You need to use your sociological imagination to understand the culture and socialization depicted in the above cartoon. Read chapters 3 and 5 on Culture and Socialization as well as the course modules and start a discussion by writing answers to the following questions:
What is the point of disagreement between the two women; why do they have differences of opinions, and what is it that they both agree on?
Have you ever wondered why your family cooks on Thanksgiving? If you ask, you might get all kinds of reasons: because it is tradition, because it tastes good, because it is what the pilgrims ate back in the early days of America. All of those factors – taste, personal history, and world history – lead to one small action of you eating turkey on a holiday. That is the premise of sociological imagination. Like imagination in the more typical sense, the sociological imagination asks us to use our brains to think differently about things and consider why we do the things we do.
social media, content marketing, video, events, blogs in order to increase brand awareness”. Additionally, Mather (n.d.) considered inbound marketing as an effective method that makes it easier for target customer to find the company. According to him, there are three main methods that Cultural Connectors can apply inbound marketing to raise the awareness of its brand:
Theories on corporate identity will be analyzed in order to find out what improvements and what steps Cultural Connectors can undertake in order to form one for themselves.
Russell Abratt Nicola Kleyn (2012) argues that the first stage in setting up a corporate identity is defining its mission, vision and strategic intent. As well as, creating a platform to define the core values of the company and to set up a suitable corporate culture. The second stage in forming a corporate identity is the establishment of the organizations corporate expression. The author states that “corporate expression includes decisions about the organization’s visual identity, brand promise and brand personality, and how these will be communicated across stakeholders groups.” Corporate branding exists out of two components, formation of corporate by the organizations and the formation of a brand image through demonstrating the good brand experiences with other stakeholders. According to Huang-Horowitz (2014) an identity needs to be established which can be constantly communicated internally as well as externally. The first step in communicating corporate identity is forming an identity that is understood and agreed upon with every employee in the company. It is therefore important that small companies have one single coherent message which they can communicate its identity correctly to external audiences. Huang- Horowitz (2014) holds that “the identity of the company starts with the people; it is all about the people.” A profitable reputation in small businesses can be build by accomplishing three objectives: upholding transparency, acquiring legitimacy, and achieving cre