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    Outline and evaluate postmodern views on the diversity of family life” Postmodern sociologists support the view that family has become diverse in contemporary UK. They see that people have become fragmented and identities are more individualistic‚ meaning everyone is different and let them be. Family life is different for everyone. Stacey (1996) says that the family no longer progresses through a range of stages. Meaning everyone is diverse‚ and that there is no longer a dominant type of

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    What is the proper role of religion in a modern‚ secular society? Secularisation is the transformation of society from one‚ which had close religious values‚ towards a society with nonreligious (or irreligious) values. It is believed to have come about as a result of the development of science and the increased use of rationality in philosophy‚ particularly by two ‘classical’ sociology philosophers‚ Karl Marx and Max Weber. They both believed that the significance of religion in society would decrease

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    and evaluate the view that families in the UK are increasingly diverse (33) Families are becoming increasingly diverse in the UK because of changing norms and values in society. Postmodernists highlight that people are free to choose the family type that suits them best therefore allowing for harmonious relationships in society. On the other hand Functionalists are against family diversity and argue that a family that does not fit the nuclear model creates instability. A traditional view of the

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    The role of religion in shaping civilization From the beginning of human race or Homo sapiens‚ they were run by curiosity. Human were started to live together but didn’t know what was right or wrong‚ used to do things whatever wanted like killing each other‚ mass adultery with inter and intra species‚ eating whatever wanted. So there were many questions‚ curious Homo sapiens all over the world didn’t know the answers. After 10‚000 BC by the invention of agriculture human race started to live together

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    Stereotyping in America Today Society can be broken up into many groups by gender‚ race‚ or even traits. The world is made up of males and females‚ whites and blacks‚ and liberals and conservatives‚ all with a particular way of life. People are stereotyping others all the time without even noticing it‚ because of race or color. This trend in human thought is called stereotyping. A stereotype can be anything from women being considered better drivers or labeling French people as rude‚ but one

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    The Ironic Role of Religion in Southern Slaveholding Culture According to Frederick Douglass In Frederick Douglass’s narrative‚ he demonstrates the ironic role of religion in southern slaveholding culture. Douglass further explains‚ in immense detail‚ in the appendix of his narrative that there is great hypocrisy within the slaveholders and their view on religion. Also in his appendix‚ he explains that‚ though most of the instances in which he mentioned religion were in negative tones‚ he was speaking

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    Evaluate the roles of 3 body systems‚ of your choice‚ in maintaining the characteristics of living things in humans. The roles of the body systems within the human body are very significant and they contribute to help maintaining certain functions within the body. Without the systems‚ our bodies would not operate to their full extent and we would struggle on a day to day basis. The skeletal‚ digestive and reproductive systems are just three body systems that help us to maintain some of these functions

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    Discontents spoke about his views on religion‚ science‚ and art. He believes that religion is restrictive‚ which could lead to more conflicts. He also believes that religion is an illusion. He believed that the origin of religion could be traced back as far as feeling of infantile helplessness. There needs to be a paternal protector for infantile helplessness or else we would not know what to do as children. In religion‚ we could view the paternal protector as God. Freud views science as facts‚ technology

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    Some people say that yes‚ sexism is still alive in America today. From the media‚ to the workplace‚ sexism is everywhere in America. Most people would say that sexism is men discriminating against women but there is also a lot of sexism against men in our society. America as a whole can be seen as a sexist society. For example‚ statistics show that there are differences in pay between genders in the workplace. “ In 2015‚ female full-time workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men

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    Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx were intellectuals with vastly different world views and opinions on how things should be run but the one matter in which they would both agree leaves a bad taste in their mouths is Christianity. Nietzsche see Christianity as a blight upon humans‚ something holding us back from our fullest potential. Karl Marx does not necessarily see Christianity as the great evil that Nietzsche makes it out to be‚ but he would agree that complicated monolith that is Christianity

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