Instruction
#1 Assignment 5 involves reading chapter 10 and reflecting on the material found in the chapter. Therefore, I want you to think about a social problem and identify how you will create a policy or practice to be more inclusive of the problems faced by both genders regarding this social problem (drug abuse, bullying, etc.) Your response must include a reference to the book plus two additional sources. Your response must be at least 500 words.
#2 For this response paper, I would like you to complete a scale that measures social dominance orientation (SDO) and then respond to a series of questions. Both the scale and questions are located below. Type your responses in a format compatible with Microsoft Word (either .doc, .docx, or .rtf) and upload the file here.
Please indicate how you feel about each item using a scale from 1 to 7, where
1 = very negative
4 = neither positive nor negative
7 = very positive
Feel free to use any points between 1, 4, and 7 at your discretion.
Some groups of people are simply not the equals of others.
Some people are just more worthy than others.
This country would be better off if we cared less about how equal all people were.
Some people are just more deserving than others.
It is not a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others.
Some people are just inferior to others.
To get ahead in life, it is sometimes necessary to step on others.
Increased economic equality.
Increased social equality.
Equality.
If people were treated more equally we would have fewer problems in this country.
In an ideal world, all nations would be equal.
We should try to treat one another as equals as much as possible. (All humans should be treated equally.)
It is important that we treat other countries as equals.
To score your responses, first you must "reverse score” the second half of the scale (item #8 through item #14). Reverse scoring simply means you "flip” the response scale into a mirror image of itself (i.e., 1 becomes 7, 2 becomes 6, 3 becomes 5, 4 stays the same, 5 becomes 3, 6 becomes 2, and 7 becomes 1). Once you have reversed your scores for those particular items, then add up all 14 scores to find your overall SDO score.
The questions:
Average scores on this scale are typically around 40-44 for men and 32-36 for women. How does your score compare with these averages? And why do you think that is?
In general, why do you think men's scores tend to be higher than women's on this particular scale?
Do you think there are ways to change a person's level of social dominance orientation? Why or why not?
#3 What if Skinner had designed a prison. Or a school. What would it look like? Do you think it would work? Where might it be an improvement on the current system? What problems might it have?
Where do you see the influence of behaviorism in the aforementioned institutions now?