In epidemiology, demographic data such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, social class, occupation, marital status, etc. contribute to variations in health status, health-related behavior, and use of health care services. How can a demographic factor impact health status, health-related behavior, or the use of health care services? Give a specific example. Do not use an example posted by another student. How can a demographic factor impact health status, health-related behavior, or the use of health
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| Principles | Impact on health and social care | How and why it works | Functionalism | * Adaptation- refers to the changes that occur in order to maintain various aspects of a social system’s culture. For example families have to adapt to schools. * Goal attainment- a system must define and achieve its primary goals. * Integration- a system must adjust the interrelationship of its component parts. * Latency- latency refers to the rewards that the system offers to keep members motivated
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The role of education in society is seen by many different people in many different ways. This is due to the fact that different sociologists hold different and conflicting views. Functionalists tend to believe that society is based on a shared culture of similar values and norms; as Item A mentions ‘Schools play a vital role by socializing young people into these basic values.’ Whereas, a different approach to education is one of Marxists, who believe that education ‘transports values that benefit
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explain the participation of young people in these subcultures? Also, how do these factors operate? The purpose of this paper is to argue that the participation of young people in youth cultures is best explained by 2 factors; the media and one’s ethnicity. This argument is will made with particular reference to punk and hip hop subcultures as well as brief discussion of Indigenous subculture. The paper will begin with an over view of how subcultures are used to form identities and invent cultural
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function of the education system is to reproduce & legitimise social inequalities. Functionalists believe that education serves a purpose and gives everyone an equal chance to achieve and succeed. They believe education has a function to create a fully operational society and allocate roles fitting the correct people. However, a conflict argument (Marxism), disagree. Marxism believe that not everyone at school gets an equal opportunity (The myth or meritocracy) and that social class, gender and
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when contrasted to the population. This measure is to define the ratio of infant deaths to live births. This is also depends on the country or area you are looking at. Here are some social groupings which I will be explaining: * Social Class * Gender * Age * Geographic Location * Ethnicity * Risk Behaviours Geographic location In a place like Glasgow a person’s life expectancy of life is lower at 54 than a person who lives in London would probably live to 82 years
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Socialists are inspired by the wish to improve the quality of life for all members of society. They believe in a political and social structure characterized by robust government direction in political, fiscal and and social strategy. Another important idea is the redistribution of wealth to equalize inequalities intrinsic in a free-market economy. Socialism emphasizes equality rather than achievement, and values workforce by the quantity of time they put in rather than by the amount of value they
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acquiring education. Institutions are primarily of hearing people and therefore, special institutions which are often not enough have to be constructed. So in case a deaf person is among the family of hearing people, they are forced to learn the language so that their sibling can feel included. Therefore, the family members indirectly become members of the deaf culture. Hence, the extent of hearing loss does not define deafness. The best way to define deaf culture therefore, is to identify a social group
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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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Distance Education Vol. 26, No. 1, May 2005, pp. 29–48 Student Barriers to Online Learning: A factor analytic study Lin Y. Muilenburga* and Zane L. Bergeb aUniversity of South Alabama, USA; bUniversity of Maryland, USA University Francis LinMuilenburg 000000May 2005 Ltd 1 26 Open 2005 and Distance Original Education 0158-7919 (print)/1475-0198 Distance Article 10.1080/01587910500081269(online) CDIE108109.sgm Alabama2460 Wildflower LaneHuntingtonMD 20639USALin@muilenburgs.com Taylor and of SouthLearning
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