...Marquita Steele 4/10/15 Essay 2 Taylor and Sam both have natural talents to become surgeons, however, they are not equally as likely to succeed. There are many factors as to why one may be more likely to succeed than the other based on their social class. As stated in our textbook, social class studies the inequality that results from social relationships. Society has a stratification system. As discussed in class, stratification is the classification of individuals and ranking, on an inferiority and superiority scale. Individuals such as Taylor and Sam, are stratified by neighborhood, income, education, and more. With these classifications, society is able to determine who has a better chance in life. Referring back to our class discussion on Max Weber, his concept of “Life Chances” gives reasoning as to why Taylor has a better chance of succeeding than Sam. His concept states that “Life chances are opportunities an individual has of fulfilling their potential in life.” This means that individuals ranked higher in the stratification system have better “Life Chances”, than those ranked lower. Taking a look at Taylor and Sam’s neighborhood background, Sam is from a small town in rural Arkansas as compared to Taylor who is from Naperville, an upper- middle class suburb of Chicago. Taylor’s neighborhood have more stability such as services, recreational programs, and access to more things than Sam’s, whose neighborhood will have less stability. Based on their neighborhood...
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...more people smoking, as they enter college. Aside from looking for ways to quit smoking, researchers have also conducted surveys and numerous studies on what causes most students to start smoking. Furthermore, they’ve observed that student’s habits and behaviour can determine attitudes and reasons why they currently smoke. It is essential to find out more about the reasons and compulsiveness of the college smoker in order to help the smoker cope with situations that cause them to smoke. College students have had lower smoking rates than people the same age who are not in college, but the gap is narrowing. It shrunk from 20.0% in 1980 to 10.0% by 1999 (Halperin, 2002). Surprisingly, most of the people who start smoking in college only smoke socially and when around others. Most of those who exclusively smoke during parties do not even consider themselves as smokers (Kimberly Waters 2010). The rest who were smokers before they entered college are mostly the ones that smoke cigarettes habitually and by themselves (Patterson, F 2004). For many students, smoking is synonymous to college life. Most college students are bound to enjoy partying and found freedom when they reach the legal drinking age. Many develop the habit of smoking when they are drinking. Students may believe that smoking calms them during high-stress situations like class workload, earning money while at school and social difficulties (Ireland, Jae. 2010). Social statuses were a factor in why students...
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...SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND ITS EFFECTS: THE ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE IN OUR SOCIETY Submitted By: Tabor, Ben Jayson Raymundo, John Joseph R. Bautista, Sean Karl T. Gregorio, Prince Jairus J. Medenilla, Mark Johann L. Submitter To; Prof. Don Emmanuel Nolasco II. INTRODUCTION Rule #1 - “Life is not fair, get used to it!” –Rules of Life by Bill Gates We always see differences in our lives in different ways. Let’s accept the fact that some people are gorgeous and handsome while others look like Frankenstein. Some are rich because of fate and some are poor with no food on their plate because not everywhere is blessed by a golden spoon on their mouth. Most likely, people with a higher status in life always get the privilege to be educated, healthy lifestyle and threated well by the society. Why this kind of inequality occurs in our society? Social inequality within a society is an issue in which its existence has never been erased throughout the history of the world. Classified as a dynamic trend to which it keeps on changing while the time goes by. The human condition has so far been a fundamentally unequal one. Indeed, all known societies have been characterized by inequalities of some kind, although of course the extent and type of inequality has been quite variable. Social inequality like racial inequality, gender inequality and other types keeps on sprouting like a mushroom growing anywhere most like in the dark places and these can have effects that have the power to influence...
