Lay and Professional Ways of Knowing
A Comparative Analysis of Two Communities, Their Conflicts and Their Strategies for Conflict Resolution: Clifton or Morenci and Woburn
1) Describe each community in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in terms of its main" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in demographic features*, its type of government, a brief description of its economy, and a description of its location. To
answer this question, you will have to use U.S. Census data and other primary sources. To satisfy the requirement concernin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ing the demographics of each community, you need
provide only four features. You should confin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ine your description of the above features to the time period in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in each community in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in which the conflict and an
attempted resolution occurred. To elaborate, for the time period in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in Clifton or Morenci, use Kin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ingsolver’s defin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">inition of the time period in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in
Holdin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ing the Lin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ine. For the time period in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in the Woburn study, use Phil Brown’s defin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">inition of the time period in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in his article, “Popular
Epidemiology and Toxic Waste Contamin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ination”.
2) Describe two main" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in causes of the conflict in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in each community.
3) Describe and explain" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in a major effect( positive or negative) the conflict had on two important ( either in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">individual or in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">institutional) stakeholders in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in each
community.
4) Describe the conflict resolution strategies that each community used.
5a) With respect to the conflict and its resolution in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in each community, state one significant similarity.
5b) With respect to the conflict and its resolution in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in each community, state one significant difference.
6) Which community was more successful and why? State two reasons in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in support of your answer. Provide an example in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in support of each reason.
7) What were the two most effective components of the conflict resolution strategy adopted by each community? Select two components of the conflict
resolution strategy that each community used and explain" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in why each component was effective in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in achievin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ing the community’s goal.
8) Describe and explain" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in a major mistake that each community made in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in resolvin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ing its conflict.
9) Your analysis of each community’s conflict and conflict resolution strategy could have been more persuasive if each author had in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">included two useful pieces of data or
Describe the two most important omissions of data or in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">information by Kin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ingsolver. Explain" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in why their omission weakened Kin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ingsolver’s analysis of the min" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ing strike. Describe the two most
important omissions of data or in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">information by Brown. Explain" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in why their omission weakened Brown’s analysis of the epidemiological study of childhood leukemia undertaken by the grassroots
community organization in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in Woburn.