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    through the main education highway The First Biennial National Congress on Education was held early this year on January 31 to February 1‚ participated by approximately 400 representatives from the academe‚ local government units and the industries‚ with “the strong desire to address prevailing issues and concerns that hinder the Stakeholders from providing the future generation with the appropriate education to maximize their potential. It is in this context that the MAIN EDUCATION HIGHWAY was

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    duties. Indisputably‚ the practice of judicial review is the main power of the United States Supreme Court to date.</p> <p>Many claim that judicial review was never "spelled" out in the Constitution; however‚ Chief Justice John Marshall saw the controversy of Marbury v. Madison as an unacceptable instance of unconstitutional applied laws. In Marbury v. Madison‚ the issue of whether or not the U.S. Supreme Court could hear William Marbury ’s suit against Secretary of State‚ James Madison‚ was questioned

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    of functionalist sociologists to our understanding of the role of the education system in society (20) Ferne bryan Functionalism is a structuralized theory which says the individual is less important compared to society. They say we’re a part of a complex system where various parts work together to benefit the whole. E.g. The human body; there are some organs more important than others but they all work together to help the human body function properly. Functionalists say there are three main roles

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    Functionalist vs. Symbolic Interactionist Functionalists believe that each aspect of society is interdependent and contributes to society’s functioning as a whole to create stability or work toward the same common goal. The government‚ or state‚ provides education for the children of the family‚ which in turn pays taxes on which the state depends to keep itself running. The family is dependent upon the school to help children grow up to have good jobs so that they can raise and support their own

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    Describe the Functionalist‚ Conflict and Interactionist approach to the Socialization of Education. Education - A Functionalist Perspective Emile Durkheim proposed an explicitly functionalist explanation of the role of education in society. The major function/task of education was‚ according to Durkheim‚ the transmission of society ’s norms and values. Durkheim considered that all societies must have means of passing on their norms and values to the young. If they did not‚ they could not continue

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    America was focused on eliminating social inequality and injustice‚ but rapid urbanization continued racism‚ and most importantly the Vietnam War‚ had created a stark contrast of the promises and reality of the time. If we apply Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions to 60’s there’d be two contrasting cultures which are almost mirror representations of each other. The majority culture was on the right characterized by older age‚ a high power distance‚ masculinity affinity‚ and uncertainty avoidance‚ and individualistic

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    University of Alberta professor of psychology‚ Jeff Schimel’s experiment on self-projection indicated that we see in others what we fear in ourselves. Keeping this in mind‚ racism does then serve a purpose. Using the functionalist perspective in Sociology‚ racism suppresses and discriminates against people of distinct physical differences. Plainly‚ it keeps minorities working for cheap and without hopes of reaching their full potential; this also keeps the dominant working

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    Compare the main assumptions of the Functionalist and Marxist perspectives on religion. ______________________________________________________________________________ “Religion is an organized collection of beliefs‚ cultural systems and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.” Sociologist study religion as both a belief system and a social institution. As belief system – Religion shapes what people think and how they see the world. As Social Institution – Religion is a pattern

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    will compare and contrast the functionalist and conflict perspectives. Both are on a macro level but are different theories with how the sociologists view the social problem of poverty. An examination of the two theories will show the differences of the functionalist theoretical perspective‚ which focuses primarily on the positive and some negative‚ and the conflict theoretical perspective‚ which focuses on the negative. (Leon-Guerrero‚ A ‚ 2013) The functionalist theoretical perspective accepts

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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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