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    Task 1 - How would you define criminology? I would define Criminology as a body of knowledge that focuses on behaviour that violates the criminal law and seeks an explanation for that given behaviour‚ aimed principally at clarifying the connection between crime and the personal characteristics of the offender and/or his environment with special reference to the origin of the offence itself. The Criminologists major role is to provide a general background in the causes of crime‚ which is in itself

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    Nazi ideology and the evolution of political and social spheres of Germany from 1932-1945. Through this lens‚ Intentionalism and Functionalism as opposite schools of historiographical thought were produced and shaped‚ both attempting to explain the conceptual origins of the Holocaust. The two terms were coined by Timothy Mason in 1981 in an essay to differentiate between historians who believed that the Holocaust was a pre-meditated plan that Hitler had intentionally orchestrated from his consolidation

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    Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ - Gerard Genette Structuralism is a way to examines a literary text to arrive at their meaning‚ rather than the actual meanings of the text themselves. It is a study of structure wherever they occur. In the essay Genette analyses content‚ logics‚ grammars and semiotics. He is considering structuralism as a method to study literary criticism. In the beginning of the essay Genette is establishing difference between Bricoleur and Engineer‚ Art critic and Literary

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    what is meant by the term structuralism‚ and assess both the strengths and weaknesses of structuralism as a theoretical perspective “Structuralism is often said to be hard to define because it has taken too many different forms for a common denominator to be in evidence”‚ (Piaget 1971 p3)‚ there are however 5 main thinkers that are strongly associated with the term despite its ambiguity. Of these 5 perhaps only one would proudly refer to themselves as such. This one would be Levi-Strauss‚ often seen

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    Post-Structuralism  Post-structuralism is a continuation and simultaneous rejection of structuralism – not only literary structuralism but even more so the anthropological structuralism of Levi-Strauss (Bertens‚ 2008: 93). * Post-structuralist thought has discovered the essentially unstable nature of signification. The sign is not so much a unit with two sides as a momentary ‘fix’ between two moving layers. Saussure had recognized that signifier and signified are two separate systems‚ but he

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    Distinguish between diminishing returns and economies of scale (15 marks) In Business Economics‚ the short run is defined as the concept that within a certain period of time‚ in the future‚ at least one input is fixed while others are variable and the long run is defined as a period of time in which all factors of production and costs are variable. The law of diminishing returns is a short run concept‚ which states that increasing successive units of a variable factor to a fixed factor

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    Structuralism of Disgrace The dictionary definition of structuralism says: an approach that explores the relationships between fundamental elements of some kind. Coetzee’s stylish writing is rather post-structural in its’ views than structural‚ it is David the protagonist of the novel who is set in his structural ways. Coetzee prefers to write his story with more interest in the gaps‚ silences and absences of his texts. One can see this through his choice of a distant narrator‚ a narrator who

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    Structural Fuctionalism The Structural Functionalism looks at society as a whole with small parts that must work together to make society run smoothly. The smaller units are known as institutions‚ these include inequality‚ family‚ education‚ religion‚ politics‚ and the economy. Structural Functionalism assumes that the majority of society shares the same core values and “appropriate” forms of behavior. It looks at how constant patterns of behavior or social structures function to apply society’s

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    1Distinguish between international marketing‚ multinational marketing and global marketing. If we talk in general‚ both Global and International marketing are used interchangeably now-a-days. But if we are talking in terms of marketing theories‚ international marketing was a stage in the evolution of global marketing. Let us see how‚ Stage 1 : Domestic Marketing : Companies manufacturing products and selling those within the country itself. So‚ no international phenomenon at all. Stage

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    The affects of Functionalism‚ Conflict and Interactionist Theory on Family SOC101 Emily Frydrych May 24‚ 2010 A social institution is “an organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs” (Schaefer‚ 2009). I believe that family is one of the most important social institutions. Family is a social institution that is always changing. My family has changed greatly over the past years. As a child I went from foster home to foster home. My birth mother was only 14 years

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