• Lesson: Read this Week’s Lesson which is located in the Modules tab
• Initial Post: minimum of 2 scholarly sources (must include your textbook for one of the sources). Follow-Up Post: minimum of 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.
• Your Initial Post and your Follow-Up Post must be based on the same Option that you chose in order to receive credit for both posts.
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
• Option 1: List the ways in which contemporary presidential campaigns have used social media as a campaign tool. Do you consider social media as a successful tool? Explain your answer. Do you see social media as an unsuccessful tool? Explain your answer and provide examples.
• Option 2: There are numerous discussions involving the Electoral College. There are some people that want to abolish the electoral college while others want to keep it. What do you think? Keep the electoral college or abolish it? Explain the reasons for your choice.
Sample Solution
1. Outreach to potential supporters: Social media has become an effective tool for campaigns to reach a wider base of potential supporters, allowing them to engage followers directly with targeted messaging about the presidential candidate.
2. Fundraising: A great way for campaigns to raise money is through social media promotions and competitions, such as creating contests that ask people to donate money in exchange for the chance of winning a prize or experience related to the campaign.
Sample Solution
1. Outreach to potential supporters: Social media has become an effective tool for campaigns to reach a wider base of potential supporters, allowing them to engage followers directly with targeted messaging about the presidential candidate.
2. Fundraising: A great way for campaigns to raise money is through social media promotions and competitions, such as creating contests that ask people to donate money in exchange for the chance of winning a prize or experience related to the campaign.
his reading explores Pakeha ethnicity and the importance of social stratification in discussing the level of inequality and privilege present in New Zealand society.
Ballara (1986) defines the word Pakeha as the ‘Maori name for Europeans’. Many other contemporary Maori sources define the term as “White or New Zealander of European descent” (Moor, 2011 & Ngata, 2010). This reading makes note of the fact that there are advantages that belong to the dominant white majority in New Zealand however the advantages and the privileges are reinforced by its invisibility and is also disguised. McIntosh (2007) supports this statement: we should see white privilege as an “invisible package of unearned assets”. The norms and values of the White people, the ways in which they act and live serve as the basis by which non-White people are judged.
Pakeha acknowledge and support the symbolic nature and aspects of Maori culture; the incorporation of the Maori version in the national anthem, the Haka, the powhiri and educating people of Te Reo Maori. However, they oppose any possible potential aspects that may challenge and hinder the existing economic power structure such as ownership of Maori land, tertiary scholarships and awards for Maori students and so on. It raises questions and doubts about whether or not the Pakeha’s acknowledgment of the mere symbolic aspects of the Maori culture is actually genuine if they are not willing to share economic power and privileges.
The self-labelling as Pakeha represents their recognition of the cultural difference, and also displays the privileges that being a member of the majority group gives. In more recent years however, Pakeha ethnicity also served as a symbol of respect to the Maori in an attempt at acknowledging their “First Nation” status and the Treaty of Waitangi.
Ethnicity is a principle element of social stratification, and as a result, of inequality that is present within society. Maori, in comparison to the New Zealand population as a whole, were at an extreme disadvantage in terms of education and employment, but were also experiencing discrimination in institutions, workplaces and communities. The dominant majority Pakeha culture and social structure
