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    Big Bang Theory It’s inevitable that with over 6 billion people here on Earth‚ there will be different views upon how our universe was created. Views are mainly fueled by faith or science but the modern view of today’s era is the Big Bang Theory. The theory states that the universe started at one single spot‚ and has been expanding ever since (Big Bang Theory‚ N.P.). Of course it’s crazy‚ and highly difficult‚ for many of us to imagine something so large starting from one tiny spot; so indeed there

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    perspectives of a functionalist and a conflict theorist‚ the two major theories of Sociology. Sociology: The Essentials defines both of these perspectives. Functionalists “view society in terms of how it contributes to the stability of the whole.” Conflict theorists “emphasize the role of coercion and power‚ a person or group’s ability to exercise influence and control over others‚ in producing social order” (16-18). These two theories have very different perspectives on social issues. For example‚

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    criminalized by law in a society. From the sociological aspect‚ there are two major models that explain the origin of law and crimes: the consensus theory and the conflict theory. These two theories have radically different views on what crimes are. “The consensus theory is rooted in John Locke’s (1632-1704) “Social Contract Theory”” (Cox). According to Locke’s theory‚ government is based on a social contract between rulers and their subjects. The government needs to deal with the population justly; otherwise

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    What is Practice Theory? “Theory of Practices” (TP) is a social sciences theory based on the ideas that “individual behaviors are primarily performances of social practices‚” and that practices are not conceivable as a set of individual actions that lie just in the minds of the actors‚ but modes of social relations. There is not one shared understanding of what practice theory is‚ but that many different contributions are originating in philosophy‚ social science‚ cultural theory‚ and science & technology

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    ethics. Ethics is what we know of what is right and wrong in life. There exists several types of ethics beliefs but in this case the Virtue Theory‚ Utilitarianism‚ and Deontological theories will be described and compared because each one of these ethics has many differences. Virtue Theory The Virtue Theory is known as virtue of ethics‚ in this theory the focus is on a person characteristics instead of rules or consequences of specific actions. The main focus is when a person is acting with

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    One of the theories we talked about was the general strain theory by Robert Agnew. By added strain from others will take away the value we have towards something. The strain will be added among everyone involved. From this strain added by other people is how a person will respond. When the strain cannot be managed it will lead to crime. For example‚ if little Johnny who is eight years old has to come home from school everyday by the bus‚ and his mom is never around to take care of him because she

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    The two theory that can be applied to this case is rights theory and virtues theory. However‚ both of these two theories lead to different ethical outcomes. While rights theory supports the sex robots being made and used by consumers‚ virtue theory goes against the selling and product of sex robots giving the standard argument that lewdness feeds on itself. First‚ virtue theory does not support the uses of sex robots. Virtue theory allows us to develop good moral characters. Some virtues that may

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    TRICHROMATIC THEORY AND THE OPPONENT-PROCESSING THEORY BY EMPHASIZING ON THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES. “How do our eyes and brain allow us to perceive colors?” To begin with‚ Color vision is the capacity of an organism to distinguish objects. Many scientists have asked the mentioned above question and hence they have put forward two theories to explain the process of color vision. These two theories were known as The Trichromatic Theory of Vision and The Opponent-Processing Theory of Vision

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    Topic: Rational Choice Theory Rational Choice Theory With the exception of a person who has a severe mental disability‚ every human thinks and weighs out the benefits and the consequences of a crime they are about to commit. People do not get as much credit for committing a crime as they should and this can result in getting a lesser punishment. Rational choice theory states that law violating behavior is the result of carful thought and planning. This theory has been used by many scientists

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    Conflict/Marxist Theory –Vold distinguishes between Marxist and Conflict perspectives‚ and lumps "post-modern" perspectives in with Conflict. Explain the differences between these two "critical" views of crime‚ particularly on the issue of social power (be sure to include Sellin‚ Vold‚ Quinney‚ Black‚ Chambliss & Seidman). How does one go about "testing" conflict theory? What‚ according to Vold et. al are the limitations of Conflict Theory? Finally‚ Post-Modern theory suggests that "domination"

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