Outline and evaluate Functionalist views of the role of the family in society. (33 marks) Functionalist macro theory looks at the society as a whole‚ and analyses how it fits together. Functionalist view of the role of the family in society is that it maintains social order‚ and it’s a tool for socialisation and a key social institution in sustaining the value consensus‚ which is harmony in the society as well as social solidarity. Functionalists focus on the positive functions of the family such
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A Comparison of Education The United States versus Japan In 1947 the Japanese took a page from the American education system and implemented the style of 6-3-3 classroom division (Angela Bartlett). Therefore the Japanese children attended six years of elementary school followed by three years of junior high and three years of senior high school. The major difference comes between the two systems in the area of study disciplines‚ students’ having a clearer direction earlier‚ motivation and structured
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Compare and Contrast of Our Society and F451 Imagine a world where you couldn’t read. I mean‚ there are things you can read but books aren’t allowed. Instead of putting out fires‚ the firefighters burn books‚ and the houses that were hiding them. This is the society in the book Fahrenheit 451. While this sounds very different from our world‚ we are still alike in some ways. While we don’t burn books but encourage learning and thinking‚ both of these societies have lots of technology that people
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Compare and contrast the role and function of judges‚ lawyers and lay people within the English Courts Judges‚ lawyers and lay people all contribute to the English courts however the roles that each of them play are different. There are two types of lay people that have a role in the English Courts‚ solicitors and barristers. A solicitor’s main function is to perform all of the legal work outside the court however they work together with barristers whose main function is to defend the client in the
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Comparing and Contrasting Gender Roles and Marriage Elvin D. McCrary Jr. ENG125/AFG1303a Professor Makhanlall February 4‚ 2013 Comparing and Contrasting GENDER ROLES and MARRIAGE Literature is the universal language of life. No matter what language‚ literature reports life. When it comes to gender roles‚ literature has a variety of stories. Everyone has their own likes and favorite‚ I will explore two popular short stories. Men and women have debated gender roles for generations‚ causing divide
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Amy Lowell’s “Patterns”‚ and Anita Endrezze-Danielson’s‚ “The Stripper”‚ are poems focused on the views and roles of women in society. Despite the drastic differences between the poems’ settings and the specific situations each woman is in. In “Patterns” a high class woman’s fiancé passed away. That marriage being her only way out of the life she is trapped in is deeply upset because she has no other way out‚ unless her family arranges for another marriage. In “The Stripper” the woman puts on repeated
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How does Marxism explain the role of education in society? The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is most concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies‚ including the expansion of higher‚ further‚ adult‚ and continuing education. Education has always been seen as a fundamentally optimistic human endeavour characterised by aspirations for progress and betterment. It is understood
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Assess functionalist views of the role of the family. What do Functionalists believe the role of the family is? Try to back these up using examples of functionalist sociologists. The whole family has an important part to play within our society and each member have a job to do to keep the family together. Just as Talcott Parsons suggested the theory of functionalism means that the function of anything is about the job that is set to do. However Parsons‚ along with Wilmott and Young argued that
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Compare and contrast the role of and function of judges‚ lawyers and lay people within the English courts Lay people are individuals with no legal training from a variety of backgrounds which is said to be used to promote an equal society. The role of Magistrates and Jurors are similar in ways of characteristics needed; for example both must be aged 18-70 and those who are in the police or have previous criminal convictions are ruled out. The selection process is however very different‚ the Lord
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Assess the Functionalist view of education. (20 marks) Functionalists is a consensus theory that sees society as working well like a well oiled machine. In this essay I will be assessing Functionalist views of education with juxtaposition from Marxists‚ Interactionists and Feminists over the following concepts; equality of opportunity‚ meritocracy‚ role allocation‚ skill provision‚ secondary socialisation‚ and education allowing for upward mobile mobility. Functionalists believe that education
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