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    Education is the process for learning basic life skills‚ to get children to socially interact with others and to enable people to get good qualifications so they can gain better careers. Functionalists offer an optimistic analysis of the role of education and they maintain that education and training performs a positive function. However Marxist theorists offer a pessimistic analysis of the role of education. They argue that schools do not serve the interests of everyone in society‚ but a ruling

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    QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL RESEARCH Christina Hughes C.L.Hughes@warwick.ac.uk There has been widespread debate in recent years within many of the social sciences regarding the relative merits of quantitative and qualitative strategies for research. The positions taken by individual researchers vary considerably‚ from those who see the two strategies as entirely separate and based on alternative views of the world‚ to those who are happy to mix these strategies within

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    COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING - APPROACHES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING DIDATICS Methods BACKGROUND The origins of CLT are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960´s. Until then‚ Situational Language Teaching represented the major british approach to teaching english as a foreign language. In slt ‚ language was taught by practicing basic structures in meaningful situation-based activities. But British linguistis saw the need to focus in language

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    The Dominant Approaches Used For Crime Prevention Jamal Sanchez Bush Crime Prevention CJ212 June 21‚ 2011 Introduction Crime prevention has influenced by so many fields like sociology‚ psychology‚ criminology‚ urban planning and design‚ health care‚ education‚ community development‚ economics & social work‚ among the others. This paper focuses on the dominant approaches to crime prevention which is currently used by law enforcement‚ courts‚ and corrections. The dominant

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    • Applying a Structural-functionalist perspective can help understand how the issue is affecting society. A way that teen pregnancy in low socioeconomic areas helped shape society is the production of more jobs in certain industries; e.g. planned parenthood • Another way this theory can be applied shows the increase of taxes Australians pay. According to the NCPTP “teen childbearing costs taxpayers at least 9 billion each year” [1] • Studies also show that 52% of mothers on welfare had their first

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    The Marxist ideal‚ a highly appealing‚ almost Utopian society‚ is impossible to achieve due to the fact that it demands that the human mind be almost without flaws. It asks of society and its members to be absolutely without ranks‚ without greed or leadership. This has been clearly impossible for society. Each step to achieving a communist establishment has been‚ continues to be‚ and will be‚ in actuality‚ a step towards the totalitarian societies of past and current so-called

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    The Great Gatsby: The Corruption of The American Dream Through Materialism Freedom‚ equal opportunity‚ the chance for all to succeed by the ambition in their hearts and the strength of their backs. The American dream became a mindset in all who set foot in the country of possibility. Set in the bustling heart of America in the Roaring Twenties‚ “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald criticizes not the American dream itself‚ but the corruption of the ideal. He satirizes the capitalist distortion

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    The Marxist literary criticism according to the Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary theory describes that a novel should unmask or accentuate a more whole understanding of a community. Marxist criticism analyzes ways in which a human is formed and socialized through manufactured views of reality and truth. (Fish‚ Tom) The novel A Prayer for Owen Meany is a good example of underlying patterns and manufactured views of reality and truth. If we examine John Irving’s novel A Prayer for

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    Racial and Gender Inequality Functionalist Theory Racial inequality evaluated through the functionalist theory would be looked at to provide a function to the working system of a society. One function for racial inequality could be that the inferior race‚ prefers or needs direction by the dominant race. This was a common view in the enslavement of blacks in the south before the civil war. Another functionalist view might try to explain that the inferior race is in fact dangerous to mix with the

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    Critically evaluate the Marxist perspective of the family According to Marx’s perspective‚ family is seen as an obstruction to achieve the communist goals‚ as it is crucial to passing the established order such as cultural ideals on to the next generation. However‚ Marx was focused on social class rather than the role of family‚ it was his friend Engels trace the evolution of the family in “The Origin of the Family‚ Private Property and the State” (1884 ‚ Zurich) In this context‚ this essay will

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