... should be in grammar school. This would seem much more realistic to the viewers. In the show "Doug" there are quite a few norms emphasized. A norm is social rules that specify how people should behave. There are three types of norms: folkways, weak norms that specify expectations about proper beaver, mores, a strong norm that specify normal behavior and constitute demands not just expectations, and laws ... , norms that are specified formally in writing and backed up by the power of the state. All three types of norms are represented in the show. The norm of how to greet people, respond ...

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... a result of Britain's declining industrial position. Therefore the views of the ruling class are put onto children to control society, making sure people have the same norms and values. Children were educated under three different types of school. Firstly, public schools were for the upper class males who would be predominantly in power. Grammar schools were for the better off middle classes ... system of state education. They realised that each child had different abilities to another child and so introduced the eleven plus test. This allowed pupils to be selected for different types o...

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... , in the sample of schools discussed here, differed qualitatively by social class. These differences may not only contribute to the development in the children in each social class of certain types of economically significant relationships and not others but would thereby help to reproduce this system of relations in society." This means that the amount of money we make will ... the say-so. They don't want these poor workin' folks to have none of that." C.P.Ellis, just like many others, wasn't financially stable so he decided to follow societal norms of blaming the other race. Society di...

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... people don't understand why anyone would want to be a transvestite or transsexual and they often times hate them because they are different. People think that there can only be two types of gender: masculine and feminine. People also feel that these genders most always correspond to a person's sex. So if the person were a male, then most people wouldn't accept that person ... human beings there is no essential femaleness and maleness, femininity or masculinity, womanhood, or manhood, but once gender is ascribed, the social order constructs and holds individuals to strongly gendered norm...

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