White-collar crime

Proposed Research: Resilience and Positive Psychology My proposed research is a dual study, that will measure the effects of positive psychology protocols on participants that are in health crisis, and participants that are healthy in the workplace. I theorize that the development of a basic protocol can effectively prove beneficial in both applications. Whereas, the core components of the research are identical, the varying aspect is the content of the positive psychology intervention.…

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…

If you have an option, would you invest all the money that is put towards education or would you rather have a college degree with an enormous student loan debt? Do you think what you learn while attending college is going to help you have a certain skill that will be used often in your future career? In today’s society with the economic status being in a recession, companies will not hire someone who is not beneficial for their corporation. The companies base their hiring criteria on people’s…

motivated the author to write this article. She wrote this article because she felt like the decrease in jobs is happening at an alarming rate and not only for the blue-collar workers but now white collar unemployment is becoming a normal trend as she says “And while blue collar poverty has become numbingly routine, white collar unemployment and the poverty that often results remains a rude finger in the face of the American dream.” The author wrote this text because she felt that people are…

I chose to interview my aunt; she has been a teacher for about 15 years. She taught kindergarten for 11 years and 2nd grade for 4 years now. As many of you know being a teacher is a well-rounded job with multiple simple and yet difficult tasks. A teachers’ main responsibilities are to make sure the children are safe during school hours, while teaching the students the required material throughout the school year to prepare for the next grade. The reason behind why I chose my aunt to interview is…

success without a college degree. At least, that’s what Charles Murray in his article “Are Too Many People Going to College?”, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill in their article “Should Everyone Go to College?”, and Mike Rose in his article “Blue-Collar Brilliance” argue. They acknowledge that college has its benefits, but they also realize that it has some drawbacks. These authors believe that college promotes social inequality,…

Learning Gender Roles through Toys Gender roles, what is that? Well it is social and individual, they decide how guys and females ought to think, talk, dress, and cooperate inside the setting of society. Many people may not know this exist in the 21st century. Well in-fact it happens right in front of you every day, for example, babies being teached what to like and dislike, kids being influenced by television, adolescents following others, and adults following along what to do because of the…

Academics find it difficult to analyze corporate crime because large scale survey data is not available so researchers have to rely on non-objective crime statistics collected by ‘impartial’ government agencies such as StatsCan or the Home Office which usually yield tiny samples (Snider, 2005; pg 186). Corporations do not want sociologist investigating their business practises, unlike traditional offenders they have the ability to resist such incursions. On the other hand, the justice…

DiCaprio as the notorious Jordan Belfort. The wolf of Wall Street can be used as a visual to show the different topics we talked about in class. This movie is based off of Jordan Belfort a white collar criminal on the streets of long island. There are many instances where what we discussed in lecture/discussion. Crime is now a big seller at the movie theatre and I believe that it can have an impact on a youths mind. The wolf of Wall Street follows the rise of a young money driven stockbroker…

Mike Rose was and American teacher and writer. He has wrote eleven books in his life time; most of them focused on literacy and language, and he received several awards. In his passage, Blue-Collar Brilliance, Rose delivers his message excellently about the intelligence and skills of blue collar workers through stories, research, and his presentation on the topic. The first way Rose backs up his claim is through personally stories about his relatives. His first story describes his mother…