People assume that other people will respect and follow the normal rules to communication. ... When I first began to move closer to the person they performed no reaction. ... After noticing this I decided to move even closer to the person. ... From participating in this exercise I learned that there are rules to communication that people follow and respect and expect other people to do so as well. ... It is interesting to see how people react when you violate a cultural norm....

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Communication helps us to establish a relation with other people. ... Intercultural gives us a broader sight to know people and about their background. People from different cultures can give their opinions in building our society. ... If someone moves to another country, it becomes very difficult for him t adjust over there as there might be different languages. ... Intercultural communication helped me when i moved from India, as i didnt know the cultures of American people. ...

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We have an open class society where you can move between or among the class system. Caste systems are a closed system where you can not move between classes. ... Vertical mobility is when a person goes up or down in a society, where horizontal mobility is where you move sideways. ... Black people began to boycott the bus. ... People demanded the right to an education. ...

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People usually always marry within their own caste. ... Unlike slavery and the caste system, an individual can move either way in the class system. ... Without an education it is difficult to move up in class. ... Very wealthy people send their children to very exclusive private schools. ... The last is exchange mobility is when the same number of people that move up in a social class also moves down in social class....

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Within the caste system are layers, or groups of people, that each have their own rules and regulations they must abide by. ... However, now with the power of the Indian constitution, the untouchables have special regulations allowing them to move up in their occupation. ... It allows people to rise in power or position while still maintaining their original caste identity. ... When in doing this, people have the chance to move up to a higher caste as they copy the values and habits of the upper castes, while also giving up their equalities relating to gender, as well as their freedom. Altho...

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The Slum written by Aluisio Azevedo is a book centered on a slum called Sao Romao, its inhabitants, and the people who live close by to this slum. In this slum there are many people with different backgrounds and ethnicity who live there, and they all have their own stories to tell. ... Eventually she would move in, but having Bertoleza as a lover and roommate would later complicate Romao's life, but I"ll get into that later. ... This here shows me of the ethnical problems these people had at the time. ... She moved to Sao Romao when her husband got a job at Romao's quary. ...

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However, research is conclusive that punishment does not change negative behaviors for most people. ... Because today's children have been raised at a time when violence is the norm on television and in the news, and when the economy has required people to access their basic necessities to support a family in ways that are less conventional than were used in the past, we cannot assume that all children know right from wrong. ... The biggest obstacle when using Positive Behavior Intervention Support is to move a child from an external locus of control to an internal one. ... In the future,...

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Activity Theory Book Def: This theory argues that elderly people who remain active and socially involved will be best adjusted. ... Also from the conflict perspective I have to defend the disengagement theory due to new trends and new technologies in society as the years move on. ... I feel that the reasons why unemployment is so high is because of the elderly who assume the role of the activity theory and do not retire or assume a reduced social role so that previous generations move forward in social roles and have better chances for advancement, creating a more open job market....

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It was mainly a belief of the middle-class society; preaching hard work and education as the only aspects needed to move up in the world. ... Alger gives people a false sense of reality with the characters he portrays in his book. Many of the people Dick meets are more than ready to help him or befriend him, whereas in real life it is very unlikely that a fourteen-year-old bootblack would find so many willing benefactors. ... For this reason I think this book illustrates a great example of how a lower class person can change his status and move up in society. ...

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Instead of having people trying to do different things, everyone is assigned one job and that is what they do. ... Also production is a good way to get moved up in the ranks. ... Everyone has heard the phrase give a hundred and ten percent, well that is the way to get noticed for hard work and get moved up in the ranks. ... How did these people get to this position, they earned and that is the whole meaning behind heirarchial structure or ranks....

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Sherifâ's experiment involved the so-called autokinetic effect in which a point of light in total darkness will appear to move randomly, when in fact it did not move at all. Subjects, in a group situation with answers being given in the presence of others, were asked to indicate the number of times the light moved. While there was actually no movement of the light, all subjects did report an estimated number of moves. ... So it's no wonder to me that so many people choose conformity over individuality. ... We tend to conform with people by whom we want to be liked or who we perceiv...

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They also provide financial aid and student support services hence the students from lower socio economic classes who get a chance to attend them are better placed and get a chance to move upwards in the socio economic ladder. ... University education has provided a means of breaking the transmission of disadvantages from one generation to the next (Stevens, Gregory and Leiyu Shi 98).Education increases the employability of a person hence giving them a chance to move up the socio economic ladder. ... The people in higher socio economic classes continue to have a higher advantage in getting hi...

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The change in the social structure prevented the working class from being able to move up in class and ultimately, being rewarded for their work. ... Laborers had to stay in these harsh factory jobs because they couldn't move up in social class and would be left to starve and face debt without the small wages they did earn. ... And, the large gap between the social classes made in near impossible for the working class to move up and achieve a better future. ... Workers went home to the same small, gloomy, smokey house (Document 10) after performing the same job over and over again with t...

