Examiners’ commentaries 2011 Examiners’ commentaries 2011 21 Principles of sociology – Zone A Important note This commentary reflects the examination and assessment arrangements for this course in the academic year 2010–11. The format and structure of the examination may change in future years‚ and any such changes will be publicised on the virtual learning environment (VLE). Comments on specific questions Section A Answer all parts of question 1 (50 marks in total) Question 1 Sociologists
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Social Commentary on Physical Attractiveness in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House Across cultures and across time‚ surface beauty has been idealized and integrated into societies to the extent to which it is almost necessary to determine one’s societal rank or role. In many cases‚ those who are considered more beautiful are given luxuries that those who are less fortunate are kept from. In a time when both looks and money ruled the social scene‚ Charles Dickens in his novel Bleak House makes an opposing
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doing an action‚ or completing some sort of work. For example someone might be more inclined to study for a test‚ or to clean their room if they were offered a reward after they did it. 2 Explain the difference between a‚ economic incentive‚ moral incentive‚ and social incentive. An Economic Incentive is something that effects the economy or the public. For example in the article they used “ adding a 3 dollar sin tax to cigarettes. Social Incentive is something that would effect a place where
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massacre‚ slaughtering between 800‚000 and 1 million Tutsi’s (Johnson 1). Now 20 years later‚ is it possible to forgive? For years after the genocide‚ the Hutu’s and Tutsi’s have lived in an awkward state of mind. For years they have lived a non-social relationship with each other. Who would blame them? It was split between the predators and the victim survivors (Forgiving The Rwandan Genocide 1). Evil amongst the innocent. The scared with memories and the ashamed convicts living with each other
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In The Red Convertible Louise Erdrich uses the foreshadowing and the symbolism of boots and water to show the death of Stephan and the car as a symbol of the loss of a lifelong brotherhood in the last 40 lines. Louise Erdrich uses the symbol of boots to show the weight of the PTSD from war in Stephan’s life to the point where he was alive‚ he was truly not living a healthy life because he was weighted down by the war and his experiences this is shown when he first arrived home and would not leave
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Queenie 1097300104 E5B Data Analysis First Part Personal information: including the participants’ gender‚ age‚ educational background‚ marital status and monthly income. Gender As Figure 1 showed‚ there were 45% of female participants and 55% of male. The numbers of the participants of each gender were very close. Age The respondents were all my friends on Facebook; as the result‚ the majority (73%) of their age was in the range of 16-20‚ as seen in Figure 2. Figure 1: Gender
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HIV became known in 1983‚ it was then that scientist and the government became interested in knowing where this epidemic originated from and how. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a lot like other viruses‚ including those that cause the common cold‚ but it is important to know that over time‚ your immune system will become weak as the severity of HIV increases. What HIV does is attack your T cells‚ which help your body fight infections‚ it them takes over them to make its own. A person will only
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If different people started transporting between the past and the present which raise would mostly like be able to survive easier? Kindred was an interesting book about a black woman‚ named Dana that started transporting between the past and present periods. She would always transport to the past to help a white boy named Rufus before he did something that would kill him. Each time she would transport to help Rufus he would be a few years older and she would be there for a longer period of time
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Social Norms Anywhere we go‚ there are going to be at least a couple of different norms occurring at the same time. From walking onto a train to sitting in a someone’s home‚ everyone will behave in distinct manners to which they have grown accustomed. The way we behave is not in the matter of right or wrong‚ but only what our society allows us to. In our society‚ we have a number of society norms that we abide by. For example‚ there is an unwritten rule of how one should behave in an elevator
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British Empire’s success and wealth. The reasons for this sudden hunger to imperialize africa was due to social darwinism‚ nationalism‚ and the vast raw materials africa had to offer. This raid of european people had great to effect to the african people. The colonization of new land was not uncommon. The colonization of Africa was justified by Social Darwinism. The best example of social darwinism is in the poem‚ The White Man’s Burden ‚ which talks of the
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