Part 1 Social Change as Influenced by Social and Mass Media Throughout this course you have been developing your social change blog by using social media to share an academic perspective on a social change topic / issue. For this assignment, reflect on how social media has been used as a tool for social change. Also reflect on the process you have gone through in developing your blog. To prepare for this assignment: Reflect on your experience creating your blog and how mass media (including social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) can impact the behavior of individuals and society at large. Consider the importance of mass media’s influence on social change movements and social justice agendas. Develop an analysis of the impact of mass/social media on individual and societal behavior By Day 6: Complete a paper that includes: An analysis of the impact of mass/social media on individual and societal behavior An analysis of the importance of mass/social media’s influence on social change movements and social justice agendas Support for you work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources Support for you work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources PART 2 Social Change Blog Your social change blog is due to launch this week. To prepare: Finish consolidating your collected information and enter it into your blog. Review content, citations, and presentation to ensure that you are putting your best professional foot forward. Launch your blog. Once your blog has launched, submit the following to your Instructor: All relevant information for accessing your blog (i.e., blog site name and link) Consolidate all of the finalized information you have collected into your initial blog posting. All of the elements you have developed will be presented as a cohesive, rigorous, and professional statement directed toward the professional community. ? Launch your blog. ? Provide your Instructor with all relevant information for accessing your blog (i.e., blog site name and link). 

Assignment ContentCompetencyThis competency will allow you to demonstrate your ability to examine organizational changes that are due to technological changes and apply the sociological theory that would explain such change. Student Success CriteriaView the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane. InstructionsYou have recently started working for a local department store in the Operations Department. Upon settling into your new position, you come to realize that they have outdated business practices. As a department, you and your peers begin to discuss changes that your store could make to help the store become more profitable and more competitive in the marketplace. This leads to discussions about the evolution of business practices at larger corporations such as Apple, Microsoft, Kohl's, etc. Partway through your discussion, your Director of Operations comes in and joins the conversation. He likes what he is hearing and starts to brainstorm out loud with the group how your store can get "more with the times."Knowing that every change within an organization is made for a specific reason, your director asks that you research some of the key theoretical perspectives that would explain how and why organizations change. Because of your sociological prowess from your days in school, you know that you can apply Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory to the reasons for organization change, but your supervisor has asked for a minimum of three theories that would support change.In addition to conducting research on theoretical perspectives for change, your supervisor would like you to put together some sort of visual representation that demonstrates how each of the theories explains organizational change, and then highlight the one that you think is most applicable to your store. You will be presenting your visual presentation to store management in an effort to provide them information so that they can determine the avenues of change that are most appropriate for your store. Because your supervisor sees the value in the changes to the organization, he has encouraged you to create a presentation that will grab the attention of the audience and that includes both pictorial and written information so that all the audience can easily envision the application of the change to your environment.For this presentation you are to reflect and address the following information/questions:Provide a brief definition of Conflict Theory.Provide a brief definition of Symbolic Interaction.What changes have been made in various aspects of society (work, school, shopping, etc.)? Explain them through the lens of Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory.How do Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory explain or impact organizational change?Identify at least one other sociological theory, and demonstrate how it applies to organizational change in our society.Of the three identified theories (Conflict, Symbolic Interaction, and the theory of your choice), which theory do you believe best explains organizational changes in our society? Consider various aspects of the organizations that change i.e. technology, online, and face-to-face transactions, local versus global operations, etc.