North American societies are more focused on justice and punishment, rather than rehabilitation. ... Also, only 3% of the total Canadian population is black while 9.5% of federal inmates today are black (an increase of 80% since 2003) (Zinger, I. 2013). ... The mentally ill make up 4% of the American population and account for 15% of state prisoners and 24% of jail inmates (Sweetland, H. 2014). ... A judge then ordered for the prison to reduce its prison population by 30,000 members, only to grow to 173,000 people inside of the prison (Stelloh, T. 2013). ... " Their idea of prison is very...

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Many of Americans today do not take the time to realize that our nation is little by little falling apart. ... The first major social problem facing America today is the crisis of births to unmarried woman. ... Due to the increasing number of teen pregnancies lead to a population growth in America. ... Havel is seeing the whole picture when referring to the population growth, not only unwanted pregnancies. ... Millions of Americans can understand the millions of problems facing our nation today. ...

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Mainly due to the fairness in society, in which each American has equal opportunity. ... Overall educational attainment levels in the population over time provide an indicator of the success of different population subgroups. ... White Flight is one reason why we as Americans could never be equal. ... Purposively, blacks make up 13% of the population, and only 1% of the population spends their money on black owned corporations. ... What is this American dream we so determinedly struggle to attain? ...

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Rapid population growth in urban areas also perpetuates poverty. ... There is a weakened bond of kinship, and declining social family significance as America has transferred industrial, educational and recreational activities to specialized institutions outside of the home. ... Political pathology and population growth is closely related because of the population change and this change carries with it a high likelihood of social disruption. ... America has hired approximately fifty percent more teachers in the last few years than have been hired in the past, but the increase in population...

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Today the American culture yet again faces issues of assimilation and social status of emerging racial and ethnic groups. ... The American social construct is quickly changing. Demographically within the next 30 years key areas politically and socially of the United States will be directly influenced by a Hispanic population. ... While keeping in mind Park's theories and how they affected society present day, and how American society is facing similar, but larger issues were he alive today one wonders what he would think of an African-American president, the former first female Secretary...

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Developing western nations maximized rapidly in the growth of their population and consumption and their ethnocentric ways lead to an attack on the indigenous people in order to gain resources. ... The Brussels Act of 1892 called for the education to the African Americans in teaching them that our civilization brought many benefits. Small-scale societies were made to think that the American living standards were the best way of life. ... Westerners took children away from their families and educated them in American schools; they mainly taught them how to behave like an American. ... "In large...

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It is not impossible to become part of the upper class but it is certainly difficult considering that in 1992, only one percent of our population was in the upper class. ... Racial grouping is one way that societies have done this e.g. the American South before the US civil war. ... #The American society poses more as the distributional theory because, "The American dream portrays a society in which all people can alter and improve their lot." It is always our main goal as a society to achieve our American dreams. Though the distributional theory may have its flaws, it still fulfills that Amer...

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After the war the suburban population in America was changing increasingly. ... This is due to the statistics stating that 37.5% of the population lived in rural or small towns and 35.5% were suburbs. Although these numbers suggest that a large amount of the population lived in most of the middle class families who lived in a suburb struggled to maintain those houses. ... White males were given the most opportunities, well above women and African Americans. ... Along with the African Americans, women had rekindled the old spark of feminism. ...

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The Effect of AIDS and Birth Rates are falling but Population is not. ... Another problem is AIDS, which is both a population and social problem. ... Single mothers represent the bulk of the adult welfare population; such births can be compared to the condition of the poor in Third World countries. Another problem we are facing is a real population explosion among the poor. ... America's inner cities -Vs- Third World Countries At first, it might appear impossible to compare conditions in America's inner cities with those that characterize overpopulated countries of the Third World. ...

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Psychographics is the study of groups or market segments in the population who are defined by their values and resulting lifestyle choices. ... A group as large as the elders (comprising 29% of the adult population), they are much more focused on immediate gratification, self-fulfillment and experience-seeking. ... He also reflects on the differences between Canadians and Americans. ... In general, Americans have a greater faith in the family, the state (that is, "America"), religion and the market." ... And in spite of our growing intimacy with American commerce and culture, Canada remains a...

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If the population of the United States is the "whole" the dictionary was referring to, then the minority would make up less than half the population right? ... Women are considered minority yet they make up 51.3% of the population. ... An example would be an Asian's eyes or the African Americans skin color. ... For example, we can usually tell a person from African American decent from a person of Caucasian decent. ... Just like a Native American cannot change there heredity. ...

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However, in North America, it became based on race. ... An example is when England became industrialized enough to build a magnificent navy and took control of North America. ... In the United States, the capitalist class is only one percent of the population but owns ninety percent of the wealth. ... The lower middle class is about thirty-four percent of the population. ... The working class is about thirty percent of the population. ...

