Critically evaluate the functionalist perspective on education (20 marks) Functionalist’s perspective on education is based on the consensus theory of equality. They tend to believe that education helps to maintain society by socialising young people with the value of achievement‚ competition and equality of opportunity. Education also teaches the skills to help the economy. For example‚ literacy‚ numeracy and IT for particular occupations. Role allocation is all part of this; education allocates
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law. Social norms dictate informal deviance. The functionalist perspective of deviance is that crime is inevitable because not everyone can or will be equally committed. A lot of social change seems to begin with a form of deviance. For example‚ the Civil Rights Movement. People such as Rosa Parks who spoke out against segregation by simply going against what was customary at the time were performing acts of deviance. The conflict perspective of deviance is that it does not go along with social
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Outline and Asses Functionalist explanations of social inequality (40marks) Functionalism is a concencus theory that focused on the unity and harmony of society. Functionalists believe that society is a system that works together in order for it to funtction. Inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions in a society and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods‚ wealth‚ opportunities etc. There are many types of inequality such as social
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Assess functionalist views of the role of education. (20 marks) Functionalists emphasise positive aspects of schools‚ this is the idea of a ‘consensus’ perspective; where there is an agreement about what is valued within a society. These are like Emile Durkheim’s social facts or moral regulation in that they govern behaviour‚ and while they are coercive‚ they are also generally agreed upon where ‘The function of education is to transmit society’s norms and values’ . According to functionalists education
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An instrument to measure job satisfaction of nursing home administrators Nicholas G Castle [pic] A649 Crabtree Hall‚ Graduate School of Public Health‚ 130 DeSoto Street‚ Pittsburgh‚ PA 15261‚ USA BMC Medical Research Methodology 2006‚ 6:47doi:10.1186/1471-2288-6-47 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/6/47 | | | | | | | | | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
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off again‚ Ruth said‚ “Dam that was quick.” Pulling the pillow over her head‚ and wanted to go back to sleep‚ but today she had planned to see her grandfather‚ after her trip to Howardsville. During the last few visited him in the Mountaineer Nursing Home‚ he told interesting stories about Putney Mountain and Howardsville‚ a mining town forty miles southwest of Charleston in the Allegheny Mountains. Being a young reporter‚ Ruth wanted to jump-start her career by writing a fascinating story about
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grandfather and the father and mother. The father and mother disapprove of the language he uses around their children. A structural-functionalist might question how the members of the family are performing their specified functions. They may look at each member’s values‚ beliefs‚ and social norms and see how they relate to one another. By doing this‚ a structural-functionalist will be able to identify why conflict or despair is occurring within a family unit. For example‚ if the mother’s belief system
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theory approaches deviance as a necessary part of the social organization. They believed that deviance helps create social stability. Emile Durkheim was the one who made that point also believed with deviance people can define and support morality. Functionalists believe deviance helps people draw boundaries between good and bad. Symbolic-interaction theory explains
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We should not put our families in nursing home Purpose To persuade my audience why they should not put their family members in a nursing home. Introduction Do you have a disable or elderly family member that can not do for themselves? We as people need to think about where we place our family members as far as nursing homes and facilities. Many of you may not have any disable
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thinking in the sociology of the family for many years. Functionalists are interested in how the functions for the greater good of society and how it contributes to the maintenance of social order. (Moore‚ 2008). Functionalism defines the family as having its part or function within society. Functionalists suggest that if a social institution is apparent then it must have a role or function. The family is looked at in terms of its functions
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