IS THE CONCEPT OF CLASS WAR STILL VALID? ... 'Upper class' and 'lower class' are therefore shorthand terms used to describe an individuals social standing. ... As a result classes may correspond to income groups, consider the Registrar General's 'social class' groupings for example. ... The support of these 'new social movements' cuts across the boundaries of class and contributes further to the weakening of old class politics and class based political action. ... Occupational class schemes and indeed much of class politics had been shaped by ma...

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When adapting quantitative methodological procedures to derive specific data, official statistics is often used as a source of sociological evidence to simply enhance or complement practical research methods. ... As a result, they use statistical data as positivists holds that data derived from the study of society can then be classified. ... These include neglecting of unrecorded crime, bias against working class delinquents in favor of the middle class, ignorance of white color crime and most significantly, the intentional disregard for crimes committed by females. ...

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The total number of compiled class subjects interviewed is 96, each was asked from the same questionnaire. ... Fifty-seven percent also believed they derived rewards from their job other than their salary. ... With the work category I even though 36% of the people interviewed were satisfied with their salary that an average of 54% of them were satisfied with their appreciation and the rewards they derive from work. ... Most of my sample does correspond with the class results. I do not think my sample and those of the class mirror all of Bloomington, Indiana, and definitely not of the Unit...

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Miller argued that a set of focal concerns of the lower class characterizes this socioeconomic group. ... Miller contended that the lower class has a distinctive culture of its own. Its focal concers, or values, make lower class boys more likely to become involved in delinquent behavior. ... Cohen's theory of lower-class youths derived from Merton's work as well as that of others, contends that lower class youths have middle class values, but their inability to attain them causes them to invert these values and become involved in negative, malicious behavior. Cloward and Ohlin ar...

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Hence, its failure in the "New World" forced "Americans" to derive their own culture from a European one which had been driven by the feudal system. ... Class mobility, which was nonexistent in feudal Europe, was a reality. Without restrictive hierarchy and class immobility, a staple of feudal Europe, Americans were free to elevate themselves in the world as a result of hard work. ... Also, these social freedoms rid America of civil war based on class structure, which was abundant among European nations. ...

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Caste, derived from the Portuguese, meaning a system of rigid social stratification, is the distinct system in which India depends on for its social order. ... The first class contains the Brahman, said to have emerged from the mouth of God. ... Being of this class relives them of taxes and any corporal punishment. ... Even a Braham expelled from his caste will not be able to join into a lower class. ... The sudras emerged from the feet of god only to serve the classes above them. ...

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Marx's comprehension of history is described through constant class struggle, "oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another" (Marx, 474), throughout the phases of the world. ... Marx analysis of capitalism is derived from his concentration on class struggle and its means of subsistence, not other factors of the dominate superstructure (religion, law, culture, and morality). ... As it was stated above Marx believed history is exhibited through class struggle, he believed a struggle between "the property owners and the propertyless workers " would erupt into a revolu...

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Many of common approaches to sociology derive from Durkheim. ... Property is the major difference between classes. Marx and Engel argue that property creates class division and causes conflict. ... The dominant classes are those who manage to achieve a tight monopoly on some lucrative market; less dominant classes get only partial monopolies or monopolies in less desirable kinds of markets. Classes who achieve no monopoly at all and are forced to compete on the open market. ...

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In this class we have talked about three forms of stratification when thinking about crime and victimization and in this film ethnic and class stratifications are operational. In the section of the film where Lesra is reading Carters book and Carter is describing his first run-in with the law as a child, we can find examples of ethnic and class stratifications. ... The detective failed to see that the man that had been stabbed was a child molester and based on the elevated class status of that man, the poor, young, black child must be the perpetrator. These are the first two indications of ...

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The audience of both texts, to begin with were very minute, for Emma it would have been the upper middle class and the aristocrats, whereas Clueless would appeal to the female, western, teenage audience. ... During the Regency period, the social order for Jane Austen's society was very rigid and immobile, and social status was determined through birth class, one's marriage, connections and professional success. ... Austen at times considers the idea of class distinction might be unfortunate and unfair but demonstrates that marriage should depend on couple's being matched intelle...

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Conservatives and political forces have plainly acted as stumbling blocks to transformative change, being superficial or partial (e.g. gender, race, class, etc.) ... According to Borland and Wright, in the past individuals labeled as gifted, are 400 times as likely to be found among children of upper-class parents as among the children of laborers (Heller, et. al 587). ... According to the study, take the following premises: • Students typically derive at least some benefits from being placed in gifted programs, benefits that are realized in school and later in life. • Gifted progra...

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Conservatives and political forces have plainly acted as stumbling blocks to transformative change, being superficial or partial (e.g. gender, race, class, etc.) ... According to Borland and Wright, in the past individuals labeled as gifted, are 400 times as likely to be found among children of upper-class parents as among the children of laborers (Heller, et. al 587). ... According to the study, take the following premises: • Students typically derive at least some benefits from being placed in gifted programs, benefits that are realized in school and later in life. • Gifted progra...

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The evolution of such similar vocabulary and grammar within the Indo-European language derives from the posterity of ancestors with common languages from the move from their primitive land. ... Bentley states, "The term caste comes from the Portugese word casta, and it refers tot a social class of hereditary and usually unchangeable status" (98). ... Although, color distinctions were probably already made prior to the Caste System, the Aryan word "varna" (meaning color) created major social classes in early Vedic times. ...

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It would suit this discussion better to use the Encarta dictionary definition, "a discredited social theory stating that the political and economic advantages in a developed society are derived from the biological advantages of its collective membership.... Of course, along with the industrial revolution came larger separation of the social classes and countless poor. ... Another class had also recently been created in the late 1800's, freed slaves. Social Darwinism then became a way for the white middle and upper classes to deal with their anxieties towards the other classes and rac...

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That people should find diverse methodologies to be creative, for example, joining a workmanship class, or getting into photography. ... On the other hand you could derive that if people need to be religious then they can practice their religion for the most part the length of they are in their own specific home, or a position of affection. ...

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Reaction to the labeling and behavior is more adopt to occur to someone of a socially less powerful class 6. ... Three main questions were derived from Farrington's main research hypothesis: Does repeated labeling have a cumulative effect on deviance? ...

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It is a short story collection that examines middle-class Indian life, especially among families who cross international boundaries. ... Wolfreys et al (2002) assumed that hybridity is originally naming something or someone of mixed ancestry or derived from heterogeneous sources. ...

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This spatial element of the text not only serves to indicate the sheltered existence that the characters lead, but also limits Laclos' critique uniquely to the upper-middle class. ... However, if the modern reader finds it difficult to accept, the contemporary readership might find it potentially even more so; having had their eyes opened to the destructive nature of convent education, undoubtedly an accepted convention within their social class. ... Reflecting on how the deed made him feel, "mes yeux se sont mouillés de larmes et je senti en moi un mouvement délicieux...

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The first social workers in the school setting were financed by the community agencies that were derived from the burgeoning conviction that the public school was the logical place for early intervention. ... For this I went to my local school district and told them that I had a term paper to do for one of my classes, and if it would be possible to speak to the school social worker to do an interview it would be great. ...

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