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    9.1 Feminist Practice: Karen has demonstrated her depth of understanding Social Work theory and her talent for applying its practice. Karen was able to recognize the situation and view it with a socialist perspective. The initial information of two small children wandering around at night alone‚ pulls at our heart strings and exposes our bias. These biases make us susceptible to formulating rash knee jerk reactions of condemnation. Karen is aware of her biases and has demonstrated the ability to

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    Functionalism is a consensus structuralist theory‚ which sees the source of crime and deviance located in the structure of society. Although crime and deviance might be stigmatised in society‚ some sociologist think it is important to have it occur and there are some benefits to it. Durkheim (1982) argued that crime is an inevitable feature of social life‚ because individuals are composed to different influences and circumstances‚ and so not everyone can be equally committed to the shared values

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    • Applying a Structural-functionalist perspective can help understand how the issue is affecting society. A way that teen pregnancy in low socioeconomic areas helped shape society is the production of more jobs in certain industries; e.g. planned parenthood • Another way this theory can be applied shows the increase of taxes Australians pay. According to the NCPTP “teen childbearing costs taxpayers at least 9 billion each year” [1] • Studies also show that 52% of mothers on welfare had their first

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    compare to the rest of the country in term of mobility rates? Is it above or below the national mean? North Carolina is above the national mean in terms of mobility rate. North Carolina has a mobility rate of 46-55% and the national mean for mobility is 45-46% in the U.S. What factors may account for your state’s mobility status? Factors like developments‚ jobs‚ and the economy are leading to North Carolina’s high mobility rate. An increase mobility rate means that many people are moving into North

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    Kendalls Part: Which theory of social change best describes this change? The theory of sociological change that best describes this change is Functionalism. Since functionalists view society and social behavior predictable‚ that would include the addition of technology into educational programs. “Incorporating technology effectively whenever possible gives learning a huge boost because teachers are further engaging students with the tools students naturally use” (Devaney). Not only must new teachers

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    Compare and Contrast the Functionalist and Marxist views on the Family Functionalists argue that societies consist of inter-related social institutions such as schools‚ mass media‚ political systems‚ the Church and the family each of which contribute positively to the maintenance of stability of society as a whole. Broadly speaking it is assumed by functionalists that societies operate in the interests of all of their members so that there is no reason for fundamental conflict in society. Instead

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    2.3.5. Shared Mobility in North America Technology enabled shared mobility: With the increase in the smartphones and the Internet-based technologies‚ the Intelligent transport system and the mass level marketing of the connected vehicles helps in the improvement of the efficiency of the shared mobility and the multi modal transportation system. The increment in the availability‚ capability and the affordability of the various ITS‚ GPS and wireless technologies available joined with the data availability

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    which out REF ; martin 1992‚3 NOAM CHOMSKY Chomsky Linguistic Theory  Structure of language   formalism concentrates on the set of rules a language has (competence)‚ and not on the usage of this set when producing phrases (performance)  Moreover‚ humans are supposed to be genetically predetermined to learn language because of the language acquisition device REF ; http://www.chomsky.info/ FUNCTIONALISTFunctionalist maintain that the communicative situation motivates constrain or otherwise

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    In this article I read looking at it from a sociological perspective the commercial space company headed by TELSA CEO Eon musk is finding ways on how to help society with ways of inventing cars that you need no gas they work by using solar power he is a great man investing on things to make this world easier to live in. Traditionally‚ rockets have been left to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere after launch‚ and that’s why going to space has been so expensive. The necessary level of precision is astounding

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    Examine the contribution of functionalist sociologists to an understanding of the family (24 marks). Functionalists regard society as a system made up of different parts that depend on each other such as a family. They see family as an important “organ” in the “body” of society. This is because they tend to look at the family in terms of the functions it performs for the benefit of society and the individual. They see the nuclear family of 2 parents with 2 children as the “ideal”. George Peter

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