Health and social care Unit 7- Sociological Perspectives in health and social care P2- Explain different sociological approaches to health and ill health. The functionalist approach: This approaches needs to make sure that everyone in the society has to be healthy in order to work together and functionally. Once an individual is seen as an ill health they are consider as deviance. This is because when an member is ill all of their social role are not produced functionally. There work are
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Social Institutions Arbre Flores SOC/100 Mar 18, 2016 Dr Lamb Social Institutions Social institutions effect all human beings across the globe. These institutions prepare, instill, and teach us some of the norms, morals, and skills needed for the world today. Social institutions are just that; they are standardized patterns or norms of society organized around the preservation of a basic societal value. Some institutions include family, education, and religion. These institutions
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Marxists see capitalist society based on unequal conflict between two classes the capitalist class who own the means of production, and the working class who’s labour the capitalist’s exploit. Marxists see the family fulfilling several functions the inheritance of property, ideological functions, a unit of consumption. Marxists argue the key factor determining the shape of social institutions is the mode of production, which is the capitalist class. In ‘primitive communism’ there was no private
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these categories include religion, race and ethnicity, culture, education, and organizations and work. Karl Marx’s perspective of capitalist domination, which relates to each of these categories, suggests that the main cause of conflict in society is inequality, and this inequality brings about disadvantages to workers and benefits to the owners of capital. Although this perspective is backed by strong examples in today’s society, such as the decline in skilled labour leading to greater inequality
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Poverty as a problem A. Describe the social problem. Poverty is a state in which income is insufficient to provide basic needs. Lack of control over resources, lack of education and poor health. There is a multidimensional component which may cause one to lack the ability to care for the basic needs for themselves as well as their families. Poverty can cause alienation and be very distressing. On a very concerning level are the indirect effects of poverty on the development and ones continued
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Lecture #1: Defining Sociology and Using our Sociological Tools; Please read Ch. 1 Hello everyone and welcome to the start of what will hopefully be a wonderful semester. This semester we will be examining and analyzing science and technology using a sociological discipline. In the beginning of every lecture I will introduce the vocabulary. These words will be significant for the lecture, so put them to memory because you just might see them later, wink, wink, and wink. Vocabulary: Sociology:
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body to adapt into a community or a society. It is also a perspective or theory that tries to explain and justify why society is the way it is. According to different psychologist it can explain social structures and social behavior of a society and their functions. In the functionalist perspective, society is thought to function like organisms, with many social institutions working together to maintain and reproduce societies. Functionalists studied the mind not from the standpoint of its composition
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Student ID:5145400 SY3 CASE STUDY - True Crime or Moral Panic Crime and deviance is present is all societies and has been throughout generations, and there are differing explanations for their existence through the various sociological approaches. Functionalism views society as a system of connected parts. Emile Durkheim (1982) saw crime in society as a stable system based on value consensus, norms and values which a society has established. Durkheim saw the need for some crime as an inevitable
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HOW MIGHT THE LABELLING OF ACTIVITIES AS ‘DEVIANT’ SERVE AS A FORM OF SOCIAL CONTROL? Deviancy is considered any behaviour to violate cultural norms and it is essentially split between two formations; formal deviancy (crime) and informal deviancy (social). Social control is a product of social learning via labeling strategies, it is composed of both informal and formal mechanisms and maintains that the exploitation of socialization and social learning contributes to the individual building of self-control
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religion has long been argued between sociologists depending on their perspective. Among those that agree are functionalists, for example Durkheim and his study on totem worship, on the other hand Marxists argue religion oppresses the proletariat in order to maintain a capitalist society. The main sociologists that support the view that the main functions of religious beliefs is to promote social stability are functionalists. They believe that religion performs functions and helps society, this
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