1. How may a student’s social class origin and related factors impact on her/his learning outcomes and how can teachers intervene to effectively address any resulting disadvantages and injustices for students? That a student’s social class origin impacts on their learning outcomes is self-evident across much of the developed world‚ with entrenched disparities in academic achievement that are inversely correlated with family income (Snook‚ 2009:3‚ Argy‚ 2007:para 3‚ Reay‚ 2006:289‚ Nash‚ 2003:179-180)
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Research methods Abstract In social psychology there are many researchers who investigated and challenged different theories within including well respected psychologists including; Sheriff(1935); Jenness(1932); Asch(1951); Crutchfield(1955) and Mann(1969). The aim of the study was; guessing how many sweeties were in the jar in a competition fashion and testing if the participants conformed to their guesses. The hypothesis was ’ people would conform under group pressures of the pre-set guesses
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Social Marginalization: The coming about of Gangs Matt Postle Gangs and Criminal Justice In A Rainbow of Gangs‚ James Drey Vigil states that‚ “the street gang is an outcome of social marginalization. Marginalization is to downgrade to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group. Urban youths are being left out of mainstream society on so many levels that it forces them to the margins of society‚ resulting in gangs. Street gangs come about more often in low
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All throughout civilization‚ there are social structures that shape and affect all aspects of life‚ thus consisting of a correlation of race‚ social-class‚ gender‚ ethnicity‚ age‚ sexual orientation and so on. Furthermore‚ each one of these structures has a considerably different impact and implication towards individuals belonging to a certain society. Throughout the years‚ my family and I have fought and struggled to slowly be able to move up the social ladder. As a result‚ my family has now been
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Assignment – Social Accounting What is Social Accounting? “Social accounting and auditing is about understanding the impact of organisations on our society and the overarching context is sustainability: both sustainability of the organisation itself (the interrelation of the social‚ the environmental‚ the cultural and the financial) and sustainability of behaviour which contributes to a future for the people and the planet. Social accounting is distinct from evaluation in that it is an internally
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SOCIAL STRATIFICATION RELATED TO THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT The Occupy movement has been described as a movement where people utilize protest to voice their demands regarding equality for all in relation to power and economy (Maxwell). Some refer to Spain and the Indignant movement in May of 2011 as the beginning of the Occupy movement internationally. The Spanish protestors shared a common dissatisfaction with the lack of representation by their political parties‚ corruption of government created by
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Social influences are common within my generation. Whether making a purchase in a grocery store‚ or simply buying a song on iTunes‚ influential buying is being made constantly. Consumers are always being influenced to buy a certain product because it is what ‘everyone is buying’. For example‚ you go shopping with your friends in Wal-Mart for your personal items and a few groceries. While you are choosing items you are familiar with‚ your friends may have a different opinion‚ causing you to buy according
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Social Life The aftermath of the Civil War made a mark on writers during the era. The occurrences and reconstruction of America had changed some writing to shift from realism to depicting social life in literature. The view of many writers focused on the effects of the war like death‚ sadness‚ and people confronted with poverty. This is followed up with the Great Depression and World War I. People saw war first hand in bombings‚ killing‚ murders‚ and voracity. A group of writers chose this
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Austin Rattotti Social Problems October 17‚ 2012 Take Home Essay Beliefs and Culture‚ Achieved Status‚ and Values As stated in the article “Before a Test‚ A Poverty of Words”‚ one’s beliefs and culture greatly affect the lives of individuals. In the article‚ they state that Black and Hispanic students are hardly represented at all‚ and they have been doing poorly on the exams given out by the schools. “Expanding the ranks of poor Black and Hispanic children in the top high schools would
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There was a time in society when there were clear lines between the upper class‚ middle class‚ and the working (or lower class). Today‚ those lines are blurred more than they used to be. This is giving most Americans the false hope that class has disappeared and the playing field is finally level. Although in their article‚ Shadowy Lines That Still Divide‚ Janny Scott and David Leinhardt prove how untrue this belief is and then explain why this perception is possible to the naked eye. The rich
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