Personal Action Plan

Assignment Content
Review and synthesize feedback from your faculty member, and apply it to this week’s assignment.

For this assignment, you will observe people moving and behaving in a space that you associate with a socioeconomic class different from your own.

If you consider yourself a member of the lower-middle class, for example, you might observe the lifestyles of the people in a wealthier part of your town. Likewise, if you consider yourself part of the upper-middle class, you might observe people in a lower-income neighborhood or a space occupied by people living in poverty. Your choice will depend upon your own socioeconomic status and whether you decide to observe people from a higher or lower class.

Choose from the following suggestions, or obtain your instructor’s approval for an alternative:
An expensive restaurant or store
A resort, country club, playhouse, or concert hall
An unemployment office
A soup kitchen or free clinic

Conduct your observation according to the Personal Action Plan Observation Instructions.

Develop a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that answers the following:
What did you observe?
Why was this situation out of your comfort zone?
What did you learn?
What perceptions changed or remained the same about the people you observed?
What types of things did you notice about the people? Did you witness any socially-conscious individuals? What traits did you see?
What type of social inequality did you observe or experience?
Did your comfort level change from the time the observation began until it ended and, if so, how?
How has this experience helped you to be a more socially-conscious individual?
What traits will you need to exhibit?
What areas need to be improved, and what steps will you take to ensure there is growth in this area?
Describe any instances or examples of poverty or social inequality in your observations.

Develop a personal action plan while considering the above questions. Include in your personal action plan your own cultural awareness and your plan for a personal strategy for your own diversity consciousness.

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