English - "Looting in London" tasks

1. Looting is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as during a war. Rioting is a wild or turbulent disturbance created by a large number of people.


2. Definition of these words:

• Social exclusion -  Social disadvantage
• Disregard - To pay no attention to, or ignore
• Social norms - Acceptable behaviors within for example a society
• High unemployment - A large part of the society has no jobs, or hasn't been working for the last four weeks 
• Criminologist - Someone that studies what causes criminal behaviors
• Opportunism - Taking advantage in situations for your own good, not regarding for principles. 
• Consumerism - A social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever great amounts

3.  These things can happen all over the world because there's unemploment everywhere. I think it could have occured here aswell, but to a certain degree. The english youngsters are more known for their bad behavior than the norwegians. Anyways, there's always people everywhere you go that will take advantage of those type of situations, so I think that it could have happened here too. 


4. 

• I think it signifies how bad the social and economic conditions in England are. They need to change it so people will have fewer reasons to implement these actions. 
• This is definitely a cause of the class system because it gives the people that are born into higher class a greater advantage. It also gives the lower class people a hard time to get decent jobs, or even a job. 

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