...was “ a superhuman mother goddess…(who could) ‘field dress a moose’” (page 1497). While candidates running for office need to appeal to many different demographics, it almost seems as women are under a finer microscope than men. This past Presidential election against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton showed the major difference between how the different genders are reflected in the media. One incident that stands out is the Access Hollywood scandal with Trump. While his numbers dropped, it did not hurt his overall campaign. While Clinton was still answering for the sins of her husband’s past while he was president in the 1990s. In the book, “He Runs, She Runs, Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates,” the author Deborah Jordan Brooks, argues that while there are stereotypes, there are stereotypes for both men...
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...According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the United States ranks 91st in Women in National Legislature Positions (Lawless & Fox). I became fascinated on the depiction of women in our society as a whole and wanted to focus on how the media contributes. I wanted to observe the cycle that results with the media’s portrayal of women and how that affects the number of women in office, therefore only reinforcing the stereotype. In order to understand where the United States stands on this matter, I am going to analyze the nation of Sweden’s gender depiction in media and other realms and how that correlates to women in office. Observing Sweden’s approach to these societal aspects will help understand how they have a more egalitarian government than most. The nation of Sweden constantly ranks in the top five nations when it comes to presence of women in high governmental positions. In 2002, women occupied over 45 % of their seats in their national parliament (Hepburn & Simon, 100). Even though Sweden surpasses the United with their strong presence of women in politics, they continuously face challenge that they must address to inflict a positive portrayal of women...
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...In the article Women in Management in America, women are highly under-represented in upper-level management in many U.S. companies and are also making less than men performing the same types of jobs. The article explains that the glass ceiling is one of the main barriers preventing women from reaching upper management positions. The barrier has been around for many years, but women are starting to break the glass ceiling. There are some companies that are beginning to recognize that women bring a wealth of talent and expertise to the table and they are exploring this talent and giving them opportunities at upper level management positions. Using the White House as evidence, we currently have Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in one of the most powerful positions in the world. The article also brought up some specific barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Training, career development, promotion, compensation, "old boy network" and discrimination. Discrimination was on the top of the list, however it has existed for many years in the United States. Congress has over the years passed various statues to address the situation. One of the most important federal statutes that deal with discrimination is the Civil Right Act of 1964 (Fogliasso, 2011). In the training area where women wanted to gain knowlwedge for the next level they were just not given the training, so without the training and experience women would often be passed over for upper management...
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...The emancipation proclamation, which declared that all slaves were freed, was ratified by Congress in 1865. This was the 13th Amendment of the Constitution. Although the slaves were freed, they had no money, property, land, education or the right to vote. Freedmen were forced to become sharecroppers in order to earn money. They would rent land from plantation owners and were provided with basic housing. In return, they would share their crop with the landowner. They were forced to borrow money to buy seeds and tools and became enslaved by their debt. The sharecroppers' wages were very low and they often had to work for years or decades to pay off their debts. The southern states also had black men arrested and convicted for minor crimes, such as vagrancy or drunkenness. For many of them, the fine was too expensive and they would spend six months to a year in prison. Prison officials were paid for the labour and business were provided with cheap labour. Whites would whip blacks for indiscipline, send them back to their previous owners if they were thought to be vagrants, prevent them being witnesses in court and limit the areas where they could live. The Ku Klux Klan would terrorise, assault, and kill blacks for attempting to improve their lives....
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...Analyse a Sociological Issue Course/120 December 18, 2010 2 Discrimination is a sociological term referring to the treatment taken toward or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category. The terms race and ethnicity mean to understand the behavior and beliefs of people in terms of their cultural tradition and experiences. People should not let their cultural biases prevent them from understanding other people cultures. Some people will have difficulty given the emotional feelings and beliefs that they have regarding race and ethnicity. However, having an open mind in order to gain knowledge about other cultures is worth the effort. These concepts are important to the United States because of its cultural diversity. The most popular ethnic groups include Latinos, Chinese, African Americans, European Americans, etc. These ethnic groups are all in different States throughout the U.S. There are different ethnic groups in businesses working together towards a common goal of the company. That is the reason it is so important for people to have an open mind about different cultures and behaviors. These ethnic groups are attracted to the United States because of the principles on human rights, freedom of speech, and religious freedom. The color of a person’s skin or their cultural beliefs or behavior should not determine how they are treated. Everyone should be treated with equality...
