“Outline and evaluate fators that affect eating behaviours.” There is huge debate as to which factors affect the eating behaviours of an individual. A key issue is whether our food choices are down to innate behaviours and our genetics or whether they are an outcome of the environment in which we are brought up in‚ such as our cultures and socio-economic circumstances. One key factor which affects our food choices is our mood. It is generally accepted that food can be comforting when we feel upset
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Outline and Evaluate the Main Psychological Explanations of Forgetting in both the Short and Long Term Memory Psychologists study memory because it is important to understand how a person remembers‚ how they forget‚ and whether memory is reliable source of past information; this research is particularly important in the case of eyewitness testimonies. Memory is the process whereby a person holds on to information they have experienced. Psychologists categorise memory into 3 processes; encoding
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Outline and assess Functionalist explanations of crime and deviance. This question includes assessment of your understanding of the connections between crime and deviance and sociological theory. Functionalist explanations of deviance begin with society as a whole looking for the origins of deviance in the nature of society‚ not the biological or psychological make up of an individual. Functionalists favour quantative methods to look at society‚ using statistics to see society as a whole‚ rather
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OUTLINE AND EVALUATE TWO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOICAL THEORIES OF AGGRESSION The first psychological theory of aggression is the social learning theory. This uses the principles of Bandura’s Bobo Dolls experiment which involved children observing aggressive and non-aggressive adults and then acting themselves. Those in the aggressive condition displayed aggression whilst the other children showed virtually no aggression. The four conditions which have been found to be effective for social learning are: attention;
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you know the meaning of " Skate or die " or "Skate and destroy " ? A subculture is usually characterized by different expression like these that make them different from the general culture. Throughout the world there seems to be an uprising of many subcultures‚ groups‚ and social classes that give diversity to Canada and also many other countries as well. Skateboarding: Culture and Activity The definition of a Subculture is known as “groups of teenagers and young adults sharing certain common
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focus questions on each methodology * Summary of; * subcultures * how identity is shaped and expressed * the difference between ‘personal’ and ‘social’ identity * Appendix Aim: How does the subculture of this chosen group express themselves in ways of identity and interests? Methodologies that have been used include; * Interview * Questionnaire * Participant Observation Bias is the ‘point of view’ or ‘perspective’ that a person or methodology provides on a
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Tattoo Artists: Ethnography Project Audience Analysis Tattoo artist subculture is one of the less known subcultures. A few people are aware of the characteristics of tattoo artist subculture. This tattoo artists ethnography project paper can be read by readers from different ethnicities‚ religions‚ genders‚ and geographical locations. In addition‚ there is not a specific age range for the reader of this project even though it is expected that people with age older than 14 years are more interested
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“any instances of law violation among police officers leads to a public perception that the police subculture is breaking down.” I am by no means an expert in this area‚ but my understanding of police subculture is that it is a set of norms and beliefs that are shared by a majority of law enforcement officers working in police organizations. There are two types of police subculture‚ occupational subculture‚ which is
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Outline and assess the view that the official crime statistics tell us more about the people involved in their collection than they tell us about crime and criminals [60 marks] Positivists believe that the official crime statistics (OSC) tell us about the crime & criminality and are very valuable. However‚ Intrepretivists would disagree and would criticise the OCS as they are socially constructed. They argue that the OCS lack reliability and therefore validity because it tells us more about the
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Romantics was a subculture born out of dissatisfaction with the way ‘punk had become a parody of itself’ (Cole‚ 2000) that‚ once adopted by the mainstream‚ began to alienate ‘many of those who were at first attracted to it’s embracing of difference and individuality’ (Cole‚ 2000). Where punk had once been about a very ‘DIY’ ethic and energy‚ it evolved into something uniform and hyper-masculinised. In doing so‚ the punk scene became much less of a welcoming space for LGBTQ+ youth‚ such as George
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