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    women out of the work place to make space for men who had come back from fighting in the WW2. However Pollack critised him as Aries based all his theory from looking at painting‚ which is pretty crap. Feminist- creation of the mothering role is purely to benfit men. Welfare state has changed in order to help improve childhood Legisaltion to protect childrens rights (1989 children act) Work restriction ( you will have to find out the dates as i can’t remeber them off hand) Standardised education

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    I strongly believe that race is a socially constructed and disagree with the theory that race is a natural phenomenon. Yes‚ different races have different physical features‚ but these physical differences have no affect on the actions‚ beliefs‚ thoughts‚ and etc. of a person. It all comes down to the mind and every person no matter what race they are born overall with the same biological make up of the brain. People can argue that this statement is false and that some races have smarter brains

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    Similar to race‚ gender is also socially constructed‚ while sex refers to biological differences between a man or a woman‚ sex refers to society’s idea of what it means to be a man or a woman. Society creates and prescribes gender roles and gender-appropriate behavior‚ which vary among cultures‚ social classes‚ racial and ethnic groups. Because children don’t understand how they should behave as a man or a woman‚ everything they know about gender is learned through socialization. For example‚ women

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    In the article “The Socially Constructed Body‚” Judith Lorber explains insights from Feminist theory that discuss how men and women in a society transform their own bodies to look a particular way in order to achieve the physical image that complies with what society believes is properly “masculine” or “feminine.” She illustrates how these “normal” gender images are not common because they are biologically true‚ but because society has constructed them. Though some aspects are obviously biological

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    Think Piece Sociological Significance and Individual Behavior What is the relationship between “definition of the situation” and “sociallyconstructed reality”? Our social construct provides us with basic assumptions of everyday life. These social influences have an affect on our perception of reality and situations. While with a group of people you mainly hang out with the definition of a situation of a situation will be similar‚ because you all are from the same social group:

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    Socially constructed gender roles have dictated who works‚ what kind of work they do‚ acceptable reasons for their presence in the labor force‚ and even how well they are compensated. Prior to the 19th century‚ in this mostly agrarian society‚ men where attached to the land and women were expected to operate within the confines of the home. However‚ the changing nature of the economy and work unsettled the stasis of clearly defined roles. In trying to cope with this shift‚ American society was afflicted

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    Examine some of the ways in which Marxists explain crime. (12 marks) Ttraditional Marxists see crime as inevitable in capitalist society because it breeds poverty‚ ccompetition and greed. All classes commit crime‚ but because the ruling class control the state‚ they make and enforce laws in their own interests‚ criminalising the working class while escaping punishment for their corporate crimes. Traditional Marxism is criticised for ignoring non-class inequalities that affect crime and for determinism

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    differences. As they wrote about these places‚ explorers classified these people as a different race because theses people were so different from themselves. As history went on these race classifiers were used again an again. From this race was constructed. We as humans use our sense of sight more than any other sense but our sight is limited. All that the sight of an untrained eye can see is differences. I do not believe we indented to define race but it just manifested from trying to classify something

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    With reference to various examples‚ discuss how ‘natural’ disasters are socially constructed. While natural disasters such as floods‚ drought and hurricanes are commonly thought to occur due to environmental forces such as weather‚ climate and tectonic movements; a deeper investigation into the ‘disaster’ displays other contributing forces. Human factors have a large‚ if not equal‚ contribution to the occurrance and outcome of such disasters (Pelling‚ 2001). As Pelling (2001) argues‚ there is

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    scientifically. In modern terms‚ “race is a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important.” (Farrell 2012). Which means race is something made up by humans to categorize people who share biological traits. In a scientific sense race cannot be proven or even real‚ however race is still very important. The idea of race is modern; people have not always been categorized in this way. “Ancient societies did not divide people

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