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    SOCIOLOGY ASSIGNMENT SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION SEXUAL HARASSMENT PERSONAL TROUBLE Sexual harassment case was first started when Carmita Wood (44) decided to quit her job because she was sexually harassed by a distinguished professor. Wood was born and raised in the apple orchard region of Lake Cayuga and was a sole support of two of her children. She had worked in Cornell’s department of nuclear physics for eight years and advancing from a lab assistant to a desk job handling administrative

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    Discuss Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development (8+16) Vygotsky proposed that children’s development is affected by their culture and social interaction. He also suggested that children are not born with knowledge but they gain it through their social interactions with peers and adults; he does not rule out the importance of biological processes but proposes an interdependent relationship between biological development alongside social activity and cultural interaction. Since language is

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    A detailed essay plan (with pictures) for Early Biological (sheldon and lombrosso) • Nature nurture argument - Early biological theories support the nature side of the nature nurture argument because they assume that offenders have physical abnormalities were more commonly included in criminals •Lombross presents the first biological theory where he basically states that individuals that indulged in crime were more likely to show physical abnormalities when compared to others than his control

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    Assess the contribution of the Marxist theory to the sociological understanding of crime and deviance. (21 marks) Marxism is a macro/structural approach to society‚ meaning that it looks at the large-scale societal structure for answers about how society works and operates and explores crime and deviance in relation to classes within a capitalist society. Marxists claim that laws do not reflect a value consensus‚ instead laws and law enforcement benefits the rich (protection of private property)

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    development in the late 1950’s. He is an outstanding example of research in the Piagetian tradition. He set out to improve and extend the work of Piaget. His work focused on Moral Development and Moral reasoning and began to develop a stage theory of moral thinking. His theories were based on the way children‚ adolescents and adults develop moral reasoning. The first three of these stages were in essence Piaget’s initial formations concerning cognitive reasoning. In his doctoral dissertation (1958a) while

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    Sociological Theories Introduction to Juvenile Justice/CJS240 July 11‚ 2012 Sociological Theories A state‚ local‚ or federal program with elements that exemplify the application of social structure‚ social process and social conflict theories can be found in the public healthcare field. Advances in the contemporary social structure theories‚ social process theories‚ and social conflict theories‚ are found to be critical in the public healthcare field with the modernization of social change

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    Various Theories of Crime Causation vickie murphy AIU online E.Hale 2/19/12 Abstract Within this paper we will discuss the merits of the idea that genetics are a source for criminal behavior. As well as some of the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence surrounding genetics and crime and In closure what would be some of the repercussions in the criminal justice field if the existence of the criminal gene is proven to be true. Theories of Crime Causation To begin to understand the

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    There are three primary sociological theories that are discussed in the first chapter of our textbook. These three theories are the Structural Functionalist‚ the Conflict Theorists‚ and the Symbolic Interactionists. The first theory is structural functionalism. Within this theory there was sociologist that had beliefs in how this theory could be viewed. Auguste Comte‚ called the father of sociology‚ believed that societies have different stages of development that coincide with what they believe

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    to the sociological perspective‚ crime is an antisocial act of such a nature that is repression is necessary for the preservation of the existing of the existing social order. From this viewpoint‚ crime is primarily an offense against human relationships‚ and secondarily a violation of the law (4). While sociological theories continue to develop‚ new and emerging perspectives ask to be recognized. (22) The discipline of sociology has had the most impact on theoretical understandings of crime and crime

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    Conflict theory Crime- crime and criminal justice is designed to benefit the upper‚ powerful classes‚ while overthrowing the lower classes. Example: "Thus‚ street crimes‚ even minor monetary ones are routinely punished quite severely‚ while large scale financial and business crimes are treated much more leniently. Theft of a television might receive a longer sentence than stealing millions through illegal business practices Unemployment- lower classes is usually the one who experience this

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