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SAVE | Suicide Facts - 0 views

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    C: 2013-2014 R Yes AHas sources A valuable info P to infrom
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Statistics | Crisis Centre - 0 views

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    C: Its been updated with 2014 stats R: its help with learning about how much people go through A it gives sources A its all right Pto inform
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Statistics|Suicide|Violence Prevention|Injury Center|CDC - 0 views

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    C: it was reviewed and updated august 28 2015 R: It does answers my questions on teen suicide A: It gives sources and its government website A:nothing is wrong P:To inform on the subject
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Pablo Escobar: A Hero or a Villain? - 0 views

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    "He operated under a policy called "plato o plomo" which literally signified take the money or take the bullet.  He bribed judes, policemen, juries, and innumberable government officials with money to help him out, and he took the lives of the ones that refused to cooperate with or go against him."
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Pablo's ex spills beans on Colombia's corrupt - 0 views

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    "that Escobar had ties with prominent Colombians, including two former presidents."
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McDonaldization.com - What Is It? - 0 views

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A Short History of Love | The Book of Life - 2 views

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    Project Idea for 2015: Research the cultural influences of Love.
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Chapter 08 - Deviance and Crime - 0 views

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  • xactly who has the power and authority to define the behavior as being normal or deviant.
  • education
  • religions,
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  • governments,
  • media
  • family
  • Durkheim argued that deviance, especially extreme forms are functional in that they challenge and offend the established norms in the larger collective conscience.
  • deviance reaffirms norms when the deviants are punished;
  • promotes solidarit
  • clear contrasting point of comparison
  • stimulates social change.
  • Extreme deviance does make us consider “normal” behavior on the personal and larger social level.
  • But, what if this distribution was not an indicat8ion of test scores, but rather the frequency of times potential roommates stole food from the private stashes of previous roommates? You’d clearly want a score closer to 0 than 80.
  • National studies indicate that less than 5 percent of the United States population considers itself to be exclusively homosexual.
  • s homosexuality deviant or normal?”
  • “Does that make it more or less common and therefore more or less deviant?” I ask.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      Think about the relationship of these two ideas: common (so mean) and normal (so deviant).
  • actor violates group norms but complies with the law, it is deviance.
  • how can something be deviant and normal at the same time?”
  • We rarely have total agreement on what’s normal
  • ethnocentrism tends to burn cross-cultural bridges
  • across time; across cultures, and from group to group.
  • shifting values.
  • Deviance varies between cultures because values vary between cultures.
  • ontributed to higher or lower levels of trust over time.
  • The point of this story is that in most social groups a beat down would be considered deviant. In a gang it’s very much normal. Yet, in this situation, not beating him down was deviant within his gang, yet a wise choice.
  • Absolutist Perspective claims that deviance resides in the very nature of an act and is wrong at all times and in all places.
  • Normative Perspective claims that deviance is only a violation of a specific group's or society's rules at a specific point in time
  • Reactive Perspective claims that behavior does not become deviant unless it is disapproved of by those in authority (laws
  • Stigma
  • deviance is a violation of a norm
  • Conformity
  • “random act of senseless kindness”
  • legal and normal
  • complies with group norms yet breaks the law, it’s called crime.
  • normal crime.
  • As mentioned, deviants and criminals make us reassess our values and make new rules and laws
  • crime is often found in every society
  • iolates norms and breaks the law, then it’s Deviant and Criminal behavior
  • Power Elite are the political, corporate, and military leaders of a society are uniquely positioned to commit Elite Crimes, or crimes of insider nature that typically are difficult to punish and have broad social consequences upon the masses.
  • issues of power and powerlessness. It’s about who has the power and how they attempt to force their values and rules upon those who don’t have it.
  • remember that Anomie is a state of social normlessness which occurs when our lives or society has vague norms)
  • disproportionately high level of non-whites who ended up among the 2006 1,570,861 incarcerated members of society
  • Labeling Theory claims
  • majority of US prisoners have been in prison before (perhaps 60-80%
  • Phrenology is an outdated scientific approach of studying the shape and characteristics of the skull.
  • White-Collar Crimes are crimes committed by persons of respectable and high social status committed in the course of their occupations.
  • Street Crimes are crimes
  • Organized Crime
  • Hate Crimes
  • Norm is a set of expected behaviors for a given role and social status.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      Do you agree with this definition?  Can you see what the consequences of this might be?
    • jonah-e
      jonah-e on 04 Dec 13
       
