In sociology‚ a subculture is a culture or set of people with distinct behavior and beliefs within a larger culture. The essence of a subculture‚ that distinguishes it from other social groupings‚ is awareness of style and differences in style‚ in clothing‚ music or other interests. As early as 1950 David Riesman distinguished between a majority‚ "which passively accepted commercially provided styles and meanings‚ and a ’subculture’ which actively sought a minority style (hot jazz at the time) and
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(Original post by J.Nalbandian14) Well done on that grade! I have my first sociology as exam for aqa next week. Im worried about how to answer the 24 mark questions‚ I have all the knowledge but I dont know ow to structure them and get full marks or atleast 20/24 marks. I would really appreciate it if you could help. Thanks! For e.g. ’Examine the reasons for changes in birth rates and family size since 1900’. I know hat we need to write an introduction and conclusion with 12 paragraphs inbetween
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from Catalogue. Pearsoned‚co.uk/assets/hip/gb/hip Unknown. (2007). How do sociologists study problems. Retrieved from hrbstaff.ednet.hs.cal/sociology
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w w ap eP m e tr .X w om .c s er CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level 9699/01 SOCIOLOGY Paper 1 Principles and Methods 1 May/June 2003 1 hour 30 minutes Additional Materials: 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
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Game theory – descriptive‚ normative or prescriptive? Going through life we often are surprised by the different ways how people think‚ make decisions and interact. We believe that most of us are rational human beans (to some extent) and‚ therefore‚ our decisions should be grounded in analysis of the situation‚ our experience and intuition. Therefore‚ the human mind can be seen as an incredibly complicated machine that runs series of theoretical simulations of possible situations (often subconsciously)
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Ancient moral theory explains morality in terms that focus on the moral agent. These thinkers are interested in what constitutes‚ e.g.‚ a just person. They are concerned about the state of mind and character‚ the set of values‚ the attitudes to oneself and to others‚ and the conception of one ’s own place in the common life of a community that belong to just persons simply insofar as they are just. A modern might object that this way of proceeding is backwards. Just actions are logically prior to
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Natee’ Hunter May 26‚ 2013 Sociology 201/501 Essay Exam #1 Does Divorce Have Long-Term Damaging Effects on Children? 1. No: No Easy Answers: Why the Popular View of Divorce is Wrong written by Constance Ahrons‚ co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families‚ from We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say about Their Parents’ Divorce. She explains at the beginning of her article that she was divorced and that the passing of her ex-husband actually brought her and his new
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Public Administration & Management: An Interactive Journal 6‚ 3‚ 2001‚ pp. 87-90 Normative Theory and Policy Evaluation Stuart Nagel MKM-PSO-DSI Center and University of Illinois I. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS An interesting question concerns the ethical obligations of people who do policy analysis research. Such research often involves ethical dilemmas that relate to: 1. Whether one’s purposes should include prescription or evaluation‚ as well as prediction or explanation. 2. Whether or not
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The usefulness of interviews in Sociological Research In assessing the usefulness of interviews within sociological research it is noted that sociology is an academic discipline and such it requires a methodology to reach conclusions thus it must have ways of producing and analysing data in order to test theories(Haralambos and Halborn 1995:808) Two main methods of data collection exist within sociological research these are quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative methods are favoured
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Bibliography: Curry‚ Tim‚ Robert Jiobu‚ and Kent Schwirian. Sociology: For the Twenty-First Century. New Jersey: Pearson Education‚ 2008.
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