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    Sonia Livingstone Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers’ use of social networking sites for intimacy‚ privacy and self-expression Article (Accepted version) (Refereed) Original citation: Livingstone‚ Sonia (2008) Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers’ use of social networking sites for intimacy‚ privacy and self-expression. New media & society‚ 10 (3). pp. 393-411 DOI: 10.1177/1461444808089415 © 2008 SAGE Publications This version available

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    bisexual because they break a norm Capitalist Patriarchy-Male supremacy keeps women’s in subordinate( lower) roles at work/home Feminist Approach- view that believes women and men should be equal Gender- cultural and social definition of feminine and masculine Gender Institutions- all social institutions organized by gender Gender Structure Approach- men and women differ because of external features Gender Segregation- Men and women situated in different jobs Gender Stratification-different ranking

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    On the first day of Social Problems class we were introduced to Charles Dickens’ phrase‚ “Power in itself is not a bad thing‚ its how we use that power‚ whether to help or destroy”. Governments and government related jobs hold utmost power when it comes to managing issues that are referred to as actual social problems. I feel this is where Canada really distinguishes itself from the U.S.‚ deciding to be more of a righteous/peace keeping country‚ rather than a selfish/intimidating super force.

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    Nickel and Dimed After reading the book Nickel and Dimed I have come to realize how much work low wage workers actually do. I have worked in a fast food restaurant only once and it was hard work but I did not get a major feel for the field because I was not there for very long. Barbara Ehrenreich did a good job as far as showing people‚ or telling people how it is to work in the low wage field but it was hard for me to get a real perception of everything because I knew in the back of my mind that

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    For over a hundred years‚ Emile Durkheim a French sociologist‚ social psychologist and philosopher did not think that education can be the key to change society and put an end to the social sickness that they were having. Instead‚ he believed “that the only way education can be improved‚ if society can improved itself.” He claimed that education “is only the image and reflection of society. It imitates and reproduces the latter…it does not create it” (Durkheim‚ 1897/1951: 372-373). The role of

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    Sociological Imagination and Social Issues People are more likely to use psychological arguments to explain why things are they way they are rather than look at the sociological aspect of them. They think that problems happening in their lives are personal and overlook that they may be caused by society (Ferris & Stein 13). Sociological imagination challenges people to look at the “intersection between biography and history” and see the role we each play in society (Mills 1959 and Ferris &

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    judgements on the overall value of the learning program and whether or not the program accomplished what it set out to do." Chapter 8 ‚Jeritt. MSU.edu. PURPOSE OF EVALUATION 1. Assessment Function: Developmental education aims at maximizing the output in the form of total and transferable development of the learner. Evaluation will have ultimately to assess the final performance of the learner‚ the value judgement being made in terms of the quantity and quality of the total attainment with respect

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    Public administration plays a major role in the functioning of our community. It helps with the implementation of government policy to imply and prepare civil servants for working in the public service. Although public administration is a major source for the betterment of the community. Trying to grasp the idea of how public administration work‚ can be difficult because there are many fields that make up public administration. When people ask what public administration is? “It is a complex interdisciplinary

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    LOVE AND JUSTICE “MY STAND ON SOCIETY” There are many problems right now in the society. Some of these problems can be easily solved‚ or can be impossible to solve depending how bad it is. Many people think these problems should be solved by the governments‚ since they are in charge. But we can also solve these problems if we get together. Not all the problems‚ but some that can be solved. I think the three major problems in the society today are: unemployment‚ violence‚ and pollution

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    summarize the poem about a boy nervous about his first time with a girl. So they walk to a drugstore so he can’t treat her with something from there. The boy is very poor so he knows that the nickel may not be enough. So when she took a piece of chocolate that was more than a nickel. He gave the saleslady a nickel and an orange. While this was happening he preceded to look outside and notice all the small and grim details about December‚ he then eats the second orange

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