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    Ling‚ even in times of great desperation‚ one must stay clean and rid themselves of the evil presence‚” he said‚ giving the floor a strong‚ hard sweep. I nodded to myself. Indeed‚ the Japanese were like the evil presence. Their mantra‚ “Kill all‚ Loot all‚ Burn all” has laid our beautiful city into ruins. Once bustling streets filled with traders and trishaws were now laid bare‚ with puddles of blood here or there. The cloudless sky that made us feel safe to be under no longer existed; there was only

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    SOCI 002 – LECTURE 5 REVIEW NOTES SOCIAL ROLES‚ INTERACTION‚ AND DEVIANCE (Chapter 5* + 6) SOCIAL INTERACTION: Erving Goffman: dramaturgical approach: approaching sociological research as if everyday life were taking place on the stage of a theatre‚ with a FRONT STAGE (public) and BACK STAGE (personal/private). Also important to understand is impression management. How do you manage your image publicly? (public vs. private‚ professional vs. with friends) SOCIAL STATUS * Status:

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    Marxist approach to an understanding of crime and deviance’ (21 marks) There are numerous Marxist theories that help us to understand crime and deviance in different ways‚ however they are all based around the same ideas. They believe capitalism causes crime in three different ways including‚ selective law enforcement‚ criminogenic capitalism and ideological nature of the law. Traditional Marxists believe that crime is inevitable in all societies because capitalism is criminogenic suggesting

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    NAME : ZULHAIRI BIN MAMAT DATE : 24 AUGUST 2011 TITLE OF EXPERIMENT : DETERMINATION OF THE RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASS OF AMIDOSULPHURIC ACID DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING. QUANTITATIVE DATA Type equation here. Experiment | Burette reading / cm3 | Volume of solution used(±0.1 cm3) | | Initial reading(± 0.05 cm3) | Final reading(± 0.05 cm3) | | 1 | 0.00 | 24.70 | 24.7 |

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    soc 17/01/2012: Utility is in my opinion the test of value in matters of invention‚ and that a discovery which can be applied to no use‚ or is not good for sthg is good for nothing-benjamine frankline. y do we need fake feet that is similar to natural foot ? to get rid of the difference every 1 should be the same Assignment: choose technology describe it: be clair of what it is and waht it does use detail waht is the context in which produced? when from ? production describe the place of

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    How does secondary socialisation influence deviance ? Secondary socialisation is the way by which we learn how to behave appropriately as the member of a smaller group within the larger society. It is mostly associated with adolescents and adults and involves smaller changes than in primary socialisation. Influences on socialisation include the family‚ education‚ religion‚ peer groups and the media. If we define deviance as a ‘violation of social norms’ it can be characterised as any thought

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    All Structuralist theories of crime and deviance seem to suggest that crime is socially constructed rather than focused on the individual. Albert Cohen‚ combining Structuralist and sub cultural theories drew on Merton’s idea of strain but criticized Merton’s ideas of crime being an individual response and believed that he ignored non-utilitarian crimes such as vandalism and joy-riding. Cohen was particularly interested in deviance which was not economically motivated but done simply for the thrill

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    n the differences between absolute and relative morality Relativism and absolutism are two ethical theories that strongly differ in beliefs and opinions. A relativist person would believe that there are no absolute universal truths‚ truth is relative to the subject and can differ from person to person and society to society. Relativism considers the outcome of choices; a relativist will generally make decisions based on the likely outcome. On the other hand‚ an absolutist thinker believes that

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    and assess the view that crime and deviance are socially constructed There has been a pleather of research regarding the issue of crime and deviance. A definition of crime and deviance can be explained in relative terms which are dependant on any particular society’s interpretation of crime and deviance. Cultures differ from one society to another and the general consensus of right and wrong can also evolve throughout time. Definitions of crime and deviance can evolve with factors such as time

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    Deviance is behaving out of social normalities and the severity of the deviant behaviour varies from legal issues to everyday problems such as “role problems of old age” (Clinard‚ 1968)‚ suggesting that it is difficult to determine deviant behaviour due to it’s subjectivity. In fact‚ the deviant behaviour that concerns issues of legality are created by those who have power in the society to draw a line between those who conform and those who do not. These people with greater power and authority will

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