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two parents working white collar jobs; my mom a dental hygienist and my dad a mechanical engineer for Verizon Wireless. I went to a public, regional high school with enough funding to not only offer art and music class, but to offer sub categories of art and music, such as mechanical drawing and various different band classes. It is safe to say the teachers working there didn’t have “poor salaries” and the students who attended, including me, graduated with white collar brilliance. But while I…

Many people believe that you are a product of your environment, and that you don’t have any choices in what you believe or the paths that you take in life. I believe that you make your own choices in life, and can really be successful in any situation if you set your mind to it. You are your own person, and can make your own decisions. Throughout the readings you can see this over and over again. In “Don’t Blame the Eater” you see a young man make positive choices in his life after being dealt a…

of working a white collar job verses a blue collar job to how society see and judges desk work verse a more manual style job. Our mainstream culture tends to define a blue-collar job such as a plumber or mechanic as less intellectual and less prosperous in comparison to a white collar. Society is incline to view blue collar work as a last resort for people who weren’t fit for the more academic world, that a “successful” career in the modern era is your traditional white collar…

Gottfredson introduces to the idea of what white-collar crime is by analyzing it and then uses a theory, in which they can apply to both white-collar crime and normal crime, to try and explain the causes of white-collar crime. They outline a general theory in which they are able to understand and organize crime in general and white-collar crime at the same time. The authors use this theory to enable the ability to compare and contrast between white-collar crime and any other crime, but…

Symbolic Interactionalism would be the best choice of theory to analyze the increase in white collar crime in an area. Because this theory is built around a central idea that people are active in creating their lives, using this approach would allow me to understand the contributing factors which might be causing a rise in white collar crime. Some of the contributing factors affecting an individual are the smaller groups which an individual learns the behavior, acceptance of deviant behavior…

As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, white collar offenders have a much easier time dodging punishment with their crimes. The rich preserve power and live much better lives than the poor. It is pretty clear the power inequality affects not only a person’s life, but others around them as well. The types of deviant activities we like to be engaged in are affected by power inequality (Barak 2000). Profitable crimes, such as corporate crime, are more likely to be perpetrated by the rich…

a well off journalist to become a low- wage worker. Throughout her experience she comes to realize it is much tougher to maintain herself with minimum wage, than she thought it would be. At first she doesn’t see herself the same as the other blue collar workers but then realizes she has become exactly like them. Although Barbara Ehrenreich begins her journey as a low-wage worker with advantages, such as the $1,300 in her pocket, she ends up with similar struggles as her co-workers such as being…

long-term use of rigid cervical collars in the EMS professional, both descriptive and historical findings will be used. With such a wide array of knowledge and studies completed pertaining to the use of rigid cervical collars some deciphering is needed to determine the efficacy of their use. With many research topics the data available is often split and potentially biased towards a given opinion without much backing. In the case the research presented on rigid cervical collars there is a…

in life is to build an education. To figure out what career we want to pursue. The texts by Sherman Alexie, Mike Rose, and Richard Rodriguez have all discussed how their background has influenced their education and upbringing to adulthood. “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose highlights how society determines the intelligence of workers based on their job or career. In Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood,” his education and childhood was affected by his culture.…

underpaid or made to feel unappreciated contributes to feeling of resentment (Cressey, 1973). White-collar crime, complex in nature. With no single theory or explanation can comprehensively explain all forms or instances of white-collar crime. Relativism, defines White collar crime and its role within the judicial system response to crime (Cressey, 1973). Determinism, identify the cause of white collar crime which also leads to better prevention strategies. Objectivity, required in order to…