...Family ch Soc101 Instructor Miriane Portes January 22, 2014 The Social Institution of the Family Society is that complex social group of human beings that share an identity inhabiting active relationships and a unique culture. Those members of a society classify themselves through that society and work together with other members to ensure that the rules, generally agreed upon by all members to preside over how they relate to each other, are in place. Sociological perspectives are viewpoints from which we study and understand society. There are varied sociological perspectives available to social scientists for the purpose of study. What sociological perspective is used depends on the theories and purposes one needs for their study. I am going to show how functionalism, Conflict theory, and Social Interactionism can be used to study the social unit of the family Functionalism looks at the family as if it was one automatic unit with every member of the family having a role and a function affecting the whole. Take for example; the father who is traditionally head of the household who’s primary function is to provide for economical and financial needs for his wife and children. The wife who is supporter of the husband and nurture to the children, the children are dependent on their parents but also have an important role as well. These roles vary according to the age of the children and their stage in life. In the...
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...Sociological Perspective and conflict approach Sociological perspective can be defined as seeing the general in the particular. It can be also described as a frame that shapes how people behave in society or interacting with diversity people, and how we are categorized in various ways, such as children and adults, women and men, the rich and poor. Each of people is supposed to do different affairs in their lives as it matches them. And one of the sociological theories is called conflict approach, meaning that explains about inequality between such as women and men and black and white, so on. For instance, in the past of South Korea or other many of countries as well, there was intense inequality of between women and men in getting a job. Women used to be only in charge of doing house work, and they were not able to do anything else without permit from a head of family, which is why many of people still regard women to do more house work than men do. This representative example can be conflict approach in social perspective of how we look at women in our society. And although it seems to be non-changeable the society perspective, there are a lot of factors that changes the sociological perspective of how people behave in our society. Particularly, when it comes to recession, it seem to be more remarkable changes in the behavior of people life, For example, if it happened to come recession into country, it can also change of the social perspective that people become more pessimistic...
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... Answer: D Type: D 3. Sociology A. is the scientific study of social behavior and human groups. B. focuses primarily on how social relationships influence people’s behavior. C. focuses on how societies develop and change. D. all of these Answer: D Type: D 4. The awareness that allows people to comprehend the link between their immediate, personal social settings and the remote, impersonal social world is called A. the sociological imagination. B. anthropology. C. a theory. D. verstehen. Answer: A Type: D 5. ____________ is most closely associated with the concept of the sociological imagination. A. Émile Durkheim B. Max Weber C. Karl Marx D. C. Wright Mills Answer: D Type: S 6. A key element in the sociological imagination is the ability to view one’s own society A. from the perspective of personal experience. B. from the perspective of cultural biases. C. as an outsider. D. as an insider. Answer: C Type: I 7. A sociologist observing behavior at a college football game would probably focus on A. what books the coach of the team has read during the past year. B. a “fan” who has fallen asleep during...
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...of society. How does each approach view society, the individual, social order, and social change? Your textbook analyzes sports in terms of various perspectives. Using the analysis of sports as a model, analyze the role of television from the functional, conflict, and interactionist approaches. Sociologists analyze social phenomena at different levels and from different perspectives. From interpretations to sweeping generalizations of society and social behavior, sociologists study everything from specific events; the micro level of analysis of small social patterns, to the big picture; the macro level of analysis of large social patterns. Sociologists today use three theoretical perspectives: the interactionist perspective, the functionalist perspective, and the conflict perspective. These perspectives offer sociologists theoretical examples for explaining how society influences people, and vice versa. “While the functionalist and conflict approaches were initiated in Europe, interactionism developed first in the United States (p. 15).” Herbert Mead is credited as the founder of the interactionist perspective. The interactionist perspective, directs sociologists to consider the symbols and details of everyday life, what these symbols mean, and how people interact with each other. According to the interactionist perspective, people attach meanings to symbols, and then they act according to their subjective interpretation of these symbols. Verbal conversations, in which...
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...BTEC L3 Extended Diploma Health & Social Care 2014/15 |Name of unit |Assessor | |U7 Sociological Perspectives for Health and Social Care | | | |J Gurney | |Assignment title Assignment 2 |Verifier |Date | | |B. El-Fares |12/10/10 | |Date issued: 25th Nov 2014 | |Submission date 6th Jan 2015 | |Scenario | | ...
