Sociology of Education Unit 04 What patterns of achievement are there for students of different ethnicities? Learning targets: Different ethnic groups appear to have differing levels of achievement in school. Overall‚ the ethnicities of attainment are White‚ Chinese and Indian heritage students. There has been concern about the achievement levels of certain Black minorities: in particular‚ African Caribbeans and Bangladeshi students under-attain in schools
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Sociology of Migration “Discuss the treatment of asylum seekers living in Direct Provision Centres in Ireland.” Last year in Ireland‚ 2011‚ the number of applications for asylum seekers was just a mere 1‚250. This has been the lowest number recorded in ten years. Between the years of 1992 and 2007‚ the total number of applications was an astonishing 76‚513. These figures demonstrate the large number of asylum seekers on a quest for refuge in Ireland. This essay will demonstrate and describe
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w w w e tr .X m eP e ap UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level .c rs om 9699/11 May/June 2010 SOCIOLOGY Paper 1 Principles and Methods 1 Additional Materials: *0329046234* 1 hour 30 minutes Answer Booklet/Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on
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Aii. You arrange a mentor meeting to feed back to the social care worker. You have comments to make which include both praise and constructive criticism. Write notes to prepare for your meeting. In your notes‚ explain: a) Why it is important for a social care worker to seek feedback on performance. b) The different ways that people may react to receiving constructive feedback. c) Why it is important for a social care worker to use the feedback to improve their practise. It is important
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The Self The Self A system of thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviors that continue over time and events 1. Self-concept: how we think about ourselves 2. Self-esteem: how we feel about ourselves Self-Perception Theory If other sources of information are absent‚ we learn things about our self by observing our own behavior For example‚ how do you know if you are or were hungry? Imagined behaviors “Looking Glass” Self Reaction of others is an important
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one working class high school. * Both had college prep track and gen track * Blacks and students from blue collar fam less likely to be assigned to track. * Effects IQ‚ Past performance‚ Social class background. * Self-image - students stigmatized‚ embarrassed‚ disheartened‚ and lost faith in themselves. * “. . . you lose—something in you—just like it goes out of you. . . . I started losing faith in myself. . . .” * a student subculture that placed little
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Paradigms in sociology refer to an important structure concept and dynamics of a society. Paradigms are basic assumptions people make when trying to explain/understand a given social problem. It offers accuracy in describing the central concepts. There are two main basic assumptions that are used in society everyday. These paradigms we use today are Person Blaming and System Blaming. The reason behind these paradigms is the high amount of people who blame social problems on individuals‚ and
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Gevorg Petrosyan Professor Wonser Intro to Sociology 23 June 2012 Final Project‚ Assignment 2: Nazi Germany and Holocaust The Holocaust was the genocide of around six million European Jews during World War II. (Holocaust History) Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler had targeted every single Jew to be perished. Unfortunately Nazi Germany succeeded to murder two-thirds of the nine million Jews who were stationed in Europe. (Holocaust History) The Holocaust can be viewed at in many sociological
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Suzette Breitberg Assignment #3 REFLECTION ON WALDEN—SOLITUDE “I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree‚ whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which‚ owing to bodily weakness‚ his diseased imagination surrounded him‚ and which he believed to be real. So also‚ owing to bodily and mental health and strength‚ we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society‚ and come to know that we are never
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Sociology of the family. In this essay the sociology of the family will be discussed. In 1949 George Peter Murdock who was a functionalist studies a social structure. While looking at range of societies‚ almost 250 of them‚ ranging from hunting family’s to families of a larger scale. He believed that there was some form of family that appeared in every society and with the evidence that he gathered concluded that the family is universal. Murdock defined the family as follows‚ the family is a social
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