...In the article “Class in America-2006”, sociologist Gregory Mantsios addresses the huge divide between poverty stricken Americans and upper class citizens. Mantsios makes strong points on this issue by providing facts and evidence. Mantsios makes the bold point that most Americans tend to ignore class, and he’s right as classist ideas influence many Americans to stay silent on class differences. Most Americans choose to ignore class and that. According to Mantsios, includes Americans who are of lower class. Mantsios says, “There are few among the poor who speak of themselves as lower class; instead, they refer to their race, ethnic group, or geographic location”(Mantsios 148). Many Americans don’t want to associate themselves with a negative...
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...introducing the results of the previous phase. Otherwise, the finite set shall be presented to the experts for classifying by five above groups of criteria (t = 1, ..., 5). The correction factor is defined; it takes into account the difference between groups in terms of the number of included criteria to establish the adequacy of the criteria ranks from different subsets , where is the number of criteria in the group; is the number of criteria in the minimum size group . Expert pair-wise comparisons of operational effectiveness criteria are carried out separately for each group using a verbal scale of their relative importance on the basis of informativity about this indicator (table 1). Table 1 – Verbal scale of relative importance of criteria ...
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