Methods and Education Unit 2 – 60% Primary Resources Research that is conducted by the Sociologist himself/herself Examples: * Questionnaires – Open/Closed‚ Distribution: Postal or face to face * Interviews- Structured/ Unstructured/ Semi-structured * Observation- Overt/Covert/Participant/ Non-Participant * Experiments- Lab/Field * Sample – Stratified/Random/Quota/Snowball 1. Definition 2. Strengths 3. Weaknesses 4. Examples Strengths and weaknesses - Cost
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purpose for them. This is controversial; it leads to the view that many negative things such as crime exist because they fulfil societal needs. Writers in the structural functionalist tradition of sociology claim that the education system is a meritocracy and that the education system exists to allow the most talented students through to fill the most important jobs in society. Testing of ability through examinations is one of the most fundamental elements of the British education system. British
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Discuss the view that liberty and equality are incompatible In this essay I aim to discuss the view that Liberty and Equality are incompatible. This view was put forward by Lord Acton when he said “the passion for equality made vain the hope of freedom”. However‚ the issue of compatibility relies on how you define the terms Liberty and Equality because‚ in the words of W.B Gallie‚ both liberty and equality are “essentially contested concepts” and there are therefore different interpretations
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The authors Bagehot‚ Conrad‚ and Kipling were some of the most vocal during this Age of Imperialism. Walter Bagehot’s Physics and Politics gave an excuse for European Imperialism. A liberal in a classical sense‚ Bagehot used the idea of cultural meritocracy to justify the expansion of European powers. Bagehot makes a clear distinction between the civilized man and the savage‚
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make the body work (ex. heart‚ kidney‚ brain…) > Society has different parts to help it work too (ex. school‚ politics‚ economics…) > balance/equilibrium 2. Conflict Theory - At the heart of all societies lays conflicts between groups. - Marxists: If you want to understand a society you need to understand the conflicts. 3. Symbolic Interactionism - George Herbert Mead (Philosophy‚ Chicago) - Dominant micro (individual social interactions) approach - the SOCIAL‚ the SYMBOL‚ the SELF -
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Confucianism Research Project Confucianism has easily been influential in the development of the Chinese state through history. In fact‚ the core ideals of Confucianism have evolved. Despite the harsh repression of Confucianism by Marxist revolutionaries during the second half of the twentieth century‚ Confucian values continues to be influential in Chinese society and recently‚ Confucian political philosophy has resurfaced again. In addition‚ the political ideas and social ethics of Confucianism
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and a state of absolute equality and happiness: he could be considered who we’d call one of the first Utopian Socialist. Henri Simon or ‘Saint Simonism’ as it went on to be called had renounced his aristocratic title and came to favour a form of meritocracy‚ becoming convinced that science was the key to progress and that it would be possible to develop a society based on objective principles. His great influence on modern thought is undeniable‚ both as the historic founder of French socialism‚ which
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specification 1 The role and purpose of education‚ including vocational education and training‚ in contemporary society • Functionalist and New Right views of the role and purpose of education: transmission of values‚ training workforce • Marxist and other conflict views of the role and purpose of education: social control‚ ideology‚ hegemony; ‘deschoolers’ (Illich‚ Friere): socialisation into conformity by coercion • Vocational education and training: the relationship between school
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gyNew ideologies for old? Ideology may have been an inseparable feature of politics since the late eighteenth century ( it is often traced back to the 1789 French Revolution)‚ but its content has changed significantly over time‚ with the rate of ideological transformation having accelerated since the 1960s.New ideologies have emerged‚ some once-potent ideologies have faded in significance‚ and all ideologies have gone through a process of sometimes radical redefinition and renewal.Political ideology
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Stigma such as class‚ gender and race were instilled in individuals from an early age. Social division were created which transformed the way society perceived one another. Social stratification formed inequality of opportunity for different categories as society have negative stereotypes towards each groups (Payne 2013). Thus‚ the existence of different classes‚ gender and ‘race’ creates limitations and boundaries in the equality of opportunity. Interrelationship between these three factors exist
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