Assess the claim that ’the main function of education is to maintain a value consensus in society’ Functionalists believe that education is a value consensus‚ which means that the majority of a society agree with this statement. For example‚ inadvertently‚ people in the UK agree that wearing clothes is a norm as is education. Education has many purposes such as secondary socialisation of children and allocation of roles‚ because of the meritocracy which education is also seen as. Functionalists
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way. One of my favorite topics we discussed was conformity. Conformity is defined as a change in one person’s behavior to be similar to the behavior of the people around him or her. Conformity occurs because of our need to know what is right and our desire to be accepted by the people around us. In our culture‚ conformity is often viewed as a negative thing. However‚ conformity can be beneficial in a variety of situations. For example‚ conformity is beneficial in confusing situations where a person
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For instance‚ in an image taken by Timothy A. Clary‚ before a nationalization ceremony takes place‚ the citizens that are to become American citizens are each given hand-held American flags. An act of conformity is being displayed because new immigrants are being encouraged to strictly support America‚ since the American flag only represents the country of America. Similarly‚ immigrants view the force to support America as‚ "...someone who is willing to
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probably point to some convincing evidence that he was okay about conformity in some matters; so‚ when does conformity become too much conformity? Why‚ despite the evidence that he himself has agreed to conform to certain obvious social conventions‚ does he make conformity out to be such a terrible thing? It’s obvious that although he conformed to conventional social expectations in some ways‚ Emerson associated too much conformity—and that is an interesting question: how much is too much?—with a
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Solomon Asch conducted an experiment titled the ‘Asch Conformity Study‚’ in which he psychologically tested the certain conditions in which the judgement of an individual is affected by others. Asch used a lab experiment to study conformity; male students were selected to participate in a ‘vision test’ in Swarthmore College‚ in Pennsylvania. Asch used pairs of cards‚ and on one pair‚ three vertical lines of differing lengths were drawn‚ called the ‘Comparison’ lines. On the other pair‚ there was
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In America today‚ high schools hold home to the perfect definition of what conformity truly is. Kids walk into high school as independent and self-sufficient people‚ yet leave as clones of a social group. Simply “fitting in” has turned into changing clothing‚ thoughts‚ and actions to match that of the preferred social group. The amount of peer pressure that is linked into conformity causes bullying‚ and the loss of self-independence in high school students. The first thing students attempt to accomplish
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Conformity Brandon Cannon ORG 300- Principles of Management Colorado State University – Global Campus Ms. Marie Halvorsen – Ganepola September 20‚ 2014 Conformity If we think back I am sure we can all remember a time when we were sitting in class and the teacher asked a question; we knew in our minds that the answer we chose was the right one‚ yet when we looked around‚ the majority of the class had chosen a different answer. What did we do? We more than likely didn’t answer
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correlation with group conformity. The group wanted to see if college students who have a high level of conforming affect their self-esteem. 40 students answered 2 questionnaires for the experimenters to get the data needed to see the correlation between the two variables. The first questionnaire that was administered was the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale to determine if students whether have high or low self-esteem. The second questionnaire that was administered was a conformity scale to measure their
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Prescribed Title no 6 “Robust Knowledge requires both consensus and disagreement.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. Session: May 2018 Word Count: 1358 Robust Knowledge is the information related to any discipline‚ which has been proven and cannot be disproved‚ but is still part of the debate and criticized by others. Everyone obtains knowledge from different sources‚ which is known as Shared Knowledge in the Theory of Knowledge world‚ for example: learning
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1 DERIVING CONSENSUS RANKINGS VIA MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING METHODOLOGY 1AmyPoh. AL‚ 2M. N. Saludin‚ 1M. Mukaidono 1Faculty of Science and Technology‚ Meiji University 2Faculty of Management & Defense Study‚ National Defense University of Malaysia ABSTRACT Purpose – This paper takes a cautionary stance to the impact of marketing mix on customer satisfaction‚ via a case study deriving consensus rankings for benchmarking on selected retail stores in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach
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