socioeconomic classes. Fill in your answers and post your final draft as an attachment to your Individual forum. | Socioeconomic Classes | Questions | Unemployed and Homeless | Working Class | Middle Class | Upper Middle Class | Upper Class | Who is most likely to be a part of this socioeconomic class? | The portion of the population who suffers the most from the lack of a stable incomeor other economic resources | People at the low end of the wage scale are the working poor. They do the jobsthat
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life”. Choose any one story which you have studied in this section of your course‚ and discuss the ways in which t does or does not illustrate Flora’s claim. “The Test” written by Njabulo Ndebele is a short story concerning itself with issue of class inequality existent in the black community. Found in the collection Fools and Other Stories‚ it uses the township setting and conflict in identity‚ prevalent specifically in the character of Thoba‚ to address and somewhat challenge the evident stratification
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suffering. Edwidge Danticat uses the main character‚ a poor‚ lower class‚ black woman from Ville Rose‚ to make a political commentary on the situation in Haiti. The story suggests the desire of poor people to escape their harsh reality and become consumed in a world outside their own. Danticat makes various social commentaries in "Between the Pool and the Gardenias." The story begins by describing a baby left abandoned in the middle of the street. It seems she has been left there for at least hours
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and practice in second language acquisition . Oxford‚ Pergamon. In Ellis‚R.(1994)‚ LABOV‚ W. (1972) Sociolinguistic patterns. Philadelphia‚P.A‚ University of Pennsylvania Press. In Ellis‚R.1994. LABOV‚ W. (1991) The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change. In Ellis‚R.1994. LENNON‚ P. (1990)Investigating fluency in EFL: a quantitative approach. Language Learning40‚387-412. LENNON‚ P. (2000) the lexical element in spoken second language fluency‚ Michigan‚ the University
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Sociology: Assess the view that working class children under achieve because they are culturally deprived. Cultural deprivation is the lack of certain values‚ attitudes‚ skills and knowledge that’s necessary for educational success. An example of this would be low expectations of parents. The basic ‘cultural equipment’ includes things such as language‚ self-discipline and reasoning skills. Many working class families fail to socialize their children adequately‚ and these children grow up ‘culturally
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working class children and underachievers are linked to them being culturally deprived. According to cultural theorists‚ many working class families fail to socialise their children adequately. Many Sociologists argue that working class children are brought up with a lack of books‚ educational toys and activities that would stimulate a child’s intellectual development so they start school without having the intellectual skills needed to progress. J.W.B Douglas argues that working class parents
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Before the Press: § majority of the population was illiterate § no standard for what proper writing was § ppl divided into upper class and lower class § knowing how to read did not mean that you knew how to write § knowledge limited to memory-- mnemonics & abrv. § books were rare and expensive § travel was dangerous - no maps § sense of time based on nature--no calendars‚ no clocks Brief history: § china made paper money and playing cards - block-printed § every word‚ phrase & pic was
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economic structure of society; however the lower the level of success‚ the more economic inequality will occur as the Proletariat is continuously oppressed by the Bourgeoisie as the source of their control is economics. Marxists believe that society is further polarizing the ‘rich’ and the ‘poor’ with the ‘uppers’ gaining and the ‘downers’ left to suffer (Mount‚ 2004)‚ and this will eventually lead to the diminishing of what is known as the middle class who will fall into the catergory of the Proletariat
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include: Social class Gender Age Religion Ethnicity Social Class “Class is the basis of British party politics: all else is embellishment and detail” (Pulzer) Social class is one of the fundamental divisions that define post war British electoral politics. Some would suggest that the social class of a person might explain their voting behavior. Social groups will vote for political parties that serve their group interests best e.g. people that belong to the working class will vote for
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through 27‚ and the appropriate study guides available on Edline. · If you chose to work with others‚ be sure you have complete notes and understand that material that others share with you. We will have very little time to cover this material in class. Note: If you are editing the online document‚ please sign your contributions!!! Key Concept 5.1. “Industrialization and Global Capitalism.” 1. How did Industrialization fundamentally change how goods were produced? One important aspect that
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