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...Julio Flores Professor Frazier Englsh 102 2/19/15 From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum focuses on the vast gap of education that divide four different social classes. Jean Anyon, the chairperson of the Department of Education at Rutgers University, and the author of the essay Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work, which first appeared in the journal of education in the fall of 1980, says that a child’s social class reflects the kind of schooling that he or she receives. After reading article on public education and carefully examining the different levels she calls the working class, the middle-class, the affluent professional, and the executive elite. Anyon has stated that “It will be suggested that there is a "hidden curriculum" in schoolwork that has profound implications for the theory - and consequence - of everyday activity in education....” (Anyon 258). Anyon believes that a student’s educational perseverance will not be enough to place them on top of the ladder. She believes that one’s economic background determines their educational success and future. The first and lowest class is the working class. The working-class school is made up of nearly 40 percent of the population in the United States. Anyon observed that “In this class parents have an average income of about twelve thousand dollars or less. They hold jobs like stockroom workers, foundry men, and semiskilled and unskilled assembly-line...
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...of agriculture. The economic growth produced major changes; the population increased and the small villages grew into large cities with many thousands of inhabitants. A civilization is a complex culture in which a large number of people share several common elements. Historians have identified some basic features of the civilization, most of which is obvious in the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Hurrapan, China and Egypt. These include: (1) Urban revolution; the cities become the principal points of the political, financial, social, cultural and religious development. (2) Religious structure characteristic; the gods are considered crucial to the success of the community, and professional religious classes; as administrators of the property of the gods and they regulate relations with the gods. (3) New political structures and military; arises an organized government bureaucracy to meet the administrative demands of the growing population, while armies are organized to acquire domains and power. (4) A social structure based on economic power; besides the Kings and the top class of priests, political and military leaders that have the domain and it was a large contingent of free men, farmers, artisans and slaves that they were in the last social scale. (5) The creation and use of writing in this civilizations was the best way for the Kings, priests, merchants and craftsmen to keep records....
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...Comparing Athens and Sparta: Where Would You Rather Live, and Why? Source: PBS.org | ATHENS | SPARTA | Population & Map | Approximately 140,000; Approximately 40,000 men were citizens; and slaves (about 40,000). By 432 BC, Athens had become the most populous city-state in Hellas. In Athens and Attica, there were at least 150,000 Athenians, around 50,000 aliens, and more than 100,000 slaves. | Approximately 8,000 Spartiates (adult male citizens) ruled over a population of 100,000 enslaved and semi-enslaved people. | Government & Political organizations | Athenian GovernmentUsually classified as a "direct democracy" (because everyone, not just politicians attended the Assembly), Athens claims to be the "birthplace of democracy".Elected officials including 10 generals (strategos), magistrates (archons), and others.Council of 500 was charged with administering decisions made by the Assembly.The Assembly open to all citizens (all citizens were eligible to attend such meetings and speak up). They passed laws and made policy decisions. The Assembly met on the Hill of the Pnyx at the foot of the Acropolis.During time of Pericles citizens were paid for jury service so not only the wealthy could participate.Women did not participate in the political life of Athens. | Spartan Government:Usually classified as an "oligarchy" (rule by a few), but it had elements of monarchy (rule by kings), democracy (through the election of council/senators), and aristocracy (rule by the...
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...revolutionary progresses are social based When you think of national progress, what would you think of? Economical, Political, or Societal? Actually, although people believe that most reforms or progress is for the benevolence of all three of these elements equally, revolutions such as the Industrial Revolution are more driven towards the success of the economics. The industrial revolution itself caused a massive uprising of ideas based on engineering for the sole purpose of convenience, and made a huge gap between the rich, the middle, and the poor, and classified the middle and the poor as the working classes and most of the topics went to the working class. However, this is more unlikely to be a political progress since the convenience and affordable factor all went to boost England’s economy and have the society afford them for cheaper. The progress of the Industrial Revolution was based on socioeconomic reasons because, due to the Industrial revolution, England’s economy increased, rate of employment for unemployed workers increased because of the ability to mass produce products using the newly invented machines to create a better economy for corporations, and a lot of products could be produced in cheap prices because mass production was possible and this increased the standard of living to modernization. Another example of socioeconomic progress is the French Revolution. The French revolutionists and poor social class strived to change the social class division by killing...
