Source A
Digital technologies have created many new products which have been adopted widely. A recent study has suggested that digital social communication is having a significant impact on our lives. Our social networks are being extended and we are reaching a much wider range of people. This seems to be giving more power to ordinary people to both create and receive different types of communication, from sharing events to distributing music. In addition we are building new digital communities that bring people together from many different social backgrounds and cultures. This may be reducing social inequality by breaking down the barriers between people. |
Source B
Who needs social media and mobile phones? I just don’t agree with those people who say that digital technology and social media create better relationships, keep us in touch with family and friends, and help us to be safer. If they do promote better relationships, why do young people’s conversations rarely go beyond a few sentences? What is the impact on relationships when talking to someone else is interrupted by a call that ‘cannot be missed’? Where is the real social interaction between people face-to face? And what about cyber bullying and stalking? We are losing the ability to relate to one another properly. |
Defining Globalisation
THE OPTIMISTS AND PESSIMISTS VIEW OF GLOBALISATION
Marxism and Globalisation
Postmodernism and Globalisation
Analysis and critique by Anthony Giddens
Globalisation and Employment
globalisation_and_employment.pptx | |
File Size: | 96 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Globalisation and Women
globalisation_and_women_presentation.pptx | |
File Size: | 648 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Eliminating the Human
John Pilger - The New Rulers of the World
'The New Rulers Of The World (2001) analyses the new global economy and reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater - two thirds of the world's children live in poverty - and the gulf is widening like never before.
The film turns the spotlight on the new rulers of the world - the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them such as the IMF, the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation under whose rules millions of people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood.
The West, explains Pilger, has increased its stranglehold on poor countries by using the might of these powerful financial institutions to control their economies. "A small group of powerful individuals are now richer than most of the population of Africa," he says, "just 200 giant corporations dominate a quarter of the world’s economic activity. General Motors is now bigger than Denmark. Ford is bigger than South Africa. Enormously rich men like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa. Golfer Tiger Woods was paid more to promote Nike than the entire workforce making the company’s products in Indonesia received."
To examine the true effects of globalisation, Pilger travels to Indonesia - a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalised economy collapsed in 1998 - where high-street brands such as Nike, Adidas, Gap and Reebok are mass produced by cheap labour in 'sweatshops' and sold for up to 250 times the amount received by workers.
He films secretly in one of the biggest sweatshops in the capital, Jakarta. Over footage of hundreds of mostly women and children in the camp, with its open sewers and unsafe water, Pilger reports that workers are paid the equivalent of 72p a day - about one American dollar - which is the legal minimum wage in Indonesia but acknowledged by that country’s own government as only just over half a living wage. Many children there were undernourished and prone to disease. While filming, Pilger himself caught dengue fever.
He also recounts the previously untold story of how globalisation in Asia had begun in Indonesia and how Western politicians and businessmen sponsored the dictator General Suharto, who brutally seized power in the mid-1960s. "The great sweatshops and banks and luxury hotels in Indonesia were built on the mass murder of as many as one million people, an episode the West would prefer to forget," he reveals. "Within a year of the bloodbath, Indonesia’s economy was effectively redesigned in America, giving the West access to vast mineral wealth, markets and cheap labour - what President Nixon called the greatest prize in Asia."
'The New Rulers Of The World' is a collision of two of Pilger’s continuing themes - imperialism and the injustice of poverty. It observes the parallel between modern-day globalisation and old-world imperialism. "There’s no difference between the quite ruthless intervention of international capital into foreign markets these days than there was in the old days, when they were backed up by gunboats," says Pilger. "Much of my global view has come over years of seeing how imperialism works and how the world is divided between the rich, who get richer, and the poor, who get poorer, and the rich get richer on the backs of the poor. That division hasn’t changed for about 500 years, but there are new, deceptive ways of shoring it up and ensuring that most of the world’s resources are concentrated in as few hands as possible. What is different today is there is a worldwide movement that understands this deception and is gaining strength, especially among the young, many of whom are far better educated about the chameleon nature of capitalism than those in the 1960s. Moreover, if the intensity of Establishment propaganda is a guide, at times bordering on institutional panic, then the new movement is already succeeding."
The New Rulers Of The World was a Carlton Television production for ITV first broadcast on ITV1, 18 July 2001. Director: Alan Lowery. Producer: John Pilger. Associate Producers: Chris Martin and Laurelle Keough.
Awards: Gran Prix Leonardo Award, 2003; Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Television Awards, 2003.
The film turns the spotlight on the new rulers of the world - the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them such as the IMF, the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation under whose rules millions of people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood.
The West, explains Pilger, has increased its stranglehold on poor countries by using the might of these powerful financial institutions to control their economies. "A small group of powerful individuals are now richer than most of the population of Africa," he says, "just 200 giant corporations dominate a quarter of the world’s economic activity. General Motors is now bigger than Denmark. Ford is bigger than South Africa. Enormously rich men like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa. Golfer Tiger Woods was paid more to promote Nike than the entire workforce making the company’s products in Indonesia received."
To examine the true effects of globalisation, Pilger travels to Indonesia - a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalised economy collapsed in 1998 - where high-street brands such as Nike, Adidas, Gap and Reebok are mass produced by cheap labour in 'sweatshops' and sold for up to 250 times the amount received by workers.
