TITLE: outline and assess sociological explanations for gender difference in patterns of crime. What is the relationship between crime and masculinity? Crime can be described as an act that harmful to an individual as well as the society; such acts are against and punishable by the law.1While deviance can be described as acting against social norms‚ for example a boy wearing a skirt would be out of place in the society2 The sex role theory states that‚ when young males and females are younger they
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Case One: Charlie Jones‚ a fireman for Boulder County‚ Colorado‚ saw an ad for the vacation of his dreams in the local‚ “Boulder County Gazette.” The ad read‚ “Seven days at the wonderful luxury Windell resort‚ ‘Cabo Mar‚’ $1200 per person‚ all inclusive.” The ad featured a picture of the front of the hotel with a person receiving a massage by the pool superimposed over the hotel façade. The ad went on to say how the hotel was located on the beach at Cabo San Lucas‚ Mexico and in a wonderful
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When Should we Discard Explanations that are Intuitively Appealing? Intuition‚ knowing or considering something to be likely from an instinctive feeling and not from conscious reasoning‚ is a difficult concept to deal with. Intuition can be often be true‚ but also lead us down a path of poor judgement. The difficulty with intuition is knowing when to accept it or when to reject it. Complicating this dilemma is dealing with explanations that are intuitively appealing. The more we want an explaination
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Evaluate Psychological Explanations for one eating disorder The psychodynamic approach suggests unconscious conflicts from childhood may be the reason for an eating disorder. As adolescent girls are most likely to have the disorder‚ it suggests that anorexia might be due to fear of increasing sexual desires and starvation is a way to avoid becoming pregnant because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is the absence of a menstrual cycle. Another psychodynamic explanation suggests anorexia is a
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Assess the sociological explanation that childhood is a social construction. Childhood is the time of a person’s life when they are a child. Childhood is said to be socially constructed‚ meaning that it has not been influenced by nature but has been shaped by the quality of family life and the culture within society. The social construction of childhood points out that childhood is dependent on a number of social factors rather than a biological stage. Sociologists argue about what the term ‘childhood’
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Freud’s explanation of depression focuses on the idea of loss - that the root cause of all depression lies in the loss of something loved‚ whether it is a person or an object. Lowry (1984) added that this loss can be real or imaginary. However‚ some may question what separates the overwhelming sadness caused by‚ say‚ the death of a loved one‚ and depression? The psychoanalytic approach fails to answer this. In PJ Clayton’s study‚ widows and widowers were studied for a year after the death of their
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Critically evaluate feminist explanations of female criminal behaviour. The involvement of females in crime and as the committers of crime was once a rare phenomenon but in recent years a dramatic increase has been seen all over the world. In England and Wales statistics have shown between 1994 and 2006 female crimes have steadily increased and have since continued to do so (MOJ 2009). Many sociological explanations and interpretations have arisen to coincide this surge in female offending as to
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*Critically evaluate Evolutionary Psychology theory as an explanation for sex differences in sexual j*ealousy. Discuss evidence for and against this explanation The subsequent part of this essay will now focus on the evidence against the theory of Evolutionary Psychology and will look at arguments in contradiction of this. The topic this essay will focus on in the argument against Darwin’s evolutionary psychology theory as an explanation for sex differences within sexual jealousy is Social Psychology
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Describe and evaluate one or more biological explanations of schizophrenia Research has shown that schizophrenia is heredity and can runs in families. This suggests that genes play a significant role. The closer the genetic relationship the more likely the people are to share the disorder. Evidence from family studies by Gottesman showed that when bothparent are schizophrenic then there is a 46% chance of the child getting it‚ however‚ if only one parent had it‚ it dropped to 17%. This suggests
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Describe the evolutionary explanation of gender development Evolutionary psychology is based on the ideas that our behaviour is influenced by our instincts left over from our evolutionary past. These behaviours were adaptive to increase the chances of survival and reproduction. Natural selection is the idea that the individual who is best adapted to the environment will survive and pass on their genes. Sexual selection is the idea that species have developed specific behaviours and physical
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