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    ventured into the U.S. It is popular among mostly millennials but can be cross-generational because of the different cohort groups that are represented in the show. The run down is that it’s a mockumentary about a mediocre paper company called Dunder Mifflin and the workers that cohabitate within. With Michael Scott being a kind, lenient yet socially unaware and naive branch manager also having an extremely wide variety of personalities coexisting in this primary social agent the episodes never fail

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    a character in the television show and faux documentary “The Office”. He is employed by a mid-size regional paper supply company named Dunder Mifflin. Michael is the manager of the Scranton branch, the most successful one in the company. Michael did not attend college, having lost all his tuition money in a pyramid scheme. Michael got his job at Dunder Mifflin by following an attractive woman to the office park and leaving with a job. He rose to his manager position by being one of the best salesman

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    The Office was an NBC Mockumentary that for nine years followed the day-to-day operations of a mid range paper supply company called Dunder Mifflin. The office manager was an eccentric, at times wildly misunderstood man named Michael Scott. Throughout his time as office manager, Michael led his employees through the gamut of human emotions. In some situations, in the real world, many of the situations that Michael found himself in may have ended with him on the receiving end of a lawsuit. Michael

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    The Office is a comedic mockumentary that takes place in Scranton, Pennsylvania and focuses on the lives of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. employees over the course of nine years. It has many characters, but mainly centers around Michael Scott, the regional manager, Dwight Schrute, Jim Halpert (both salesman) and Pam Beesly, the receptionist. Over its nine seasons, the show has displayed many sociological concepts, but has the most examples of deviance, sex and gender, socialization and social

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    human natural.” Kevin sums up the gist of the television series, The Office, in the final episode. The series is filmed like a documentary and follows a cast of dynamic characters through everyday life working at a fictional paper company called Dunder Mifflin. Two of the quirkiest characters in the show are Michael Scott, the regional manager, and Dwight Schrute, a paper salesman. At first glance, these characters seem to share nothing in common; however, when taking a closer look, Dwight and Michael

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    The Office episode “The Convict” incorporates multiple concepts learned in social psychology such as schemas and naive realism, stereotype threats and the perseverance effect. In this episode specifically, the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company absorbs new employees from a Stanford branch that has closed down. The accounting department notices they have received a check and aren’t sure where it came from so they schedule a conference call with Michael, who is the branch manager,

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    healthcare environment is not a simple process. There are many issues and concerns that will need to be considered, not only the positive adoption by the users of the system, but also ensuring that a new system will positively impact the future of the Mifflin-Dunder Regional Hospital. Often businesses struggle to align their imposed BI system with their business objectives, and results in a system that is unable to meet business needs (Panian 2006). It is imperative that all stakeholders and end users of

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    Sexism In The Office

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    The Office is an American television comedy on Netflix that is about the lives of employees that sell paper for a company called Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The show is a hit with a lot of different age groups and happens to be a parody off of a British television show. Each employee has a very different personality which adds great depth and comedic elements to each episode. Something I enjoy a lot about the show is the fact that, though there are a lot of characters, each one is equally

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    little difficult for the others to work with, played by Steve Carell. The Regional Manager is very childish and selfish, but deep down he is a really kind-hearted fellow, and he is the Manager of the ‘Scranton Branch’ for the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. He thinks as Dunder Mifflin as his family though the others may not see him that way, and that’s what makes the “ Michael Scott” character likable and tolerable to

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    Satire In The Office

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    the hazards of societal norms that reinforce stigmatic ideals. This particular show follows salesmen’s lives around the workplace in a dying work field of a small town. Michael Gary Scott, regional manager of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. On the surface, he’s a two-dimensional imbecile; bigoted, sexist, and culturally shallow. Michael outs a homosexual employee, holds a meeting on the Karma Sutra, and makes “that’s what she said” jokes during sexual harassment seminars

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