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    I. TITLE Learning and Motivation Classroom Management Educational Technology II. INTRODUCTION Schools and classrooms are unique social organizations composed of people who are different from each other. There are students who are attentive‚ industrious and productive and there are those who are not participating in the class. Teachers label them as unmotivated pupils. Teachers become frustrated when the pupils appear to be unmotivated. There are ways on how teachers can boost the interest

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    RACE AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION The census bureau uses two basic criteria to determine if an individual or a family can be considered in poverty. The first step is to assess the income. There can be different forms of income in addition to that which one would earn from a normal job. There are‚ for instance‚ social security‚ supplemental security income‚ public assistance ‚veterans payments‚ pension‚ retirement income‚ interest dividends‚ royalties ‚alimony‚ and child support. These are all

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    that this kind of thinking‚ a product of "social stratification theory‚" is ingrained upon our minds. As a society‚ we accept it as a fact that we live in a multi-tiered "class" system‚ and that this is the way it should be because it is central to our nature as human beings. As a society we should ask ourselves why we think this way‚ and whether there is another possible way of explaining our current situation. In contrast to this social stratification theory‚ we can examine the class theory of

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    INTRODUCTION Social stratification is rigid subdivision of society into a hierarchy of layers‚ differentiated on the basis of power‚ prestige and wealth. It is the hierarchical arrangement of people in a society. Stratification is common in the animal kingdom on the basis of power and gender and some form of stratification has probably always existed among humans. With the development of food and other surpluses resulting from technological advances in agriculture and manufacturing‚ some people

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    Social Stratification Any stratification system is characterized by a number of rungs or levels of the society. In America for example‚ they have the upper class‚ middle class lower class etc. Stratification is essentially a ranking system it is the hierarchical order of different social class within a society. “Social Stratification can be described as socially-patterned inequality of access to things that a culture defines as desirable.” The definition defines how social classes are different

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    Social stratification is the separation of huge numbers of people into strata according to their relative power‚ property‚ and prestige. It affects to both nations and to people within a nation‚ society‚ or other group. Although they may argue as to which structure of social stratification they employ‚ all societies stratify their members. Bovee‚ Thill‚ and Tumin talk about social stratification in some way in their papers‚ which will be addressed below. Melvin Tumin recognized three problems with

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    SOCIAL STRATIFICATION “IS IT UNIVERSAL” 1. INTRODUCTION 2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE 3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHODOLOGY 5. FINDINGS 6. DISCUSSIONS BASED ON FINDINGS 7. CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION: In sociology and other social sciences‚ social stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of individuals into divisions of power and wealth within a society. The concept of stratification came into existence

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    Social stratification is defined as the division of a society into a number of hierarchically arranged strata. Strata are the levels or classes in society which are layered in a structured hierarchy with the least privileged at the bottom and most privileged at the top. (Giddens‚ 1977) A society‚ or human society‚ is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations‚ or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory‚ subject to the same political authority

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    systems of social stratification. The main aim of this essay is to compare and contrast these systems as well as indicating their advantages and disadvantages to development. The essay begins with defining the key terms which include comparing‚ contrasting and development. It further goes on to define as well as explain social stratification itself‚ the caste‚ the class and the colour-bar systems respectively. The essay further talks about the advantages and disadvantages of these systems of social stratification

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    Stratification is when individuals within a society are categorized into different groups based on certain factors. These factors could include wealth‚ social class‚ gender‚ politics and religion. The individuals in society who are lucky to have good income and resources represent the top of the social stratification whereas the individuals who have few resources represent the bottom of the social stratification. From the functionalist perspective of social stratificationsocial inequality is

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