...Questions 1. What has been the general demographic pattern in Britain since 1900? Less Births and less deaths, the gap between them has decreased. In the last 100 years, a continuing fall of death rates as well as a falling in birth rate has slowed down the population growth and there has been greatly improved life expectancy. Rising standards of living have helped towards reducing death. Advances in medicine and science. Smaller family size. 2. Give 5 reasons why the birth rate has fluctuated since 1901? Over the past 100 years the birth rate has been declining in the uk from 28 per 1000 in 1902 to about 11.3 per 1000 in 2003. Exceptions to this trend is the post war baby boom of 1920 and 1947 as men and women delayed families by separation during the two world wars. Baby boom 1950s-1960’s when the standard of living increased and when there was low unemployment. Welfare state helped families Values and attitudes had changed eg rise of feminism- Women wanted careers instead of having children or delayed having children because of this. Children no longer needed for labour. 3. What does the graph show? The graph shows the fluctuations of birth rates which was at its highest in 1921. Shows the predictions of death an birth rates showing them to be much more similar then they have been in the past. 4. Give 5 reasons why the fertility rate has changed since 1901. Compulsory education- Economic liability and a drain on the recourses of the parent because...
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...MASS MEDIA Pluralist view 1. Societies such as the UK. are reasonably democratic. 2. Political power in these societies is divided among a wide variety of political parties and pressure groups. 3. The citizens can exercise power in their own right in various ways. 4. There are disputes from time to time but they can be resolved via existing political institutions. There is certainly no need for radical political change to resolve our problems. 5. The State is neutral. It does not systematically favour some groups at the expense of others but aims to take all decisions in the national interest. 6. Within this overall framework, the Mass Media make important contributions to the maintenance of democracy. 7. The Press is privately owned and relatively free of State control so that there is far more freedom of the Press to criticise government than was the case in former Communist societies, for example. 8. The Broadcast Media also have considerable independence. Censorship is occasionally necessary but is kept within limits. 9. Government is subjected to regular criticism from investigative reporters and combative TV. and radio interviewers who do their best to keep the public informed. 10. It is admitted that the Press, overall, is pro- Conservative but the Tory Press is sometimes very critical of Tory governments and there are also well established Labour and...
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...Long before Dorothy dropped in, two girls meet in the Land of Oz in the new Broadway musical Wicked. Playwright Winnie Holzman has adapted Gregory Maguire’s best-selling novel of the same title and paired it with new music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz to create a show about the untold story of Glinda, the Good Witch, and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Wicked centers on Elphaba, a young woman who is born green and thus is an outsider. Her different appearance leads the people of Oz to misjudge her. As the characters journey through Oz, they develop the courage to overcome stereotypes and realize the true meaning of friendship. The characters in Wicked grapple with moral dilemmas and ethics in a way that is unique among Broadway shows. At the heart of the show are important and relevant questions about tolerance: Does “tolerance” mean that we should respect and treat kindly those who are different from us, or has it been redefined to mean that we should not “tolerate” anyone with whom we disagree? In the same way, Wicked probes the question of good and evil. Can we ever judge anyone as evil? Is there any objective source that defines good and evil or are they strictly matters of one’s personal feelings and opinion? Can we say it is wrong to scapegoat girls born green and talking animals for one’s own political gain? Can we say anything is ever wrong or is that “judging” and being “intolerant” of those whose motives, behavior and...
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...A central theme that reoccurred in Dubrofsky’s analysis was racist ideology and how it organized and perpetuated the power structure in the world of Glee relating to whiteness (Carol & Henry , 2010). The dominant ideology of race more specifically white race, became embedded in everyday cultural practices. Dubrofsky’s article focuses too heavily on the downplay of racism between characters and racist tropes and neglects the exposure and affects of whiteness viewers will unintentionally observe. The idea of assimilation and integration is illustrated in various ways where whiteness is used as a platform to gain acceptance, produce opportunities and establish success. Throughout the first two seasons of Glee Mercedes’ role was a typical stereotypical Black person being “…undisciplined, unrefined, primitive, exotic, inappropriately sexual, emotional and unstable” (Banjo & Fraley, 2014). Furthermore the notion of attaining recognition and success is only exemplified once Mercedes has whitened herself via her appearance, behavior and disposing her urban inflictions. When Mercedes auditions for her play post “whitening” the judges are impressed “…with talk of how she is finally showing she has what it takes to be a star” (Dubrofsky, 2013). Dubrofsky’s article is deprived of collective wholeness in ignoring other characters in the show and their racial experiences and challenges in regards to white privilege. The article can be improved by including other characters that exist...
