Status Quo

The status quo received a weighted total of 1.75, which means that it has the lowest overall ranking. It ranked last in adequacy because the current public policy surrounding sales tax applied to online purchases is still primarily based off the 1992 Supreme court hearing of Quill v. North Dakota. This is surprising given the reality that the internet has evolved tremendously since this court ruling. For example, most Americans did not have internet in the homes in the early 1990s and if they did it was a slow dial-up connection. Additionally, popular online shopping destinations like Amazon.com did not even exist in 1992 (Amazon.com, Inc., n.d.). The changes in the way that we interact with the internet and advances in technology make it…

Status Quo or Status No? Family, the basic building block of society, is often the indicator of how a child will affect the community and how the society will look at the family unit itself. So what happens if the child begins to deviate from the societal standards? According to a compilation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2011, 962,542 under-aged teens (below 18 years old) were arrested with 677,299 of them being males. Male delinquents outnumber female ones by more…

children to do better is to elevate the status of the family so that there is a natural ascension to the higher tier. If this elevation on a generational scale cannot be meet by the son or daughter then the burden of lack of self-worth fall upon them. When people start to believe that they have failed, they try to recapture their love and belonging to society by overstating their career, or wealth, or other aspects of…

1. What is the status quo thinking about this subject? Most experts and researchers who are interested in global warming are working very hard to advertise this overwhelming issue. Although, global warming are being life threatening some people is careless regarding this consequential issue. These people think that it will not affect us now and for the new generation, they will come up with inventive ideas that will solve or at least minimize carbon dioxide. On the other hand, there are a lot…

A status quo bias refers to an emotional bias; a preference for the current state of affairs. It is the one that affects the human decision-making. In a case study on abundance of choices in supermarket shelves, a question arises as to whether it is prohibiting customers from making more sustainable selections. In the modern world, sustainability has become a perception that has gone mainstream, where it is now a prospect rather than an exemption those organizations, globally and in small scale,…

Different theories exist about groups and how different individuals try to maintain the ‘status quo’ by discriminating against others. One of these theories is authoritarianism. People who ascribe to this ideal show signs of submission to authority and act as cultural police men by enforcing societal norms and customs. They encourage others to conform to societal expectation. Individuals who choose not to assimilate to the culture, are then discriminated against by people high in…

community that is backed with sexist ideologies. Although some women in this community contest these burdening expectations, after some generational changes, some of these women have never known anything different so they don’t know that anything different could be expected. A reason the Dogon women rarely contest the men of the tribe is due to the consensus in ideologies used in this community. An ideology is based on social fact; it is an explanation that justifies given social…

As Mohammed states: one simply cannot consider the status of Caribbean women “in isolation from other components of identity such as race, class, nation and from masculinity;” in doing so, one does a disservice both to Caribbean men and women, and to one’s…

employees will have the same KSAO’s that will help lead to BTG’s success. - These factors are essential in the proper running of the business. - Staff will go back to the way they used to and BTG will no longer have a staffing issue. - May be hard to decipher when person is not actually employed yet. - Group of candidates won’t be that large consider there are such specific characteristics they must withhold. - Each person has an equal opportunity to attain these qualities. - The…

The first of which would argue that the primary reason for traditional broadcasting remaining prominent in the industry is that everyone in the world, be it to a minor or major extent, is affected by the status quo bias. This is the concept that whenever someone is faced with a decision or choice, they are more likely to lean in favour of the choice or decision that will create the least change from how they currently live their lives. (Samuelson, 1988) This theory would apply itself to the…