. Functionalism Functionalists see shared norms and values as being fundamental to society. They focus on social order based on understood agreements and view social change as occurring in a slow and orderly fashion. Their primary concern is with large-scale social structures and institutions of society‚ their interrelationships and their constraining effects on actors. Functionalism assumes that society is a system whose various sections work together to encourage balance. It assumes that all
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An Academic Discipline‚ or field of study‚ is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researches at the college or university level. Fields of study usually have several sub-disciplines or branches‚ and the distinguishing lines between these are often both arbitrary and ambiguous. Academic Disciplines are used and taught in our everyday life. Humanities‚ Natural Sciences‚ Psychology‚ Social Sciences‚ Communications and Technology are six disciplines that we encounter daily and continue to learn
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‘’Children require only culture to become fully human‚ genes mean nothing’’. How far do you agree with this statement?. Culture is a certain type of civilisation of shared meanings‚ norms‚ values and roles of a society or group of a certain race or nation. Culture is in support of the nurture side of the nature-nurture argument. The nurture side of the debate states that people are influenced with how they dress‚ to even their actions by the surroundings they are brought up in as well as the people
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Socialization and Personality SOCIALIZATION - is the process of fitting humans to the social group or society. Biological Foundation of Socialization * Brain‚ nervous system‚ vision sensation‚ facial muscles‚ a tongue and a voice box. Basic objective of socialization 1. Is to fit the person to his soial & cultural environment through learning. 2. To learn the basic norms of the society. 3. to agree with the basic values‚ beliefs & share similar attitudes considered acceptable
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Using material from item 2B and elsewhere assess different sociological explanations of changes in the status of childhood. (24 marks) Childhood is socially constructed‚ the only reason that ’childhood’ exists is because society makes it that way. Over time childhood has changed as different norms and values over each century of life have been different and are still changing today. Also in different places of the world there are different cultures and ethics so therefore their view of childhood
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Assess sociological explanations for inequalities between husband and wives Domestic division of labour is referred to the roles that both men and women play in comparison to housework. There are 2 types of roles called conjugal roles and joint roles. Conjugal roles are where partners have different tasks within the family so there is a clear division of male and female roles. However joint roles is where partners share their roles so there is few divisions in the family making the household more
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About the Inquiry Process The Leveson Inquiry into the culture‚ practices and ethics of the press was aproached in four Modules. These are: •Module 1: The relationship between the press and the public and looks at phone-hacking and other potentially illegal behaviour. •Module 2: The relationships between the press and police and the extent to which that has operated in the public interest. •Module 3: The relationship between press and politicians. •Module 4: Recommendations for a
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(i) Some Class Definitions Gender(s) of worker Commodity Offered Dominant Quality 1. Prostitution is a transaction between the prostitute and the "client" whereby the prostitute performs sexually-related favours to their client and receives payment for doing so. - Woman - Man - One’s service - Absence of negative evaluation 2. Women who have either no other way to earn money who will turn towards a pimp‚ or work on her own‚ and walk around streets‚ trying to find clients who will pay for
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CRITICAL READING 1) Describe the differences and similarities in texts. A) The two different texts are similar in the fact that the two people in the texts are crossing over water but different in how they are crossing. One is in a boat on the water and the other is in an armchair with helium filled balloons attached to it so he can fly above the water. Source 2 – ‘Up‚ up and away- the day that armchair travel really took off’ is a light hearted read of a man that had planned to do something
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Week 2 Quiz Soc 1 WEEK 2 Quiz 25 questions on this quiz ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1: The totality of learned‚ socially transmitted customs‚ knowledge‚ material objects‚ and behavior is known as culture. society. socialization. social structure. 2: Which of the following is an aspect of culture? using American Sign Language watching the Super Bowl game eating in fast-food restaurants all of these 3: General customs and practices that are found
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