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The US ranks third in geographical size, and its population ranks third at approximately 300 million. ... There is only an emphasis on the fact that Americans pioneered America, and that is the spirit that continues to go down the generation. Many sports teams, for example, use the term Native American, without educating what true meaning or the history of Native Americans mean. ... I believe that America's pro-sports are over commercialized. ... The country where I come from, South Korea, has 99% of the country's population who currently have health insurance. ...

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Basically, American culture is nothing more than a product of the mass media. ... However, the disturbing aspect of the mass media is that it is controlled by a small percent of the population. Thus, most images portrayed are bias and do not reflect accurate images of American society. ... Marx believed that there is always a small group of oppressors and most of the population is the oppressed. ... Metaphorically, Marx was right when he said that there would always be a small group of oppressors and large population of oppressed. ...

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Nash's The Transformation of European Society documents the widening of the social stratification between the upper and lower classes, in 18th century colonial America. ... Population growth and economic development made rich men ever wealthier. ... The Americans were transforming their society into the European conditions that they fled. By 1760, the amount of poor was increasing at a greater speed than the population as a whole was which shows that there was a lack of economic development for the lower classes. ...

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But for the sake of this essay, I will only be discussing Marxism theory and apply it to a small country located in Central America, Guatemala. ... There are many factors that show the inequality that the population faces. ... Lets first discuss some background information on Guatemala, as mentioned previously it's a small country located in Central America. ... "The distribution of income remains highly unequal with the richest 20% of the population accounting for more than 51% of Guatemala's overall consumption" (cia.gov) Its important to look at the country internally in order to ...

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The media has recognized the dichotomy between the white and Africa-American families in America, and therefore has taken the television programs where Africa-Americans play lead roles and made the shows resemble the norms of the white family. ... The majority of the African-American population is located in the lower-middle class, and therefore has few resources that will help them move out of their close-to-poverty state. ... The church is used as an escape for African-Americans. ... Church is an emotional release for African-Americans. ... The African-American community is a smart peopl...

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The stereotypes I can think of are reservations that they live at and that no one else can live there except American Indians. ... Majority of the casinos are own by American Indians that are owned in their reservations. ... American Indians have portrayed their culture as tribal and they are still living as tribes, who use arrows and bows to hunt and kill. ... Majority of the Americans do not know much about the American Indians and they often make mistakes by asking to do things that they can't. ... The reality is that their loosing their culture and there is a low population of Am...

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The second consequence is an underachieving population. ... Putnam in "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital," Journal of Democracy 6, no.1 (January 1995) p. 20. In which he concludes that Americans increasingly prefer social isolation to social involvement. ... Illegeracy also creates continuous enormous obstacles in our goals of achieving the American Dream, upward mobility, and an ideal democracy. ...

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Body adornment symbolizes many things in their Native American society. ... The higher the human population and the more societies there are on an island or continent, the greater the chance of any given invention being conceived and adopted. ... Food production is a factor for an advancing society because they need to maintain a growing population. ... Open trade and a democratic society have contributed to the explosive growth America has experienced in technological advancements. ...

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The Adrenée Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture In African American Women's Studies Leith Mullings is the Presidential Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Program in Medical Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City of University of New York. ... The findings conclude that African-American women have a higher risk factor than white women for contracting several illnesses, developing chronic conditions, and dying, especially while pregnant. ... She believes that this racism produces negative outcomes like division in the human population, biological consequences ...

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The total population of African American females was 6,581,000 and out of the total they focus on about 300,000 females, this was the approximation of how many females had 9 years or less education. ... This rate is 13.75% of the sum of all suicide rates for African-American females aged 25-54 (Fernquist 1996). ... This study does not agree with the previous study because the suicide rate for Whites is significantly higher than that for African American females. ... The largest being the size of the black male population (Burr et al 1999). ... It only focused on race and suicide rates, fin...

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The United States of America itself provides for a great example of this phenomenon – particularly the rise of free, compulsory education during the nineteenth century (Cole, 2008). ... What this means is that the many immigrants living in the United States are actively being assimilated to American cultural beliefs and values. Thousands of immigrant children as well as adults in the United States today are learning English, US history, and other subjects that ultimately help prepare them for the workforce and integrate them into American life. ... This is because the historical origi...

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While working for the Bush administration's secretary of health and human services he was appalled by the epidemic of violent crimes he saw taking place in American cities. ... Sullivan, "more than 26,000 Americans were murdered and six million violent crimes were committed with young men and minorities falling victim most frequently". ... Firstly they see the deviant as different from the rest of the population, he or she is abnormal in a normal population and that the abnormality predisposes him or her to deviance. ... Merton used this "theory of anomie" to refer to the lower strata...

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A recent online survey tried to find out how the population thinks about this issue by asking over six thousands adults from Britain, America, France and Germany. ... In all this three parts, only around 50% of the questioned Americans want the state to intervene in these social issues. ...

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