Cultural Deprivation and Compensatory Education Cultural deprivation theory is not now so significant in theory as it once was‚ but it still justifies some thought. It begins with the understanding that working class people have a different culture from middle class people. It then notes that working class people do less well in education. Some theorists then make a causative link between the two ideas and suggest that working class people do less well because their culture is somehow inferior.
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FAMILY George Peter Murdock (Social Structure 250 societies) “A social group characterised by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes‚ at least two of whom maintain socially approved sexual relationship‚ and one or more children‚ own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults”. The family thus lives together‚ puts resources and produces offspring. Nuclear family is the smallest group. Extended family is Nuclear family plus vertical
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Over the years the education system has improved largely with better consideration for the children’s ability and health‚ whilst they are also working on ways to improve equality for the children that require extra support or adjustments made for their suitability due to disabilities or illnesses‚ including lifts or ramps in schools or colleges. The state also helped by making it worthwhile for a child to attend school‚whether it be by providing students with nutritional supplements or increasing
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sociologists has a link to these ideas which will be the main thesis in this essay. Emile Durkheim looks at religion from a functionalist perspective in the sense that he assumes that religion has a positive role in society‚ as it acts as an important socialisation process for all members. The theory is largely based on the Arunta tribe in Australia‚ where he discovered objects worshipped which he calls ‘totems.’ These totems according to him were an important factor in the society; seeing that the objects
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different sociological approaches to health and ill health There are many sociological approaches that explain health and ill health. In this assignment I will be focusing on Marxism‚ feminism‚ interactionaist and functionalism perspectives. The Marxist perspective believe that the bourgeoisie (middle class) exploit the proletariat (working class) as we live in a capitalist system and that if we lived in an communist society that would be our ideal society because there would be equality between
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How the family has changed over time? The institution of the family has changed dramatically over last 50 years and the main sociological perspectives‚ functionalism‚ Marxism‚ feminism and interactionism have described this changes in terms of family structure‚ divorce rates‚ marriage rate and gender roles. Defining family in Britain is problematic as until 1960’s few sociologists questioned the importance of the benefits of the family. Family is a group of people living together related by blood
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role of education Functionalists Functionalists say it does 3 important things • Teaches the skills needed for a job (so helps the economy) • Sorts the clever people from the thick for the right jobs (allocation function) • Is secondary socialisation (so helps people fit into society). Durkheim said the last one is done by passing on norms and values and this continues shared values – a consensus. Thus we have social order. Parsons adds that schools prepare children for the adult world too
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educational. These four basic functions are essential for social life since without the sexual and reproductive functions there would be no members of society‚ without the economic function life would cease and without education there would be no socialisation or culture. Without these four basic functions human society could not survive. The family does not perform these functions alone however it makes important contributions to them all. Murdock is often criticised for his picture of the family as
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disobedience to social norms based on the value consensus‚ deviance is vital within society in order for it to be cohesive and functional within the community. Functionalists argue that in order to achieve this solidarity‚ society has two key mechanisms: socialisation and social control. Modern society is very complex‚ and especially in large cities‚ there are many people with many different cultures and lifestyles
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religion legitimates women’s social roles as wives and mothers and god will reward women for their suffering in this life in the next one.(de Beauvoir‚ 1953: cited by Kirby et al 2000:444). One social purpose of religion is to reinforce the socialisation process. At birth we are born into a religious community and religion becomes part of our identity. According to Tischler et al‚ ’religion performs a number of important social functions’ (Tischler‚1986: cited by Selfe & Starbuck‚ 1998:26). The
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