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...female as noted by Lindsey (2011). Another way in which a woman’s household roles impact her work outside of the home is when it comes to hiring and promotion. As noted by Lindsey (2011), married women with children are often considered a liability as employers feel that women will favor their family over the workplace when the corporate and family life juggling act occurs. This impacts women with children in the workplace as they can be seen as unreliable and less dedicated. This is unfortunate as many fathers have to struggle with work and family, but that fact doesn’t affect them in the same what that it does women. Lindsey, L. (2011). Global Perspectives of Gender. Gender Roles A Sociological Perspective (pp.272-301). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. Prentice Hall. 2. How does stereotyping related to the female gender role impede female managers as they perform their corporate roles and as they strive for upward mobility in those roles? Stereotyping directly affects female managers while performing in their corporate roles. Women, according to Lindsey (2011), are placed into two groups: women with a career and a family and those who only have a career. Women who have families are not held to the same expectations as female managers who do not. Businesses believe that their investment in the female managers is lost whenever...
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...Assess the relationship between sociology and social policy In order to understand the role of sociology in relation to social policy, it is important to firstly distinguish between social problems and sociological problems. According to Peter Worsley, a social problem is some piece of social behaviour that causes public friction and private misery and calls for collective action to solve it. According to Worsley, a sociological problem is “any pattern of relationships that calls for explanation.” In other words, it is any piece of behaviour that we wish to make sense of. However even when sociologists conduct research into social problems, there’s no guarantee that policy makers will study their findings, or that any solutions they propose will find their way into social policies. Many factors may affect whether or not sociological research succeeds in influencing policy. Some of these include electoral popularity, interest groups, globalisation and cost. Different sociological perspectives hold different views of the nature of the state and their social policy it produces. As a result, each perspective tends to take a different view of the role of sociology in relation to social policy. Early positivists such as Comte and Durkheim took the view that sociology was a science and would discover both the cause of social problems and scientifically based solutions to them. As such, their approach was part of the Enlightenment project to use science ad reason to improve society...
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...principle sociological perspectives. In this assignment I will be explaining some of the different sociological perspectives in today’s society. The sociological perspectives which I will be explaining will be Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism, and interactionism, Collectivism, Postmodernism and The New Right. The first perspective which I will be explaining will be Functionalism. Functionalism is the view that our society is based onagreed norms and values. A norm is social rules that define correct behaviour in society. An example of a norm can be an individual attending school until they are the age of 18. Values are what are important to an individual and this differs in class, culture, ethnicity and gender. An example of a value which is important to most of our society is going to school, going to church or volunteering. Functionalists see social structure or the organisation of society as more important than the individual itself. They say that people are born into society and become the product if all social influences around them because they’re socialised by different institutions such as family, education, media and religion. Sociologist Talcott Parsons sees society as a system that works together to keep things running smoothly just like the human body. Social consensus is a key belief of functionalism. It allows society to continue to progress because the theory believes that we have shared norms and values in society which we must follow. Another sociological perspective...
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...Sociologists aim to analyze how people live. To do this, they use sociological perspectives which help them “understand human behavior by placing it within its broader social context.” The three sociological perspectives sociologists utilize that I will be focusing on are symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and conflict theory. Symbolic interactionism is “a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another.” Functionalism is “a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society’s equilibrium.” And lastly, conflict theory...
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...1. 1.The Sociological perspective What is Sociology? Sociology is the scientific study of human society & social behavior. 2. What is Sociology? * It focuses primarily on the influence of social relationships upon people’s attitudes and behavior and on how societies are established and change. * The ultimate aim of sociology as summed up by Samuel Koenig is “ to improve man’s adjustment to life by developing objective knowledge concerning social phenomena which can be used to deal effectively with social problems.” 3. The Sociological Perspective * 1. The sociological perspective is important because it provides a different way of looking at familiar worlds. It allows us to gain a new vision of social life. * 2. This perspective stresses the broader social context of behavior by looking at individuals’ social location, employment, income, education, gender, age, and race –and by considering external influences –people’s experiences –which are internalized and become part of a person’s thinking and motivations. (cont…) 4. * We are able to see the links between what people do and the social settings that shape their behavior. * 3. The sociological perspective enables us to analyze and understand both the forces that contribute to the emergence and growth of the global village and our unique experiences in our own smaller corners of this village. 5. Subject Matter of Sociology * Sociological analysis:...