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...Joseph Cali 10/31/13 CRM ! In the documentary “The House I Lived in” there are numerous accounts of people speaking about the “War on Drugs” The director Eugene Jarecki states what his stance is directly by saying, “I wanted to follow the failure of the drug war and the harm it does” What does he mean by this? Well, in this movie he shows what prevention there is for drugs, how drug use has started, and whether or not the prevention is just or not. In the beginning of the documentary he throws out a figure that makes you wonder, it is that one trillion dollars has been spent on drug prevention and there has been virtually no change in the amount of drug use. This makes you wonder, what is really going on? The film recognizes abuse as a matter of public health, and investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have resulted from framing it as an issue for law enforcement. It also shows how political and financial corruption has influenced and become the backbone for the war on drugs, although there are many failures. The drug war in America has been the reason for the largest percentage of people in jail. In this documentary it is shown that what should be done to stop the use of drugs or find out why people are on them, you have to start at the root. The war on drugs makes it so that most members of the urban black community, who might have turned to drugs either as personal escape or as the only means of making money in a community that is run down...
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...Week 8 Assignment: Quiz Name: Tricia Piazza Multiple Choice – 2 Points Each 1. The elderly share the characteristics of minority groups in which of the following ways? a. voluntary membership b. out-group marriages c. unequal treatment in employment d. weak sense of group solidarity 2. The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that employers have the burden to prove laying off older workers is not based on age but __________. a. “some reasonable factor” b. “on age discrimination” c. “bias for younger workers” d. none of these 3. Which of the following is true about worker protections based on age? a. Firing workers because they are old violates federal law. b. Firing an older worker to replace them with someone over the age of 40. c. Courts have upheld the right of businesses to lay off older workers for economic reasons. d. all of these 4. Poverty rates for the elderly have a. increased. b. remained constant. c. declined for all racial groups. d. declined for white women only. 5. The dramatic increase in the number of people aged 65 and older is a consequence of which of the following? a. declining mortality rates b. immigrant sponsorship of older relatives c. increases in the number of Americans with health insurance d. all of these 6. Ageism...
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...Table of Contents • Introduction • Definition and Model of Agenda Setting Theory • Scope and functions • Walter Lippman – Public Opinion (excerpt from Media Control – Noam Chomsky) • Concept of Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky o Excerpts form the book - Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky • Case studies o WMD i.e. Weapons of Mass Destruction being used repeatedly by media • Situation in India o Media focusing on Scams repeatedly and not giving due importance to the other relevant news. • Conclusion Introduction The power of the news media to set a nation’s agenda, to focus public attention on a few key public issues, is an immense and well-documented influence. Not only do people acquire factual information about public affairs from the news media, readers and viewers also learn how much importance to attach to a topic on the basis of the emphasis placed on it in the news. Newspapers provide a host of cues about the salience of the topics in the daily news – lead story on page one, other front page display, large headlines, etc. Television news also offers numerous cues about salience – the opening story on the newscast, length of time devoted to the story, etc. These cues repeated day after day effectively communicate the importance of each topic. In other words, the news media can set the agenda for the public’s attention to that small group of issues around which public...
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...Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta born April 10, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who was co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, and later the United Farm workers. Huerta has received many award and accolades and has remained a role model and voice to many in the Latino community. Huerta was born to Juan Fernandez and Alicia Chavez, they divorced when Huerta was just three years old. Both Huerta’s parents were active in the rights of people and the community itself. Huerta’s father was a field worker, miner, as well as a union activist. Huerta’s mother was a business woman who owned a restaurant and a 70-room hotel where she helped low wage workers. A lot of Huerta’s humanitarianism...
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...A study published in the Journal Science persists in supporting the idea that gender inequality exists in academia. According to researchers from the University of Illinois and in Princeton University, women are inconsiderately underrepresented in academic fields, such as the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and math, because of stereotypes. The idea is that women’s intellectual abilities and aptness are inferior to those of men. Prior to the issue, literacy rates among young Afghan women are disturbingly low: only 18 percent of women between 15 and 24 can fully read. While the total number of children enrolled in primary schools is increasing gigantically, the percentage of female students is deliberately not. Likewise, the higher in terms of faculty rank, prestige, salary, and status, the fewer are the women. This gap in educational attainment becomes particularly maddening when you consider numerous researches that were progressively made which show that educating girls is a key factor in terminating poverty and aiming for...
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...India and the United States India and the United States SOC 325 DR. Elaine, Bontempi November 15, 2008 India and the United States Abstract India will become the most populous nation by 2030. Thanks to the fast growing software and IT revolution, India is changing its role around the world as formable economic competitor. Despite these achievements, it should be noted that employment growth in the Indian services sector has been quite modest, underscoring the importance of achieving rapid industrial and agricultural growth. Poverty and the threat of HIV/AIDS are threatening India at a very alarming rate. In contrast, the United States houses about 4.6 percent of the world’s population, which was estimated to be nearly 6...
