monetarism”(Christopher‚ 12). These involved reducing inflation with high interest rates and submitting all aspects of the economy to free-market theories and the laws of supply and demand. Her economic and political ideas‚ which came to be known as ‘Thatcherism’ began to be fully expressed and implemented. But in Britain‚ there were high rates of unemployment during the periods of the 1980s and early 90s. The jobs people lost were mostly skilled jobs in manufacturing industry‚ which were regarded
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Within Educating Rita it could be argued that Russell is trying to depict an aspect of conflict within class and culture in the UK- the play itself being in the context of the country during the 1980’s where the rise of Thatcherism grasped many industrialised areas of Britain‚ thus Russell attempts to depict the importance of education with in this era to those who wanted to escape from the lower end of the social scale. This directly affects one of the two characters in the play‚ Rita. Who- due
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Socioeconomic Changes Towards the end of the 1970’s and the early part of the 1980’s‚ both the US and UK economies experienced recessions of relative magnitude. Both governments sought new economic solutions‚ and adopted policies known as “Thatcherism and Reaganomics”‚ that contained monetarism and free market economics. One of the consequences of this radical period was the reforming and reshaping of what many described as the ‘conventional model of industrial relations’ (2). These new policies
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WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE UK Stănescu Maria Colegiul Național Decebal Deva Clasa a IX-a D Why I chose this subject? Women have traditionally been under-represented in UK political institutions. Although women won the right to vote in 1918 they remained less than one in ten members of parliament until 1997. Since 1997 significant improvements have been made. The number of women in parliament has roughly doubled‚ and new institutions have been established with high proportions
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Compare and contrast the two main sociological theories of crime and deviance. Deviance and crime are wide-ranging terms used by sociologists to refer to behavior that varies‚ in some way‚ from a social norm. Cultural Norms are society’s propensity towards certain ideals; their aversion from others; and their standard‚ ritualistic practices. Essentially the ’norm’ is a summation of typical activities and beliefs of group of people. This essay will evaluate the sociological theories associated
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Britain after Two World Wars There was a country once called “the empire on which the sun never sets”‚ and it used to be the most powerful countries in the world. It’s the Britain. Britain plays an extremely important role of the world in the modern history. It used to take the lead carrying out Bourgeois Revolution and have the original Industrial Revolution. After two world wars‚ especially the World War II‚ this old-fashion empire gradually goes downhill. Finally and eventually‚ it has
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Choose one short chapter of Trainspotting. Consider Welsh ’s use of narrative position in that section and discuss language use (dialect‚ accent‚ taboo words) Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh is a novel based around the drug culture of Edinburgh in the 1980’s. Structured around the lives of five‚ male heroin addicts‚ the novel is assembled by a series of short stories that are tied together by characterization. The readers follow the lives of those who have chosen to drop out of polite society‚ as
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" The cult film Trainspotting‚ based on Irvine Welsh’s book of the same title‚ offers an attractive case study as it represents a wide view of British youth culture by considering a large number of issues such as the critiques of consumerism‚ Thatcherism‚ class stratification and gender identities. The film portrays the lifestyle of a group of young drug addicts which places its emphasis on youth culture and links it to the drug subculture‚ and while also involving female characters in this drug
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The British political book that most moved me this year is not a political book at all. Former home secretary‚ Alan Johnson’s This Boy(Bantam) is an often harrowing memoir of his impoverished 1950s childhood at the northern fringe of Notting Hill‚ which‚ though not as grand as it is today‚ still represented two utterly different worlds divided by a few streets. Alan’s dad was a charming wastrel‚ Steve "Ginger" Johnson‚ a womanising pub pianist who blew his chance of a musical career and left the
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Is Multiculturalism dead? Critically examine arguments for and against multiculturalism in the context of relevant literature sources on the subject. Introduction: This essay will appraise and analyse the contention that multiculturalism is dead. It will consider arguments for and against in conjunction with relevant written frameworks of ; Barrow: 2009: 2012; Claval: 2010; Crick: 1989; Cowie: 2003; Miene: 2006; Gordon: 1998; Guttmann: 1999; Modood: 2007:2010; Richardson: 1990; Rosado: 1996;
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