How Do Gangs Affect Adolescent Behavior? Since the early 1920s‚ researchers have closely studied the relations between the street gangs and violent crime froma variety of perspectives: criminological‚ sociological and psychological (Thomas‚ 2008). Whatever the underlying causes for gang membership‚ the resuls seems clear; members of street gangs admit to a far greater rate of serious crime‚ and to far more severe acts of of the same age‚ race‚ and socioeconomic background (Penly Hall‚ Thornberry
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Race and gender are frequently seen as independent spheres of encounters which influence social‚ economic‚ and political aspects of oppression. Despite this‚ each of the categories overlaps‚ and cross each other‚ creating complex interactions. This concept is known as intersectionality. How one defines him or herself is greatly influenced by individual characteristics‚ family dynamics‚ historical factors‚ and social and political contexts (Tatum). All of the ways in which people experience these
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Gender Roles and Equality In America‚ there have always been established gender roles. Men were the breadwinners‚ the ones who worked all day to support their families. Women were the caregivers. They cooked‚ cleaned‚ and took care of the children. These roles were established long before America was even started. In Western Society‚ there has always been a patriarchal structure. This did not hold true in ancient Africa. In the ancient kingdoms of Western Africa‚ such as Mali‚ women were in the dominant
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HE210 – How does Gender Inequality in Education affect Employment? According to Mao Tse Tung‚ ‘women hold up half the sky’. However‚ this phrase holds little truth in today’s world. Over the years‚ many women have made great strides in many areas but gender inequality still persists in many parts of the world‚ especially the rural areas‚ and to the disadvantage of women in particular. This has deeply affected the well-being‚ healthcare‚ education of women. Education in today’s context is recognised
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The gender pay gap persists even though civil rights laws prohibit discrimination. It is estimated that a woman that works full time will earn about 80 cents for every dollar a man makes. Over the working lifespan‚ this earnings difference is $700‚000 for a high school graduate‚ and up to $2 million for a professional school graduate . As such‚ it is important to understand the real effects that the gender pay gap has on society. The limitations of this type of system do not only affect women‚ but
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Gender effects on my career: It seems that many jobs in the computing industry suffers the same gender distributions as the science‚ technology‚ engineering‚ and mathematics fields. It has been shown that the environment of a child growing up can influence their decisions in the future‚ which includes their occupation. It can be argued that as a male‚ the experiences with my family‚ friends‚ and community has lead me to pursue computing as an occupation today‚ and as a female could have resulted
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the superpower it is today. Woodrow Wilson‚ by ending the long-standing isolationism engulfing America and rally the country to enter World War I‚ ushered in a new era for America and its foreign policy. His mission to “make the world safe for democracy” set the tone for many of the reforms America would undergo‚ and it sparked a new fire in the population never before felt‚ one of pride‚ power‚ and prosperity. Most know America to be the most powerful country in the world and at the pinnacle
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In Omi and Winant’s “On the Theoretical Status of Race” (1993)‚ the two scholars racial argue that race is a social construct (i.e. ideological construct). In the section‚ “Race as an Ideological Construct” (page 4)‚ the authors use arguments from historian Barbara Fields to help supplement their argument. They start with the argument that the concept of race was created out of the need to explain historical events. For them the historical need for race‚ was not only a means for explanation of slavery
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The play A Doll’s House is a play that was written in 1879. This play is about how the roles of men and women differ‚ where the husbands are seen as the sole providers for their family while the wife takes care of the children. Although this play was written in the 1800’s‚ the themes of this play are still relevant to our society today. The unbalanced roles‚ where one gender is deemed more superior than the other‚ is the issue I would raise to my audience. In 2.505-642‚ Nora is being threatened
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How do children learn Gender Identity? A child ’s awareness of being a boy or a girl starts in the first year of life‚ Mukherji (2001) emphazises that a child begins to think of themselves as separate individuals and develop knowledge about who they are at around 15 to 18 months. Each of us has a gender identity a private feeling that we are male or female. There are two fundamentally different explanations for how gender develops i.e. Nature vs. Nurture. Nurture is the result of environmental
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