The family is a major institution for carrying out essential production‚ consumption‚ reproduction‚ and accumulation functions that are associated with the social and economic empowerment of individuals and societies. The members of the family are human beings and are in need of material things to survive and develop. It is this need to obtain and to consume goods and services that constitute economic development and the role that the family plays in economic development (Bigombe and Khadiagala
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(Retrieved 24.05.11 Government of Zimbabwe Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Education and Training 1999. Harare: Government Printers 80 Gorski‚ P. (Ed.) (2000) A Working Definition of Multicultural Education. Ed Change. Org Haralambos‚ M. and Heald R.M. (1984). Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. Slough: University Tutorial Press. Harber‚ C. (1994)’ Ethnicity and Education for Democracy in Sub Saharan Africa’. in International Journal for Education Development. Volume 14 Number
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The Development of Sub-cultures‚ with particular reference to youth cultures A Sub-Culture is a smaller culture held by a group of people within the main culture of a society‚ in some ways different from the dominant culture of a society‚ but with many aspects in common. Subcultures come in a diversity of forms‚ associated with street gangs‚ prison inmates‚ drug addicts‚ football hooligans‚ religious cults‚ hippie communes‚ and punk rockers. On a larger societal scale‚ subcultures include working-class
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Why is health so difficult to define? - determining whether or not someone is healthy is not an easy matter. Health is personal‚ social and emotional. It touches everyone in an important way. For most people health becomes a topic of interest only in its absence. This is the negative definition of health. The positive definition is much different. It is viewed as a capacity‚ and optimistic view‚ where health is as state of well-being. The World Health Organization (W.H.O) shares this definition
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11 Patronage of Local Cinema Halls among Urban Youths in Ado Ekiti‚ Southwest Nigeria Babatunde Joshua Omotosho Introduction and Statement of Problem Globally‚ urban areas are noted for the provision of social and public spaces in terms of education‚ energy supply‚ leisure‚ recreation facilities in order to make life conducive for the urban dwellers. Nigerians are deprived of these facilities in urban centres due to poverty and failure to maintain the existing ones‚ among other reasons. However
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References: 1. Cardwell‚ Clark and Melldrum‚ Collins psychology for A2 level 2. David Rice and Mike Haralambos‚ psychology in focus A2 level
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Deviance: Functionalist Explanations 1 Deviance: F unctionalist E xplanations The Functionalist Explanation of Crime/22/11/999/P.Covington/ 1999 At times‚ a package deal is presented in which functionalist‚ positivism‚ empiricism‚ evolutionism‚ and determinism are collectively linked with a ‘consensus’ approach to social problems and a conservative approach to their solution. Downes and Rock‚ 1995 Being a peripheral and ad hoc modern day‚ functionalist criminology may be represented as a somewhat
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References: Rice‚ D. and Haralambos‚ M. (2013.) An experiment into the Stroop effect. Retrieved from http://www.123helpme.com/an-experiment-into-the-stroop-effect-view.asp?id=150197 Healey (1976) Stroop‚ J. R. (1935). Classics in history of psychology: Studies of interference in serial
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Sociologists study society as a ’social science’ however the status of sociology as a science is easily questionable when compared to how acknowledged scientists study the natural world. In order to determine whether or not sociology can be accepted as a true science it is useful to make comparisons between the studies performed by both sociologists and natural scientists on their subjects of society and the natural world respectively. Sociology can be considered a science as it involve systematic
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