Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess the contribution of Marxism to our understanding of the role of education. As mentioned in Item A‚ Marxists take a critical view of the role of education. They see society as based on class divisions and capitalist exploitations. The capitalist society is a two class system as mentioned in Item A and it consists of a ruling class‚ the bourgeoisie and the working class‚ the proletariat. The bourgeoisie exploits the proletariat according to Marxists and
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Sociologists and psychologists alike have expressed interest in how the individual develops and modifies the sense of self as a result of social interaction. The work of sociologist Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead‚ pioneers of the interactionist approach have been especially useful in furthering our understanding of these inportant issues(Gesas 1982). In the early 1900s Charles Horton Cooley advanced the belief that we learn who
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Methods for investigating the brain: |Method for Investigating the |What it is |Advantages |Disadvantages | |brain | | |
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organizations: a. Incompatibility of goals b. Differences over interpretations of facts c. Disagreements based on behavioral expectations. 3. Interactionist Conflict a. Functional conflict – conflict that supports the goals of the group and improves its performance. b. Dysfunctional conflict – conflict that hinders group performance. 4. Types of interactionist conflict: a. Task conflict – conflicts over content and goals of the work. Low to moderate levels of this type are FUNCTIONAL. b. Relationship
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families as a unit of the whole composed of members whose interactional patterns are the focus of attention. Developmental Theory - emphasizes how families change over time and focuses on interactions and relationships among family members. Interactionist Theory - focuses on the family as a unit of interacting personalities and examines the communication processes by which family members relate to one another. Friedman Family Assessment Model * Draws heavily on structure-function framework
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deviance and social control Deviance and Social Control BSBM 1-6 Jimhil D. Burgos Joyce Ann Abito Deviance – any act that violates the social norms with respect to the following factors: time‚ place and public consensus. PERSPECTIVES AND THEORIES OF DEVIANCE 1.) Functionalist Perspective * Emile Durkheim’s Functionalist Theory – Deviance benefits society by enhancing conformity‚ strengthening social solidarity‚ safely reseasing discontent and inducing social change.
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| Question 1 | 10 out of 10 points | | The sociologist who studied feral children‚ including the abused child Isabelle who was discovered in 1938 living in an attic with her deaf-mute mother‚ was ________. | | | | | Selected Answer: | B. Kingsley Davis | Correct Answer: | B. Kingsley Davis | | | | | Question 2 | 10 out of 10 points | | In the "nature versus nurture" argument regarding socialization‚ the "nurture" component refers to________. | | | |
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Society is an ordered‚ organized and structured community. When discussing society there are three sociological perspectives; functional‚ conflict and symbolic interactionist perspectives. A functionalist view sees society as a complicated system of parts that interact to perform the needs of a society. Conflict perspective view classes in conflict to determine social change. Symbolic interactionism is the study of society interactions between groups and/or individuals. Functionalism is the most
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Y12-Psychology – Extra notes What is Reductionism? Reductionism is the belief that human behaviour can be explained by breaking it down into smaller component parts. Reductionists say that the best way to understand why we behave as we do is to look closely at the very simplest parts that make up our systems‚ and use the simplest explanations to understand how they work. It is based on the scientific assumption of parsimony - that complex phenomena should be explained by the simplest underlying
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sociological theory. This perspective relies on the symbolic meaning that people develop and rely upon in the process of social interaction. With Symbolic interactionism‚ reality is seen as social‚ developed interaction with others. Most symbolic interactionists believe a physical reality does indeed exist by an individual’s social definitions‚ and that social definitions do develop in part or relation to something “real.” People thus do not respond to this reality directly‚ but rather to the social understanding
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