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Frankie was so very ashamed of this practice that he vowed that he would, one day move to America and provide for himself and his own family. ... Frankie decides to move to America for freedom, to move away from the old ways of "the new Ireland". ... People that he cared about, that all borrowed money to help support him, in effort to make him a better person. ...

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As industrialization spread,large numbers of peasants who used to support themselves by working the land moved to the expanding cities and helped to urban based industrial working class,which also referred proletariat.Marx predicted that inequalities of capitalism would become so extreme that workers would eventually revolt,which leads to the collapse of capitalism and this would be replaced by communism.Marx believed that communism is more equitable system than capitalism.There would be no classes,no divisions between the rich and poor. ... Human beings' thinking and politics, law, relig...

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With modernization, socio-economic status increases "people become wealthier, better educated, and therefore, more inclined to participate in politics. ... As people become more disgruntled with governmental procedures and ideology, revolutions will occur. Rather than move towards modernization at a reasonable pace, these governments tend to move too quickly for older and more conservative generations or too slowly for the radical and younger populations. ... The contribution of the social psychological approach lies in demonstrating that how people perceive th...

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In the book Code of the Streets, Anderson moves to an urban part of Philadelphia where the African American neighborhoods are filled with people selling drugs, crime rates are high, and people are living in poverty. ... Anderson points out that other cities are also facing problems such as teen pregnancy, strive for respect, drugs, and people committing crimes. ... In order the people of these communities to survive their surroundings, they must know this code and respect it because it could be the means between success and failure or life and death. ... During his study, he closely attached ...

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Materially and socially, Jane has moved a considerable distance from her situation at the beginning of the novel. ... Where she was once completely dependent on other people's charity, she is able to give money to others. ... Through her connection with the Rivers, she acquires the status of belonging to a long-established county family, and she reinforces this upward move by marrying into the landed gentry. ... Jane becomes Rochester's hand and eyes and the controller of how he moves and perceives -- she does literally become "the apple of his eye." ... In doing so, an orpha...

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It consists of people who share a common ethnic origin, culture, historical tradition, and language. ... Not only will the move affect their perception of urban vs. rural life, but it will also be somewhat of a culture shock. ...

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Another theory discussed was dependency theory, which is believed that the growth of rich countries has created the third world, and that international capitalism creates this block so that third world countries cant move forward (43). ... In Guatemala, agriculture is the prime income for the country, and the people as well as the land are constantly exploited in order to get money. But it seems that even though the people work, and work they don't get anything in return, they don't see to advance. ... Hence the mode of production for Guatemala is their agriculture, and the peopl...

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Through the late nineteenth century, as coal and electricity supplanted water power, industry moved from riverside factory towns to cities. ... While the ghettos grew out of economic exploitation and crime flourished in their streets, they housed communities to whom the street became a meeting place for the people within their neighborhood. ... As congestion and union activism began to undermine the economic gains that had initially prompted the industries to moves to cities; manufacturing too, abandoned the city, relocating in the suburbs, and away from the threat of union activism. Then, ...

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Scarborough is a district known for its massive population of Chinese people. ... So he moved to Scarborough to find a sense of belonging, although he knew that Scarborough was not the real kind of community that Toronto featured. He said I am still young and encouraged me to move out of the Chinese zone and interact more with the local people. ... My school was constituted by people of different ethnics and backgrounds. ... Akinsiku states, " When you move to a new neighborhood, you eventually find that place you're living in stops being the place you are living in. ...

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Culture refers to the shared beliefs, knowledge, and values by a group of people. ... Because Globalization is real and people have to move from one country to another. People have to move from Sweden to America and the same way people have to move from the Americas to Sweden. ... In Sweden people trust one another and they still trust the government. ... Swedes are people who are influenced by what they have in groups. ...

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The objective of the welfare system is move people from depending on the government to supporting themselves. ... The people within the Democratic Party are liberal people that support the welfare system. ... Without a welfare system there would be more homeless people creating less voters. ... There would be so many choices for people who are striving. ... A great deal of people think that people who rely on the welfare system are just lazy bums fail to realize that there are many people who are on the welfare system to better themselves. ...

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As Americans we moved away from the goals and ideals of our predecessors. ... By shifting our focus from we have let our social capital diminish, while the facts and figures in Bowling Alone, suggest many different trends and reasons for the social capital deficit of the 21st century, we cannot assume all people are anti-community or self centered, most people realize the need for community involvement, on all levels (religion, politics, education etc.) but for one reason or another lack the time and resources to devote a large portion of their daily life to what seemingly is their civic duty...

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