huge change in the way the family works in modern day society; affecting both power balance, behaviour and labour division. Young and Willmott take a ‘march of progress’ view which means they see the family as a vital part of society, such as functionalists, which is gradually improving for all its
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Assess sociological explanations of the nature and extent of family diversity today. Family diversity is the theory that there are many different family types, rather than the nuclear family being the dominant type. However there are many different sociological explanations and two different conflicting views. The modernist view, and the postmodernist view. For example New Right sociologists believe that the nuclear family is the bedrock of society, and is the natural family, unlike lone-parent
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Assess the relationship between Social Policy and Sociology. (33 Marks) Sociology is a subject that wants to study and understand society. Social policy or otherwise known as the law comes from research completed by sociologists, which is then proposed to the government. Social policy can be seen to change social problems such as the economy. Peter Worsley describes a social problem as “some piece of social behaviour that causes public friction”. For example poverty, educational under-achievement
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people who had “nothing better to do” (Ehrenreich, pg.100). Even when she began to work at Wal-Mart, there was a hierarchy with people ready to enforce authority over others. Throughout every job in America, one will find itself working within a functionalist perspective, abiding to the rules that somebody else dictates and enforces, and preparing us for the realistic hierarchy of power that our government consists
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Sociological Perspectives on the Family Functionalists believed in a theory that the family is a positive institution. They believe the family perform six major functions: 1. Reproduction. Ensures that the society's population willbe maintained. This is a basic function of the family to keep the cycle of life span continuation In today's society, families are smaller and couples are delaying the child rearing experiences until their careers are established and stabilized (Schaefer, R. 2009).
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I'm retaking G673 in the summer after completely cocking up, you will see 4 topics on the paper, answer the section you were TAUGHT. For me it was Crime and Deviance, you will get 3 50 mark essay questions, and you choose 2 of them. For example; Crime and Deviance 1. Outline and assess the Marxist view on crime and deviance. 2. Outline and assess the usefulness of the official statistics in recording crime and deviance. 3. Outline and assess sub-cultural approaches in explaining crime and deviance
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Possible sociology questions January 2012 Item 2A Sociologists analyse the domestic division of labour in many different ways. Parsons describes the division of labour in the traditional nuclear family in terms of an expressive role and an instrumental role. However, this traditional arrangement may have changed as families have changed, and many feminists use the term ‘dual burden’ to describe the woman’s role in the family today. Item 2B Government policies and laws include tax and benefit
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Functionalists is a social structure theory in sociology about our society in order to help us understand how it works. Murdock was a functionalist that argued that family (nuclear was seen as the norm) performs four essential functions to meet the needs of the society and its members. The first of those being stable satisfaction of the sex drive. This means that partners will only have sexual relations with each other to prevent social disruption caused by ‘free-for-all’. The second function
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Keira Harrow 2. What is gender? Explain and give examples of how conflict and functionalists see gender. How does feminism differ from conflict theory? Give examples. What are two key points west and Zimmerman make about”doing gender” explain and give examples. Gender is not only achieved but it is constructed through psychological, cultural, and social means. Gender is learned cultural ideas about what it means to be feminine and masculine. You assume sex based on cultural cues. Gender is socially
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2(a) To analyze more about the relationship between individuals and the society, the three major sociological perspectives can be applied on it. The three major sociological perspectives are functionalist perspective, conflict perspective and symbolic interactionist perspective. Firstly, functionalist perspective in the other words mean supportive interactions. Based on functionalism, society is a system of interrelated parts that cooperated in harmony to keep society’s balance and social equilibrium
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