For the Functionalists‚ education performs a positive function for all individuals in society and has a powerful influence over it. The education system serves the needs of an industrial society by providing a more advanced division of labour; socialising new generations into societies shared norms and values and‚ according to meritocratic criteria‚ allocates roles in. Education supposedly meets societies through three related economic roles; socialisation; allocation and vocational training.
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Under the traditional economic understanding‚ it is always assumed that profit maximization is treated as the main goal or objective for businesses‚ subject to perfect knowledge‚ single entity and rational logic. However‚ as illustrated by the principal-agency problem‚ managers do not usually make rational decision entirely like owners who take company interest as their sole basis for their decisions. Past examples have shown that managers do take their own personal goals and satisfactions as consideration
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OUTLINE AND EVALUATE EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATIONS OF FOOD PREFERENCES (4 MARKS + 16 MARKS) Outline (A01) Tastes experiences come from our taste receptors. These make us sensitive to a range of taste qualities. For example‚ sweet foods are usually associated with carbohydrates that are a great source of energy. Sour food allows us to identify food that has gone off and would therefore contain harmful bacteria. Salt food is vital for the function of our cells. Bitter tastes are associated with
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In Psychology‚ it is important to be able to critically evaluate a claim about human behavior. I evaluated many different articles in this course and had to determine if they are creditable or not. Critical thinking helped me throughout this course in order to prove creditability on articles discussing human behavior. Over time I gained more knowledge when it comes to evaluation a claim. This is an important skill to have and is extremely useful in this course. To begin with‚ my major writing assignments
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processed and integrated to manipulate projections for different departments. Finance develops a long term forecast to evaluate the investment needs and capital; Marketing develops a mid-term forecast projecting sales; Operations produces a forecast to make decisions on short term scheduling‚ inventory management and long term capacity planning and Human Resources uses the forecast to evaluate personnel needs. Though each department could use a different forecasting model depending on the time horizon and
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Assess the sociological explanations of the role of culture in contemporary society Culture is the behaviour‚ beliefs and characteristics of a particular group of people. Age groups‚ ethnic groups and social groups etc… are all examples of groups of people that possess their own unique culture. The people within a culture are expected to follow the norms and values that are passed down through generation to generation. Over the past 30 years‚ different cultures have gradually intermingled due
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Assess the sociological explanation that childhood is a social construction. Childhood is the time of a person’s life when they are a child. Childhood is said to be socially constructed‚ meaning that it has not been influenced by nature but has been shaped by the quality of family life and the culture within society. The social construction of childhood points out that childhood is dependent on a number of social factors rather than a biological stage. Sociologists argue about what the term ‘childhood’
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Explain and Evaluate Critically Malthus’s Population Theory. In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus‚ a British clergyman and professor‚ wrote an essay showing the way to modern demography. In 1824 he wrote a shorter final version‚ the article on population for that year’s Encyclopedia Britannica. Malthus has been criticized for his lack of scientific foresighthe did not foresee modern advances leading to increased life expectancy‚ food production and birth control. He has been criticized for his
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Assess sociological explanations for the growth of new religious movements [16] New religious movements are always increasing. These movements have always existed but there was a big increase in the 20th century‚ especially since the 1960s. Roy Wallis categorized these NRM (Wallis‚ 1984). He divides new religious movements into three main groups. Like Troeltsch‚ the principal criterion he uses to categorize religious organizations in their relationship to the outside world. He therefore distinguishes
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Erik Erickson is possibly the best known of Sigmunds Freud’s many followers. He grew up in Europe and spent his young adult life under the direction of Freud. In 1933 when Hitler rose to power in Germany‚ Erikson emigrated to the United States and began teaching at Harvard University. His clinical work and studies were based on children‚ college students‚ victims of combat fatigue during World War two‚ civil rights workers‚ and American Indians. It was these studies which led Erikson to believe that
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