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...Robby Hammers November 16, 2011 Sociology 201 Sissa Harris Waiting for Superman The film “Waiting for Superman” illustrates various problems that we have in our public education system. The film follows several children on their quest to get accepted by different schools because if they continue down the path of public school they will fall behind and are far more likely to drop out. Problems in Education: One major problem that the film addresses quite thoroughly is the problem with school funding. Schools receive money from the state, and they are also funded by tax money from citizens who live in the communities. Typically in a neighborhood where the average home price is relatively high the school will often receive and spend more money per student than a school in a poor community. A school in a rich neighborhood will more often than not have newer and higher quality learning materials than a school in a low income community. This difference in income has a huge impact on the education students receive. For example, a “school in a poor neighborhood may be rundown, lack library and science facilities, have crowded classrooms, and be staffed with poorly trained teachers” (Macionis 350). In the film, they called these schools names such as “dropout factories” and “academic sinkholes”. The children in the movie were forced to attend these schools which put them at a huge disadvantage compared to kids who were able to attend a private school or even a decent public school...
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...ALS Helpful or Hurtful The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went viral on social networks, but is it too successful for its own good? ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) often referred to as “Lou Gehrigs Disease,” is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord (ALS Association). It’s like Parkinson’s on super-steroids. Now, the challenge aspect was a simple dare. You had 24 hours to drench yourself in a bucket of ice water, and if you didn’t complete the dare in 24 hours you had to donate $100 to the research. To keep the cycle going you had to dare others before completing yours ( ). It all started with a patient named Peter Frates diagnosed with ALS in Boston. Then it totally went viral within weeks from everyday locals, to professional athletes, and then to national and international celebrities. LeBron James, who was previously a Heat player in the NBA at the time accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from the deck of a yacht in Greece (Forbes). Having many celebrities including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Justin Bieber helped raise donations more than $15 million. It took over mainly on the social network of Instagram, an online mobile photo and video social networking service that branch out to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. I personally participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. I was nominated by my boyfriend to complete the challenge. I completed the challenge, but I only completed the challenge because...
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...1. For the consumption and class issue, please review any two articles in the section to show how the state’s social engineering projects created classes in contemporary China. a. State Meets Capital: the Making and Unmaking of a New Chinese Working Class by Ngai Pun b. Creating an Urban Middle Class: Social Engineering in Beijing by Luigi Tomba Before explaining how the state’s social engineering projects created classes in contemporary China, I will provide a definition of class. According to Fred Chiu in Pun’s work, the term “class” exists because individuals join together to form an identity. Classes are created in contemporary China through modernization and creating job opportunities. Traditionally, during the Mao era, urban planners tried to design cities that had diversity and not segregated to prevent inequality. It was to emphasize and support the principles of Communism. Also, the usage of temporary workers in the Mao era was not common. According to Tomba, the way the government distributes is still part of the segregation today. The government has been giving easier access to those that work for the government housing of their choice. Also, the commercialization of housing is another reason. However, it started to change when plants starting to grow in cities like Shenzhen. According to Pun, open-door policies and economic reform encouraged the introduction of foreign capital. Shenzhen was chosen by Guangdong provincial government as an experimental model...
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...in Chapter 6, this chapter covers other relevant concepts. The focus is on the major approaches used to study consumer behavior. The basic purpose of this chapter is to acknowledge the role that determinants other than culture play in influencing consumer behavior. The chapter thus examines the psychological and social dimensions, and these include motivation, learning, personality, psychographics, perception, attitude, social class, group, family, opinion leadership, and the diffusion process of innovations. PERSPECTIVES ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Consumer behavior may be defined as a study of human behavior within the consumer role and includes all the steps in the decision-making process. The study must go beyond the explicit act of purchase to include an examination of less observable processes, as well as a discussion of why, where, and how a particular purchase occurs. Domestically, marketing scholars have employed a variety of techniques and concepts, including the cultural approach, to study consumer behavior. Yet consumer study on an international basis has employed the cultural approach almost exclusively without much regard for other psychological and social concepts.This is a very curious approach since it is the norm for virtually all consumer behavior textbooks to treat...
