FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.
PARIS, Jun 4 (IPS) - According to the French constitution, France has no minorities. French law makes it illegal to record citizens' ethnic origin or religion. But in the face of mounting discrimination, France recently introduced corrective institutions. However, the system is still in its infancy.
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By Rowan Wolf. The article below is additional information for age-based stratification.
Social Stratification by age is the most fundamental of stratification systems. One could argue that the way a society structures itself and its cultural ideology around age is indicative of how it constructs other forms of stratification. For example, one of the primary ways of "putting people in their place" is tone of voice. Higher status groups are generally talked to in a "respectful" tone of voice. Those with lower status are often "talked down" to - or talked to as if they were children. This early socialization into age status rules and roles are often reflected in the way other status group rules operate.
There are some things that capture to thought processes behind "Taker" culture.
The AMDRO Ant Block commercial is one. Go to AMDRO home page and listen to their commercial. (Ironically, the background music is "With You I am Born Again.")
Or this SUV commercial that was banned in Australia:
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Stereograms are 3D images hidden within another picture. In order to view the 3-D images. They are a picture within a picture. Gazing at the picture we see an image or picture. However, if we look just right, we see a totally different picture emerge. These types of images are also sometimes called "magic eye."
Here are a couple of links to examples:
Here is an online presentation on sociological perspectives to keep us moving through the school closure. Please forgive the rough spots. This is my first attempt at this type of presentation, and I am working at home on the fly.
This presentation discusses the differences and distinctive aspects of the major sociological perspectives. Total presentation time is slightly over 9 minutes.