...Assess the view that gender roles and relationships have become more equal in the modern family life The item suggests that ‘a number of changes have taken place in gender roles and relationships within families’ so in today’s society, there are a number of sociological views, which agree that change between equality has taken place in gender roles and between the relationships within the family, making it more equal. Some argue that in modern family life there is much more equality, while others think this is just exaggerated. In this essay I will assess these views through domestic labour, domestic violence in couples and through the childcare debate, to find what extent gender roles and relationships have become more equal in modern family life. Functionalist sociologist Talcott Parsons (1955) thought that there was a biological division of labour roles within the family, and that this highly benefited the family within society. He saw gender roles being split as expressive and instrumental. This means that the gender roles were very unequal as the husband would have to play the instrumental role where he would have to provide financial stability for the family, while the wife would have to play the expressive role where she would look out for the emotional welfare of the family by socialising the children and being a housewife. In 1957 Elizabeth Bott put these divisions into joint and segregates conjugal roles’. This means that the family roles were divided between a couple...
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...is coming into play but is still in the realm of being treated like everyone else. 4. Define efficiency. How does equality and efficiency differ and why? - Efficiency is condition in which all mutually beneficial transactions have been concluded. 5. What is a more accurate measure of well-being? - Work-life balance is a more accurate measure of well-being, basic neccessities to support life: such as food, water and housing. 6. Can inequality be positive for society and/or the economy? Provide a real world answer to support your answer. - Inequality can be a positive thing for both. Yes, those not being treated equally can potentially gain something from it. An example is working a 40-hour week and then working a few more hours resulting in over-time pay. 7. What are the costs of inequality? Provide a real world answer to support your answer. - A few of the costs of inequality, according to chapter two in our text, are resentment, excessive crime, too much allocation of scarce resources and skew the disbursment of political power. An example is that rich people can afford big shot lawyers and might get a different type of "justice" whereas a poor person, which, then, would be in violation of the Founding Fathers notion of equality. 8. What...
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...Inequalities – Concepts and Worksheet Concept : Remember treat inequalities just as equalities. Only when you multiply or divide, remember to flip the inequality if the number or the variable you are multiplying or dividing by is negative. • -7x > 14 • 4x + 3 > 6x , • -1/2 x < ¾ , 1. Is x > y ? i.. wx > wy ii. w2 x > w2 y Concepts: • If a < 2 and a < 7 then a < ? . Use number line to understand this concept. • If x 2 > x then what is the range of x’s values? • If x 2 < x , then what is range of x’s values? • x 6 < x5 < x4 < x3 means what ? • -1< x < 0 , Pattern of even powers X6 < x4 < x2 . pattern of odd powers x5 > x3 > x • x even >= 0 • x odd > 0 means what ? • If a combination of a set of variables (multiplication/division) is positive then even no of negatives are there. So if abcdef/ gh > 0 then can we say abcd/efgh > 0 ? • If ab < 0 , or a/ b < 0 , then what can we conclude about sign of a and b ? • If a2b3 < 0 means what ? • If a3b5 < 0 , what can we conclude about sign of a and b ? • If x > y , can we say x 2 > y2 ? • If x > y then can we say x 3 > y 3 ? • If a > b then can we say a m > b m Easy/Medium 2. Is a2 / b > 0 ?(b not equal to zero) i. -2 < a< 4 ii. -3 < b < 5 3. Is a2 / b < 0 ? (b not equal to zero) i. -2 < a< 4 ii. 2 < b < 5 Medium/ Hard ...
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...be as equal as possible in relation to the central conditions of their lives. Equality of condition is not about trying to make inequalities fairer, or giving people a more equal opportunity to become unequal, but about ensuring that everyone has roughly equal prospects for a good life. It is tempting to call equality of condition ‘equality of outcome’ in order to contrast it with the idea of equal opportunity, but that can be a little misleading, because there is no plausible egalitarian theory that says that the outcomes of all social processes should be the same for everyone. Equality of condition is about cannot always institutionally guarantee that everyone’s needs for love, care and solidarity are met but we can try to arrange societies in ways that make this more or less likely. We can ensure that the balance between paid and generally unpaid care, love and solidarity work is such that the latter is facilitated, and is equally distributed. We can ensure that people are educated about care, love and solidarity relations, that employment, transportation networks and neighbourhoods are structured in a manner that facilitates caring, and that vulnerable groups, especially those who are institutionalized, have adequate protections for their care needs. The central aim of equality of condition in its fourth dimension is to reduce power inequalities as much as possible. To do this, first of all we need to endorse traditional liberal civil and political rights, but with less...
