Instruction
1. Examine one of your social networks (face to face or online)
Create a chart that illustrates the diversity of your network. Include at least ten dimensions of diversity, such as social class, race, age, personalty type, job function, and so on.
In what ways is your network diverse? In what ways does it lack diversity? Explain.
Are the ties in your network primarily strong or weak? Explain.
What interpersonal resources, or social capital, do you derive from this network?
How might you enhance the diversity of your network?
2. The Topic:
Go to the following website and research Racism Around the Globe: http://www.globalissues.org/article/165/racism (opens in a new window).
Select an article in which you can identify one instance of racism around the world
Summarize the situation in no less than 250 words.
Discuss what is being done to combat it.