its effects on Society Task 3 P3 – Describe two theories of criminal behaviour and the factors that contribute to them Why does crime happen? For P3‚ learners should describe two theories of criminal behaviour from the following: 1. Biological Genetic Determinism Biological Determinism 2. Sociological Functionalism Marxism Labeling theory The Chicago School Sociological Determination 3. Psychological Psychoanalytical theory Social Learning theory You also need to explain how causal factors contribute
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My theory states that the unconscious is something very deep. We as individuals do not understand what is all going on in our unconscious. We can uncover parts of ourselves that we may not have known about‚ but we will never be able to know or understand everything about ourselves. I believe that the unconscious is a positive reinforcement that keep us going in our daily lives. There are times we get depressed‚ some more than others‚ yet we are able to try and seek help or push through day to day
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Durkheim’s Theory of Suicide The main purpose of this document is to give an explanation to Durkheim’s theory in the light of his sociological analysis of suicide. I will stress the importance of suicide that Durkheim considered and how he was competent enough to present reasons to the social causes‚ as well as examining the variations in suicide rates by means of his hypothesis of social integration and regulatory functions of society. In doing so‚ this will determine the outcome if there are
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Positive Accounting Positive economic theory and accounting practices are objective and based on fact. Positive accounting focuses on analyzing the economic statistics and data at hand‚ and deriving conclusions based on those figures. For example‚ if corporate growth allows a company to increase shareholder dividends over previous dividend payments‚ positive accounting theory would conclude that corporate growth causes a rise in stockholder dividends. Most bookkeeping and data collection involved
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Brief History of Relative Deprivation The “Relative Deprivation Theory” dates back nearly 65 years ago. Samuel Stouffer invented the notion of relative deprivation.(Pettigrew ‚ walker kitabı) Samuel Stouffer made a survey with American soldier in World War II. Survey’s results was improbable. According to the survey’s results military police more pleased than U.S. Army Air corpsman even though military police’s promotions were slower than U.S. Army Air corpsman’s promotions. Stouffer indicated that
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Post-colonialial theory as a recent field of study has lately become one of the most attractive academic disciplines - if it can be called a discipline - that incessantly triggers piles and piles of literature written by art of critics‚ social reformists‚ political scientists‚ literary critics and political economists. The continuous expansion of post-colonialism in its recent version made its own domains of interest and areas of functionality overlap with other fields of global academic studies
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Evaluate the contribution of strain theories to the understanding of crime and deviance Merton (1938) believes that there is consensus within the society regarding the goals‚ and the structure of society has an impact on why people commit crime. As stated in item B‚ ‘Strain theories focus on the ways in which people may resort to crime or deviance when they are unable to achieve socially approved goals by legitimate means.’ This is proved by Merton as he argues that there are five types of subcultures
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Differential Association Theory Differential association theory was Sutherland ’s major sociological contribution to criminology; similar in importance to strain theory and social control theory. These theories all explain deviance in terms of the individual ’s social relationships. Sutherland ’s theory departs from the pathological perspective and biological perspective by attributing the cause of crime to the social context of individuals. "He rejected biological determinism and the extreme
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6B: Classical and Neoclassical Theories of Money Business cycles tend to be relatively minor and are quickly and automatically cured so that the economy will return to its original full employment equilibrium according to: (a) the population dynamics theory. (b) psychological theories of the business cycle. (c) Joseph Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction. (d) classical macroeconomic theory. (e) external shock theory. A graph showing a positive relationship between the interest rate
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INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY Compare and contrast the views of three appropriate sociological perspectives to an area of social life of your choosing. Why do we act the way we do? Does the mass media really affect the way a people in a society behave? Sociologists focus on the environment and the social aspects of human behaviour in order to answer questions like these when studying a particular society. A society is defined as a large social group that shares the same geographical territory
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