There are various stages of Political Socialization: Pre-school (ages 2-4), Early Childhood (ages 5-8), Late Childhood (9-11) and Adolescence (12-17). ... By age 8 kids can recognize what party they are, Republican or Democrat, by simply asking their parents. ... The last stage of Early Political Socialization is Adolescence (ages 12-17). ... The types of people that I interviewed were mostly in their adolescence to their early twenties. ... My fifth question was about the influence of mass media on people, and again I got a split answer right down the middle. ...

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Derek Vinyard, the protagonist of American History X, grew up in a white lower to middle class family. Derek's views of society are directly shaped by his father at an early age. ... Did the middle class get lower? ... But Danny is shot at school by a black gang member that he had a conflict with earlier. ... These barriers have been around for ages. ...

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Individualism is also taught at an early age, one as on individual can go from the bottom and rise to the top. ... Religion follows some class lines, Baptists are usually lower class, Methodists are middle class, and Episcopalians are more upper middle class and upper class. ... Churches, attract the upper and middle classes because they support there world views and values, where as sects tend to reject there world views. Classism, there are many different classes in America, upper-upper class, lower-upper class, upper middle class, lower middle class, upper-lower class, and lower-lower cla...

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Dialect and Cultural Symbol A dialect is the variety of language associated with a particular place, social level, ethnic group, sex, age, and so on. Most of us have a normal way of using language that is an intersection of such dialects and that marks us as being, for example, a middle-aged, white, cultured, female Charlestonian of old family or a young, urban, working-class, male Hispanic from New York City. ... This type of language habit showed he represented the middle-class: "Mawnin', Jenny," he said. ... 's mighty early in the day to start carvin' white folks," Dr Pea...

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Social Pressures in "The Japanese Quince" In the early 1900s, there were many social classes and each person in that class was expected to abide by its rules. ... In this society, businessmen were usually part of the upper middle class, which probably had one of the harshest social rules for being proper in public. ... Probably the most enjoyment a businessman had in this age was the daily routine of having everything orderly and neat. ...

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Politics as a Vocation' is a pretty wide ranging essay - He provides the reader with the working mechanisms of politics; he talks about political journalism and different kinds of party organizations, beginning with the feudal parties of the Middle Ages to the Guelphs and Ghibbilines, ranging through the development of the English and American party systems, to Germany. ... Until the science of politics is perfected, there is insight to be gained by observing how those who came before analyzed political phenomena--on both the merits of the efforts themselves and the way these efforts ref...

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One of the most notable transformations during the period was on the industrial front as more and more people opted to transit from the agrarian life forms to embrace the industrial age. It is as a result of this outcome that the literature of the period, including Dickens' own David Copperfield opted to dwell on the social reforms that occurred in the typical society in the Victorian age. ... The industrialization during the period also led to the early development of the supply chain as industrialists sought to obtain raw materials for manufacture from the farming populace. ... Financia...

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To compound our naturally competitive natures, Americans often impose various forms of contest into everyday life from a very early age. Whether its identifying the "gifted" children in middle school, or placing students on "slow" academic tracks in high school, our society has permanently institutionalized inequality. ...

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The New woman was mainly "middle-class, if not upper class, daughter or wife of a business or professional man, and had a better education than average."" ... By 1910, "five percent of college-age Americans attended college and forty percent of them were women."" Middle-class young men found more opportunity in business than in professions requiring a higher education. ... "Earlier generations of charitable women had emerged from their own homes to "visit- the poor "armed with uplift, prayers, advice, food baskets, cast-off clothing, religious tracts, and various donations."" ...

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It is a short story collection that examines middle-class Indian life, especially among families who cross international boundaries. ... In this case, borders are the norms which applied in Indian culture such as making woman's hair as long as possible, using oil every week and avoiding shampoos, getting married in young age, and doing house works like common women in India. "One day, two months earlier, her daughter had cut off her long thick hair, just like that. ...

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