Ex-slaves now had to be sharecropper; always behind their quota, they were just above the status of a slave. ... Now that the federal government had more power, there was a chance for ex-slaves to gain more rights and a higher status within society. The biggest social change was the Freedmen's Bureau, America's first welfare system. ... Unfortunately, most of the social changes did not go too far. ... While there were only a few social changes, and there was a social revolution, some things needed to be changed in order to create peace in America. ...

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The SDS was looking for a society that didn't "reduce human being[s] to the status of things." ... The Statement also says that "as a social system we seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation, governed by 2 central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life." ... The SDS is claiming that the public is not involved with the "shar[ing] in social decisions". ... The statement also explains that the society should not be run by people who "unthinkingly adopt status values," or that are concerned "with...

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Our society has many factors that would be responsible for this system of social inequality. For example, gender, race, religion, family background and social status determine how successful one may be. ... Advantages of the government providing the poor with a welfare system include political, social and economically. ... Ones social class would be upgraded. ...

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With modernization, socio-economic status increases "people become wealthier, better educated, and therefore, more inclined to participate in politics. ... Especially in more primitive societies, governments do not have the capacity to practice social engineering. ... However, in the late twentieth-century, two new theories evolved: the social psychological theory and the structural theory. The social psychological theory focuses on individual motivations rather than social groups. ... The failure of the social psychological approach to fully reason politica...

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Also, the directive principles of state policy in Irish constitution were looked upon by the people of India as an inspiration for the independent India's government to comprehensively tackle complex social and economic challenges across a vast, diverse nation and population. In 1928, the Nehru Commission composing of representatives of Indian political parties proposed constitutional reforms for India that apart from calling for dominion status for India and elections under universal suffrage, would guarantee rights deemed fundamental, representation for religious and ethnic minorit...

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"How did Susan B. Anthony Break the Law in 1872?" For many years, women's organizations have tried to get women the right to vote. These women protested and petitioned and did whatever else they could to make this legal. However, congress still referred this decision. Susan B. Anthony, who was...

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Not only did Sparta and Athens differ on values, government, and the role of women, but they also differed on their social structure. ... Slaves had no rights (neither did women) and could be killed whenever his/her owner desired, but they varied in status. ... At the top of the social structure was the aristocrats. ... In Sparta, however, they had 3 social classes; Spartiates, Perioeci, and Helots. ... They did not have the freedom to vote or serve in the army. the highest social class in Sparta was the Spartiates. ...

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The author makes it really clear that enormous cultural, social, and economic changes were occurring in the colonies dating from the French and Indian War. ... By this phrase, the author means that any person, regardless of social status, wealth or education had the right to pursue his or her own ends, to find value, and to seek his or her own self-defined interests and economic success. ...

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If there is an existed struggling and helpless public, who is discontent with its situation, and doesn't see leader as legitimate force to improve the status quo, then often (as in the case of the French Revolution) they feel as if they must take action in their own hands. ... These reasons can be classified as social, political, economical and even philosophical, but actual cause of this revolution is a fed-up population. ...

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Universality If you happen to be born into a family of high social or political status then odds are that you will progress to the top of the totem pole the quickest. The assassination of Caesar in Act III is a basic representation of an emotion that anyone, in any time period, could relate to. ...

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Even though we are all finally "equal" according to the Declaration of Independence, age, gender and social status still defines our voting habits. ... Socioeconomic status is now the greatest "inhibition" when explaining decline in voting participation. ...

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He made it so that careers were based on what people good do, not what social class they were from. ... Taxes such as tax on birth, marriage status, and special arrangement. ... These codes also set a new character for France, socially bourgeois, legally everyone was equal, and it set up a beurocratic government. ... I think when he first started to rule he had some very good ideas about people being equal and destroying the social barriers, but to be a true "hero" I think he would have had to taken it one step further and made a democratic government, with limits on the different branches ...

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This is also true for marital status, and the tendency for a single woman to vote democratic. ... He says, "White men today are the most anti-government sector of the electorate and least likely to support social welfare policies." ...

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The married women of today are very different from the married women of past because they can go to work to support themselves and family members, and handle social problems. ... Employers cannot refuse to hire any person due to marital status, gender or age (Anderson.) ... It urged governments to adopt, strengthen and enforce legislation prohibiting such violence and to take administrative, social and educational measures to protect women from all forms of physical or mental violence. ...

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David Weprin is able to bring these issues to a higher level considering he has power and influence with his governmental status. ... Also if family is involved, you would need to put time aside to enjoy leisure activities whether it be personal or social. ...

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