He films secretly in one of the biggest sweatshops in the capital, Jakarta. Over footage of hundreds of mostly women and children in the camp, with its open sewers and unsafe water, Pilger reports that workers are paid the equivalent of 72p a day - about one American dollar - which is the legal minimum wage in Indonesia but acknowledged by that country’s own government as only just over half a living wage. Many children there were undernourished and prone to disease. While filming, Pilger himself caught dengue fever.
He also recounts the previously untold story of how globalisation in Asia had begun in Indonesia and how Western politicians and businessmen sponsored the dictator General Suharto, who brutally seized power in the mid-1960s. "The great sweatshops and banks and luxury hotels in Indonesia were built on the mass murder of as many as one million people, an episode the West would prefer to forget," he reveals. "Within a year of the bloodbath, Indonesia’s economy was effectively redesigned in America, giving the West access to vast mineral wealth, markets and cheap labour - what President Nixon called the greatest prize in Asia."
'The New Rulers Of The World' is a collision of two of Pilger’s continuing themes - imperialism and the injustice of poverty. It observes the parallel between modern-day globalisation and old-world imperialism. "There’s no difference between the quite ruthless intervention of international capital into foreign markets these days than there was in the old days, when they were backed up by gunboats," says Pilger. "Much of my global view has come over years of seeing how imperialism works and how the world is divided between the rich, who get richer, and the poor, who get poorer, and the rich get richer on the backs of the poor. That division hasn’t changed for about 500 years, but there are new, deceptive ways of shoring it up and ensuring that most of the world’s resources are concentrated in as few hands as possible. What is different today is there is a worldwide movement that understands this deception and is gaining strength, especially among the young, many of whom are far better educated about the chameleon nature of capitalism than those in the 1960s. Moreover, if the intensity of Establishment propaganda is a guide, at times bordering on institutional panic, then the new movement is already succeeding."
The New Rulers Of The World was a Carlton Television production for ITV first broadcast on ITV1, 18 July 2001. Director: Alan Lowery. Producer: John Pilger. Associate Producers: Chris Martin and Laurelle Keough.
Awards: Gran Prix Leonardo Award, 2003; Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Television Awards, 2003.
1. With reference to the Sources, explain how social media might extend social networks. [9]
2. With reference to the Sources, to what extent has digital social communication weakened social relationships? [10]
3. ‘Digital social communication has reduced social inequality.’ Evaluate this point of view. [16]
2. With reference to the Sources, to what extent has digital social communication weakened social relationships? [10]
3. ‘Digital social communication has reduced social inequality.’ Evaluate this point of view. [16]
CRIME AND DEVIANCE
Advice, Guidance and Practice Opportunities to successfully achieve this Unit
HOW ARE CRIME AND DEVIANCE DEFINED AND MEASURED?
Measuring crime is an inexact science, but the two most widely accepted systems in England and Wales - the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime - suggest a levelling off of overall crime after a peak in the mid-1990s. The 2006/7 BCS report suggests more than half of all offences involved gain or attempted gain, such as burglaries, theft and attempted theft. Vehicle-related thefts have fallen by 61% since 1995. Violent incidents represent more than one-fifth of all crimes measured, although the figure has fallen 41% since the 1995 peak. The 2007 survey estimated that 24% of all households were victims of crime at least once in the previous year. Yet, despite a general fall in crime levels, perception of crime remains high - 65% of adults in England and Wales believed there was now more crime. Patterns of Crime. Please click.
Homework 25
Q. Outline and evaluate why the public consider crime rates to be higher than the official crime statistics.
Homework 26
Q. Outline and evaluate the view that crime and deviance are socially constructed.
WHAT ARE THE PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN CRIME?
Homework 27
Q. Outline and evaluate the view that a person's ethnic background affects whether they are likely to be prosecuted. |
Homework 28
Q. Outline and evaluate the view that young, black males are the most likely to be responsible for committing crime in the UK. |
HOW CAN CRIME AND DEVIANCE BE EXPLAINED?
England rioters 'poorer, younger, less educated' (click me)
Applying Theory to Crime: Sex Crime
Homework 29
Q. Outline and evaluate Marxist explanations of crime and deviance. (40)
Homework 30
Q. Outline and evaluate the Left and Right Realist explanations of crime (40)
HOW CAN CRIME AND DEVIANCE BE REDUCED?
|
Imprisonment For Not Paying TV License Fee
|
Homework 31
Q. Outline and evaluate Feminist explanations for the relationship between gender and victimisation. (40)
Children and Young People as Victims (please click)
Homework 32
Q. Outline and evaluate sociological explanations of the over representation of young males as victims of crime. (40)
The Role of Agents of Social Control in the Construction of Crime and Deviance
Labelling Theory AND Moral Panics
the_social_construction_of_crime_and_deviance..ppt | |
File Size: | 1122 kb |
File Type: | ppt |
folk_devils_and_moral_panics_-.ppt | |
File Size: | 1498 kb |
File Type: | ppt |
Homework 33
Q. Outline and evaluate the role of the Mass Media in the social construction of crime and deviance. (40)
Homework 34
Q. Outline and evaluate the role of the police and courts in the social construction of crime and deviance. (40)
Solutions to the Problem of Crime
An introduction to restorative justice and the services of Restorative Solutions
The Home Office Link
Prison Reform Trust
The Home Office Link
Prison Reform Trust