Tasks from class

TASKS

·        - What is the difference between looting and rioting?

Looting is a less risky activity than rioting, because looting involves a wider range of people, like children, women and older people, so violence is mostly not involved in this.

·        - Define the underlined (blue) words and phrases. Also note down other words you find difficult, and find out what they mean.

Social exclusion: Rights that everyone should be available to, like health care and democratic participation, are sometimes not available to some groups/organizations/ethnic groups etc. These processes can be called social exclusion.

Disregard social norms: To “ignore” the social laws, which are the accepted behaviors within a certain group.

High-unemployment: A high amount of people that don’t have a job and income.

Criminologist: A scientist that specialize in criminology and how criminal people act like.

Opportunism: A conscious strategy or behavior where someone exploits the surroundings to their own good/advantage and doesn’t respect the ideal principles, the relationship between thinking and reality.

Lack of intervention: when someone doesn’t have the ability to try to reduce suffering within the society/group etc. through an armed conflict.

Consumerism: The interaction between individuals (the consumer) and the society in growth economy.

Catalyst of unrest: Making the unrest come faster than it should.

·       -  Could this happen in Trondheim? In Oslo? Why/why not?

It’s said in the article that the stealing and robbing were a reaction of high-unemployment and low-income families. Since Norway is such a wealthy country with good social security and low unemployment I don’t think something like this would happen in Norway. Norwegian people wouldn’t solve something with crime and stealing, they have other and better solutions. In Oslo, there are some bad environments/groups and neighborhoods where something likely may could happen, but also here people are much wealthier than in other countries, so anything that bad like what happened in Tottenham couldn’t happen.

·        - What can this say about the social conditions in England? How may this be connected to the traditional class system?

It comes to me that the social class system is still a reality in England, where the poorest people are the disadvantaged with a bad education, job etc. and the wealthiest are people with better education and childhood. England is still affected by the traditional class system, but in a little newer version.