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...James M. Callow Exploration of a Journal Article in Sociology November 10/2013 Professor Lloyd SOC100 The following article written by Darren Dixon; “I can’t put a smiley face on”: Working-Class Masculinity, Emotional Labor and Service Work in the “New Economy” explore how low-skilled men are declining to work in the service sector when evidently it is a field that it is experience a substantial growth. This situation has little to no existent research at the time the author conducted the research, the author himself mentioned that “yet little research has explored exactly what it is about service work that is leading such men to drop out the labor market during periods of sustained service sector employment growth.” (Dixon. D. (2009) I can’t put a smiley face on: Working-Class Masculinity, Emotional Labour and Service Work in the “New Economy” Gender, Work and Organization. Vol. 16 No. 3). The research was based on interviews with 35 unemployed low skilled men. Based on the research we can learn that low skilled males in Britain have a tendency to not succeed within a field that primarily dominated by females mainly because it interferes with what it is consider being a socially accepted behavior for a male. The author refer to a table based on data obtain from OECD between 1984 and 1998. Society has an idea of what could be a job acceptable for either a woman or a man. Although nowadays females has been able to overcome some obstacles when it comes it...
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...Assignment Community and Family Studies Date of submission 14-11-2013 Word count 1362 The aim of this study is to compare and contrast Marx and Durkheim’s theories of society and social change. Compare draw an analogy between one thing and another for the purposes of explanation or clarification: (Anon., 2013) Contrast the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association: (Anon., 2013) In conclusion Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx challenged the aspect of social structure in their works. Emile Durkheim is known as functionalist states that everything serves a function in society and his main concern to discover what that role was. In contrast Karl Marx, a conflict theorist, emphases that society is a complicated structure characterized by inequality and conflict that generates social change. Equally Durkheim and Marx were bothered with the characteristics of groups and structures rather than with individuals. Durkheim employed the concept of social intergration in his study of suicide particularly in relation to the strength of social bonds between the individual and society. ( slide number Lisa Walshe 2006) Marx was concerened with class conflict.He saw that the concentrations of industrys wealth were increasingly in the hands of a few “in a society so rich how could so many be so poor”...
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...Meghan Larkin Sociolgy November 19, 2013 Sex Offender Registration The general definition for sex offender is that any person conviced of involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. In most states convicted sex offenders are supposed to report to local police authorities, but many do not. Sex offenders are restricted on where they can live and where they can work. Many must stay in the state that they where caught in for over 8 years. Once they are out on probabtion they must write where they have been and report back to a half house by 9. They are also restricted to not using the internet and where they can use it. The sex offender registration policy and community notification can promote public safety by facilitating effective law enforcement, enabling members of the public to take direct measures of a lawful nature for the protection of themselves and their families, and by reducing the opportunities for registered offenders to re-offend.( According with there SORA, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency also known as CSOSA is responsible for maintaining and operating the Registry for the District of Columbia. These responsibilities also include the calculation of a sex offender’s registration period and any adjustments to that period resulting from registration in another jurisdiction, detention, incarceration, civil commitment, or violation of registration requirements which suspends...
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...Scandinavian Culture: Home Exam Antoine LE GOFF HISTORY BOOK: HOW SWEDEN BECAME SWEDISH Table of Contents Introduction 1 Creation of Sweden and its culture 3 17th - 18th century: Swedish culture is born 3 Göticism and Viking heritage: Foundation of the Swedish culure 3 18th Century: the Enlightenment: a new view of the nation 3 19th Century: National Romanticism 3 20th century: Contemporary History 4 The dissolution of the Union 4 The First World War 4 Wellfare system establishment 4 The Second World War 4 The Cold War 5 European Union and Immigration 5 How Sweden Becam Swedish 6 Welfare State 6 Cultural Policy and Propaganda 7 Multi-culturalism 8 Gender Equality 9 Conclusion 11 Introduction The purpose of this essay is to try to understand the Scandinavian culture. To do this, we have to clarify some concepts, like National Identity, Nationalism, culture and Swedishness, in order to understand the connection between those, and finally expose more easely the following arguments. Those concepts can be seen as pretty dimness and deep, so we have to treat those with caution. In fact, if we start with Nationalism, many theorists tried to counteract the three paradoxes this concept bring : objective modernity vs. subjective antiquity, socio-cultural concept vs. concrete manifestations and 'political' power vs. philosophical poverty. Therefore, we see that Nationalism involve multiple frameworks, like history, culture, social...
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