assess the functionalists’ theory of social inequalities The Functionalist theory believes that Social stratification‚ including age inequality‚ is necessary for the functioning of a healthy society. Their perspective of social inequality is the belief that "inequality is not only inevitable but also necessary for the smooth functioning of society’. Functionalists believe that Age has become more important in modern society; age provides the function of social integration leading to social cohesion
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Explain the Social Structure of Sparta and its Significance in Spartan Society Good morning According to historical accounts‚ the Spartan constitution was created around the 750th C BC‚ by the great lawgiver‚ Lycurgus. The new system established a social structure that maintained a military power of Sparta and kept the conquered Messenians in cheque. Xenophon‚ writing 4th Century BC‚ recognised Lycurgus as the Spartan lawgiver. At the bottom of the social ladder were the helots. The Helots were
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Annotation 9: 1200 C.E. Social Structure of the Byzantine Empire (Theme 5) The Byzantine Empire consisted of three different classes. The upper class included aristocrats‚ government officials‚ senior military officers‚ and large landowners. The middle class included merchants and owners of medium-sized landed properties. The lower class included people working under those of the upper class and the clergy. It was possible to move up the ladder to a different class through military service or
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SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Sociology is known to be a very debatable subject without an agreeable consensus. Different perspectives exist and each one tries to explain the society in a different way. A perspective can be defined as a set of principles‚ an approach or a school of thought which helps to understand and explain social life. A perspective helps us to understand how the society is organised‚ how social life is arranged and how it functions. Sociological perspectives can be categorised
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meaning behind occurrences and certain individuals experiences before the suicide. Other perspectives also put in their views on what they believe to explain suicide for example‚ Realists. Item A references to Durkheim’s Structural Functionalist view on suicide‚ as stated Durkheim believes that due to sociology being a science with the topic of suicide it is very easy to make causal laws or as said in Item A ‘social facts’. Using quantitative data from official statistics‚ Durkheim analysed the suicide
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to the program. How will your background enhance and broaden your learning and that of your classmates in Schulich’s dynamic environment? I am an Asian-American woman living and working in the global city of New York. Growing up in an international city allowed me to become a multicultural individual and develop into a young woman different from my counterparts in Asia and here in the United States as well. I was taught by my parents not only the values of a Chinese culture but also to strive to
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Drug Use in Our Welfare System A common problem in today’s welfare system is the use of drugs. Substance abuse and addiction often interfere with a parent’s ability to get and keep jobs as well as contributes to child abuse and neglect. Addicted mothers show several deficits in their parenting behaviors. They are usually unengaged‚ uncommunicative with their infants‚ often use threatening and authoritarian disciplinary approaches. They also have a higher incidence of child abuse and neglect
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In the second case example‚ a theoretical perspective that may work for the family‚ is the Strengths Perspective. In this perspective‚ a social worker would acknowledge the client’s strengths and help the clients build upon those strengths‚ as well as realizing that they have the ability to learn and change. In this example‚ Romelio has numerous strengths that he can build upon in order to change his ways. One of his strengths includes the fact that he was able to maintain sobriety for two years
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A sociological perspective The article I read was on how culture is involved in the social working sector in Jamaica. As the article says‚ it is known that most writers seem to agree that the word “culture” is a sort of relationship between cultural patterns of the groups of people and their survival strategies. Throughout the passage‚ the plural society theory came about. A plural society is one that is composed of various groups‚ each with its own subculture‚ and only a few culture symbols are
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Criticisms of the functionalist view of the family Functionalism is the theory that all aspects of society serve a function‚ and these functions are necessary for society. Functionalists believe that the survival of society depends on all of the different aspects which is a like the human body. The human body has all different aspects of it working together to make it function (organs) and without one of these the body wouldn’t work‚ this is what functionalists believe society is like. Marxists
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