Room 611: Monday, March 11. 2024

Today's schedule is ABCD

A Block Criminology - Today we are going to the library to work on our next blog / journal entry. Below, you'll find a question on hyper-masculinity, male socialization, and sexual assault. I will need you to answer that question and then find a news story about a sexual assault. You will need to try to explain the motivation and roots of the behaviour of the assaulter in the story.

Explain how sexual behaviour could be socialized in males. Do you think that males who commit sexual assault are "hyper-masculine"? Why and where do men learn "hyper-masculine" behaviour?

The factors that predispose men to commit sexual assault include evolutionary factors, male socialization, psychological abnormality, and social learning. Most criminologists believe that rape is not sexually motivated. The evolutionary and biological factors of males suggest that sexual assault may be instinctual and developed over the ages in an effort to perpetuate the species. This notion holds that men who are sexually aggressive will have a reproductive edge over their more passive peers. Conversely, the male socialization view argues that men are socialized to be the aggressors and expect to be sexually active with many women. Sexual insecurity, then, may then lead some men to commit sexual assault to bolster their self-image. Hyper-masculine men typically have a callous sexual attitude and believe that violence is manly. Finally, another view is that men learn to commit sexual assaults as they learn any other behaviour.
Before you write your blog for the day PLEASE read this article: "The conversation you must have with your sons" AND this article "Why campuses are too often the scene of sex crimes" AND check out this TIME article Girls in the U.K. Report Being 'Fetishized' and Sexually Harassed in Their School Uniforms

Then, think about the media we are exposed to in youth...Check out the official Miss Representation website.

B Block Legal Studies - Today we'll watch the CBC documentary "The Fire Within" to see just one example of workplace harassment that women must face.

After I'll have you work on the following questions:

1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?

And don't forget...

Questions 1-4 on page 94:

1. Explain the difference between civil rights and human rights.

2. How do prejudice and stereotyping lead to discrimination?

3. Explain the difference between a complainant and a respondent.

4. What is the difference between intentional and unintentional discrimination?

Questions 4 & 5 from page 97:

4. Explain the concept of a poisoned work environment. Provide an example.

5. Explain the difference between accommodation and undue hardship.

AND Question 5 from page 104:

5. What types of remedies are available under human rights law?

C Block Human Geography - We'll finish our notes on Internal Migration. Then, we'll look at (and yep you've got a thing to do on it) urbanization, suburbanization, and counterurbanization (which is not the same as exurbanization where upper class city dwellers move out of cities, beyond the suburbs, to live in high-end housing in the countryside). During the last century, global populations have urbanized rapidly...globally 13% of people lived in urban environments in the year 1900, 29% of people lived in urban environments in the year 1950, and some projections suggest that, by 2030, the proportion of people globally living in cities may reach 60%.

In 2020, 81.5% of Canadians lived in an urban centre, compared to 45% in 1911 (Statistics Canada defines an urban area as community with 1,000 residents or more). Nearly three in four Canadians (73.7%) lived in one of Canada's large urban centres in 2021, up from 73.2% five years earlier.

Downtowns are growing fast, and more rapidly than before. From 2016 to 2021, the downtown populations of the large urban centres grew faster (+10.9%) than the urban centres as a whole (+6.1%). Overall, suburbs farthest from downtowns were generally growing at a faster pace (+8.8%) than the urban fringe (+3.7%) and suburbs closer to downtowns (+5.8%). Note: An urban fringe is located less than a 10 minute drive from downtown; A near suburb is located within 10 to 20 minutes from downtown; An intermediate suburb is located within 20 to 30 minutes from downtown and; A distant suburb is 30 minutes or more from downtown.

Urbanization tends to correlate positively with industrialization. With the promise of greater employment opportunities that come from industrialization, people from rural areas will go to cities in pursuit of greater economic rewards. Strong population growth in suburban municipalities located close to or in urban areas is frequently fuelled by an influx of young adults leaving the core of large urban areas to live on their own and often to start a family. Peripheral municipalities located close to central municipalities usually gain migrants from the central municipality, but at the same time, they also lose migrants to more distant suburbs. Ultimately, the rapid growth of more distant suburbs is the result of multiple nested migration patterns occurring as people relocate from the centre of large urban centres to the periphery. As well, other Canadians may be drawn to more distant suburbs by lower housing prices, greater availability of residential developments or a desire to live closer to nature. With the increased ability to telework and the less frequent need to commute, some may have chosen to relocate to more distant suburbs where housing can provide more space for less cost than in central municipalities.

D Block Physical Geography - I have the learning commons/library reserved for the class so that you may continue working on your Orting college development project. Ask yourself,

What is the greatest danger to Orting? Of all that could potentially happen at Mount Rainier what poses the greatest threat? Now ask yourself what triggers that threat? What causes it to happen? Last think about the statistical likelihood of that event happening. How likely is the event to occur in the next 5, 10, 100, or 1000 years?

Check out the risk analysis section of the COTF website for help here. I'll remind you that this assignment is due next Wednesday and it is crucial that you hand it in to me as we will be at the end of our unit. Maybe take a look at this article. Or the video "How dangerous are the Northwest's Volcanoes?"