Social Stratification: a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy‚ it is a trait of society‚ found in all society’s‚ carries over from generation to generation and creates systems and class Social Mobility: a change in position within the social hierarchy Caste System: Closed system based on ascription‚ or birth‚ little or no mobility‚ shapes a persons entire life‚ occupation and marriage. Found in traditional Agrarian societies. Class System: social stratification based
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replacing the social institutions in a folk community Assumptions of Mass Media The social chaos initiated by media will inevitably be resolved by establishment of a totalitarian social order (Davis‚ 1976) Predicated on the thought that mass society is chaotic and highly unstable In times of chaos‚ demagogues arise and promise average people that their problems can be solved by joining extremist political movements Totalitarianism eliminates individuality As these extremist movements gain
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VISIONS OF SOCIETY: The Bureaucratization of Society 43 The McDonaldization of Society GEORGE RITZER The success of fast food chains is used by Ritzer as a metaphor for some general trends characterizing contemporary American society.We have become a nation driven by concerns for rationality‚ speed‚ and efficiency that are so well illustrated by the McDonalds’ style of operation. Food‚ packaging‚ and service are designed to move quickly and cheaply through and out of these restaurants‚ giving customers
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CAFÉ SOCIETY‚ A TIMELESS ALLURE LINGERING OVER COFFEE IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS IS A RITUAL THAT NEVER LOSES ITS APPEAL: MUCH HAS CHANGED OVER THE GENERATIONS‚ BUT THE GLOBAL ’CAFÉ SOCIETY ’ KEEPS IT TIMELESS GLAMOUR In 1971‚ Starbucks was just a single bar in Seattle’s market plaza. Ten years later‚ the one location had become five‚ and the company began importing their own blends of coffee. The legend surrounding the birth of Starbucks tells of Howard Schulz‚ one of the company’s
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Madalyn Cox Mrs. Stephanie Wilson English II 4 October 2014 Unit Reflection The main subjects I learned in this unit was plagiarism and cheating on assignments. This unit reflects the do’s and don’t’s on how to pass this class. I believe that informing the students on how to pass is helpful for the teachers and parents. Plagiarism is the use of copying someone’s words or ideas and using them as your own. For example‚ if you copy and paste a quote with no documentation of where you found
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Holden and Society J. D. Salinger’s notable and esteemed novel‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ reflects the hypercritical views of a troubled teenager‚ Holden Caulfield‚ towards everyone around him and society itself. This character has a distinguished vision of a world where morality‚ principles‚ intelligence‚ purity‚ and naivety should override money‚ sex‚ and power‚ but clearly in the world he inhabits these qualities have been exiled. Holder desperately clings to and regards innocence as one of the most
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TYPES OF SOCIETIES Sociologist Gerhard Lenski (1924–) defined societies in terms of their technological sophistication. As a society advances‚ so does its use of technology. Societies with rudimentary technology depend on the fluctuations of their environment‚ while industrialized societies have more control over the impact of their surroundings and thus develop different cultural features. This distinction is so important that sociologists generally classify societies along a spectrum of their
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WHO SHOULD INVEST IN UNIT TRUST Unit trust funds are promoted as a long-term investment instrument. It is also a form of indirect mechanism for participating in capital market instruments. Investment in unit trust funds carries a relatively lower risk-return profile‚ hence would appeal to you if you are a conservative investor with a long-term investment horizon and who lacks the time and skill to directly participate and monitor the investments in the various capital market instruments. In general
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Explain the relationship between business and society and the ways in which they are part of the interactive system. A business is any organization that is engaged in making a product or providing a service for a profit. A society is human beings and the social structure they collectively create. Both business and society are highly interdependent. We borrow “General Systems Theory” from biology to explain this relationship between business and society‚ which was first introduced in the 1940s. The
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Society & Culture Jose J. Garcia Bryant and Stratton Sociology 102 Jenneffer Marizan July 28‚ 2012. Society is made up of individuals who have agreed to work together for mutual benefit. It can be a very broad term‚ as we can make generalizations about what the whole of western society believes‚ or it can be a very narrow definition‚ describing only a small group of people within a given community. But no matter the size‚ and no matter the link that binds a society
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