career and/or pursuit is your choice. Reflecting on the why behind your wish to achieve a goal will help to make it feel more tangible to you. This exercise of reflection should serve to remind you of your motivation and will be a good thing to refer back to if your motivation ever gets low. The “why” behind a pursuit is oftentimes more important than the “how” of a pursuit. If you have a strong enough “why,” you will find the “how.”
    Part 2:For the second part of this assignment, make a list of the types of people that could help you in your career and why those people would be good contacts to have. This list should be general in nature, meaning you should list professions or names of positions within companies rather than specific names.
    You should list general fields or positions like accountants, attorneys, marketing managers, CEOs, etc., rather than any specific names. Be sure to list at least five professions or types of people.
    Part 3:Next, consider which social media platforms you could use to make personal contacts that could help you in your pursuit along with why and how you could use each. Ensure that the platform and your use of it line up with the specifics behind your chosen future goal.
    Describe at least three different platforms you could use, along with why you would use it, and how you would use it for each of the three.

    • Platform #
    • Why?
    • How?
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    • Why?
    • How?
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    • Why?
    • How?

    Part 4:Finally, put all of this together and take action. The next part of this assignment is where you can make a big difference in your grade as well as in your real life pursuit of a goal!
    Reach out through the avenue of social media and make contact with three people that you do not currently know. Describe who you contacted and why (you do not need to give their specific name). Explain how you went about contacting them. Contacting someone that works in the same field as you or the same field you intend to work in should be relatively easy as long as you take a professional approach. Speculate over how this new contact might be helpful to you in the future. If you are not currently using social media, then find someone that you know that has used social media to make connections. Ask them to describe how social media has helped them to network and write about social media has helped them to network and make connections.

Requirements: as needed

Answer preview

These skills will help me connect with students, especially the undocumented and underserved ones, and as such, help them overcome the challenges they are facing in their academics so they can have a chance at a successful personal and professional life. Students deal with numerous challenges, chief amongst them being academic pressurization. Academic pressurization is quickly becoming a matter of concern, not only within academic settings but also in the general society. It refers to the pressure felt by a student to succeed academically. This form of pressure can arise from various sources such as parents, educators, peers, or even students themselves. Most parents and educators operate under the assumption that succeeding in academia opens up a lot of opportunities for the future success of their children.

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Making Contacts for the Future

Marjorie Benton

Statista Research Department

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**Note Both questions must be answered*****

Question #1

Please respond to the following prompt in no less than 400 words. In your response, you must fully answer all aspects of the question and support your answer with reference to course materials (textbook, supplementary readings, videos, etc)

  • In what ways has the development of social media been good for society? In what ways has it been bad for society? Why is a society that uses social media different from one that doesn’t? How does the usage of social media change the way people interact with, relate to, and perceive/judge each other?

Question #2

Please respond to the following prompt in no less than 400 words. In your response, you must fully answer all aspects of the question and support your answer with reference to course materials (textbook, supplementary readings, videos, etc)

  • “Conflict theory” derives from the critical work of Karl Marx on economic inequality under capitalism; Coser’s analysis comes from structural-functionalism. How might social conflict be understood using symbolic interactionism? Come up with and discuss an application of this theory to the question of conflict.

Requirements: 400

This summarizes the chapter.

Whenever you decide to start the work on the social media topic tell me first

Answer preview

Conflict theory is a sociopolitical theory brought into existence by Karl Max. This theory generally posits that society is in a state of conflict due to competition for limited resources (Dukes, 2018). Furthermore, the maintenance of social order is predominantly through power and domination instead of conformity and consensus. Marx’s theory emphasized the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (Dukes, 2018). Each of these groups is comprised of individuals with shared interests and a certain level of ownership of property. The bourgeoisie holds the most wealth and means of production, while the proletariat comprises the poor and working-class individuals (Dukes, 2018). Marx postulated that the bourgeoisie, the minority, will use their power and influence to oppress the majority proletarian class.

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Statista Research Department