...Social Inequality Pete Fernandez SOC/100 Sept 29, 2011 James Santos Social Inequality I chose the television show Sanford and Son which ran from 1972-1977. This show has a wide range of comedy, racial slurs, and many ethnic groups. I grew up watching this show and had never realized how racist the star of the show Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) is. He and his son Lamont (Demond Wilson) are junkmen in Watts’s neighborhood (ghetto) of Los Angeles. Fred a 65-year-old, black, widowed junk dealer is antisocial and racist with other ethnic groups but friendly to African Americans. I do not understand how the people in his social group accepted his behavior. Sanford and Son was a classic television show that contained social inequality because of lower classman ship. Working together as a team Lamont and his father Fred developed a unique business relationship based on family values. While watching an episode Lamont who is Fred’s 34-year-old son who did all of the work for their business joined a feelings group. Their group not only discussed inner personal feelings but also touched one another with embraces of love and respect for each other. Lamont let his father know that it was his turn to host a meeting. Fred (with an angry expression) was upset that his son because he did not ask for permission from his father. Fred told his son that he could not bring strange people into his house. Fred trusted no one. Fred said this is my house (pointing at himself smiling with his chest...
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...Arrogance Proverbs 8:5, 10-12 NRSV "O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it. . . . Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold; for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I attain knowledge and discretion." It's cool these days to be ignorant. You see it everywhere. People talking, writing, acting without knowledge and with no desire to get knowledge. They want to "make" their own culture, their own language, their own sense. I think it's probably a consequence of evolution (as Dr. Henry Morris predicted). If the physical world is evolving (and there is nothing there that is solidified in essence), then it follows that the social world is evolving, leaving us with the quagmire of no right or wrong, nothing that is fixed outside of us. Everything around us is what we want to perceive, what we want to make of it. On the surface, I think that many Christians might reject that . . . at first. But as I talk to people on the Internet, with those who call themselves believers, I find that many believe that it is okay to have behaviors, standards that are different from one another, not because each is in a different place of spiritual maturity, but because we cannot tell each other what is right or wrong. And so I see many people doing things that they obviously shouldn't be doing. Oh, I not talking about whether or not they attend a certain church...
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...willing to sit down and talk it can have a positive outcome. When conflict is dealt with correctly and successfully from the start then there will be a greater understanding from each individual involved and an increased likelihood of unity and an improved relationship. “It strikes me as a bit more than ironic that theological education requires certification in Pastoral counseling but absolutely no training in conflict management.” Dr. David Roozen. The Disturbing Trend in the USA Research conducted by the Barna Group has revealed two stunning facts: (1) not only is the majority of the nation's non-churched population comprised of people who consider themselves Christians, but that (2) about four out of ten of these stopped attending due to a "painful" or otherwise "negative" ordeal. Moreover, the problem is getting worse. Based on current "drop-out" rates, Barna projected that in 15 years church attendance nationally will be half of what it is today. (Barna Group on New Statistics on Church Attendance and Avoidance) Skills and practical learning tools for resolving the conflict are essential but according to Ken Sande the author of “ The Peacemaker: A biblical guide to Resolving Conflict “ and also the president of...
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...W O M E N ’ S C O M M I S S I O N for refugee women & children w U N TA P P E D P OT E N T I A L : Adolescents affected by armed conflict A review of programs and policies U N TA P P E D P OT E N T I A L : Adolescents affected by armed conflict A review of programs and policies Wo m e n ’s C o m m i s s i o n f o r R e f u g e e Wo m e n & C h i l d r e n N e w Yo r k W O M E N ’ S C O M M I S S I O N for refugee women & children Copyright © January 2000 by Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 1-58030-000-6 Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children 122 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10168-1289 tel. 212.551.3111 or 3088 fax. 212.551.3180 e-mail: wcrwc@intrescom.org www.intrescom.org/wcrwc.html w cover photographs © Rachel K. Jones, Marc Sommers, Sarah Samson, Holly Myers, Anne-Sophie Rosette, International Rescue Committee M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children seeks to improve the lives of refugee women and children through a vigorous program of public education and advocacy, and by acting as a technical resource. The Commission, founded in 1989 under the auspices of the International Rescue Committee, is the only organization in the United States dedicated solely to speaking out on behalf of women and children uprooted by armed conflict or persecution. Acknowledgments The Women’s Commission expresses its sincere...
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