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    Sociological Perspectives

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    Sociological perspective is a way of looking at the world through a sociological lens (Ferris and Stein 9). Sociologists use sociological perspective as a tool to understand human life in society. The following practices may be helpful in understanding sociology and thinking sociologically. Structural Functionalism is a paradigm that begins with the assumption that society is a unified whole that functions because of the contributions of its separate structures (Ferris and Stein 18). The Functionalist

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    BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Family to Family Submitted to Dr. Gene Jefferies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of EVAN 525 Contemporary Evangelism by Shawn T. Hunt October 4‚ 2014 Abstract The book Family to Family is a concrete guide for the family that has lost connection with itself. The very purpose of the book as stated by the authors is to “discover God’s purpose for your family‚ develop a family mission statement‚ establish core

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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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    influenced my reading. This gives different perspectives and gives different biases throughout each perspective. Both heart of darkness and things fall apart tell stories of and critique the nature of European colonization in Africa in the 1800s. Story tellers of each are significantly different although having some similarities between each story. As both story tellers are created differently‚ a different narrative view also can be seen and thus a separate perspective of European colonization is presented

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    Family is Irrelevant: Disagree Family is something that no one gets to choose‚ and no one can change. The best thing to do is be flexible and be able to take what they say and change it for your better understan express their rebellion. In the novels‚ Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger we get to experience growing up though the eyes of Holden Caulfield a sixteen year old. Whether it means wearing a raccoon tailed hat or ordering a prostitute Holden enjoys drawing attention to himself. He comes

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    FAMILY George Peter Murdock (Social Structure 250 societies) “A social group characterised by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes‚ at least two of whom maintain socially approved sexual relationship‚ and one or more children‚ own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults”. The family thus lives together‚ puts resources and produces offspring. Nuclear family is the smallest group. Extended family is Nuclear family plus vertical

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    Explain how and why the Functional Perspective is the legitimating rationale (explanation or justification) for a Capitalist economy‚ and give examples of this justification through race‚ religion‚ class‚ gender‚ and educational level. Then‚ critique the Functionalist ideology from the Conflict Perspective and describe how the stratification system produces deviants (not criminals‚ but rather those who fall outside the expectations in actions‚ thoughts‚ appearance‚ credit-score‚ etc) and the result

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    assess the contribution of functionalist sociologists to our understanding of the family. Functionalists employ the idea of the nuclear family being the main universal family in society and most benefitting. The nuclear family functions to meet the pro dominant means of society (sexual reproduction‚ educational and economic functions). The family allows each member of the family to shine individually and enjoy success. Functionalist Charles Murray also argues other family institutions weaken the production

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    Purpose of Paradigms and Theory    Sociology has different ways of approaching the world and ideas in it  ● Each one has its own assumptions‚ and own perspective on how to explain a particular  social problem or phenomenon    Theories are explained of the relationship between two or more concepts  ● Theories provide a way for organizing facts about some phenomena   ● Theory​  : A statements of how and why particular facts are related    There are three major paradigms in sociology :   ● Structural Functionalism 

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    JUSTICE FOR VICTIM’S FAMILY IN HOMICIDE CASE: A MALAYSIAN PERSPECTIVE UMAR MUKHTAR BIN MOHD NOOR UNIVERSITI SAINS ISLAM MALAYSIA JUSTICE FOR VICTIM’S FAMILY IN HOMICIDE CASE: A MALAYSIAN PERSPECTIVE Umar Mukhtar Bin Mohd Noor (Matric. No. 1080183) Academic project report submitted in partial fulfillment for the BACHELOR OF SHARIAH AND LAW WITH HONOURS Faculty of Syariah and Law UNIVERSITI SAINS ISLAM MALAYSIA Nilai June 2013 i AUTHOR DECLARATION ‫بسم اهلل الرحمن

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