Group processes

Institutional racism is defined as racism that is ingrained into the procedures and practices of schools that cause disadvantage and discrimination for ethnic minority groups. There is evidence that there is differential achievement in terms of ethnicity. This is evidenced by 79% of Chinese students achieving 5A*-C GCSE grades (including English and Maths) and 74% of Indian students achieving 5A*-C GCSE grades (including English and Maths). This compares significantly to 60% of Bangladeshi…

around people of their own ethnic group. This is due to the perception that visible minorities are competing with native-born Canadians for economic resources and cultural dominance. Sidanius, Pratto, van Laar, and Levin (2004) displayed that group-based oppression is driven by institutional and individual discrimination. That is to say that many social institutions and powerful individuals associate desired qualities such as wealth and prestige to dominant groups, and less desired qualities…

Hugh Seton-Watson divides nations into two categorized on the basis of their formation process; old continuous and new nations, which he believes is more relevant distinction than historical and unhistorical typologies. The old continuous nations, France and Britain for instance, are those which developed national identity or national consciousness before the formulation of the doctrine of nationalism. They date back to the 1600s before the French Revolution. The old nations emerged through…

define and adequately satisfy the needs of their young consumers. The only way to accurately outline what the target audience viewed as valuable was to probe them; Lego achieved this by opening its comment, recommendation, improvement and innovation processes to its customer base and effectively handing over the role of Creative Director to thousands of devotees around the globe. In an industry largely focused on low-cost, mass production, Knudstorp identified a gap in the market – customization…

Female university students attitudes towards physical exercise and their exercise habits. (1. Survey to assess what forms if any of physical exercise they are completing, how often? 2. focus groups to assess why they do or do not exercise and their attitudes in general to physical exercise.) In recent years the rate of female participation in exercise has increased as health issues have been raised (Park Sang et al, 2012: 99). Physical exercise has is an essential lifestyle element and has been…

describe the ancient Greeks and Romans. Even though Anderson’s “imagined communities” is not directly parallel in the ancient world, it is at least applicable as a way of getting at the constructed nature of identity in terms of defining “in” and “out” groups. [MAYBE MOVE TO THE CHAPTER WITH ANTHONY…

component to conversations on prejudice. The contact hypothesis is the idea that when a person from one social group interacts with someone outside of their group, they are less likely to be…

This includes family income, parent’s education, home environment, health, etc. ii) School Resources (R): This includes per-student spending, student/teacher ratio, class size, quality of classroom teacher, educational equipment. iii) Instructional Processes (I): Includes type of curriculum. iv) Neighborhood Characteristics (N): Includes the crime rate of student’s neighborhood, if they have any after-school activities. v) Peer Influences (P): Includes those of classmates, club members, team…

I will do this be looking at some minority groups and observing their lack of involvement or representation in organizations. Commonly we see fewer women than men being corporate heads of Fortune 500 companies. The article I found is by research team and is called Gender gap in the executive suite:…

that the Inner Ring can be good and bad. The Inner Ring is what people strive for. They want to be inside so they are not outside, but once inside they are still not happy. Friendship is the key to any Inner Ring. Without friendship people are just a group wanting the same thing with no relationship with one another. I agree with Lewis on his account of the Inner Ring because I think that while we want to be inside, it will not get us anywhere better in life. Lewis talked about how once you get…