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    Race and Ethnicity

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    discrimination. Most likely their race or ethnicity was the basis of why the experienced happened. The concept of race and ethnicity has to be established first among people to get a better understanding of the people they interact with on a daily basis. Race is a concept that is dividing people into groups or populations based on their genetic or biological appearance. A factor that people most associate this with is skin color. Then there is the concept of ethnicity that is more complicated for people

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    Ethnicity and Religion

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    religious affiliations‚ and there are more ethnic groups than identified in the census data Modood and Berthoud (1997) analysed the 1991 Census data on ethnicity they suggest that ethnicity comprises: 1. Subjective identification: with which ethnicity do I and my group identify? 2. Religious identification; to what extent does it help construct ethnicity? A number of general points can be made about religious affiliation among ethnic minority groups; that is‚ those people comprising the 5.49% of

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    Ethnicity In Education

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    Ethnicity The impact that education makes on one’s life is greatly diverse‚ while there are several factors that shape this‚ ethnicity plays a huge role. An individual’s upbringing plays a major role in one’s student learning‚ not only how one was raised will affect their education‚ where one is raised also does. Ethnicity is the interrelationship between gender‚ and class‚ it is the state of belonging to a particular social group that follows a cultural tradition. Where one lives‚ grows up‚

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    Jury System

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    The jury system has deep historical roots and has been described by Lord Devlin in title ‘Trial by Jury’ as ‘the lamp that shows the freedom lives’. Juries allow the citizens to take part in the administration of justice so that verdicts are seen to be those of society rather the judicial system. Furthermore‚ in Justice‚ Democracy and the Jury‚ named Gobart James stated that freeing the jury from the law and precedent allows them to follow their conscience and good sense‚ and juries instinctively

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    Reflection on Ethnicity

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    that inhabit it. With that mobility comes the shared responsibility to negotiate with people who may initially seem unfamiliar and learn to express the experience. The word "ethnicity" is used to describe a specific population’s characteristics of fundamental aspects that all humans share. When applied loosely‚ ethnicity becomes a blanket term to define large populations‚ undermining the worth and the diversity within that group and emphasizing the differences between cultures. Yet those differences

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    Sociology Ethnicity

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    Ethnicity Ethnicity Intelligence: controversial (racist?) notions (Eysenck‚ Jensen‚ Hernstein & Murray) Outside school factors: material deprivation; social class background; gender; street culture (Sewell); high number of single parent‚ female-headed families Inside school factors: institutional & cultural racism (Coard‚ Gilborn); setting & streaming (Gilborn & Youdell); language (Labov‚ Mac an Ghaill); self-motivation of girls (Fuller‚

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    Race and Ethnicity

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    be. This theory also incorporates the notion‚ in any given time‚ people come to realize how they would feel about particular situations and where they fit in society. Where ever the person is in his or her life course creates these ways of thinking based on everything that happened to him or her in the past. An individual may hope to change who she or he is in the present moment and could wish for another self‚ thus creating a possible self. Agency and identity work hand in hand with this concept because

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    Ethnicity and Policing

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    Ethnicity and the Police Part II Police Brutality and Corruption: New Orleans Police Department By Brittany Jackson Staff Writer BATON ROUGE- New Orleans Police Department is known for its harsh brutality‚ corruption‚ discrimination‚ and deadly force. The issue of citizen complaints has been a controversial concern in New Orleans. The complaints of citizens are generally a racial issue. African American civil groups have commanded civilian evaluation as a way of presenting independent assessments

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    Summary: Mock Juries

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    Decision making in juries To study the decision making of juries mock juries and shadow juries are used ( i.e. ‘real’ juries are not used as this is banned by law). Mock juries do a role play of a case‚ shadow juries observe a real case then discuss guilt/innocence but their opinion is not given to the real court. In mock juries variables such as the characteristics of the defendant can be controlled‚ however the group may not be representative of a randomly selected jury‚ scenarios may not be

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    Ethnicity in Sociology

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    Trade Center in 2001 and London Underground bombings in 2005‚ a new discourse has emerged regarding Muslim Youths. The new image of them is of being dangerous- a threat to British culture. Offending There are 3 ways on gathering statistics on ethnicity and crime: official stats‚ victimization studies and self-report studies. According to Home Office statistics‚ about 9.5% of people arrested were recorded as ‘Black’ and 5.3% ‘Asian’ (similar rating to white). This means that‚ relative to the population

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