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...succumb, to thrive or to survive. The United States is an interesting case of the “haves” and the “have nots” considering it’s one of the wealthiest nations in the world and yet there are still those who sleep on the street. Bambara’s illustration in “The Lesson” serves as an exposé on the mentality, self-esteem, and environment primarily of the “have nots.” The pivotal point in the story is that the children are introduced to a new, yet profound truth. That truth is this: There’s more to life than just the ‘hood. Though the story took place roughly 4 decades ago it’s quite obvious that there are still inequalities in America. A general explanation of this issue would be that we still have an upper-class, middle-class, working-class, and lower-class which indicates the unequal distribution of wealth. However, as it relates to this particular story despite the main inequality of in the story, Bambara presents a dichotomy of two different groups of people with two different realities colliding head-on. When Sugar says “You know, Miss Moore I don’t think all of us here put together eat in a year what that sailboat costs.”(Bambara 7) She indicates that she and the other kids live in a reality where their families live paycheck to paycheck and to even think of something a nice as F.A.O. Schwarz is a pipe dream. On the other hand, Ms. Moore lives in a reality where she has learned that she can have more if she puts her mind to it because she said “Where we are is who we are, but it...
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...Gender Inequality 1 Gender Inequality KeJuan Barnes Rasmussen College Gender inequality is the imbalance between the position of men and women in our structured societies, and/or cultures. The first aspect that I would like to touch on, which I also believe is one of the more important topics, is the role that men and women play in education. This wasn’t touched on in the book, but I’m speaking from personal experience. Being that I’m a male pre-school teacher in the field of Early Childhood Education, gender inequality is seen highly. When you look at a teacher (role model) working with young pre-school kids, a lot of people expect the teacher to be a female, not male. People tend to associate pre-school teachers as “delicate” and “nurturing”. These are traits that women are naturally labeled with, so people assume female. Having read the book, I’m starting to think differently now. Is this job supposed to be that of a woman’s job because it’s labeled as less prestigious, whereas a principal’s job is more prestigious and held by mostly men? Also, it stated in the book that men make more money annually, hourly, and are given a higher raise percentage. This is all because society paints the picture that men and women are not equal. I believe it stems from physical aspects as well. Men are supposed to be bigger and stronger, and supposedly smarter, whereas women are supposed to be gentle, sensitive, and nurturing. It seems...
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...Applying material from Item B and your knowledge, evaluate the view that the division of labour and power relationships are now equal in modern life (20 marks) There are several different views that sociologists hold regarding the equality of the division of labour in couples and power relationships in modern life. Some sociologists such as march of progress sociologists see greater trends towards equality whilst other sociologists such as feminists believe there is a lot of changes both in the public sphere and private sphere that need to take place before the division of labour, and the hold of power in couples can become equal in modern life. Functionalist sociologists Young and Willmott developed a theory in the 1970s called the symmetrical family. The symmetrical family described a family life which was improving for all of its members, becoming more equal and becoming more democratic. Young and Willmott argue that there has been long-term trend away from segregated conjugal roles and towards joint conjugal roles and the symmetrical family. Segregated and joint conjugal roles are distinguished between by sociologist Elizabeth Bott. Segregated conjugal roles resemble Talcott Parsons’ instrumental and expressive role theory, in which a couple have separate allocated roles such as the male being a breadwinner and the female a homemaker. Joint conjugal roles are where the couple share tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together...
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...behavior, custom, language or exercising power. In fact, the culture aspect based on the high power distance that expressed the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities among people. As Thomas Hobbes said “ It is not wisdom but authority that makes law”, Chinese belongs to high power distances culture that can be shown as three examples from the business relationship, education, and family. In societies which high power distance such as China, people getting power enjoy the greater status than those without power. Similarly, in the Chinese business world, the ranking is extremely significant in the business relationship and people getting into a cooperative business with China must keep rank differences while communicating. For example, when coming to a place or attending a conference where Chinese collaborators are gathering together, you have to greet to someone who has a higher rank first. Also, when you have a meal with Chinese businessman, it is ruled to start eating before the highest person starts. In addition,” business relationship” in China is not based on money, it is somehow the Chinese people feel respected when doing business together. Understanding and following the principle factor in business is the advantage way to build a close rapport with the partners. The dimension deals with the fact that most individuals in China society is not equal which expresses the attitude of the culture through the inequalities in education. It is an undeniable fact...
