Asses the Functionalist explanations of Social Inequality. (40) Social Inequality refers to any difference between groups or individuals in society which results in one having inferior life chances than the other. Functionalists believe these inequalities are the result of the meritocracy we live in. This is a system based on the idea that social stratification is necessary and desirable for the society. Functionalists argue that inequalities have a purpose; they are functional for society. Functionalism
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(competence)‚ and not on the usage of this set when producing phrases (performance) Moreover‚ humans are supposed to be genetically predetermined to learn language because of the language acquisition device REF ; http://www.chomsky.info/ FUNCTIONALIST “Functionalist maintain that the communicative situation motivates constrain or otherwise determines grammatical structure” “The forms of natural languages are created and used for communicative functions.” REF : Bates and Mc Winney 1982‚ Mc Winney;
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For the Functionalists‚ education performs a positive function for all individuals in society and has a powerful influence over it. The education system serves the needs of an industrial society by providing a more advanced division of labour; socialising new generations into societies shared norms and values and‚ according to meritocratic criteria‚ allocates roles in. Education supposedly meets societies through three related economic roles; socialisation; allocation and vocational training.
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Jayna Kovel World Theatre Greg Justice 07 November 2013 The View Unnerving. That’s the only way to describe walking into a dimply lit black box theatre to realize that the actor you have come to watch…is watching you. He’s acting‚ yes‚ but the whole premise of “The View” could not have been more clearly stated as we sat down to the crackle and pop of white noise in the background. In the tiny theatre‚ I couldn’t have been more than ten feet from what we were soon to learn was the main character
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• Applying a Structural-functionalist perspective can help understand how the issue is affecting society. A way that teen pregnancy in low socioeconomic areas helped shape society is the production of more jobs in certain industries; e.g. planned parenthood • Another way this theory can be applied shows the increase of taxes Australians pay. According to the NCPTP “teen childbearing costs taxpayers at least 9 billion each year” [1] • Studies also show that 52% of mothers on welfare had their first
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And The INTRODUCTION In the conception of society as a system it becomes natural to see it‚ like other systems‚ as composed of parts that are interrelated and whose operations have consequences for the system as a whole. The functional orientation has long been implicit in biology and physiology‚ as well as in the social sciences of anthropology‚ economics‚ and sociology. Social scientists as diverse as Malthus‚ Marx‚ Durkheim‚ and Weber have engaged in describing the interrelationships between
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Outline and assess Functionalist explanations of crime and deviance. This question includes assessment of your understanding of the connections between crime and deviance and sociological theory. Functionalist explanations of deviance begin with society as a whole looking for the origins of deviance in the nature of society‚ not the biological or psychological make up of an individual. Functionalists favour quantative methods to look at society‚ using statistics to see society as a whole‚ rather
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Functionalism is a consensus structuralist theory‚ which sees the source of crime and deviance located in the structure of society. Although crime and deviance might be stigmatised in society‚ some sociologist think it is important to have it occur and there are some benefits to it. Durkheim (1982) argued that crime is an inevitable feature of social life‚ because individuals are composed to different influences and circumstances‚ and so not everyone can be equally committed to the shared values
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What are the key functions of education from a Functionalist Perspective? Ever since the education system was invented‚ there have been a lot of ideas and criticisms of how it should work. The most famous sociological groups‚ functionalists and Marxists‚ were part of this and still are today. They both think that their views are best for society. Talcott Parsons believes that the education system has three main functions. Firstly it socializes young people into key cultural values such as equality
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Comparing and contrasting the functionalist perspective with that of the conflict theory Marxist and functionalism are similar in that they see that the way society is structured as an important part in determining the way people have relationships and behave between themselves. This is known as structural perspective. Both functionalists and Marxists believe that people are portrayed as creature within the social system. The view of both conflict perspective and functionalist perspective as it refers
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