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    Intelligence vs. Brain size Project 2: Data Collection College Algebra 161 November 15‚ 2012 Intelligence vs. Brain size The Data Collection project was designed to teach students how to collect‚ and organize‚ describe and document data using Excel lists and graphs. I chose this particular subject to research to further my understanding of the evolution of human species. “Can intelligence and brain size be directly related‚ and as intelligence increases‚ what happens to the size of our

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    This essay is going to discuss the role of intelligence in human beings examining both internal and external factors. Intelligence and whether it is innate or develops as one evolves‚ is one of humanity’s greatest debates. In everyday life one has to make decisions‚ solve problems and make sense of the world and what is happening in it. From an external point of view the intelligence of a human being develops through a constructive‚ cognitive process. Since the 1950s‚ cognitive developmental

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    Structural Fuctionalism The Structural Functionalism looks at society as a whole with small parts that must work together to make society run smoothly. The smaller units are known as institutions‚ these include inequality‚ family‚ education‚ religion‚ politics‚ and the economy. Structural Functionalism assumes that the majority of society shares the same core values and “appropriate” forms of behavior. It looks at how constant patterns of behavior or social structures function to apply society’s

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    Functionalism and crime: In this essay I will be talking about the functionalist perspective on crime and deviance and be comparing it with the Marxist view. The main functionalist theories I will be examining are Merton’s strain theory‚ Cohen’s status frustration and Cloward and Ohlin’s three subcultures. Functionalists argue that crime and deviance is useful and necessary in society as they reinforce the consensus of values‚ norms and behaviour of the majority non-deviant population. Functionalists

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    Functionalism is referred to as consensus structuralism because it emphasises the central role that agreement between members of a society on morals plays in maintaining social order. It is this moral consensus that creates an equilibrium‚ which is the normal state of society. Durkheim was concerned with the question of how societies maintain internal stability and survive over time. He sought to explain social cohesion and stability through the concept of solidarity. In "primitive" societies it

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    02/19/2014 Cognitive Theories Cognitive Theorists believe that the way we think and assume effect how we relate and react to the world. A child adapts to his environment for example if a babies mom introduces breast feeding from birth‚ when her breast eventually becomes chapped and she needs to start using the bottle this will create a disequilibrium. The bottle is new to the baby so the baby has to use assimilation by adapting to sucking and swallowing from the bottle like he or she does

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    Structuralism and Functionalism Cesar De La Riva National University Psychology 426 – History of Psychology Professor Mary Rogers Structuralism and Functionalism The 20th Century has provided people today with the ability to sit down‚ turn on a computer and educate themselves on a historical subject such as psychology‚ up to its present state. Psychology was established as a science‚ structuralism and functionalism emerged as theories to explain how the human mind works. Structuralism was the first

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    The affects of Functionalism‚ Conflict and Interactionist Theory on Family SOC101 Emily Frydrych May 24‚ 2010 A social institution is “an organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs” (Schaefer‚ 2009). I believe that family is one of the most important social institutions. Family is a social institution that is always changing. My family has changed greatly over the past years. As a child I went from foster home to foster home. My birth mother was only 14 years

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    documentary evidence by the Nazi’s. Historians have attempted to overcome this by focusing on the progression of Nazi ideology and the evolution of political and social spheres of Germany from 1932-1945. Through this lens‚ Intentionalism and Functionalism as opposite schools of historiographical thought were produced and shaped‚ both attempting to explain the conceptual origins of the Holocaust. The two terms were coined by Timothy Mason in 1981 in an essay to differentiate between historians who

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    biological perspective focuses on biological factors‚ such as neurotransmitters and genes which affect our behaviour. The approach believes that our behaviour is identified through an underlying structure and function known as structuralism. Functionalism is the other concept the biological perspective focuses on which studies behaviour between the environment and organisms. The psychoanalytical perspective was developed by Sigmund Freud; the approach believes that we are influenced by our unconscious

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