Me, 1. describe the main characters of one television program that you watch. do you think the characters reflect the composition of society in terms of class, race, and gender? why or why not? 2. sociologists argue that sports often reflect gender, racial, and class inequality. do you agree or disagree with this? why? 3. do you think that gatekeeping is increasing or decreasing in society (in other words, are alternative messages more or less likely to be heard in today’s media)? why or why not?

1. One television show I like to watch is called Riverdale (a re-creation of the comic book series "Archie). This show definitely reflects some societies standards. The popular guy is a redhead, muscular, jock, white male who attracts sexualized females who come from wealthy homes. The minorities of the show are very few and overlooked. All the wealthy people, in fact, are WHITE individuals who have large old companies dating back years. ( think of Rockefeller, etc). 

2. Sports definitely do reflect gender, race, and class inequality in some aspects. For one, until very recently, many aggressive sports that were televised and popular were limited to white men. Slowly over the years, we learned of tiger woods, OJ Simpson, Michael Jordan but even then we lacked women in sports. Some people who were poor could not pursue their dreams of being in sports because they were busy trying to help support their families. And class, due to our history, always related to race. 

3. Gatekeeping is decreasing. Now we see a lot of encouragement for women to engage in science, tech, and engineering fields. Movies depict very successful women who contribute to our history with scientific discoveries. Girls do not have to play with dolls, they can do what boys do. This is all largely in part to dedicated women fighting to change society's values and finally make men and women equal in the eyes of all. Racial issues are slightly improving but as we see with our current political climate and police brutality, it can also be said that there is much more progress to be made in the sense minorities need to be depicted for what they are more often. Hard-working, contributing members of society rather than illegal criminals. 

 

Aunitary state is a form of state where power is concentrated and there is a single center of power that extends its actions throughout the territory of the respective state. this, through its agents and local authorities, delegates of that same central power, and in its majority; it can count on a single legislating apparatus; except for certain exceptions, which legislate for the entire country; a judicial power, which applies the current law to the entire territory of the state and within which a supreme court of justice is established, which has jurisdiction at the national level; a single executive power, that is conformed by all the governors (president, governors, mayors, etc.); and a single political constitution, which governs all the territory and to which all the authorities and inhabitants of the state are subject.a confederation (from the latin: confœderatĭo) consists of the union of states that retain their sovereignty and are governed by certain common laws. initially there was talk of "confederation" in the case of alliances, for this reason the word "confederation" is still used in non-governmental civil society institutions. for this reason, the term confederation is also used to describe any type of organization that combines the authority derived from other semi-autonomous entities. in this case, sports confederations can be cited as some examples. however, the word confederation takes much more relevance when it comes to some permanent alliance of states or some association or association of states.characteristics of a federal government system

  a) written constitution. also known as magna carta and a necessity of the democracies that form federations to regulate the principles by which the government will be governed, because if they had to act without a body of specific laws would produce confrontations.

b) territorial division. federalism is constituted by the division of powers on the geographical basis of each territory.

c) decentralization. in a federal system there is both a central government and units of government lower than the central one, each making decisions regarding the provision of certain public services in their respective geographical jurisdictions.

d) supreme court of justice. to counteract the rigidity of the written constitution, judicial action is required to interpret said constitution and necessary changes can be made.