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    Structural Levels

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    There are four structural levels of the body. Cells‚ tissues‚ organs and organ system. Cells are the basic structure and make up tissues. Two or more tissues make up the organs and the organ system are 2 or more organs that function together. One of the main health benefits of exercising is that it helps normalize the glucose‚ leptin‚ insulin levels by increasing insulin/leptin receptor sensitivity. This optimizes our overall health and prevents chronic diseases. Exercising has the capability to

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    Structural Adjustment

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    Structural Adjustment Programs “In theory‚ SAPs are meant to assist countries to return to economic recovery. In practice‚ the opposite has happened. SAPs have destroyed any chance to achieve sustainable economic development that would meet national priorities...IMF-World bank reform packages constitute a coherent program for economic and social collapse…They destroy the entire fabric of the domestic economy’” - Herbert Jaunch‚ Labor Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI)‚ Namibia To find

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    society.   These changes in values and in society allow society to progress and evolve. Furthermore Durkheim acknowledges that crime and deviance are inevitable because not everyone is socialized in the same way with the same norms and values. Functionalism is useful as it

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    John Searle Functionalism

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    Functionalism is the idea that the mind is like a computer program‚ which is the software of the body. It asserts that anything which has the ability to utilize our minds has intentionality‚ the ability to have thoughts about something. John Searle presents an argument which counters this idea called the Chinese Room which claims that even if something can mimic the workings of the human mind‚ it does not have intentionality. Functionalism describes the theory speaking about the mind and the body;

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    Structural Unemployment

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    The structural unemployment in the Bahamas Tourism and banking which are the Bahamas’ primary and secondary industries are owned by foreign sectors‚ the gross domestic product is at $3065130000 and total household income is at $1793372500. The Bahamas suffers from Dualism which is the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements‚ often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body)‚ or good and evil. There should be a dualism by types of ownership whether a foreign sector or Bahamian

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    Marxism vs Functionalism

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    In this assignment I was asked to look at my society and how I view it‚ analyse it‚ understand it and evaluate it. With theories and theorist on society available I will focus on two of the theories which are Marxism by Karl Marx & Functionalism by Skinner. Karl Marx‚ the man was a genius. The man was not blind‚ most people are blind‚ we look but we cannot see and when we do see‚ we change how we see to make ourselves feel better or we change and explain things so we can have some sort of illusion

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    John Watson Functionalism

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    effort to explore behavior within organisms‚ functionalism emerged as a school of thought based on Darwinism (Green‚ 2009). Although functionalist focused on organisms‚ functionalist emphasized the importance of the consciousness on behavior. The rise of behaviorism occurred due to philosophical disagreements within the field of psychology (Clark‚ 2004; Ledoux‚ 2012; Watson‚ 1913). Specifically‚ behaviorists

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    America and the entire world‚ prostitution flourishes rapidly. Prostitution is another never ending war like abortion‚ which society feels is immoral. This immorality leads functionalists‚ who apply functionalism to this social problem‚ on a chase to figure out why prostitution is what it is today. Functionalism is the best theory for looking at prostitution. It allows us to see how prostitution changes along with other aspects of society. Some ask why prostitution spreads like a wildfire through our

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    Structural theories

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    Structural theories One of the theories is Marxism who studies society on a macro perspective so they generate a lot of statistics. They concentrate a lot on class and believe there is conflict between two opposing classes’ bourgeoisie and working class. They have a similar view to the social action theory and that view is in society there is struggle between the powerful and the powerless. They also have a view on feminism and that is it’s not just men who exploit women but also capitalist. Their

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    there are two major theoretical aspects to healthcare. Functionalism demonstrates illness as an inhibitor on society’s functions. Conflict theory describes issues within the healthcare system‚ rather than focusing on individual illness affecting society. All in all‚ both approaches share the same ideology on the source of overall health. These two perspectives illustrate a sociological root for issues within health and medicine. Functionalism explains health and medicine by looking at how each individual

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