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...Self-Schema: A self-schema is a belief or idea about oneself that leads to a bias that is self-perpetuating. It could consist of a particular role in society or a generalization based on social sterotypes. If a mother tells her daughter she looks like a tom boy, her daughter may react by choosing activities that she imagines a tom boy would do. Conversely, if the mother tells her she looks like a princess, her daughter might choose activities thought to be more feminine. The self-schema becomes self-perpetuating when the individual chooses activities based on expectations instead of desires. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The term schematic describes having a particular schema for a particular dimension. For instance, a person in a rock band at night would have a "rocker" schema. However, during the day, if he works as a salesperson, he would have a "salesperson" schema during that period of time. Schemas vary according to cultural background and other environmental factors. Once people have developed a schema about themselves, there is a strong tendency for that schema to be maintained by a bias in what they attend to, in what they remember, and in what they are prepared to accept as true about themselves. In other words, the self-schema becomes self-perpetuating. The self-schema is then stored in long-term memory, and both facilitates and biases the processing of personally relevant information. The term aschematic means...
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...Notes: Chapter 11 “Congress” I. Introduction 1. The Congress that the U.S. and most Latin American countries has is different from the Parliament that most European nations have because in Europe, a person who wants to run for office must persuade his party to nominate him, while in America, politicians can run for themselves. i. In Europe, people vote for parties; in America, they vote for individuals. ii. In primaries, people vote especially for a “person” (and his qualities, traits, etc…), and in general elections, this is sometimes true also. iii. In parliament, legislators can support their leaders or not, and if they don’t then new leaders (prime minister and various cabinet members) must be elected. a. This ensures that more action can occur, since the parties of the executive and legislative branches are practically always the same. iv. Congress is free from the turmoil of possible collapsing executive branches and is more powerful to make decisions; Congressmen don’t have to worry about easily losing their positions come another election. a. In Congress, there is less cohesion in bill passing, and less stuff can get done. v. Parliaments members usually engage in debate, are poorly paid, have little independent power, and receive little power as well. vi. Meanwhile, Congressmen are much better paid, have more power, do many things...
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...Racial & Ethnic Short-Answer Questions (15) Should reparations be paid to the descendants of victims of slavery? • Some reject the decision made in the Bakke case that providing a remedy for the effects of racial discrimination is unconstitutional. They argue that the idea of reparations is rooted in international law. • Affirmative Action is inadequate, the ‘Maafa’ (meaning disaster, i.e., slavery) is a crime against humanity, and therefore compensation is required. • In the past 50 years apologies and financial compensation has been given to a wide range of groups, including survivors of the Jewish holocaust (as well as descendants of the victims), Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned during the Second World War and native Americans who had their land illegally seized in the USA. • African Americans have been demanding compensation for slavery since the end of the American Civil War. Immediately after the abolition of slavery, the demand was for 40 acres and a mule to ensure they would not be dependent on their former slave-owners. Then, between 1890 and 1917, there was a movement to lobby the government for pensions to compensate for their unpaid labour under slavery. Since 1989, Congressman John Conyers Jnr (Michigan) has introduced a bill every year to study the case for reparations. Each of these initiatives has been largely ignored by the political establishment. • Reparations would ensure full recognition of the scale of the Maafa and, at the same time...
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...1: ELECTIONS & VOTING Primaries: * Election to select a parties candidacy for president * Open primary: A primary for any registered voter, democrat or republican. E.G. Texas * Closed: A primary for democrats and a primary for Republicans. (Separate one’s) * Invisible primary: candidates try to gain support and finance in the year before the primary * Proportional primary: awarded delegates in proportion to votes they get * Winner-takes-all: Win the most votes and you take all the states delegates Advantages: * Increased level of participation from ordinary votes (30% in 2008) * Increased interest from people * Increased choice of candidates (14 in 2008) * Removing power from party bosses Disadvantages: * Turnout is usually low * Voters are usually unrepresentative of normal voters (tend to be wealthier, old and better educated) * Process is far too long and expensive (Obama in 2008 announced his running 332 before the first primary * Fails to test presidential qualities Increased importance of primaries: * Really the only route to become a parties President Caucuses: * A meeting for the selection of a candidate * Usually held in states that are geographically large but thinly populated (Iowa, North Dakota, Nevada) * Turnout is usually pretty low, and usual favour ideological candidates National party conventions: Formal functions: * Choose presidential candidate. (Need majority of delegates) ...
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