Jan 2009 (a) Explain what is meant by the ‘expressive role’ (Item 2A‚ line 5). (2 marks) (b) Suggest two ways in which ‘family life may have a harmful effect on women’ (Item 2A‚ lines 6 – 7). (4 marks) (c) Suggest three reasons for the decrease in the death rate since 1900. (6 marks) (d) Examine the ways in which childhood can be said to be socially constructed. (24 marks) (e) Using material from Item 2B and elsewhere‚ assess the view that the nuclear family is no longer the norm. (24
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Chapter Discussion Questions #2 1. Compare and contrast conflict theory with structural functionalism. Pay special attention to the way that each theory treats the origin of social change. When it comes to the origin of social change the conflict theory and structural functionalism differ in many ways. Structural Functionalism stresses that society as whole‚ including the individuals‚ families‚ educational system‚ politics‚ and the economy come together to create a functioning society. But‚ if
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Eastern Kentucky University Department of Family & Consumer Sciences CDF/WGS 232: Human Sexuality and Identity CRN# 13658 (CDF)‚ 13681 (WGS)‚ 3 Credit Hours Fall‚ 2014 Professor: Anna R. Z. Mastapha‚ MA anna.farro@eku.eduCell: 859-321-7812 annamastapha@gmail.com Office hours by request Class Meeting Times & Location: Mondays 6:00 – 9:00 pm‚ 202C Burrier Building Catalogue Course Description: An exploration of the changing attitudes about and among men/women and their effect
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home • about • lecturers • students • HRM as I see it Home / Student zone / Chapter summaries Part one: The arena of contemporary human resource management 1 The nature of contemporary HRM 2 Corporate strategy and strategic HRM 3 Human resource management and performance Part two: The micro context of human resource management 4 Work and work systems 5 Organizational culture and HRM Part three: Employee resourcing 6 Workforce planning and talent management 7 Recruitment
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3 FIELDWORK AND ITS INTERPRETATION Theory without data is empty‚ but data without theory are blind. — C. Wright Mills FIELDWORK Anthropology distinguishes itself from the other social sciences through the great emphasis placed on ethnographic fieldwork as the most important source of new knowledge about society and culture. A field study may last for a few months ‚ a year‚ or even two years or more‚ and it aims at developing as intimate an understanding as possible of the phenomena investigated
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. Functionalism Functionalists see shared norms and values as being fundamental to society. They focus on social order based on understood agreements and view social change as occurring in a slow and orderly fashion. Their primary concern is with large-scale social structures and institutions of society‚ their interrelationships and their constraining effects on actors. Functionalism assumes that society is a system whose various sections work together to encourage balance. It assumes that all
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‘’Children require only culture to become fully human‚ genes mean nothing’’. How far do you agree with this statement?. Culture is a certain type of civilisation of shared meanings‚ norms‚ values and roles of a society or group of a certain race or nation. Culture is in support of the nurture side of the nature-nurture argument. The nurture side of the debate states that people are influenced with how they dress‚ to even their actions by the surroundings they are brought up in as well as the people
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Using material from item 2B and elsewhere assess different sociological explanations of changes in the status of childhood. (24 marks) Childhood is socially constructed‚ the only reason that ’childhood’ exists is because society makes it that way. Over time childhood has changed as different norms and values over each century of life have been different and are still changing today. Also in different places of the world there are different cultures and ethics so therefore their view of childhood
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About the Inquiry Process The Leveson Inquiry into the culture‚ practices and ethics of the press was aproached in four Modules. These are: •Module 1: The relationship between the press and the public and looks at phone-hacking and other potentially illegal behaviour. •Module 2: The relationships between the press and police and the extent to which that has operated in the public interest. •Module 3: The relationship between press and politicians. •Module 4: Recommendations for a
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(i) Some Class Definitions Gender(s) of worker Commodity Offered Dominant Quality 1. Prostitution is a transaction between the prostitute and the "client" whereby the prostitute performs sexually-related favours to their client and receives payment for doing so. - Woman - Man - One’s service - Absence of negative evaluation 2. Women who have either no other way to earn money who will turn towards a pimp‚ or work on her own‚ and walk around streets‚ trying to find clients who will pay for
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