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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Modernity and the Individual

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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Modernity and the Individual

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Modernization brings changes in social character, personality patterns common to members of a particular society (543, Macionis). John Macionis states, "Members of traditional societies model their lives on those of their ancestors..." (543). The image below depicts how often times kids grow into being in gangs because it's all they know. They are always surrounded by older gang members not only in their community but many times in their household, so they believe it is alright to gain that identity.

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Social-Conflict Perspective: Modernity as Class Society

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Social-Conflict Perspective: Modernity as Class Society

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Class society is a a capitalist society with pronounced social stratification (541, Macionis). According to chapter 17, "This self-centeredness weakens the social ties that once united small
communities. Under capitalism, people are transformed into commodities: a source of labor and a market for capitalist products" (541, Macionis) This picture demonstrates all four levels being a different class, the man at the top has the most power because of his wealth, and as it goes down it depicts how much social inequality there is. You can see that people at the very bottom are portrayed as a source of labor.

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Socialist Courier: The Future Belongs to the People

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This GIF represents how hundreds have gathered to watch a specific artist perform. On page 529 it states, "One type of collective behavior is the crowd, which is a temporary gathering of people who share a common focus of attention and who influence one another." As shown in the GIF a crowd of people attended a music festival that they all share interest in.

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Structural-Functional Perspective: Modernity as a Mass Society

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Structural-Functional Perspective: Modernity as a Mass Society

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The face-to-face communication was eventually replaced by mass media: newspapers, radio, television, and the computer-based social media that link people through-out the world (540, Macionis). This image illustrates how people are trying to physically communicate but one doesn't care to because they have social media. The growth of mass media has motivated the nationwide culture to weaken social traditional roles.

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This editorial cartoon represents how richer nations feed off of poor nations to attain modernization. "Dependency theory asserts that rich nations achieved their modernization at the expense of poor ones, by taking their valuable natural resources and exploiting their human labor... Even today, the world’s poorest countries remain locked in a disadvantageous economic relationship with rich nations..." (547, Macionis). This quote connects with this picture since it clearly shows poor nations feeding rich nations their resources for successful outcome. The poor nations stay deprived, while rich nations are only gaining.

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This news article explains the case of Ahmaud Arbery and how hundreds of people gathered, demanding justice. Because of technology now, news outlets inform us more of whats going on and because of that people react quickly in the know of whats going on in the world. As stated on page 546 "postmodernity is also a postmaterialistic era in which issues such as social justice, the state of the natural environment, and ani-mal rights command more and more public attention." In this case since there was no actions being taken against the men responsible for the crime, hundreds gathered commanding more public attention.

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A protest around the Georgia Capitol building in Atlanta Wednesday demanded justice for Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old who was shot and killed on his jog in southeast Georgia by two men who say they thought he'd committed robberies in the neighborhood.

The death of Arbery has been characterized as a vigilante murder by activists, and gained national attention in the last few days, particularly after a video surfaced purporting to show the killing.
RELATED: Atlanta attorney calls for 'immediate arrest' in killing of jogger
11Alive has not independently verified the video, though it is part of law enforcement's official investigation.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups have said the shooting appears to have been racially motivated. Arbery was black and the men who pursued him, Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, are white.

Protesters on Wednesday morning in Atlanta said they wanted accountability in the case, which has been sent to three different district attorneys because the two nearest to the case recused themselves.

RELATED: Case of man killed while jogging could go to grand jury after public outcry
In the first instance, Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson recused herself because Gregory McMichael had once worked in her office. He is also a former Glynn County Police officer.

The Atlanta protesters said that fact, in particular, suggests why the McMichaels were never arrested, and why, only now - two months and two district attorneys later - is the case gaining traction.

"You have a confessed killing, you have a video, and that's the only thing left to do right now - is to make the arrest, to follow through with the charges. They had enough to make the arrest the day of, when they heard the guy was killed," one protester told 11Alive photojournalist Stephen Boissy. "He was jogging. He had committed no crime, he was making no crime against them personally. So it's really unbelievable that they didn't make an arrest at that time.

"It becomes believable when you understand the friendly relationship of this person with the department - he's a former police officer, former investigator for the DA, so it makes sense that they don't want to arrest their friend."

Protesters rounded the capital building, wearing masks and spacing out, with some of them jogging as Arbery had been.
RELATED: Mother seeks justice after son shot while jogging in Brunswick; pair involved in killing not arrested
The video at the center of developments was taken from a car behind Arbery, traveling along the same road he was jogging on.

In it, he gets near a white truck parked in the street before yelling can be heard, as the camera drifts out of focus. When it comes back onto the scene, a gunshot can be heard, then a second, then the man who has been identified as Arbery can be seen struggling with a man for what appears to be a shotgun, as the camera again drifts down.

When it pops back up, the other man is stepping back and the man believed to be Arbery stumbles forward and falls.

"On behalf of African American males and people of color who are profiled for no reason, going through a neighborhood ... who are looked at based on the suspicion of whatever implicit bias that somebody has, that are looked at as a threat, that's why I'm here," one protester told 11Alive. "To represent those individuals as my brother's keeper. It's not right what happened at all. And more needs to be said, more needs to be done immediately. And I'm not going to stand by and just not say anything and just be silent.

"It's Amaud Arbery today, but it could be any of us tomorrow."

The district attorney now handling the case, Atlantic Judicial Circuit DA Tom Durden, based an hour away from Brunswick in Hinesville, recommended this week the case be presented to a grand jury.
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Atlanta protest demands justice for Ahmaud Arbery

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A protest around the Georgia Capitol building in Atlanta Wednesday demanded justice for Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old who was shot and killed on his jog in southeast Georgia by two men who say they thought he'd committed robberies in the neighborhood.

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A contemporary example of social change happening anywhere in the world right now.

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A contemporary example of social change happening anywhere in the world right now.

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This article explains all things that will be changed in the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. John Macionis states, "even the things that seem constant are subject to the twists and turns of change" (527). We never expected that things would be the way they are now, like having to do most shopping online. Out of the blue we are told that we aren't allowed to go outside, we can't have gatherings, and we're told to stay six feet apart.

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Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.

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A crisis on this scale can reorder society in dramatic ways, for better or worse. Here are 34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come.