In London in 2011 thousands of people protested, rioted and engaged in criminal activity from Saturday the 6th August through to Thursday the 11th of August. ... Thus one might emerge as in a category of ethnic minority and pro-civil order, or indeed as a white, British rioter. ... This intersectionality demonstrates the ways in which people can 'fall through the gap' in analyses which racialise the protest movement in particular demographic ways. ... The opposition to the privilege of ethno-centrism as it is perceived to favour white over black people in both the UK and the US mean...

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Civil society groups fulfill an important function as they work voluntarily to bring about positive social changes and provide better services to the people. ... Hence, how far should the government be responsible for growing civil society in order to achieve an optimum "productive tension" such that the people benefit from civil society, whilst ensuring that the state remains effectively governed? ... Any direct involvement by the government to "grow " civil society will be perceived as an attempt to control the freedom of expression of its people. ... As Professor Kenneth Paul Tan stated...

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He believes that structural violence is a certain way of describing arrangements that are made within society that place people and populations in harm's way. ... Other studies involving America and their infant mortality rate, have found black babies rate to be double that of white babies, and the infant mortality rate overall in America is far higher than in any other developed country. ... It is thought to be a case of "nature plus nurture" rather than either one or the other being the more dominant factor producing a certain type of behaviour (Haines & White, 2008). ...

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The cause of the formation of New Social Movements as Touraine highlighted was the fact that at the time a new class of educated, middle class, youth in Europe had emerged from a post-industrial society which meant these people were able to take a more critical view of society at the time and form social movements to question political and social issues of the time. ... An example again would be the Civil Rights, one of the first documented challenges to the 'Jim Crow' system of racial segregation occurred on February 1st 1960 when 4 black students; Ezell Blair, David Richmond , Jo...

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When large segments of populations are displaced by natural or man-made disasters, people become separated from time-honored roots of language, culture, and social bonds. As a result, displaced peoples are forced to create new social and economic relations in the areas to which they re-locate, as well as change existing social dynamics in the receiving society. ... In response to Hurricane Katrina, anthropologist Anthony Oliver- Smith noted that the "increasing complexity of [natural] disasters is rooted in the interplay of social and economic factors in the environment, exacerbating the vulne...

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