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...DEPRESSION AND WORK FUNCTION Throughout the nation and our world people are suffering from this disease.Depression effects people of both genders, all ages, and any background. People once believed that teens never went through any form of severe depression. Some still believe this to be true, but if it were why are teens homicidal and suicidal? This report should give support for the fact that a teen’s depression deserves attention, not the shrug of the shoulders or the turn of a back. Depression is defined as the point or points is ones lifetime when they are mentally unstable and the emotional state marked by sadness, discouragement, and loss that can occur during the teenage years. Depression causes changes in behavior, thinking and especially changes in ones everyday life. “Depression amongst teens generally starts when a child hits puberty, but could possibly begin the day they were born if chemically inbalanced (heredity).” Dr. David Kalkstein, psychiatrist at Penn Foundation. Depression can effect anyone, anytime, and anywhere. Teens, children, and adults are all effected, some even have the same problems in common, the causes too. Depression is experienced mostly by teens even though it is mistakenly classified as an “adult illness”. “Twenty percent of high school students are deeply unhappy or have some kind of psychiatric problem.” The causes for depression in teens are sometimes more harsh than the causes in adults. In a teen’s lifetime they have to face many problems...
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...SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: INTRODUCTION AND SIGNIFICANCE Social strata are levels of social statuses. Members of a society who possess similar amount of wealth, power, and privileges occupy each social stratum. We can see layers of social statuses occupied by members of society. Organized systems of such strata are conceptualized as social stratification system. Social stratification refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. Four basic principles of stratification: 1. Social stratification is characteristic of society, not simply a reflection of individual differences. Children born into wealth families are more likely than born into poverty to enjoy good health, achieve academically, succeed in their life’s work, and live well into old age. Neither rich nor poor people are responsible for creating social stratification, yet this system shapes the lives of them all. 2. Social stratification persists over generations. In all societies parents pass their social position along to their children, so that patterns of inequality stay much the same from generation to generation. Some individual experience change in their position in the social hierarchy. For most people, social standing remains much the same over a lifetime. 3. Social stratification is universal but variable. Social stratification is found everywhere. At the same time, what is unequal and how unequal people are vary from one society to another. 4. Social stratification involves not...
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...everything else on this earth, created? Why do humans have flaws and commit sins? Many will try and side with whatever view fits their lifestyle, religion, or culture. Most likely if one was brought up to believe in many Gods, they will continue believing this for the rest of their life. Although there is no concrete way to know exactly how our creation came about, history has left us some creation myths which serve to point us in the right direction by hypothesizing the events that led up to human creation. The society is an organization of people who set socials relations between its members and to share cultural interest, economic resources, and political ideas for a better living. Throughout history society has been structured since its establishment with levels, classes; also the product of population growth and divisions of labor have established different social classes that vary from one society to another. In most cases, there are upper classes who are the minority and lower classes who are the majority, and this structure has remained to this day, even with the addition of state to society, that most of the constitutions of states countries have been unable to set equal status for each member of society so, it is clear economical. According to Karl Marx “social class are groups o individuals defined by the same categorization of their ways of relating to the material means of production”. (Historical Materialism). To differentiate social...
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...In collaboration with the language and culture program, participation in Native Language classes and various cultural events around the community will become an requirement with the 477 program. Another important and vital requirement for the 477 Program is Community Service. For the month of January all employable clients were required to complete Community Services at the RSIC Senior Center for Lunch Bingo. Every employable client attended the event. The General Assistance Employable clients had positive feedbacks and left the event with communication skills. The purpose for Community Services is to cultivate a sense of pride and confidence in them and in the community. One client was asked by the Seniors Activity Coordinator to volunteer frequently. Funding for the WEX program may be used for temporary work with the Senior Center...
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