Examples of One Drop Rule in the following topics:
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- Education also offers a means to improve one's life chances by improving employment opportunities and making social connections.
- Thus, the consequences to dropping out can be high, as they significantly decrease the opportunity to improve one's life chances.
- Not all students have an equal risk of dropping out.
- Why else might students drop out?
- Recall some of the reasons why students in the U.S. may drop out of high school and the potential consequences of dropping out
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- Advanced capitalist economies require that many students be trained to join the working class while a few must be trained to join the ruling capitalist class.
- One way schools may begin to sort and differently train classes of students is by sorting them into different tracks.
- Some research suggests that students in lower tracks are more likely to drop out of school or participate in criminal activities.
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- For example, most societies have a generally accepted age of retirement (based on both societal norms as well as a country's tax laws and pension rules) after which point an individual ceases to engage in employment.
- One of the problems that may arise from a large segment of society being aged is a pension crisis.
- As the graph shows, the amount of social security expenditure is correlated with a drop in the number of elderly people at or below the poverty line.
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- In high school, economic, family, and social demands may lead some students to drop out before finishing.
- But Hispanic, black, and Native American students drop out at rates nearly double those of Asian and white students.
- One might expect, then, that all people would try to maximize their education.
- Even in high school, economic, family, and social demands may lead some students to drop out before finishing.
- One of the biggest debates in funding public schools is funding by local taxes or state taxes.
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- Another illustration of individual-level racism in society is the resistance of Americans to classify mixed-race individuals as white if they have even "one-drop" of black ancestry.
- While most Americans may believe the "one-drop rule" is no longer relevant in society today, recent research suggests that it persists in racial classifications, even if they are informal.
- One response to racial disparity in the U.S. has been Affirmative Action.
- One technique that is often used by individuals engaged in genocide and even in war is racial epithets that dehumanize the enemy, making it easier to kill them.
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- Deviance, in a sociological context, describes actions or behaviors that violate informal social norms or formally-enacted rules.
- Examples of informal deviance include picking one's nose, belching loudly, or standing unnecessarily close to another person.
- However, in the Christ Desert Monastery, specific rules govern determine when residents can and cannot speak, and speech is banned between 7:30 pm and 4:00 am.
- These rules are one example of how norms vary across cultures.
- One example involves heterosexual white males who become drag queens on weekends.
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- A bureaucracy is an organization of non-elected officials who implements the rules, laws, and functions of their institution.
- A bureaucracy is an organization of non-elected officials of a government or organization who implements the rules, laws, and functions of their institution.
- Red tape is excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
- Red tape generally includes filling out paperwork, obtaining licenses, having multiple people or committees approve a decision and various low-level rules that make conducting one's affairs slower, more difficult, or both.
- Street-level bureaucracy is accompanied by the idea that these individuals vary the extents to which they enforce the rules and laws assigned to them.
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- Ideology is a coherent system of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions.
- An ideology is a set of ideas that constitute one's goals, expectations, and actions.
- Ruling class-interests determine the superstructure and the nature of the justifying ideology—actions feasible because the ruling class control the means of production.
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- Social norms are the explicit or implicit rules specifying what behaviors are acceptable within a society or group.
- Social norms are the explicit or implicit rules specifying acceptable behaviors within a society or group.
- Deference to social norms maintains one's acceptance and popularity within a particular group.
- One form of norm adoption is the formal method, where norms are written down and formally adopted (e.g., laws, legislation, club rules).
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- Karl Marx argued that the rich and powerful have control over the means of production, which is economic power, and they also have great influence on government power, including the rules governments follow, the people who work for the government, and the laws governments make.
- One belief system that people commonly embrace--mistakenly, according to contemporary economic research-- is that the rich and powerful are more talented, hardworking, and intellectually superior and thus more deserving.
- Working-class students participate in informal play, visiting family, and ‘hanging out. ' Socialization brings the acceptance of a culture that justifies inequality, and it normally brings an acceptance of one's relative position in the system of inequality.
- Inequality and poverty didn't just drop down from the sky, like an apple does from a tree.