Contrast and Continuities in Society OUSCC1504 [pic][pic] [pic] Combined Studies, Sociology, Level 4 This programme is currently validated by The Open University [pic] [pic] 2014-15 [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] |Assessment type |Hand in date |Percentage of Marks |Assessment description | |Formative
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I am from Peru which is the most diverse country in the world. I became aware of it since, I, myself come from a German-Peruvian family. I noticed the difference between my dad's culture which was German and my mom’s who was Peruvian. Even though my dad was already the 4th generation living in Peru, he still had a different mindset. I remember being enrolled in a German Peruvian school which was called Alexander von Humboldt, I did not like. Since everyone will only be your friend if you came from
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|Is the ability to do or think in a different way, this also means the different kinds of | | |people in the world. | |Ethnocentrism |Is the thought that your own ethnic group is better than another’s | |Melting pot |an analogy in which people of different races, ethnicities, cultures, and religions
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ETH/125 Final Exam – Multiple Choice Name: _Katrina Winters___________________________ Please note: There are 56 questions. Each question is worth 2.5 points. 1. Which term is used to describe a group that is set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns? a. social group b. ethnic group c. racial group d. formal group 2. Members of a minority or subordinate group a. share physical or cultural characteristics that distinguish
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Case Analysis of Starbucks, Pepsi, & Coca- Cola International Marketing February 13, 2012 Starbucks, Pepsi, and Coca-Cola are companies that are globally well known. While all three companies initially started in the United States, they are now located in over 50 countries worldwide. Yet going into global expansion has caused a couple issues in which all three companies have had a setback. Despite having so much success in few years
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Final Exam -- Chapters 1-7 I have placed the Final Exam and the Final Exam Answer Sheet on the Home Page of the course. Download the Final Exam and Final Exam Answer Sheet to your computer. Please submit your completed Final Exam Answer Sheet in the Assignment Drop Box located in the Assignments section of the using the following file name format: "lastname _final_exam.doc" (for example, "smith _final_exam.doc"). The Final Exam Answer Sheet is due by Friday, 1/21/11 at midnight--no exceptions
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The purpose of the law is to serve as protection for individuals, however there are innumerable examples that make the purpose of the law questionable. The law has patterns of creating division between normalcy and reproducing “deviant” groups. For the most part, normalcy includes privileging the norm, which is judged from a very conservative perspective. Meanwhile, those who pertain to different racial backgrounds and have multiple intersectional identities such as people of color who identify under
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Define the following terms found in Week One and Week Two readings: Term Definition Diversity The state of being diverse; variety. A range of different things Ethnocentrism Being in the superiority of one’s own ethnic group. Melting pot Diverse racial or ethnic groups or both, forming a new creation, a new cultural entity. Minority group A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than doe the members of a dominant or majority group
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news of the retreat shook his government and forced him to quit. The French won allowing France to conquer the Gulf of Tonkin in China. Jules Ferry was a proponent of colonization. Why? The inferior race be civilized by the superior class (ethnocentrism). It is not racism by nature. It is a strange imperialism He has a genuine feeling that France had a duty to dominate/ lead the rest the world. This is why the France and US are always in competition because they both consider that they need
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The two main categories of obstacles to critical thinking are ones caused by how a person thinks, the technical term being psychological, and ones brought on by what a person believes, or philosophical. Though these two types of hindrances overlap in that how a person thinks affects what they believe, and vice versa, but they each have distinctive elements. In modern critical thinking, it is believed that the root causes of psychological impediments are a person’s fears, attitudes, desires, and
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