I am going to look at the Feminist point of view on Education and also‚ the Functionalist point of view on Education. Feminism There are many different types of feminists‚ there are Radical Feminists who are the most extreme in voicing their opinion about gender and the rights of women. There are Conservative Feminists‚ who adopt and appreciate the male need for a career and public achievement as female goals‚ thereby denying women ’s need for intimacy‚ family‚ and children. There are Liberal
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to different influences and circumstances‚ and so not everyone can be equally committed to the shared values and moral beliefs of society. Despite crime and deviance’s threat to society‚ Durkheim saw it as beneficial as it could perform positive functions in society‚ such as‚ firstly; By strengthening collective values. Values can waste away unless people are reminded of the boundaries between right and wrong behaviour. Secondly‚ by enabling social change. Some deviance is necessary to allow new ideas
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FUNCTIONS AND DYSFUNTIONS OF RELIGION 2 “A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things‚ that is to say‚ things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church‚ all those who adhere to them” –Durkheim (Henslin‚ 2009‚ p. 374). When sociologists do research on religion they’re goal is not to prove that one religion is better than another nor is it their goal to prove or disprove anyone’s faith
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Functions and Roles of Law in Business LAW/421 December 16‚ 2013 Jane Schneider Functions and Roles of Law in Business I believe that the functions and role of laws in businesses and society are very integrated and important. Laws are used in order to ensure that businesses don’t monopolize the market just as an example. Laws are also very important because they ensure that businesses treat their employee’s correctly‚ they are used to regulate the relationship between employees and the
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the functionalist view that religion benefits both society as a whole and its individual members. Functionalists believe that society is similar to a living organism and that all social institutions perform specific functions in order to help society function effectively. They believe that religion contributes to value consensus and social integration. For example Durkheim sees religion as a method for integrating individuals into a community by
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In its simplest form any religion may be seen as a belief system. This system may affect values‚ laws‚ customs‚ rites and general behaviour patterns. Religion may affect the individual‚ group‚ community or nation. It may play a peripheral or an integral role within society. Its structure may be as complex as any large organisational bureaucracy or as simple as a two-way relationship between a person and object/subject of worship. The function of religion in a society is often to explain to
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Religion has affected the human in many ways; rules‚ traditions‚ culture patterns‚ morality‚ etc. The most powerful and important role that religion plays is that how it controls the human. I believe that religion has created conflicts between people including whole countries. Religion has the societal effect of dividing people into "us" and "them". This unfortunately has the same characteristics as any other form of discrimination‚ such a as racialism. Then‚ it would come very easy to consider "us"
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Functionalists and Marxists do not agree that religion causes change within society. This is because they believe that religion acts as a conservative force within society. A conservative force means that religion prevents change within modern society. On the other hand feminists believe that religion does not act as a conservative force as it has helped to bring some changes within modern society‚ for example equal rights for women. Weber believes that religion is the force for change within society
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Functionalist are macro sociologist so they look at how education contributes to the whole of society. As they are consensus theorist they believe that education benefits society. The first functionalist sociologist is Durkheim ‚the founding farther. He said that education passes on the norms and values of society. They do this thought the teaching of history to give the children a sense of commitment as they can see that they are part of something much bigger than just themselves. This helps create
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Functionalist The functionalist perspective‚ also called functionalism‚ is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. It has its origins in the works of Emile Durkheim‚ who was especially interested in how social order is possible or how society remains relatively stable. Functionalism interprets each part of society in terms of how it contributes to the stability of the whole society. Society is more than the sum of its parts; rather‚ each part of society is functional for the stability
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