In MS-13 it is very important for them to be able to communicate without using words or at least words that would make them look suspicious. To avoid being caught they use symbols to communicate to one another. Symbols are a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object‚ function‚ or process . Tagging is very common in gangs they use them to mark territories. They do this to warn other gangs from entering their territory or to mark new territory they have taken from rival
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departments as a subculture. Organization culture represents a common perception the organization’s members hold. Based on this‚ individuals with different backgrounds or at different levels in the organization should describe its culture in similar terms (Ashkanasy‚ 2000). Large organizations usually have a dominant culture and numerous subcultures. The dominant culture expresses the core values a majority of members share and that give the organization its distinct personality. Subcultures tend to develop
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safety. The field training officer‚ who volunteer for the position‚ are often unsung heroes to their role as establishing continuity within a police department. They instill in new police officers the norms of the community and the standards and subculture of the department. Field training officers take new officers from the scenario driven academy to the real world of policing. The time spent in the field training program provides the ground work for an officer’s career. The immense impact a field
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and elsewhere‚ assess the usefulness of subcultural theories in explaining ‘subcultural crime and deviance’ in society today (21 marks) Subcultural theories believe that people who commit a crime share different values to the rest of society. Subculture theories come from two different schools of sociology which are appreciative sociology and strain theory. Appreciative sociology came from the University of Chicago in the early 20th Century; Chicago sociologists were determined to appreciate other
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Explain what is meant by cultural deprivation and how it may affect achievement? Cultural deprivation can be explained by a whole branch of sources for example Basil Bernstein’s speech code is one; the speech code consists of the elaborated and restricted code. The elaborated code is the middle class’ respected code whereas the restricted code is the working class’ simple non educated way of speech. These linguistic codes were said to be correlated with class differences in family organization‚ power
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of these cadences are expressions of individual feelings‚ goals‚ and fears‚ and are quite similar to the themes of other popular culture musical genres. The theories of subculture‚ appropriation and improvisation that have been proposed in lecture will be reviewed and illustrated within cadences. The military cadence as a subcultures oral tradition will be examined‚ through analyzing the theories of popular music which can be applied to the genres’ history‚ structure‚ and socio-political influences
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itself is flexible and can be stretched to cover different types of aggregation. When we speak of Eastern culture it includes vast world stretching from Egypt and Russia to India and Indonesia. It is perfectly legitimate for us to take up study of subcultures of this Eastern culture like the Russian culture or Indian culture. A combination group or cross-culture group like “Indian immigrants” can also be recognized and studied‚ as long as the group is of adequate size and importance as body of consumers
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Running head: An Analysis of Organizational Culture An Analysis of Organizational Culture Abstract The following is an observation and analysis of the role an organization’s values play on the development and state of its culture. This analysis is based on five interviews of both male and female workers from a privately owned manufacturing company with annual revenues exceeding a billion dollars. In forming my conclusions‚ I will analyze the synthesis of
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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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Tattoos in Western Culture The art of tattooing has changed in modern times quite drastically. It is slowly becoming more acceptable to own and display tattoos on one’s body. In more conservative times‚ those with tattoos were looked on as social outcast‚ turned down for jobs and seen as strange outsiders. However‚ within the past half century‚ tattoos have steadily become more acceptable. Millions of people in America now proudly tattoo their skin‚ with everything from religious symbols to
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