Conflict Theory Conflict theorists do not believe that public schools reduce social inequality. Rather‚ they believe that the educational system reinforces and perpetuates social inequalities arising from differences in class‚ gender‚ race‚ and ethnicity. Where functionalists see education as serving a beneficial role‚ conflict theorists view it more negatively. To them‚ educational systems preserve the status quo and push people of lower status into obedience. The fulfillment of one’s education
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Research topics with Explanation The topics of my choice concerns everyone in our country‚ they are problems of very important matter that happen in our daily life. One of them is to build more energy sources‚ which are solar or wind energy that will help our community for a cleaner environment. The second topic is‚ do you think is right for the authorities to tried as adult miners that are committing violent crimes? My third topic that I selected is‚ should the U.S. Government prohibit
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The restoration theory of sleep function is carried out by Oswald‚ who argues that the purpose of sleep is to restore depleted energy reserves‚ eliminate waste products from muscles‚ repair cells and recover physical abilities that have been lost during the day. Evidence for this theory is firstly by Shapiro‚ who found that people who ran an ultra marathon slept 1.5 hours longer then they did two nights following the race. In addition‚ stage four occupied a much greater proportion of the total sleep
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Privation is the failure to form attachment. It occurs when a child has no opportunity to form a relationship with a parental figure‚ or when such relationship is distorted‚ due to their treatment. It is different to deprivation‚ which occurs when an established relationship is severed. It is understood that privation can produce social‚ emotional‚ and intellectual problems for children; however‚ how inevitable such problems become as a results of privation and the extent to which can be reserved
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The face recognition model developed by Bruce and Young has eight key parts and it suggests how we process familiar and unfamiliar faces‚ including facial expressions. The diagram below shows how these parts are interconnected. Structural encoding is where facial features and expressions are encoded. This information is translated at the same time‚ down two different pathways‚ to various units. One being expression analysis‚ where the emotional state of the person is shown by facial features. By
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Functionalism is a structuralists theory with the belief that the institutions and organic analogy is what keeps the society in agreement and working properly. Religion plays a big part in the family and society; if a family is religious this will be taught to the new members of family‚ the family may choose to send a child to a religious school‚ which is the family teaching the child the role of religion due to there choice. Law is also an agent of the family’s role‚ the family all have to abide
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Outline and Asses Functionalist explanations of social inequality (40marks) Functionalism is a concencus theory that focused on the unity and harmony of society. Functionalists believe that society is a system that works together in order for it to funtction. Inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions in a society and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods‚ wealth‚ opportunities etc. There are many types of inequality such as social
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Outline and evaluate research into how anxiety affects eye witness testimony Eye witness testimonies are accounts from witnesses to a crime or accident given as evidence in a court or to the police. Research into eye witness testimonies being affected by anxiety is mixed and It is believed that eye witness testimony is most accurate when the anxiety level is somewhere in between low and high anxiety. There is evidence to support that anxiety helps eye witness testimony. Yuille and Cutshall interviewed
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When we say that something is divers it means that it has different forms and different variables. This is the same thing with families in the contemporary UK. However regarding the family it’s a difficult to get everyone to accept the different types of diversities. Some people accept and are happy with the diversity whilst there are some people who think there is only one type of family and that all other types of families are unacceptable. There are different thing which makes up divers family;
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for the functions and causes of crime and deviance within contemporary British society‚ yet it fails to account for white collar crime. Evaluate this statement. Every society is guided by laws and regulations‚ therefore‚ breaking of the law is known as crime or deviance. Crime and deviance will be defined with examples and how what is crime and deviance depend on culture and society will be analysed. Thus‚ a criminal act in one place is a norm in another place. Crime and Deviance changes as the society
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