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    Social Classes

    First of all, what does working class mean? It is the position in the social structure, which is characterised by manual labour. The numbers in the working class have been declining as manual work is replaced by automated machines. Besides working class, there are 3 more types of Social Classes in Sociology, which are: * The lower class * The working class * The middle class * The upper class Talking about the the lower class, it is typified by poverty, homelessness, and unemployment

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    Health and Social Care

    Ethnicity: Ethnicity defines individuals and groups who have characteristics such as language, religion, dress and origin. Discrimination can take place when people believe their ethnic characteristics are inferior then others. Gender: at birth we are classified as either male or female. Historically it was seen men were more important and had more rights than women however now into day’s society women and men have the same balance of equal. For instance men now participate in child caring and women’s

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    12 Angry Men

    middle aged and up men. Some of their occupations consist of architect, salesman, broker and a man in advertisement. Which if you know anything about a jury today it is completely different. You have many different people of all race, gender, and social class, within that community, to receive a more fair trial. Also you can’t bring in any previous information into the trial or bring any emotional attachment into the case. Having a jury like in the “12 Angry Men” is not having a fair jury or trial

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    Film Assignment 2 - Class Dismissed

    documentary’s major premise that TV depicts working class people as either clowns or social deviants? For the past five decades television shows have used blue collar acting as a means of entertainment, discipline, education and shaping the view of working class people. The working class people were portrayed as class clowns because of their lack of development and the restrictive boundary they had around their social class. Class clowns have bad taste, lack of intelligence, intransigent politics

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    Class Inequlaity

    to why the working class are at a disadvantage is education because without having the knowledge you will not be able to achieve much in society. Research has shown that the working class children perform much worse in education than all other social groups at all levels of education. The reason behind this is because just like Hirch’s understanding that the working class are unable to provide for the children because they don’t have the financial advantage so they lack in material resources which

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    Ade Appendix D

    administrative positions (Gollnick & Chinn, 2006, p. 65). Many upper middle class people hold a college degree. |Those holding a high income or hold a high amount of wealth. Also Those in the upper class may have inherited a large sum of money. This group also includes the highly paid professionals and administrators. | |How do teacher expectations positively or negatively impact this socioeconomic class? |Teachers should not hold opinions about students within this

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    The Sweet Thrills

    excitement and danger. Since man still lived by catching his own food through hunting or fishing, lived in constant danger of either being killed or drowned. This made his life an endless struggle to survive. Later, human society divided into two groups: the ruling class and the working class. For the working class meant that they still had to work to survive, although it was not as dangerous as before. The ruling class, or upper class, were however not so much to fight for longer, since they had

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    Bruce Tuckman

    psychologist best know for his theory called “Tuckman’s stages of group development". Tuckman’s theory is one of the most famous group development theories. His theory has been use for a lot further developments group theories including Belbin’s group theory, Fishers theory and Tubbs small group theory. Tuckman’s model is significant because it recognizes the fact that groups do not start such as a fully-formed and functioning group and finish like one whole. He suggests, that teams improve their

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    Nt1310 Unit 4 Episode 4

    television show that portraits a number of groups, that are forced to survive on an island. By means of challenges, teams can win tools that attribute to survival. The teams are formed by means of their social status, that are referred to tribes, the tribes being white collar, blue collar and no collar. The episode of choice was Survivor: Worlds Apart, ‘It Will Be My Revenge’ (season 30, episode 2), and the chosen group is “No Collar”. The No Collar group consists of people who are unemployed, yet

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    Group Behavior

    Group Behavior / Dimensions of Group Structure Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Date Due Group Behavior / Dimensions of Group Structure A group is a tool toward accomplishing the task of a company. Tuckman’s developed five stages pertaining group development include forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Managers ought to understand various group behaviors and remove potential barriers within the groups so as to attain organizational goals. The must also put an effort of

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