Analysis Of Individual Models

They didn't have their music memorized and they were mostly in step. There were color guard and dancers along with a pit, trombones, trumpets, clarinets, flutes, piccolos, saxophones and sousaphones.

Even among whites, social hierarchy is evident. Each class looks down on the one below it-

The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply

Moving forward, Dyer begins to unpack the active/passive concept of images of models. Often male models are caught in the act doing hegemonically masculine things such as: baseball, mowing the lawn, grilling, painting, etc. When not caught in the act, the male model contorts his body in a way that shows off his muscles and emphasizes the potential for action. In contrast, women never do an action. They’re always sitting on a stool waiting for people to look at her. To look is to be active and to be looked at is to be passive. Men must remove any sense of passivity in their pose and look to continue to uphold their masculine identities.

"Events in the nineteenth century made it abundantly and irrefutably clear that race as a concept sui generis superseded social class as the dominant mechanism of social division and stratification in North America." (Smedley 219) For many decades people have been using race as a way to classify humans into different social categories. Lower, Middle, and Upper classes were created to divide humans into appropriate categories using their individual lifestyles, financial income, residence, and occupation. People decided to ignore this classifying system and classify one another,

We classify people in different groups by the way they look,dress or cary themselves. For example in high school there the popular kids , nerds, jock,cheerleaders,athletics squad,loser team and the weirdos. Statistics show that 50% of the students in the school wants to be on the popular team because they want people to respect them and feel very

The existence of classes between people is lamentable, but it does exist, and it sews discord between them. Perhaps the

When looking at Ascribed stratification, the characteristic that appears to have the greatest effect on a person’s status is race. When someone thinks of a wealthy, high class American, an African-American is not typically what pops into their head. This is because African-Americans are a minority, making up around 13% of America’s population. African-Americans are also seen at a lesser status because of stereotypes. Labels like criminal, poor, and unintelligent are put on African-Americans which automatically downgrades them. On the other hand, an example of an ascribed stratification that would automatically put someone at the top of the totem pole in a society would be being born into royalty or a wealthy family because people do not pick and control the family they are born into. Ascribed status’s also play a big role in India, especially because this is where the caste system was created which was based on heredity. In these caste systems

People are keenly aware of their class status, perhaps not in terms of the specific categories but they instinctively know that in relationship to others whether they are a part of the upper, middle or lower classes

Each of these groups is stratified into its own class; the group of people ranked most closely to them in property, power, and prestige. A person’s position in the stratification system affects everything about their life, from what they think and expect in life to how they see the world, as well as what opportunities they will have access to. Although, your status is still assigned at birth, but you have the chance at upward social mobility based on material possessions that you acquire, or things that you achieve. Or you may be on the other end of the spectrum and experience downward social

Social class can be thought of as a very important indicator of who a person is.

These concert goers enjoyed no rules, drug use, sex, and loud rock music. Some of the best known artists from this concert were; Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Sly & the Family Stone, and Jefferson Airplane.

male character traits; they wind up being referred to as objects because of their non­masculinity

Human beings tend to see the group that they associate with in a more favourable light than the groups that they do not associate with. This is known as “in-group favouritism” (Turner and Tajfel, 1986) One explanation as to why this is done is that we boost our self esteem by viewing the group we belong to in a more favourable light than the group with which we have no affiliation. This seems quite logical in that we feel a sense of pride when our group seems somewhat better or superior to other groups.

A model is a simple representation of something else. Avant and Walker 2011, define a model case as an occurrence that defines the case or idea exactly. In many instances, a model is something that the person can relate to and should come first in the study (Avant & Walker, 2011). Example of a model case: “Jason” is a 31-year-old white male that has worked on the surgical oncology floor for 5 years. He has a wife and a two-year-old son, drinks about three days a week and often yells at his wife and son. He arrives to work every day on time and his coworkers know him for his speed, organization and great time management. He is the charge nurse most nights and is currently orientating a new nurse who also knows his wife. Most days, he is very short with the new hired nurse; belittling and acting very pompous. One day, the new hire arrives to work and is visibly upset and teary eyed, Jason does not care and proceeds to his teaching process as usual. The new nurse gets fed up and proceeds to yell his faults to the entire night shift crew and even a few members of upper management. The new nurse calls him “the worst nurse ever” and states that “working together has been a nightmare”. Further elaborating that he is “a monster and evil human being because of his frequent verbal abuse directed toward his wife and son”. Jason is immediately taken back and is consumed by his guilt and shame causing him to completely