In this engaging and complex book‚ Robert Putnam discusses why upward mobility in the United States of America has progressively gotten worse though the recent decades. Putnam describes many diverse variables throughout this book that has led to this steady decline and has put them into four main categories: Families‚ parenting‚ schooling‚ and community. To make it easier to summarize and process‚ this paper will be split into these four parts. After the summary of Putnam’s substantial thesis‚ this
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some‚ even grandchildren) of their own. However‚ there weren’t going to be any more Fosters in the next generation - my aunt is unmarried. As a result‚ I inherited my mother’s last name‚ a bit untraditionally. With my mother ending up as the main breadwinner of the household‚ we also have an untraditional family structure‚ though‚ so it fits us. However‚ there are some associations with my name that many people make that
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Throughout the short stories‚ many gender issues are heavily active in the text. They all seem to share the same characteristics in each plot of the stories “The Use of Force”‚ “Hills like White Elephants”‚ and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Each story outlines the male character as the “dominant leader” overpowering over a woman. In our society‚ the male is seen as the protector over his family and life. He is responsible for taking care of things and fighting which might include becoming a dominant character
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the service sector. Other than that‚ feminist movements also gave way to the equality in the workplace‚ resulting women to assume more dominant roles both at home and at work. With this said‚ men could no longer rely on their social construct as breadwinners and women as homemakers. America’s global expansion gave way to the reliance of the US economy on service work‚ which has traditionally been most associated with
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WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE WELFARE STATE? The question set is so broad that I shall have to be selective. I shall conduct my answer in relation to the British Welfare State. Before we can successfully understand the function of the Welfare State we must first be clear of its definition. Although I recognise that Britain has a long history of providing forms of welfare to its citizens though relief like the poor-law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries‚ I intend to look at the post-war
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Assess the view that the nuclear family functions for the benefit of the individual and society. A nuclear family is universal and consists of two generations of families: a father‚ a mother and their children‚ all living in the same household. In this essay‚ I will be assessing the views that the nuclear family functions to benefit all its members and society as a whole‚ from a Functionalist‚ Feminist and a Marxist perspective. In order to assess these views‚ it is necessary to first establish
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Sociology Research Methods Essay Assignment "Bringing Home the Bacon: Marital Allocation of Income-Earning Responsibility‚ Job Shifts and Men ’s Wages" By: Gorman‚ Elizabeth H. 1999 Research Question The research question addressed in the article "Bringing Home the Bacon: Marital Allocation of Income-Earning Responsibility‚ Job Shifts and Men ’s Wages" discusses the issue of marriage and how it impacts men ’s job shift patterns and how job shifting also influences men ’s wages. The research
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Socialisation is ‘a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms‚ values‚ behaviour‚ and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.’ How he or she learns these skills can be affected on where they have been brought up‚ who they have grown up around and how they were taught. There are two different types of socialisation: Primary agents of socialisation and Secondary agents of socialisation. They are the people or organisations that affect
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In the stereotypical Jamaican family hierarchy the women is placed below the man of the household based on authority. The man of the family makes all of the decisions and supports the family financially. The woman is supposed to answer to the man and insure that all of his needs come second to none. Those typical male and female gender roles are the cruxes of the Jamaican family hierarchy; however‚ in “Bella Makes Life” by Lorra Goodison‚ Goodison turns these roles upside down. In her short story
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the‚ “submissive‚ fragile‚ and sexually pure” (Feminism 105) norm into a more male oriented figure. In other words‚ she becomes “aggressive” in her lust for Cesario which is behavior that is associated with‚ “the male ‘instinct’ to be to be the breadwinner and to protect the home-- so has unsubstantiated opinion been widely accepted as fact concerning the role of the maternal instinct in females” (Feminism 108). As Lady Olivia takes on this role‚ Orsino becomes submissive in aspiring for her love
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