Youth Unemployment South-Africa is currently struggling with a large unemployment amongst the youth. The National Development Plan has identified a number of policy interventions to improve youth employment. In your view‚ what are the causes of youth unemployment and what should government do to improve the levels of youth employment? Identify the pros and cons of each of your proposals. “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime” (Chinese
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Identify the three major sociological theoretical paradigms. For each‚ what are its core questions? Which one do you relate to best? How can you use this particular paradigm to explain your decision to attend college? What research method would you use‚ and how‚ to explore why adult students choose to return to college? Structural functionalism‚ is particularly useful for analyzing the components of society that are supposed to work harmoniously to benefit the whole. It is often used to examine
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acceleration of its already high unemployment rate. South Africa currently has one of the highest unemployment rates internationally. This is the culmination of a long-term‚ yet steady‚ rise in unemployment that started as early as the 1970s (Seeking and Natrass 2006)‚ but which has rapidly accelerated in the post-apartheid period. South Africa as a developing country has faced a crisis of the high rate of unemployment in recent years. In the South African labour market‚ unemployment has remained a crucial
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Structural family therapy (SFT) is rooted in family systems theory‚ but it is unique in its focus on family structure and its preference for remaining grounded in the here and now (Vetere‚ 2001‚ p. 133). For structural family therapists‚ family wholeness is the most important goal and individual symptoms are viewed as the result of dysfunctional family transactions (Lappin & Minuchin‚ 2011). When the family structure is reorganized‚ the family can interact functionally and harmoniously (M. Reed‚
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focus on the cultural and structural frame. Analysing an artwork through the lens of a cultural frame reveals how the conditions of place and time‚ and the values and beliefs of a society are reflected in the artwork. To adopt the lens of the cultural frame‚ ask yourself: What is the purpose of the artwork? Why does it look the way it does? What values and beliefs of society are embodied in the artwork? What conditions of place and time does the artwork reflect? Structural frame (looking at artwork
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cohesion. Emilie Durkheim asserted that our society needs deviance to stabilize our society as a whole. Social bonds are stronger from those who identify and punish deviant behavior. Social structure is where the functionalists focus their attention. Structural strain theory is related to the functionalist theory because it shows what can happen when social goals cannot be meant through legal ways (MindEdge‚ 2015). In the Conflict Theory‚ social inequality is related to deviance. They believe the wealthy
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Structural racism is the silent opportunity killer. It is the blind interaction between institutions‚ policies‚ and practices that inevitably perpetuates barriers to opportunities and racial disparities. Conscious and unconscious racism continue to exist in our society. But structural racism feeds on the unconscious. Public and private institutions and individuals each build a wall. They do not necessarily build the wall to hurt people of color‚ but one wall is joined by another until they construct
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Violence Is Never the Answer I believe that violence is never the answer. This statement is what I have been carrying since the day I heard of it. Even though I believe that‚ it is hard to follow. With violence all around us‚ it is hard to know what is right and wrong. On one hand violence entertains us (movies‚ TV‚ video games‚ etc.) and on the other hand‚ violence is also the thing that can destroy us when we let it do so. Is there a difference between the violence we see in the movies and the
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For the two career websites‚ I choose Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com. When I was on both websites looking for a job I noticed that on Monster.com there weren’t as many job listings as CareerBuilder.com‚ in addition Monster.com didn’t have as many options to narrow down specific job titles or certain companies like CareerBuilder.com had. Also while comparing the two websites I noticed that in Monster.com the descriptions for the job titles didn’t have as much information as CareerBuilder.com had
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101 6 February 2018 The Structural-Functional Perspective Structural functionalism sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. The differences in this complex system‚ are social structures that shaped our lives through our family‚ religion‚ schools‚ and our government. Each of these social functions are influenced by and dependent on its relationships with each other that guide structure to our everyday lives. The structural-functional perspective
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