Social Stratification Social stratification is a system by which a society ranks categories of people‚ it is a structure of inequality (a general advantage or power of one group to another)‚ it describes the way in which different groups of people are placed within society. The status of people is determined by how society is stratified for example wealth and income which is the most common basis of stratification‚ social class‚ race and ethnicity‚ gender‚ age and disability and also religion
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The Broken Mirror The Broken Mirror was written by Katherine Phillips‚ M D‚ who is Chief of outpatient services and Director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Body Image Program at Butler Hospital in Providence‚ Rode Island. In this text‚ Dr. Philips explains and answers various questions about an unknown psychological disorder known as Body Dysmorphic Disorder or BDD. The text answers various questions about the disorder including: What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder? How does one know if they
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Dying of a Broken Heart 5.1 million people across America have congestive heart failure and almost half of those people will die within 5 years of diagnosis. Heart failure is a weakness of the heart that leads to the buildup of fluid in the lungs and surrounding body tissues. This decline in cardiac productivity leads to the blood not being able to circulate from the body and lungs back to the heart‚ causing fluid to leak from capillary blood vessels. Heart failure is most commonly caused by
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the value of the right realist approach to crime and deviance. Realist approaches to crime are alternatives to the Marxist and Interactionist approaches‚ which in realists eyes both seemed to be unable to generate ideas that could lead to reducing levels of crime. Marxists tended to see property crime as a justified attempt to redistribute wealth‚ whereas Interactionists saw criminals as different from non-criminals only in that they had acquired
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widespread problem of anti-social behaviour (ASB) with many legislations and a variety of initiatives to succeed this. This assignment will define the term anti-social behaviour and explore the rationale for making this a key concern‚ with the influence of Broken Windows Thesis. It will then discuss the key legislations created to deal with this problem and analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the two of the main initiatives deployed to tackle ASB‚ Dispersal Orders and Antisocial Behaviour Orders. Current
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What role does the context play in epidemics? Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur. • What is the broken window effect? The broken window theory relates to how crime is a result of disorder. The name of theory emerged from a situation when a window is broken and unrepaired‚ individuals who pass by and
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the chapter by discussing the transformation of the New York City subway system that took place in the late 1980’s. In the years leading into the transformation conditions on the subway were extremely poor with crime rates at a all time high. The Broken Window Theory‚ based on the same premise as the Power of Context according to Gladwell‚ was put into effect resulting in a dramatic decrease in the crime rate. Another study‚ held at Stanford University‚ examined what causes prisons to be such a nasty
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Introduction Graffiti and vandalism are a major blight on communities. Vandalism can lead to important services‚ such as public telephones‚ being damaged so that they don’t work‚ or removed‚ for example bus shelters‚ to protect from further harm. Vandalism can make the environment untidy‚ and graffiti can be offensive. All of these things contribute to an air of decline‚ and can lead to people fearing crime more. Acts of vandalism can include breaking windows‚ smashing up payphones‚ and graffiti
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To further advance his claim that context doesn’t only affect those with a troubled past but it can affect a larger society; Gladwell refers to the cleanup of the New York Subway and The Broken Window Theory. The Broken Theory states‚ “That crime is the inevitable result of disorder. If a window is broken and left unrepaired‚ people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge.” (289). beating and they hired a transit police to enforce rules and regulations. After seeing
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Case Study: April - Anorexia Nervosa XXXX Pennsylvania State University Case Study: April - Anorexia Nervosa Presenting Concerns April was a 17-year-old high school freshman who presented with severe emaciation due to self-starvation and excessive exercise. Despite being severely underweight‚ April indicated an intense fear of gaining weight. She bragged about how much weight she had recently lost‚ though she indicated that her "butt was still too fat." She also reported that she was constantly
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