Home Work Two Introduction to Sociology Fall 2013. Student Name: Student ID # : Student Section: Due Date: December 18‚ 2013. Good Luck ESSAY QUESTIONS 1- In a short essay‚ identify a number of your own statuses. What roles correspond to each? Do any operate as master statuses? How? 2- Explain the idea of socially constructing reality with examples from everyday life. 3- State four ways in which‚ according to Emile Durkheim‚ deviance is functional for society as
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authorities to engage in criminal behavior in certain situations. Psychopaths: Specific personality types; such individuals lack the moral sense and concern for others held by most normal people. Anomie: A concept first brought into wide usage in sociology by Durkheim‚ referring to a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior. Differential Association: An interpretation of the development of criminal behavior proposed by Edwin H. Sutherland‚ according to whom criminal
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Sociology –"Dysfunctions in the Family" The family is one of the oldest social institutions and according to George Peter Murdock (1949)‚ can be defined as ‘a social group characterized by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction.’ Murdock further concludes that in order for a family to become established there must be adults of both sex present‚ two of whom maintain a sexually approved relationship‚ and one or more children‚ their own or adopted. However‚ Murdock’s definition
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The United States is known for its cultural diversity. This is because of the United States open door police (Phillips‚ The Challenge of Cultural Diversity). The police produced growth (Phillips‚ The Challenge of Cultural Diversity). Growth melted many different cultures with different beliefs and backgrounds. The growth made cultural diversity (Phillips‚ The Challenge of Cultural Diversity). Cultural diversity causes challenges for workers and individuals in the health care field (Phillips‚ The
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Rural sociology studies the village and urban sociology deals with the city. The city life de pends on the village and what it produces. Similarly‚ the village is very much influenced by the city. Due to the pressures from within and attractions from outside people are flocking towards the cities from the villages. The economic necessity and social deficiency are ‘pushing’ the people out of the village‚ while the attractions of the city are ‘pulling’ them towards their centres. This has resulted
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References: Henslin‚ James‚ M. (2012). Sociology A down-to-earth approach. Eleventh ed. Boston‚ MA: Nesbitt graphics Publishers.
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REFERENSES Haralambos‚ M(2000)The Sociological Perispective;Rondom House.New York. Schaefer‚R‚T and Lamm R (1992)Sociology;McGraw Hill.New York Thomas J.Sullivan.Sociology Linda L. Lindsey.Sociology According to Thomas J. Sullivan‚ the family is the eldest and most fundamental of all social institutions. In fact the family was at one time the center of the political economic educational and religious activities. Every society has
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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 methods
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Enforcing Cultural Codes: Gender and Violence in Northern India Author(s): Prem Chowdhry Source: Economic and Political Weekly‚ Vol. 32‚ No. 19 (May 10-16‚ 1997)‚ pp. 1019-1028 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4405393 . Accessed: 28/03/2013 01:16 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that
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Name Chapter 8--Stratification: United States and Global Perspectives Description Instructions Modify Add Question Here Question 1 Multiple Choice Question 0 points Modify Remove Which of the following is NOT one of the three lessons about social stratification that is illustrated in Brym and Lie’s discussion of the 1975 Italian movie‚ Swept Away. Answer It is possible to be rich without working hard because one can inherit wealth. One can work hard without becoming rich
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