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    For the Functionalistseducation performs a positive function for all individuals in society and has a powerful influence over it. The education system serves the needs of an industrial society by providing a more advanced division of labour; socialising new generations into societies shared norms and values and‚ according to meritocratic criteria‚ allocates roles in. Education supposedly meets societies through three related economic roles; socialisation; allocation and vocational training.

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    The four main rules of CPTED are natural surveillance‚ natural access control‚ territorial reinforcement‚ and maintenance and management. These rules classify all CPTED behavior into four categories that are easy to understand and follow. The first one is I think the most important‚ natural surveillance. Natural surveillance would be cases in which areas can be kept guard in a sense by people going about their daily business. For example a mall is highly protected by all of the people in it. If a

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    That is why chemists use some sort of classification in which each substance would fit into their discrete groupings. Chemist use bonding types‚ electrical conductivity‚ melting and boiling point and physical properties to classify substances into four main groups‚ which are: • Metallic substances • Ionic compounds • Covalent molecular and; • Covalent network substances Metallic substances are substances that are made up of one or more metal. They have regular 3D lattice of positively

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    society as a whole. Positivists stress greater importance on society rather than solely focussing on the individual within as society influences individual human behaviour. This has resulted in a variation of different social structures e.g. family‚ education system and religion. Positivists believe the collection of data should be collected objectively and categorised. Data should be expressed in numerical form‚ e.g. percentages‚ statistics‚ questionnaires etc. This means that it can be quantified

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    Topic: The conflict perspective views society less as a cohesive system and more as an arena of conflict and power struggles. Compare and contrast the main tenet of the Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives. Over the years‚ sociologist has put forward their views when it came to defining‚ studding and understanding society. Society can be defined as a group or unit of people living in a geographical area‚ sharing a similar background and/or culture. In sociological term‚ a society is any group

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    Assess the claim that the main function of education is to maintain a value consensus in society. Through education social solidarity is promoted; this is when individual members feel like they are part of the community. According to Durkheim without social solidarity cooperation would be impossible and every individual would go out and pursue selfish desires. The education system helps to promote/create social solidarity by transmitting ‘society’s culture’ of shared norms and values passed down

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    structure and function of four specialised human cells. The human body is made up of trillions of different cells; all play a huge role in the running and function of the body. They are the foundation of all living things. Each different cell has its own exclusive job. Without cells the human body would simply fail. All cells contain organelles which are the structures of the cells itself‚ organelles have individual functions. This essay will investigate the structure and function of four cells and

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    Management Four Functions Rosa L. Flores University of Phoenix Management: Theory‚ Practice‚ and Application/ Mgt 330 Kennett Baca December 20‚ 2008 Management Four Functions This paper will define the four basic functions of management; planning‚ organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling. This paper will also describe how these were applied in my worksplace. Management definitively has more functions than just the four mentioned above. The four that will be discussed in this paper are the four basic

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    The four main rules of CPTED are natural surveillance‚ natural access control‚ territorial reinforcement‚ and maintenance and management. These rules classify all CPTED behavior into four categories that are easy to understand and follow. The first one is I think the most important‚ natural surveillance. Natural surveillance would be cases in which areas can be kept guard in a sense by people going about their daily business. For example a mall is highly protected by all of the people in it. If a

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    There are four main perspectives in psychology. These are known as; behaviourism‚ humanism‚ psychodynamic and cognitive. Each of them explain some aspects of human behaviour well‚ but one perspective cannot explain all human behaviour. Behaviourism is primarily concerned with observable behaviour; the behaviour which can be watched and seen by others. It does not focus on any internal events‚ such as thinking‚ memory or the mind. It suggests that all behaviours are the result of some sort of stimulus

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