TASKS

What is the difference between looting and rioting?

Looting doesn’t involve physical violence.
Riots make people do that they wouldn’t normally do, like vandalism, stealing and so on.

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

Social exclusion: Someone is being left outside special groups, or an entire society.

Disregard social norms: When you don’t pay attention, or ignore norms in the society.


High- unemployed: People who don’t have a job.


Criminologist: A person who analyzes crime, and criminal behaviors, and tries to find an explanation why.


Opportunism: The conscious policy of taking selfish advantage of circumstances with little regards for principles.


Lack of intervention: The police didn’t strike immediately as they should


Consumerism: A social and economic order based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in great amounts.

Catalyst of unrest: The thing which were essential for these actions.

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

I don’t think this could happen here in Trondheim. In Norway there isn’t such high unemployment as in England. And people live under much better conditions here. So I think that Norwegians actually don’t have reasons to do that kind of things.

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

      It was mostly people from the working class who stole from shops, and breaking windows. I would say that this shows us that people from the working class are desperate. When so many people do things like these, it must have a reason.

There is almost an entire generation, who don’t have a job in England. So the riots were a kind of response to that. But of course, it is absolutely not ok to go this far.