Deviance is an action or behavior that violates social or cultural norms. It can be categorized into two categories‚ formal and informal. Formal deviance is a criminal act as dictated by the 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
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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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Sociological Views of Poverty Michelle Williams-Thomas Sociology 101 Professor Yelena Gidenko February 12‚ 2012 At the beginning of the twentieth century‚ the most common reasons people died were accidents or communicable diseases like pneumonia. Today‚ millions die each day from poverty. How can poverty be defined? And what is the difference between absolute and relative poverty? In the paper I will address these issues along with sociological views of poverty. Poverty is a 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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Assess the functionalist view of the medical profession. Functionalists have a consensus view on the medical profession; they support the occupation‚ as they believe all groups in society work together like a human body. Other groups such as feminists and Marxists believe that the medical profession does not take into account the social model. Both Marxist and feminists have a more conflict approach around the medical occupation. Functionalists believe that doctors and the likes of have an
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Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the functionalist view on society. Functionalism is a consensus perspective‚ whereby society is based on shared values and norms into which members are socialised. For functionalists‚ society is seen as a system of social institutions such as the economy‚ religion and the family all of which perform socialisation functions. A strength of the functionalist theory is that it a macro level structural theory which uses an organic analogy- using the body as
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A Comparison of Marxist and Functionalist Views on Society There is a division between functionalists and Marxists over the functions of the society. Marxism was founded by Karl Marx. Marx saw society as divided into two major parts‚ the economic base otherwise known as the infrastructure and the super-structure. Functionalists see society as a set of parts which work together to form a whole. Functionalism is also called a consensus theory. Marxism and functionalism are similar
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Assess the usefulness of the Functionalist view of the family (24 marks) Functionalism is a macro theory and so looks at things on a large scale they consist of structural theorists. They see society as being similar to a human body‚ in that the essential organs in the body perform specific functions. This is like society as one of the essential organs in society is the family‚ as it performs essential functions which serve the needs of the family. And that each part of the body works in harmony
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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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I am going to look at the Feminist point of view on Education and also‚ the Functionalist point of view on Education. Feminism There are many different types of feminists‚ there are Radical Feminists who are the most extreme in voicing their opinion about gender and the rights of women. There are Conservative Feminists‚ who adopt and appreciate the male need for a career and public achievement as female goals‚ thereby denying women ’s need for intimacy‚ family‚ and children. There are Liberal
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