DIFFERENT CULTURES‚ DIFFERENT RATIONALITIES? Peter Winch ’s remarkable essay‚ ’Understanding a Primitive Society ’ (Winch‚ 1964) raised several deep and troubling questions and offered some no less deep and troubling answers. It was the essay of a philosopher inspired by Wittgenstein‚ who had questioned the very idea of a social science‚ reflecting upon and‚ indeed‚ criticizing the interpretation of witchcraft in one of the classics of twentieth-century anthropology‚ Evans-Pritchard ’s Witchcraft
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Workshop 22 October 2014 Different Country‚ Different Culture A country is just like an onion; the innermost skin is Culture. Culture is like the soul of a country. All countries have their own unique cultures to live by‚ which means that people who have grown up in different places will have different ways of behaving‚ different ways of thinking about things and different ways of expressing themselves. Each country has its own culture‚ and there are many differences between different countries in culture
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cause of this person’s extreme deviance. Humans
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Functionalist explanations of crime and deviance. This question includes assessment of your understanding of the connections between crime and deviance and sociological theory. Functionalist explanations of deviance begin with society as a whole looking for the origins of deviance in the nature of society‚ not the biological or psychological make up of an individual. Functionalists favour quantative methods to look at society‚ using statistics to see society as a whole‚ rather than looking at the
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world’s peoples. According to Professor Kluckhohn‚ it’s because of culture. People who live in the same culture share many things in common and different cultures shape different characteristics of people. I share the same point of view with him‚ based on my own experience and observation. In my opinion‚ different values in different cultures make people different. In many cases‚ TV drama reflects most of the values which the country believes in. Collectivism is one of the major values of Chinese
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the usefulness of consensus theories for an understanding of crime and deviance in society. Consensus theories are the theories that believe that every society share the same views‚ norms and values. The main consensus theories are Functionalism and Subcultural. Functionalism is the theory of how or why society functions and how it remains in a state of stability. It tries to explain the role that all people within society have‚ from children to criminals‚ in order to maintain stability. Subcultural
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There are many different factors that have to be considered when examining the role of access to opportunity structures in causing crime and deviance. Merton’s ‘Strain theory and anomie’ argues that deviance arises from the structure of society and that unequal access to legitimate opportunity structures is the cause of deviant behaviour. The main point that Merton’s theory outlines is the fact that people engage in deviant behaviour because they are unable to achieve socially approved goals by legitimate
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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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families and were taught to be responsible for all of their actions. Few children went to school because reading and writing was not valued as highly as it is in today’s society. Jobs at the time also did not require any education.Men had jobs that involved working with wood‚ metal‚ clay‚ or other
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The role of (private and public) media in reporting key environmental issues in different societies. Hai Tran – 43759645 Sue Hao - April 2nd‚ 2015 Outline Introduction ◦ Climate Change ◦ Human Activities & Climate Change ◦ Media & Climate Change Chapter 6: News Media & Environmental Journalism Case studies ◦ US ◦ China: “Under the dome” documentary Discussion Climate Change What is it? Change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over long periods of time
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