Application Assignment #1 1. What is the sociological imagination? This term‚ coined by sociologist C. Wright Mills‚ refers to looking at people’s behavior and attitudes in the context of the social forces that shape them. As Mills said‚ to understand our experiences in life‚ we must understand our historical time period and the social forces that are sweeping the period in which we live. What are personal troubles? Another way of saying this is that we want to understand how our personal
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faithfully‚ taken good notes‚ and asked questions about any concepts you did not understand. This guide is best used as a check on your comprehension after you have already studied your notes and the book chapters (and don’t forget to review the Rosenthal and Jacobson reading as well). Ch. 1 Be able to separate the levels of analysis of related social science disciplines and describe how Social Psychology compares to these. How does Social Psychology relate to Personality Psychology? In what ways
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. Labelling is a process that happens within education where a definition is attached to a pupil as being a certain way. This can then affect them in their education in one of two ways. It can either push them and put stress on the pupil to achieve highly just as the teacher labelled them to do so or it can affect them so that they
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Assess the claim that schools are mainly responsible for what pupils achieve in education Schools have a massive affect on the pupils achievments in education meaning that the teachers have a massive impact as what they are teaching the student will benefit them when they are taking their test which will prove if the student is benefitting from what they are being taught or if they or not taking nothing in‚ On one side schools are very responsible for the students achieving a good education and good
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Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. Social class is typically known as social grouping or hierarchy based on differences in wealth‚ income or occupation. In the UK there are mainly two social classes; working class and middle class. 33% of students who are currently on free school meals achieve 5A*-C at GCSE‚ however 61% of students who are not on free school meals
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teacher decides whether the child is going to be a hard worker‚ disruptive or argumentative by preconceived ideas from a stereotype which had made itself known. However‚ they are only stereotypes and can be proven to be incorrect. For instance‚ Rosenthal and Jacobson conducted an experiment‚ however not using the participant observation method‚ and discovered by changing the teachers ideas of a student can change the way the child is treated and therefore learns. But‚ by doing this overtly‚ wouldn’t the
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Some sociologists believe in-school factors are responsible for educational underachievement because of many reasons such as- subcultures‚ setting and streaming and Interactionism where teachers label a pupils likely performance which have an impact on that individual which can be in the form of racism. In opposition‚ some sociologists disagree because there out-of-school factors too such as; material deprivation‚ cultural deprivation and innate explanation theory. I have to discuss if in-school
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Being labeled as “black‚” “white‚” or anything that include positive or negative values can impact a person’s life in the long run. In “How Labels Like Black and Working Class Shape Your Identity‚” Adam Alter asserts that language‚ specifically social labels‚ can significantly affect‚ not only individual and group identities‚ but also their shared destinies. Using quasi-experimental studies‚ findings indicated that belonging to a specific group or social label can facilitate or hinder a person’s
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“Work motivation is merely about providing employees with enough money.” Discuss. Motivation relates to the drive that influences what people do‚ how much effort they contribute and the length of time they keep trying. Motivation influences performance in the workplace and organisations strive to motivate workers in order to encourage the highest level of performance and productivity. A number of theorists have investigated motivation in the workplace and proposed contrasting theories
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