Please pick one of the following questions and write at least one paragraph (5-6 complete, fully thought-out, error-free, sentences), detailing your thoughts. In addition, please reply to at least two other classmates' threads in at least 3-4 complete, fully thought-out, error-free, sentences.
- What are the primary problems with the concept of race and what are the social and political implications of using race to define and study groups of people?
- Using Brown and Landrum-Brown’s dimensions, describe the dimensions across which cultural characteristics are defined.
- Select one of the four cultures describe by M. Ho and compare its cultural characteristics to those of Northern European culture in the following dimensions: nature, time orientation, people relations, work and activity, and human nature. How might these differences manifest themselves in the helping relationship?
- Discuss the consequences of the movement from “primitive” to “civilized” culture.
- What are the pros and cons of employing an alternative helping model, as opposed to an adaptive or adjusted model?
