SOCIOLOGY – AQA – UNIT 4 - CRIME AND DEVIANCE The exam is split into 3 questions: • Q.1 is a pure methods section which contains two parts a) 12 marks and b) 21 marks. You should spend 45 minuets on this question. • Q.2 is a method in context question. Part a) is for 9 marks [could also be a 3 and 6 mark question] and part b) is for 15 marks. You should spend 30 minuets on this question. • Q.3 is a theories essay for 33 marks. THIS QUESTION IS SYNOPTIC! You should spend
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psychosexual stages and list the five stages and the conflict associated with the first three. Explain the Oedipus/Elektra complex. How do behaviorists view personality? Explain the social cognitive view of personality. Define reciprocal determinism. What is self-efficacy? How do people high in self-efficacy differ from those low in self-efficacy? Define locus of control and explain the difference between an internal and external locus of control. Explain the self-actualizing tendency
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It sought to explore the influence of blackberry mobile on Nigerian students. The research was conducted to study the influence of blackberry mobile phone on the students’ lifestyle. The theoretical basis of the study hinged on technological determinism theory and social presence theory. The quantitative method was employed and a survey research design was used with the aid of the questionnaire as a tool for data collection to elicit information from the respondents. 324 respondents were purposefully
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So here’s my question: was I justified in making my gripes known, or was I foolish for not holding myself more accountable for actions that could possibly get me fired? Well, as it turns out I would be justified according to Psychological determinism: (the type espoused by behaviorists such as B.F. Skinner), which declares that human beings are wholly physical beings whose
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Guideline Questions to Help You in Choosing a Therapy Orientation What are some guidelines for constructing an integrative theory of counseling and psychotherapy? First, you should be able to have a working knowledge of the particular theories from which you will draw and a basic description of why each theory is important and relevant to you as a mental health counselor or therapist. It helps to write out your own integrated approach to counseling. You should demonstrate a balance between your knowledge
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Major themes in the Prince Statesmanship & Warcraft Machiavelli believes that good laws follow naturally from a good military. His famous statement that “the presence of sound military forces indicates the presence of sound laws” describes the relationship between developing states and war in The Prince. Machiavelli reverses the conventional understanding of war as a necessary, but not definitive, element of the development of states, and instead asserts that successful war is the very foundation
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The purpose of the biological perspective is to determine the physiological basis of psychology and most importantly behaviour. The perspective primarily uses the experimental method and has been criticized for being too reductionist and for using non-human animals. Strengths By knowing the physiological basis of behaviour we can treat symptoms with drugs evolutionary theory can explain things that would otherwise be unexplainable Weaknesses It is difficult to seperate genetic influence from
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John Steinbeck’s East of Eden examines the lives and tribulations of several interconnected individuals over the course of decades, while concurrently examining several conflicting ideologies that have plagued mankind, such as free will versus determinism and good versus evil. East of Eden concludes with possibly the most important word in the entire book: timshel. Despite the copious amount of pages that were devoted to debate of the true meaning of timshel, the word still possesses a rather ambiguous
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Social Science i.e Psychology, history, political science, anthropology, Economics: sustains capitalism – 70% Systematic study of human society • Point of view known as “the sociological perspective” • Sociologist Peter Berger describes the sociological perspective as: seeing general in the particular or looking at the familiar in the strange. • Individuals are unique, but society shapes the lives of people. (Rich, poor, genders, executives, and faculty. • Sociological
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unconstitutional in the US. As a result, racists have the right to express their opinion publicly but not to incite violence. Discuss in light of the conceptions of freedom. Cypher, a character from the Matrix, decides to betray his companions who seek to free human kind from the Matrix. He strikes a deal in order to get re-inserted into the Matrix, remembering nothing but the Matrix and believing the Matrix is the only truth. He asserts that: “Ignorance is bliss”. Do you also think it is better to live
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