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...call you younger brother; if you have gold they would call you older brother. They also thought that money brings power, position, love, and respect which I think these are misunderstanding that Thais should rethink. To make Thai society has a good equality, they should reconsider about what important for you now and in the future, if you are a good man but there is no equality in your work place, the things you have done will be nothing they use power as money to do the things they want. It is not fair for who do not have money, or poor. It is now the time for Thais to change their attitudes to make a happier life. From my point of view, the best thing for achieving these is to find what you want as in an equality term. In addition, after I have studied this course, I realized that social justice is the key to solve an inequality in Thailand. Social justice is based on the religious background, political and social philosophy. I think social justice is concerned with equal justice, not just in the courts, but in all aspects of society. This concept demands that people have equal rights and opportunities. Equal rights can be defined as equal access to things that make it possible for people in any public sector to be successful. My dreams equal society believe that everyone should have their equal rights because an equal society can helps to build a strong power support for people. I...
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...The idea that something as unimportant as money or status determines the way we treat ourselves, the relationships we keep or how we treat our fellow humans is a little bit scary. "In commune to all, rich and poor, the earth was made." I was reading a book by Norman Cohn when I read this quote. I believe that we all come from the same source; we are more similar than we are dissimilar. We have more in common with our neighbors than we realize most times. My decision to become a physician is deeply rooted in this principle. I was born and mostly raised in Nigeria. I go back home every chance I get. I have witnessed corruption and inequality first hand. I’ve witness a birthing mother share a delivery room with three other women with no equipment, and sometimes, the power going out mid delivery. I’ve witness people with debilitating illnesses get turned down because they have no money for simple treatment; a lot of times, patients must be sent overseas for medical attention because our hospitals are lacking. Needless to say, only the extremely fortunate, usually government personnel, gets this luxury. The more I’ve lived and learned, I’ve discovered that this atrocity is not only happening in my home country, but in several other developing countries as well, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Brazil, just to name a few. My philosophy is that something as basic health care should be offered to every individual; regardless of how much the person makes, their status, or the country that they...
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...Abstract The concept of ethnocentrism is the practice of judging other cultures according to our own culture (Maciones, 2012); doing so inadvertently we use this as a racist and stereotype judgment. The movie “The Chaser” was filmed in South Korea; I will compare the movie with my culture as an Americanized-Hispanic. Introduction Ethnocentrism can be defined as our point of view of another culture; basing our opinion by comparing it to our own culture. Depending on how one uses this categorization we can easily come to a conclusion which becomes more of a stereotype or racist judgment. The effects of ethnocentrism can be negative and affect others in their life in great multitudes. We can use the example from 9/11. Since then many Muslims have been judged and put into a category simply because of their religion; not everybody who is Muslim is also tied into al-Qaeda. Just because woman/man wear head gear also make them an extremist who is out to bomb something. But because of this tragedy, we have done just that, accused and damned their religion and beliefs; because they are not like us and well because of 9/11. “The Chaser” The movie I chose was “The Chaser”; a movie filmed in South Korea about an ex-detective turned pimp who finds himself in financial trouble because two of his girls disappeared. After sending his last girl, he finds out that the customer is also the last customer of the other two girls who just went missing;...
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...Assignment 5 Paper Both freedom and equality are political issues that have yet to be fully resolved and understood despite our nation being founded on both. Although we as a society have glamorized our country as being the “Land of the Free” and where “Everyone is created equal,” there are still social issues that give reason to believe that we as citizens of the United States aren’t so equal and not exactly all that free. In the Dialogue readings, I have selected four of which I feel could be strongly applied to the political beliefs of both freedom and equality. In the “Self and Society” book complied of different readings and philosophical authors, I have chosen Albert Camus, B.F. Skinner, Horace Miner, and C. Wright Mills as comparisons to the ideas on freedom and equality. In Camus’ reading entitled “The Guest,” the schoolmaster named Daru is visited by a horseman, Balducci. Alongside Balducci is his captive prisoner, an Arab who remains nameless throughout the reading. Balducci instructs Camus to take the prisoner to police headquarters to face accusations against a supposed crime he had committed. Throughout the story, Daru is seen living well in his furnished and heated home that looks over an impoverished, cold and often corrupt land. This demonstrates quite obviously that not everyone is considered equal, as the rest of the land is cold and freezing while Daru is kept warm. Daru, who goes against Balducci’s orders, and remains true to his own personal freedoms...
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...Martin Luther King Jr has echoed throughout the World for decades. Yet none of us can say we lived up to Dr. King's vision of a World where each individual would be judged by the content of their character rather can color of skin, nationality, sexual orientation, religion or Socio-economic Status. We live in a world where People have been living with inequality for so many years, they don't believe that Equality will ever happen, but i believe that it can happen and will happen. What is really meant by the term of equality? Equality can mean different things to different people; some persons believe that equality means treating everyone the same. However, i disagree . You can' treat everyone as equal due the fact that everyone has different life experiences, skills and knowledge. Therefore, no two people are the same and can never be the same. Individuality is a vital attribute in all aspects of life. Equality can be described as when people are given equal opportunities giving them access to the same rights, choices and resources no matter of their beliefs, race or gender. Equality is a world where everyone has the power to make a change. When it comes to equal rights, we should be able to be who we wanna be, love who we wanna love, dress how we wanna dress without anyone telling us that we are wrong or discriminating our choice or style of doing things. Equality is important, because i feel as if no one should live life as a " second class citizen". It is the foundation...
