Using the Functionalist perspective discuss how sport can be used as an avenue for socialisation and social mobility Introduction Sports! There are very small areas in society that can generate such passion and interest and elevate its participants to almost divine status and raise them from humble beginnings to lords and ladies of the manner. For this reason sports can be used as a powerful medium for socialisation; although not exclusively as other social interactions can have the same results
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What are the main narrative function of Nelly and Lockwood? In ‘Wuthering Heights’ Emily Brontë uses a dual narration alongside a complex narrative structure of a story within a story within a story – Brontë is telling us the story of Lockwood (the first narrator)‚ who then its recalling the story told to him by Nelly (the second narrator). Although complicated‚ Brontë’s use of the two narrators gives the reader alternate aspects of the story‚ shown by Nelly romanticising parts and having a connection
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work together so that the body can survive. That is the idea of functionalism. Everything and everyone has a purpose that helps society. Take Walmart for example. Its existence serves an important function. All the different components of the functionalist perspective are seen in Walmart. Manifest functions are the obvious reasons why something exist‚ in this case Walmart. Walmart is a one stop shop. It has clothes‚ food‚ medicine‚ gas‚ and even a place that fix cars. It was created to have everything
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absence of disease or infirmity. This assertion is indicating that an individual cannot be contemplated as a healthy well-being if they do not have a complete state of well-being that include the mental‚ social and physical factors. There are four main determinants of health that can influence a young person’s health‚ which are the individual factors‚ socio cultural factors‚ socio economic factors and environmental factors. Individual factors‚ such as attitude‚ genetics and skills and knowledge
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The four main topics to have caused world war one is nationalism‚ militarism‚ alliances‚ imperialism One of the reasons World war one started was Militarism‚ militarism used to be known as an “arms race.” Because Britain expanded their navy‚ Germany wanted to do the same These countries competed to build the biggest and strongest army. For reasons of protection and power‚ the more a nation continued to build up their navy and army‚ the more other countries felt pressured to do the same. The cost
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Outline and evaluate the functionalist view of the role of the family in society. 33 marks - 25 minutes. A family is a kinship - people related by blood or marriage. Functionalism is a macro theory which means it looks at a wider sociological view. It focuses on the importance of the nuclear family (mother and father married with children)‚ the universality of the family‚ changing roles and how the nuclear family “fits” into modern society. The theory of “fit” is argued by Parsons‚ where he believes
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Three main entrepreneurs of the 1920’s were Alfred Sloan‚ the founder of GM‚ Henry Ford‚ the founder of Ford Vehicles‚ and Richard Sears‚ the founders of the department store‚ Sears. Richard Sears started out his business as mail order catalogues but decided to expand and have actual stores where people would be able to come in and shop. Richards Sears started opening his retail outlets in 1925 and the stores turned out to be a great success‚ as Sears department stores are still in existence today
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This essay is an attempt to discuss the problems political parties in Zambia are facing by using structural-functionalist and their contributions to liberal democracy. The academic piece shall begin by defining the key terms; those being‚ structural-functionalist‚ political parties and liberal democracy. This will be followed by a comprehensive discussion of political parties‚ focused on‚ with examples‚ the Zambian scene. Lastly‚ a brief conclusion based on the discussion will be outlined. “Functionalism
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were four main causes of world war I: Imperialism. Militarism‚ Nationalism‚ and Allies. The two sides of the war grew to be the Central powers and the Allies. In the beginning of the war America responded with neutrality‚ the preparedness movement and the peace movement. Germany had pulled to many strings over time and America had enough. Things for American soldiers on the European front vs. things for people on the home front were very different. Eventually President Wilson came up with a plan
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EXPERIMENTAL ESTIMATES OF EDUCATION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS* ALAN B. KRUEGER This paper analyzes data on 11‚600 students and their teachers who were randomly assigned to different size classes from kindergarten through third grade. Statistical methods are used to adjust for nonrandom attrition and transitions between classes. The main conclusions are (1) on average‚ performance on standardized tests increases by four percentile points the first year students attend small classes; (2) the test score
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