SOCIOLOGY 210 WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION Sociology 210: Introduction to Sociology (section #’s 0008 and 0009; 3 credit hours) Fall 2011 Location of course: Online at https://dist-ed.waketech.edu/webapps/ login/ Instructor: Mara Fryar Office: Modular Unit (MOD) 120E **I am an adjunct instructor and do not hold regular office hours. Please email or call me to set up a time to meet in person if you wish. Phone: 919-795-3880 E-mail:
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Social policy refers to a government initiative, central or local, that aims to meet the welfare needs of the population. They govern many areas of social life such as educations and health and aim to address social problems such as racism and youth offending. Giddens (2001) states that there are four benefits to studying sociology which make up why it informs social policy. Firstly, sociological study can develop understanding of social situations both factually, allowing development of judgement
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Asses the strengths and limitations of unstructured interviews for the study of boys underachievement at school Unstructured interviews have advantages and disadvantages and as a qualitative method they are expressed through words and relay people’s thoughts, feelings and motivations. Unstructured interviews are interviews that don’t have certain questions meaning it’s more free and relaxed. They give us a deep understanding of the interviewee’s world because we can use the answers they give to
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Using material from item A and elsewhere, assess the view that crime and deviance are the product of labeling processes. Labelling theorists are interested in how and why certain acts come to be defined or labelled as criminal in the first place. They argue that no act is inherently criminal or deviant in itself. In other words, it is not the nature of the act that makes it deviant but the nature of society’s reaction to the act. For a sociologist such as Becker, a deviant is simply someone
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Using material from Item B and elsewhere assess the view that the process of globalisation has led to changes in both the amount of crime and the types of crime committed. (21 marks) Some sociologists define globalisation as an increasing interconnectedness in the world (Item B), such as Held et al. Manuel Castells argues that globalisation creates mew opportunities for crime, resulting in transnational organised crime. He argues that this new global criminal economy (worth over £1 trillion
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Assess view that cults, sects and New Age Movements are fringe organisations that are short lived and of little influence in society. Churches and denominations are generally seen as respectable, mainstream organisations, whereas cults, sects and NAM’s are seen as more deviant, which involve belief systems that are viewed as odd or bizarre. The terms ‘sect’ or ‘cult’ have been stigmatised, due to the mass media view on them as controlling, brainwashing and manipulative to its members. Many believe
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was to promote social change, in refutation to Hegel’s theory of the dialetic. This is achieved through the construction of a materialist interpretation of the state as ‘the active, conscious and official expression (of) the present structure of society' (Collected Works, 3, p. 199). Marx’s ultimate aim was to “lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society.” (Marx, Capital [1867] 1965, p10), which is to… This essay will explain and analyse Marx’s theory of state, a nd assess the legitimacy
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Assess the usefulness of micro sociology to our understanding of society (33marks) Micro sociology focuses on the actions and interactions of individuals and is a bottom-up approach. Such micro approaches, see society as shaped by its members, who possess agency, in other words, the ability to act as free agents. Micro approaches, also known as action theories, include social action theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology and ethnomethodoly. However, macro sociologists take a deterministic
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the Twenty-First Century,” by Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swantrom are an overall view of various issues faced by a majority of modern American cities. This includes commercial and social aspects inequalities. The book also puts emphasis on the role played by these inequalities (Dreier, Mollenkopf & Swantrom, 2005). Among the emphasis, are their role in segregation of areas which led to the social classification as either “rich” or “poor” and its aftermath in the eventual disintegration
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Assess the value of the left and right realist approaches to crime Realist approaches to crime don’t believe that crime is a social construction; instead they see it as a real problem to be tackled. Realist approaches are divided into right realists and left realists. Right realists tend to take a ‘get tough’ approach and use both biological and social explanations; they share the New Right or neo-conservative political outlook. Left realists are left-wing reformists who believe crime can be solved
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