Stratification and Prejudice in Current Events

The purpose of this assignment is to explore stratification and prejudice in current events. Despite great advances towards equality between the races and genders, racial and gender discrimination, as well as class stratification remain serious social problems. To conclude this course, you will use the news media to discover current social issues with regards to race and gender.

To complete this assignment, perform the following tasks: ◦Using newspapers, news websites, or news magazines, select three current events (within the last six months) that reflect our studies on stratification. One event should represent racial issues, one gender issues, and one class issues. All three should demonstrate discrimination and/or stratification in American society.

◦Using your research, describe the current events and how they are reflective of your studies on racial, gender, and class discrimination and/or stratification.

◦Analyze the events and apply the lecture and text to the news articles. What theories of stratification apply? Are the current events representative of the historical trends of racial, gender, and class discrimination and or/stratification? What solutions, if any, should be applied to these current events?

◦In your discussion, apply your personal experiences and observations to the current events.

◦How do you feel that the media perpetuates discrimination and/or stratification based on race, gender, and class? Support your ideas with concepts from the text and/or appropriate outside resources.

Provide a minimum of three references and apply the correct APA standards in the format of text, citations, and references. Your paper should include a title page and reference. Your paper should be at least five pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.
Critical Judgement

Mr. Coldridge Snow, an 8th grade teacher, has taught for your school for almost 19 years.
You have been appointed the Principal of the Middle School, and just discovered that Mr. Snow does not have a teaching degree or teaching credentials. Instead of having the master’s degree that his records reflect, you have learned that this teacher actually dropped out of college after one year as an undergraduate. However, Mr. Snow is, by every measure, one of the very best, most respected, and most reliable teachers in your school. Last year, Mr. Snow was voted “Most Valuable Faculty Member” by the other faculty members.

No one (to your knowledge) knows about Mr. Snow’s background except for you and Mr. Snow. Mr. Snow doesn’t know that you know. You stumbled across this information while cleaning out very old records from your office. It seems that when Mr. Snow was hired, his father was the president of the school board.

Should you expose Mr. Snow or allow the deception to continue? Would your judgment change if Mr. Snow were not outstanding but merely average? Would your decision change if you knew Mr. Snow was to retire with a full pension in only one and a half more years?