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...have brought the two texts “Denmark: The Happiest Place on Earth” and “Some more equal than others” from the book Aware of the World. First, though, I would like to briefly sum up the two texts. The first text, “Denmark: The Happiest Place on Earth”, is about some studies that shows that the people of Denmark consider themselves some of the happiest people on earth. Some of the main points in the text are, that it doesn’t matter whether you are a garbage man or a lawyer, just as long as you are happy. The second text, “Some more equal than others”, is about the fact that wealth doesn’t always go hand in hand with equality as US and UK are some of the richest countries in the world, but also some of the countries in the world with most inequality. So, here we are. The million-dollar question of the evening. Does equality and happiness go hand in hand? Do any of these aforementioned points go hand in hand at all? Some might say. Some even say, that happiness complements longevity and gives you a richer life. And of course it does – doesn’t it? I think that if you are happy, and like the way, your life has formed it self, you will live longer. You will have more energy every day to do the things you like, more energy to make everyone around you happier and more energy to make yourself happy. So, if you are happy, doesn’t that make you want to live longer? Doesn’t that give you the strength to work your own ass off to live longer? I definitely think it does. The text “Denmark:...
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...Manhattan 语法—中文精简版 一、SC 的做题方法与原则 1、不是找对的，而是选最好的。 2、方法：排除法，首先在稿纸上写下所有选项，然后根据一些相似性将答案大致分组，根 据各组的不同特点划去错误的，比较剩余选项，针对区别进行判断，剩下最好的。 3、做改错题时，首先应通读句子，找出句子中能帮助做题的关键词。在很多情况下，句子 中帮助做题的关键词离划线部分会很远。 4、GMC 原则：grammar, meaning and concision, including：主谓一致，平行，代词，修 饰，动词时态、语态和主被动，比较和习惯用法 二、意思与句子简洁 GMAT改错题关键的三个要点，顺序依次为： STEP 1、首先看有无语法错误 STEP 2、看意思表达是否准确 STEP 3、是否简洁 （一） 意思 1、正确用词 ①Economic-经济的； economical-节约的；合算的；有效的 ②Aggravate-加重，恶化； aggravating-令人愤怒的 ③Known as –被认为是，很著名； known to be-被承认…；known for ④Loss of –失去；loss in-贬值 ⑤Mandate-命令；have a mandate-拥有选举权 ⑥Native of- （人）来自；native to –物种起源于 ⑦Range of –多种的； ranging-变化 ⑧ Rate of –速度或频率； rates for – 价格… ⑨Rise –上升,形容无方向，单纯上升； raise-（打赌或工资）上涨，有方向 ⑩Such as –比如； like-好像（举例只能用such as, 不能用like） ⑾Try to do –努力去完成； try doing –尝试去做 ⑿ impale-刺穿；impel-逼迫 2、情态动词 （1）当原句意思上没有问题时，忠实原句，不做任何修改，即使修改过来也成立。 Actual: If Chris and Jed met, they DISCUSSED mathematics. Hypothetical: If Chris and Jed met, they WOULD DISCUSS mathematics. （2）当原句意思上有问题时，要替换为相对好点的那个。 EG：should 在GMAT中表示“道德上的义务”，而不是“好像”的意思。 3、词在句中的位置 （1）要关注一些重点词，all, only；位置不同句子意思也不一样。 EG: ONLY the council votes on Thursdays. The council votes ONLY on Thursdays. （2）关注句子的整体顺序，是否会产生歧义；EG：主被动语序强调的对象不同。 （3）在英语中，一般主语会放在谓语前面，因此一般不会用倒装结构，除非开头是否定词。 定语从句中，一般不用倒装。例如：OG129。 4、搭配 句子各成分是搭配在一起才有意义。 （二） 简洁 § 简洁是GMAT 最后考到的点，只有在语法和意思都无误的情况，才选择最简洁的；换言 之，如果语法无问题，即使很长也会比一个语法有问题，很短的句子好。 § GMAT语法题中，如果一个词可以搞定的意思，不要用一个短语，EG: differ好于have difference in Wordy: They HAVE DIFFERENCES over THE...
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