In her article “Honour and Identity: An Ethnographic Account of Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School ” Jasmin Zine brings in an analysis of the life of a Muslim Girl in Canada. The article explores that manner by which Muslim girls develop gender and religious notions that are dominant patriarchal discourses that are as a result of promotions by Islamic schools. Also, the article looks into consideration of the multicultural system of Canada where different parties from different cultures are…
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feminists believe that equality between men and women is unjust and favorites men in occupation, finances, and cultural respects. Although there is still a gender gap in terms of equality in the West, this separation pales in comparison to that in modern day Eastern cultures. Women in some Eastern cultures are regarded as the inferior gender and are treated as such physically, emotionally, psychologically and financially. Through compliance, obedience, and conformity women in these oppressive cultures…
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Theories of Social Stratification The structural-functional approach points to ways social stratification helps society operate. • The Davis-Moore thesis states that social stratification is universal because of its functional consequences. • In caste systems, people are rewarded for performing the duties of their position at birth. • In class systems, unequal rewards attract the ablest people to the most important jobs and encourage effort. The social-conflict approach claims that stratification…
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of masculinity carefully exploring gender conformity that’s extracted from a collection of humiliations, fears and anxieties among high school boys. Within the eighteen months that Pascoe tediously studied the students of River High, she opened my mind to reminisce about my high school years at El Capitan. From the pep rallies in the gym to the weight room discussions, however, Pascoe’s research expressed a deeper meaning to the formation of gender identities in…
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These are popular among the self entitled masses. Opinions shifted by morality create the inner framework of what is, in its simplest terms, a personality for the individual. Morality provides some kind of psychological justice. The subjective analysis between right and wrong provides for everyday struggles. Conflicting opinions create conflict not only within the individual, but manifests itself in violence, hateful speech, and misidentification of self worth. But I am here to discuss something mor…
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Berk Chapter 8 Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood Morgan Crabb SECTION 1chp5-8 ERIKSONS THEORY AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING 1. What is the focus of Eriksons initiative vs. guilt stage It is described as a period of unfolding once children has a sense of autonomy, they become less contrary than they were as toddlers. Their energies are freed for tackling the psychological conflict of the preschool years initiative versus guilt. As the word imitative suggests young children have a new…
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cults, mental hospitals, boarding schools, nursing homes, monasteries and the military. The goal of these institutions could vary from punishing criminals to creating good soldiers in the military. In the case of what happened in Abu Ghraib, the differences in power within groups caused “seemingly normal people” to behave sadistically. The soldiers in this experiment treated Iraqi prisoners as people who had to be interrogated to the extent of being humiliated emotionally and sexually. Similarly, The…
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Ethnicity Conflict within Religion Group conflicts refer to tension and hostility between different groups. The groups can vary from sport teams, gangs, religion, ethnic groups, and even nations. Religion is a major factor in the order of society and social organizations. Conflicts are recognized as problematic issues within ethnicity and religion. Religion is a source and product of social conflict. Several societal conflicts can be retraced to bitterness and grudges among churches…
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SCLY1 CULTURE AND IDENTITY CULTURE • • • • • • Subculture Mass culture High and low culture Popular culture Global culture Theoretical perspectives on culture – functionalism and marxism. CULTURE Culture – the shared beliefs, values, norms, customs, rituals, language, symbols, history and knowledge that make up a way of life of a social group or society. Kidd argues that all these features influence the way members of a society live their lives. Abbott noes language is the most obvious set of…
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Cultural different societies are compared ● Social studies social organization of people Questions anthropologists may ask include: ● how does the distant evolutionary past affect us today? ● how are humans different from apes? Fields of study include: ● culture is it transmitted from one person to the other? ● ethnographic studies cultures change over time ● myth cultural values are transmitted from one generation to the next ● kinship members of a social group define themselves ● parti…
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