May/June 2010 SOCIOLOGY Paper 1 Principles and Methods 1 Additional Materials: *0329046234* 1 hour 30 minutes Answer Booklet/Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples‚ paper clips‚ highlighters‚ glue or correction fluid. There are three sections in this paper: Section A
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Orquidia Gomez SOC 100 9/24/12 Prof. Post In 2010 the Acme Widget‚ United States factory‚ outsourced 80% of the Anytown population due the fact that unionized workers could not operate the factory’s old equipment. The owners‚ part of the capitalist class‚ decided to close the factory after forty years of operation. They moved the factory to the foreign country of Mexico in order to obtain cheap labor and no benefits for new prospective workers. In doing so‚ the company would be able to
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Functionalists maintain that racial and ethnic inequality maintains the dominant group’s status. It provides a large pool of cheap labor. Functionalists acknowledge that discrimination can be dysfunctional. For example‚ racism prevents a society from recognizing or rewarding people who could contribute to society. Conflict theorists see ongoing strife‚ not harmony‚ between dominant and minority groups. Dominant groups try to protect their power and privilege while subordinate groups struggle to
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Sociologist: Chapter 13 Pg.379.Sharlene Hesse Biber and Greg Lee Carter Pg.380. Thoristein Veblen Pg.385.Economist Adam Smith Pg.386. Sociologist Karl Marx Pg.390 Conflict Theorist Pg.390. Karl Marx Pg.390 Symbolic integrationist Pg.394. Social Anylets Pg.403. According Journalist Chapter 13 Outline: Pg.378 -Economy is the social institution that ensures the maintence of society -Services are intagangiable…. -Primary Sector Production Pg.380 -Surplus -Barter -Money -Cottage
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Asses the contribution of ‘functionalism’ to an understanding of society. Functionalist often use an organic analogy; they say society is like a biological organism. Parsons (1970) identifies three similarities between society and a biological organism. He argues that the organisms such as the human body and society are both self-regulating systems of inter-related‚ interdependent parts that fit together in order to work successfully (for example‚ the education system and the state.) They also
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Outline and assess feminist views of media representations of gender [50] Feminism is a theory that is united in opposing patriarchy‚ which means a system of male power and rule that implies the subordination of women; but the various strands within feminism offer different overviews on gender inequality in media representations. For example‚ liberal feminists tend to be more optimistic about the possibility of change in media representations of gender; whereas radical feminists see little change
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(Some of the) Key Thinkers: Beliefs in Society NAME CONTRIBUTION CONCEPT Armstrong Feminist: Religion ‘not been particularly good to women…usually male affairs with women relegated to marginal positions’ Barker Making of a Moonie: most members from middle class (link to relative deprivation as appeal of sects/NRMs) Bellah Functionalist: religion in US = ‘Americanism’ + Decline in influence of religious institutions not evidence of secularisation‚ but move to individual belief/practice
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Using the material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess the view that working class children under-achieve because they are culturally deprived (20 marks). Cultural deprivation is the absence of expected and acceptable cultural phenomena in the environment which results in the failure of the individual to communicate and respond in the most appropriate manner within the context of society. There are three main factors that influence the cultural deprivation theory‚ IQ‚ language (elaborated speech
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Using material from Item 2B and elsewhere‚ assess the contribution of functionalist sociologists to our understanding of the family. The functionalist theory is about the idea of different parts of the body‚ the body needs certain parts In order to function which relates to society needing certain parts in order to be a society. In general‚ functionalism is a theory based on consensus which is where people agree on the same norms and values. This is different to Marxism which is a conflict between
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Introduction Fordism is "to standardize a product and manufacture it by mass means at a price so low that the common man can afford to buy it.“ Kennet The production pattern developed by Henry Ford in the United States Set up large factories equipped with assembly lines Combined the organizational innovations of Taylorism‚ namely the associated task fragmentation and simplification‚ with the introduction of special or single-purpose machine tools which made standardized and therefore interchangeable
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