Chris “Gang Leader for a Day” This book is about a Sociologist named Sudhir Venkatesh who is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and was interested in the poor black neighborhoods that surrounded the university and he wanted to study them. He wanted to explore how the black folks lived in the projects‚ he wanted to know how life was like the challenges it took for those folks to live in there. The sacrifices it takes to move forward and how poverty affects the way of living
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The Evolution of Japanese Values after 1945 Presented To: Matthew Penney Professor HIST263 Concordia University Presented By: Antoine Nguyen ID: 9263039 Student Concordia University December 10th‚ 2010 Nationalism can be defined as “the complex network of ideas and philosophies that defines what constitutes a nation and what it means to be a citizen”. In other words‚ it can be described as the sense of identity as well as pride that not only distinguish the country from the
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is the largest in offending crime of violence‚ the reason is the involvement of triad society’s activities. (車焯堅‚2000) Local scholars have pointed out that‚ all youth gangs is related to triad society‚ the member of youth gangs identify with the subculture of triad society‚ it is easy to involve in crimes. (HKFYG‚ 2000) Due to the tally of youth gang to the structure‚ as well as the style of triad society‚ youth gangs are easy to be the target of triad society. In the followings‚ different factors
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CHAPTER 9: DEVIANCE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS 1. What does the chapter-opening story about the conviction and imprisonment of Martha Stewart suggest about punishment in the United States? a. The more you steal‚ the bigger the penalty. b. Wealthy and powerful corporate executives are part of the population we think of as "criminal." c. The U.S. criminal justice system has an anti-corporation bias. d. Corporate executives are never subject to arrest and prosecution
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Alex Kotlowitz’s book‚ There are No Children Here‚ is a story about two boys‚ Pharaoh and Lafeyette Rivers growing in the late 1980’s in Henry Horner‚ a housing project in Chicago. The boys try to retain their youth while they see constant gang violence‚ death of close friends‚ their brother in jail and their dad struggling with a drug addiction. In Horner‚ there are two gangs that claim it as their turf‚ and the Rivers family is constantly ducking from shots of gunfire there. They live in
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Chapter 8 – Sexuality & Society & 9 Deviance Test: Quiz 4 Question 1 From a global perspective‚ prostitution is most common in: high-income nations‚ where women are free to choose their profession. poor nations‚ where women have fewer economic opportunities. all nations: prostitution is found in every country to about the same extent. Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran‚ where women have fewer choices about their lives. Question 2 Sexual attraction
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lesbians and apparent a heterosexual relationship wasn’t the desire for all women. For instance‚ Jane Addams‚ an icon in the women movement never married but had a long term love relationship with Mary Rozet Smith. According to Evans‚ “within the subculture built on women’s domestic identities powerful emotional and sensual relationships among women were the rule rather than the exception.” (Evans‚
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Exam #2 Study Review Chapter 4 social interaction • The process by which we act and react to those around us. microsociology • The study of human behavior in contexts of face-to-face interaction. civil inattention • The process whereby individuals in the same physical setting demonstrate to one another that they are aware of each other’s presence. impression management • Preparing for the presentation of one’s social role. social position • The social identity an individual has
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S-A9-1705-4 Crazy (HUANG JIN YUAN) 3. What is “body art”? What forms of body art are present in your home place (Macau or China)? What are some of the possible uses and meanings of this form of expression as you understand them? Briefly discuss at least one form of body art‚ making connections between what you observe and what you learned from this chapter in Nanda and Warms. First‚ I want to introduce the definition of “body art”. According to Nanda and Warms‚ body art means that making
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the decline of local business and the drop in education and pride in ones communities as well. In the lower economic neighborhoods‚ many resort to crime for financial reasons. Members of the community sell drugs or rob as means of support. These deviants do not inflict these crimes on neighborhoods other than their own. This is the major reason why street crime is so harmful. The members of society through their illegal actions are
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