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    Social Perspectives

    Zahira thought it was a prank incident. However, it cause the girls to not attend school for five days, left Zahira cousin Chauncy partially blind, mood changes has been altered, still a desire to learn, but fear has been instilled in the girls. Functionalists theoretical clarify the involvement to social stability in Afghanistan (NBC News, 2011). Specific components of the perspective used in the evaluation. Manifest functions of institutions are open, stated, and conscious functions. They involve

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    P2- Explain Different Sociological Approaches to Health and Ill Health.

    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

    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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    Religion

    Exam focus Exemplar answers for question 1a): Candidate A Science is usually associated with things like physics and chemistry and is usually carried out in a laboratory, often by men in white coats. Scientific knowledge often comes in the form of laws. A good example would be Newton’s laws of motion. It is also claimed that science produces knowledge which is objective. This means it is true regardless of who believes it. It does not depend on any form of personal opinion or belief. Finally

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    Foundation of Psychology

    school felt that the role of psychology was to investigate the function of consciousness, or the purpose of human thought (Wright, 2011, p.407). The functionalists wanted to understand how the mind worked rather than merely describing its contents and they focused on the motivations of mental processes and behavior (Hergenhahn, 2009, p.336). The functionalist school of thought was in direct contrast to structuralism. Structuralists believed that psychology should describe the basic elements of consciousness

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    Gender Roles

    evolved a great deal from the onset of the human civilization which started as hunter gathers. The males were primarily responsible to provide food, shelter and protection while the women looked after the offspring and took care of the tribe. The Functionalist perspective explains this fairly non-overlapping segregation of gender roles in the pre-industrial society. Evolution of Gender Roles For a considerable period of time there was little or no interaction between the different civilizations and

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    Sexism in the Media

    Running head: SEXISM IN THE MEDIA 1 Sexism in the Media Ada Anderson Chamberlain College of Nursing/DeVry SOCS 185N: Sociology Feb, 24, 2013 SEXISM IN THE MEDIA 2 Television and commercial advertising have been a dominating force for over sixty years, and people learn to specialize and are trained to create ads that entertain and provoke the viewer into buying certain products. The main purposes of commercials are to stand out from competitors, and to sell an idea or way

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    Substance Abuse Among School Students

    Introduction Introduction to Social Problem Certain adverse situations that may have harmful consequences may affect societies. They may hinder the normal functioning of the society. Such harmful situations are known as social problems. These problems arise because every society has certain norms and values. When these norms and values are violated, they result in social problems. They are problems because such deviation of norms and values are dysfunctional in the society. Some of the examples

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    Functionlism

    Sociology Assess the contribution of functionalism of our understanding of family and households Functionalists believe that the family is a vital function and component in our society that benefits individuals. In addition functionalists would argue that with family as an institution it gives us social roles which in turn give the whole society social order. For e.g. in a nuclear family a man would have the instrumental role and the women would have the expressive role, with these roles the family

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    Outline and Assess Sociological Explanations of Social Class Stratification (40 Marks)

    given society's categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, social status, occupation, and power. Stratification is the relative social position of a person in a given social group. Functionalists such as Durkheim believe that class stratification exists because it is functional and beneficial towards social order and noted that societies are often characterized by a specialized occupational division of labour. According to Durkheim, members

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