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...SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION * The American sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the term sociological imagination in 1959 to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology. * Mills defined sociological imagination as “...the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society.” * Mills is stating that sociological imagination is the ability to perceive situations and circumstances in a wide social context and observe how interactions and actions are influential upon other individuals and situations * The sociological imagination involves the understanding that social outcomes are shaped by social context, actors, culture, history and social actions. * Sociologists typically focus their studies on how people and society influence other people, because external, or social, forces shape most personal experiences. These social forces exist in the form of interpersonal relationships among family and friends, as well as among the people encountered in academic, religious, political, economic, and other types of social institutions. * The sociological imagination thus includes the understanding of the interconnections that inform the fabric of human societies. In other words, the things we do are shaped by the situation we are in, the values we have, the way people around us act, and how that all relates to some sort of outcome. * Sociologists look at events from a holistic, or multidimensional, perspective. Using...
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...Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Health and Social Care Unit 7: Sociological perspectives for health and social care P1- Explain the principle sociological perspectives Sociology is concerned with the way individuals and groups operate within society and the way in which groups interact with each other. There are different sociological perspectives which provide models of society. In this assignment I will be explaining the different sociological perspectives which provide different models of society. Functionalism Functionalism looks at social structures and the role they have in society. They believe that each social structure is essential for interests of society. For example, a flower has many parts, each part is essential to its wellbeing, without the vital parts the flower will not survive. Functionalism considers that humans and societies have basic needs, and institutions such as the family and education are seen in terms of the contribution they make to meet these needs and therefore society needs. According to Parsons he believed that order, stability and cooperation in society are based on value consensus- a general agreement by members of society concerning what is good and worthwhile. Parsons also argued that the stratification systems derive from common values. According to Murdock the family has four main functions; they are the sexual function allowed for the expression of sexuality in an approved context. The reproductive function provided stability for...
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...CHILDREN AND SEXUAL ABUSE Introduction There are several sociological and psychological issues that are pressing in society today. These lead to traumatic events among children and adults and result in those who are in society needing to recover in a specific manner. A continuing issue in society is sexual abuse among children. This particular problem is one, which has caused several levels of difficulty among those in society while making an impact with the need to respond with the aim of eliminating the trauma of sexual abuse. Defining the social and psychological terms of sexual abuse as well as understanding the societal structures that are a component of this provides more insight into the problem. As sexual abuse among children is understood, there is the ability to begin to eliminate the problem while creating new methods to help those that have experienced this traumatic event. Defining Sexual Abuse To understand sexual abuse among children, there is also the need to define the nature of the problem as well as the affiliations that are a part of this act. The nature of this problem is one, which is defined through sociological beliefs and associations with sexual activities. Sexual abuse is defined as any intimate activity, which relates to sexual activities. The definition implies that there is physical, emotional and behavioral links to sexuality that is performed by two or more individuals. In acts of sexual abuse, an individual is regarded as a perpetrator...
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...Technology and Social Change in Healthcare Today there are many technologies that have provided change in our social environments. For example, we have access to laptop/computers, the Internet, cell phones, and android pads. This is beneficial because we can use the Internet to obtain information almost instantly to assist in research and education as well as staying in communication with friends and family. I believe that every household should have access to these technologies but due to socioeconomic conditions that is not possible. I feel that the technology today has evolved from landline telephones and going to the library to being able to make calls anytime from anywhere and find information at the touch of our fingertips. The gap between social economic backgrounds needs to be closed so that everyone has the access to all technology. Influence of Technology on Social Change The Business Dictionary defines technology as “the purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organization of human activities.” In addition, they further breakdown the definition of technology into five categories “Tangible, Intangible, High, Intermediate, and Low.” Our life modes have been greatly changed over the years. A few examples include but not limited to education, government, healthcare and new communication inventions. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines Social Change “in sociology, the alteration of mechanisms...
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...Assignment Title:- How can we apply sociological perspectives in HSC? |STUDENT DECLARATION | |I understand the rules of plagiarism and I declare that the work produced for this assignment is my own. | | | |Student Signature ____________________________________Date_____________ | |Assignment Launch Date |Tuesday 3rd November 2011 | |Assignment Hand in Dates |Assignment 1 |2011 | | |Assignment 2 |2011 | | | | | | | |GRADING CRITERIA | |To achieve a pass grade you must show that you |To achieve a merit you must show that you are |To achieve a distinction you must show | |are able to: |able to: ...
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