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    wealth of America’s poorest 90% families” (Wealth Inequality). Quite simply put, this further illustrates the existing imperfections of the socioeconomic composition of society and further may encourage the spark of nostalgic opinions among the lower class individuals. Overall, the realization of the differential among the socioeconomic groups of various communities is enough to arouse controversial feelings among the people of this country, which obviously does not help in elimination of such monetary

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    unable to find them. To this day class in this country is under scrutiny. The middle-class is vanishing before our eyes as the poverty level increases and the wealthiest class becomes larger. Not only was there great inequality in the U.S. during the great depression, but also there was still very strong dislikes toward anyone of color. Racism in this country is still prominent today along with class inequality. In her article “Homophobia as a Weapon of

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    The power elite is able to exert power over society. The power elite’s control over politics demonstrates how inequality is functional. This validates the class-domination theory of power, which is distributed based on economic power. By controlling economic resources, the power elites political influence in government shapes law and those involved in government to the power elites benefit. In today’s American society these laws have impacted both the corporate community and the elite. Furthermore

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    Introduction Social institutions are the established patterns of socialized behavior within society discussed in class. There are more than the five selected social institutions that I am going to talk about but family, politics, education, religion, and economy seem the most interesting to me. Family is the most important to me and I will discuss why that it is. Family Family can come in several different forms, and not every family is the same throughout different societies but they all use

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    during the Elizabethan era was Queen Elizabeth the I she had most of the power to control her land similar to our president, though in modern times our president controls most things the House of Congress is similar to the Lord Mayor of London in the way that they can give a majority vote in favor of a certain law. The nobles of the century do not directly correlate to the upper class but there can be similarities found in the amount of power they had due to the amount of money they had. The military

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    after the politician in charge of Thing A agrees to vote for Thing B that the original politician is in charge of. This is not the attitude Jesus is conveying for his followers. I would address this first by running a clean campaign, and then when president enforce more laws about campaigning. I would also enact term limit laws to stop people from becoming career politicians which would reduce the amount of the activity described above. I would be ridiculed by my opponent for caring about an issue that

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    the majority of Americans to fall into the lower class, ecology and military action altered the American class alike. Citizens bore unjustifiable prejudice against fellow citizens and thus divided the nation. Because of this, people were classified into privileged and the unprivileged. The Dust Bowl and the attack on Pearl Harbor assumed a significant role in reshaping social structure in the mid-1900s America, and the resulting burdens from such class differences were substantial. Due to the continuation

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    economic diversity the senator likely finds grossly unfair. * Due to deplorable labor conditions in certain industries, socialist voices gained an audience. Eugene Debs, founder of the Socialist Party in America and its many time candidate for president, made this statement; “One question is sufficient to determine the true status

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    To begin with, sociology is the systematic study of groups and group interactions, society and social interactions from small and personal groups to very large groups(cite). Sociology is considered a science being that it is the study of not only the behavior of different groups within these societies but also, the social movements that happen within these societies and analysis of large social factors which help with having a better understanding of the people who live within these societies. There

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    middle class. The middle class has served as the backbone to a working economy for decades. Though, lately, the middle class is facing a downward spiral: it is slowly shrinking in number. Because the Middle class will never truly be eliminated, solutions can be limited; however the best thing to do is to try to strengthen this weak link. As Richard Nixon said in his Address to the Nation, we are a “working class” as a whole, we should be using that backbone to uphold our nation. The middle class does

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