      yes. and the consequences might be that since you always excpect the excpected you will never excpect the unexcpected. 
  • Look at the diagram below.
  • Is a mean of 80 good or desirable?
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      Think of 80, or the mean, as the norm.  When you think of it this way, is it desirable?
  • That depends on what these scores represent.
  • Values also vary between groups
  • An absolutists would probably fall among the 1 in 4 who feel that abortion is always wrong, because it is an unacceptable act. A normative individual would consider the circumstances (rape, incest, diagnoses, or health of mother) while a reactive would consider the legality of abortion.
  • In every society when deviance is considered it is most often controlled.
  • Control is easier if attachments, commitment, involvement, and beliefs are stronger.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      The absence of this is called 'anomie' and signals the breakdown of a society. Sociologists would call this the loss of social cohesion.  
  • Attachments
  • Commitment
  • Involvement
  • Belief
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      Think of these four factors that favor control of deviance in terms of your school.  How does each one of these manifest itself in school life?  Are they effective in reducing deviant behaviour?
  • Negative Sanctions are punishments or negative reactions toward deviance. Positive Sanctions are rewards for conforming behavior
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      What type of sanctions, both positive and negative, do we see at WIC?
  • Table 5. Robert Merton’s Five Goal—Means Gap Coping Strategies*** 1.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      Don't worry about this section.
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Chapter 09 - Stratification - 0 views

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  • Layers occur almost everywhere in nature: in tissues of the human body, rock formations in the ground, atmospheres around the earth, and in societies of every nation on the earth. We call these layers strata and the process of layering stratification.
  • Social Stratification is the socio-economic layering of society's members according to property, power, and prestige. Property is all the wealth, investments, deeded and titled properties, and other tangible sources of income. Power is the ability to get one's way even in the face of opposition to one's goals. Prestige is the degree of social honor attached with your position in society.
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 13 Nov 13
       
      What makes the layers are the gaps between the haves and the have-nots as well as the gaps of the different economic classes.
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  • here are layers of social stratification in every society
  • here are the "haves" who coexist with the masses or "Have nots."
  • he PRB uses a measure of relative economic well being called the GNI PPP. The GNI PPP is the gross national income of a country converted to international dollars using a factor called the purchasing power parity.
  • lets you understand how much a person could buy in the US with a given amount of money, regardless of the country's currency.
  • That means the stratification difference between the world's top five countries is over 149 times higher than the bottom 5 countries.
  • The US ranks high $45, 840 per capita (per person) but is the 6th wealthiest behind Luxembourg, Norway, Kuwait, Brunei, and Singapore.
  • More Developed Nations are nations with comparably higher wealth than most countries of the world including: Western Europe; Canada, United States, Japan, and Australia-these are also called Now Rich Countries.
  • lso called Now Poor Countries.
  • Africa is the poorest region with the average person making less than 1/10th of what the average US person makes.
  • Again Luxembourg at $64,400 has a score over 20 times higher than Africa's; 11 times higher than Asia (Excl. China); and 7 times higher than Latin America.
  • The higher the GNI PPP the better off the average person in that country
  • Females made much less income than males in all categories.
  • The Hispanic category is lowest for males and females.
  • Asians had the highest personal income for both sexes (Data for Asians was not reported prior to 2004).
  • The first thing you see is that dual-earner marrieds (both husband and wife work in labor force) by far have the highest income levels between 1990 and 2006.
  • husband only in labor force) comes in next followed closely by single males
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 13 Nov 13
       
      This is a great example of how the value of a woman as capital does not lie in income because it is inferior to male's 
  • In sum, the females with the highest income are married.
  • Single females reported the lowest income
  • Basically, the higher the education, the higher the annual income in 2007.
  • higher for Whites and Asians
  • Blacks and Hispanics
  • Official data begin to tell you the story about how the layers look in a society.
  • Over 40 percent of Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans dropped out.
  • In the US, non-Whites, non-Asians, and non-males are more likely to be found in the lower layers.
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Social theories - Intro to Sociology - 0 views

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  • Conflict Theory claims that society is in a state of perpetual conflict and competition for limited resources.
  • those who have perpetually try to increase their wealth at the expense and suffering of those who have not.
  • power struggle
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  • wealthy elite
  • common person of common means
  • Power is the ability to get what one wants even in the presence of opposition. Authority is the institutionalized legitimate power.
  • society is in a state of balance and kept that way through the function of society's component parts.
  • biological and ecological concepts
  • Dysfunctions
  • threaten social stability
  • Manifest Functions are the apparent
  • Latent Functions are the less apparent, unintended, and often unrecognized functions in social institutions and processes.
  • unctionalism is more positive and optimistic
  • Equilibrium is the state of balance maintained by social processes that help society adjust and compensate for forces that might tilt it onto a path of destruction.
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