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    the second amendment‚ and the violence that trails behind them. Every day on the news you would hear about someone being shot‚ it does not matter what kind of shooting. A school shooting‚ police shooting‚ or just some random person’s death being plastered all over the news. In any of those scenarios‚ you would always hear about the person who did the shooting. However‚ you would hear more about the gun than you would on the person who did the shooting. Why? The media slaughters the guns‚ blaming them

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    Functionalism‚ Conflict Theory & Symbolic Interactionism November 13‚ 2012 “Knowledge is shaped by the social world.” (Karl Mannheim.) Though trying to understand the social world may seem difficult‚ sociologists managed to create three theories on how different areas of the world fit with one another as well as working hand in hand with each other. The three theories are known as Symbolic Interactionism‚ Functionalism and Conflict Theory. Each theory serves as a significant

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    places that now strike fear in the heart of many due to acts perpetrated by a few disturbed individuals. Sadly‚ there are a dozen more locations that could be listed‚ places that in the last few decades have become the setting for horrible acts of violence committed in the name of some futile cause. These mass murders have become so commonplace that the country almost expects to see or hear about one in the news weekly. Over the last thirty years‚ this country has experienced more and more horror as

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    conflict. Lyon‚ David‚ Karl Marx (1981). Marxists argue that due to the circumstance the working class does not challenge capitalism is due that the fact that the higher class‚ who regulator the economy likewise regulator the family‚ education and media etc. However‚ this is argued by Louis Althusser (1971) that the cultural organisation’s aim is to maintain and legitimise class inequality. The Marxist also believed that health care specialist is realised as representative to maintained individuals

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    Structuralism vs. Functionalism Jessica A. Brooks Psychology 426 August 14‚ 2009 Structuralism vs. Functionalism Structuralism and functionalism investigate the human mind and use the mind as the subject of every study. They are also both are concerned with the conscious self. While they share some similarities‚ they also show some variation. Structuralism focuses on “revealing the most basic structures or components of the mind” (Zimbardo‚ 2006). Functionalism‚ on the

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    Mid-Term Study Guide Functionalism: all parts of society work together in order to function as a whole. Herbert Spencer: he inspired functionalism from his writings that said the various parts of society worked together like the human body. Durkheim: helped make functionalism. He believed that society affects people’s behaviors (example of being rejected by society and the rejection being like a punishment). He also did a research study on suicide. Conflict Theory: sees society as a competition

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    Structural Functionalism‚ Neo-Functionalism Conflict Theory & System Theory The origin of sociology developed and took place in Europe during the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The factors that led to the development of sociology are industrial economy‚ the growth of cities‚ and political change. Europe was changing from agriculture to factory production. Masses of people moved to the cities in search of work. In cities people met anonymity‚ crowding‚ filth‚ and poverty. The Industrial

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    Education is the process for learning basic life skills‚ to get children to socially interact with others and to enable people to get good qualifications so they can gain better careers. Functionalists offer an optimistic analysis of the role of education and they maintain that education and training performs a positive function. However Marxist theorists offer a pessimistic analysis of the role of education. They argue that schools do not serve the interests of everyone in society‚ but a ruling

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    maintenance is when society reacts to crime and there is social cohesion‚ and this leads to society condemning the criminal and the punishment given by the social agencies is a way of reaffirming societies shared rules and reinforce social solidarity. The media portrays the court case and the punishment; this acts a way of informing members of society and discourages others from rule breaking. Adaptation and change for Durkheim is when an individual has an idea or belief which is seen to be deviant by rest

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    in society and can be understood and looked at through many different views. These views can be studied through different sociological perspectives such as structural functionalism‚ conflict theory‚ and symbolic interactionism. Each of these perspectives pose different questions and thoughts on religion. With structural functionalism religion can be seen as an answer to life‚ explaining how and why things work the way they do. It can also serve as a place for people to come together to form supportive

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