SHORT PAPER
For this assignment, reflect on the different sociological theories and concepts. You will use critical thinking to evaluate those concepts and apply them to your work, home, and/or community life. You may draw from the readings, videos, lectures, discussions, and assignments to help you construct your paper.
Write a two- page reflection paper that addresses the following requirements:
1. Explain how sociological theories and concepts affect your work, home, and/or community life and influence your future learning opportunities.
2. Identify a minimum of two different sociological concepts or theories you learned and explain how you will apply these sociological concepts or theories to your work, home, and/or community life.
3. Use specific sociological terms and concepts from the textbook readings in your paper to demonstrate that you understand and can apply the concepts.
Some examples of topics/concepts/theories that you can apply to your own life include (but are not limited to):
sociological imagination
sociological perspectives
elements of culture
breaking norms
deviance
the role of socialization
agents of socialization
theories of self
social structure
roles or status groups
inequality
social class
gender roles
perspectives on aging
life chances
race/ethnicity
social institutions' (i.e., family, religion, education) role in society
social change
the environment
population dynamics
Create citations and a references list for any cited materials. Include a title page, and use 12-point font, double spacing, and one-inch margins for your paper.
ESSAY
Compose an essay to address the elements listed below.
Identify the components of an information system (IS) using the five-component framework, and provide a brief summary of each.
Explain Porter's five forces model.
Management IS (MIS) incorporate software and hardware technologies to provide useful information for decision-making. Explain each of the following IS, and use at least one example in each to support your discussion:
o a collaboration information system,
o a database management system,
o a content management system,
o a knowledge management/expert system,
o a customer relationship management system,
o an enterprise resource planning system,
o a social media IS,
o a business intelligence/decision support system, and
o an enterprise IS.
Identify and discuss one technical and one human safeguard to protect against IS security threats.
There are several processes that can be used to develop IS and applications such as systems development life cycle (SDLC) and scrum (agile development). Provide a brief description of SDLC and scrum, and then discuss at least one similarity and one difference between SDLC and scrum
Sum up your paper by discussing the importance of MIS.
Your paper must be at least three pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages), and you must use at least two resources.
Be sure to cite all sources used in APA format, and format your essay in APA style.