of homeless in contemporary Western societies exist on an ideological continuum‚ which shapes the way people think about the issue. For instance‚ individualist explanations view homelessness as the result of lifestyle choices and personal failings such as drug abuse‚ criminal deviancy or alcoholism. Overemphasis on Individualist explanations could lead to minimal state intervention‚ antagonistic responses and reaction
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two or more biological explanations of schizophrenia. (8 marks) Evaluate biological explanations of schizophrenia. (16 marks) There are many explanations for schizophrenia‚ but the biological explanations have received the most research support‚ according to Comer 2003. To explain schizophrenia from biological perspective‚ we would discuss the disorder from the direction of genetics‚ biochemistry and brain structures. The first explanation for schizophrenia is genetic
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Evolutionary explanations of aggression Evolutionary psychologists argue that reproductive challenges faced by our ancestors can explain the aggressive behaviour seen in people today. A man can never be certain that he is the father of his wife’s children unless he prevents her having relationships with other men. This can explain why male jealousy is often cited as a cause of domestic violence. In many countries it is seen as acceptable to murder an adulterous wife or her lover e.g. among the Nuer
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had biological functions have been correlated with aggression and violent. In the early biological‚ they see some individual are "born criminals" — they are biologically different from non-criminals. The representative work of earlier biological explanations was developed by Cesare Lombroso in the mid- to late 1800s‚ he developed a theory of deviance in which a person’s bodily constitution indicates whether he is a born criminal. Lombroso proposed that criminals were biological throwbacks to an earlier
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Assess sociological explanations of the role of the mass media in creating moral panics about crime and deviance (21 marks) There are many sociological explanations about the role of the mass media in creating moral panics about crime and deviance for example the mass media can create moral panics in many ways like imitation‚ arousal‚ desensitisation and target of crime. According to item A ‘the news media are one of our main sources of knowledge about crime and deviance’. This means that the information
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Chapter IV Consciousness and its Variations Intro: 4.1 Consciousness Your immediate awareness of thoughts‚ sensations‚ memories‚ and the world around you represent the experience of consciousness. William James described consciousness as a “stream” or “river.” Although always changing‚ consciousness is perceived as unified and unbroken much like a stream. Because his idea of structuralism was based off of introspection‚ many of the leading psychologists at the turn of the twentieth century
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for women. Discuss psychological explanations of Schizophrenia In the 1950’s and 60’s it was believed that if you belonged to a dysfunctional family that you were more likely to suffer from SZ due to the dysfunction of communication within the family. According to the different psychological explanations of SZ this is because of the high emotional tension and the many secrets and close alliances that are kept in the family. One psychological explanation of SZ was put forward by Bateson et
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Compare two explanations for criminal behaviour. Crime is simply the behaviour that breaks the law. However‚ as Standen points out‚ “the understanding of what actually constitutes crime varies according to historical‚ cultural and power dimensions which may rule different behaviours as criminal at different times”‚ (n.d‚ p. 1). The most obvious example of this is when the law changes. For example from viewing the list of criminal offences by the Legal Services Commission‚ aiding suicide became
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Outline and evaluate one or more social explanations of aggression. Aggression has been defined as ‘any form of behavior directed towards the goal of hurting or injuring another human being or animal that is motivated to avoid such treatment’ (Baron). Various types of aggression have been identified; person-orientated aggression‚ which is when the main goal is to harm another person and instrumental aggression‚ when aggression is used in order to achieve a desired goal. An important
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throughout the night due the conditions they’re having to manage with. Homeless people still uphold the title of being a person‚ they should live like a person. The reasons for homelessness varies so greatly‚ each individual has their own explanation. Some explanations
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