EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATIONS Animal Aggression Lorenz- aggressive behaviour in animals have the following functions: • Selection of the fittest for survival • Aggression will protect the young animals for survival • Distribution of animal territories What are the criticisms of Lorenz? Human Aggression Benign Aggression and Malignant Aggression Nelson: the 3 basic factors affecting human aggression • Process of Learning: Social Learning theory-observation/imitation‚ Learning strategies
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Outline and assess Marxist theories of crime and deviance. (50 marks) Marxists argue that the nature and organisation of capitalism‚ creates the potential for criminal behaviour. Gordon states that capitalism is characterised by class inequalities in the distribution of‚ for example‚ wealth and income‚ poverty‚ unemployment and homelessness. Gordon argues that the ideology of capitalism encourages criminal behaviour in all social classes. The term ‘crime’ means behaviour that breaks the law. For
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1.0 Explanation of Use Case “Use Case” is a system engineering or software term that portrays how a customer or user uses a system to complete a certain task. In other word‚ “Use case” is act as a software modeling method that defines the logic to be implemented and the outcome of the error in the result can be encountered earlier. An interaction between external actors is defined by use cases to attain particular goals. Three main elements that construct a use case are: • Actors: Actors are the
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Discuss evolutionary explanations of the functions of sleep. Evolutionary explanation of sleep suggests there four mains reasons for it‚ energy conservation‚ foraging requirements‚ predator avoidance and to waste time. The evolutionary approach has also been called the ecological approach. It is called ‘ecological’ because it is based on observations of animals in their natural environment. Energy conservation is the theory that warm blooded animals need to expend a lot of energy to maintain a
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An Investigation on the Importance of Branding for a Small Independent Boutique Hotel Page 1 of 73 March 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In contemporary business environments‚ small independent organisations are often faced with significant pressures to survive market competitiveness (Abimbola‚ 2001; Bristow‚ et‚ al‚ 2002; Moroko & Uncles‚ 2009; Wilden‚ et‚ al‚ 2010). Accordingly‚ in order to compete with prevailing competitors‚ many businesses employ branding as a key strategy to establish
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to political offices and titles. Anthropologists tried to come up with way to understand this seemingly irrational conspicuous consumption. There are three explanations that anthropologists have given in an attempt to explain this behavior however this essay will compare two of the three namely the cultural-ecological and the Marxist explanation. According to Suttle (1960: 299) the potlatch is an occasion where the host/s invites members of other communities to the host community to receive gifts
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Organizational explanations of deviance has various or numerous elements that might cause misconduct since small work groups have their own influences while isolated work groups develop their own climate that might not conform or go along with the organizational ethics. From what I understand a group of individuals in some sort of organization that are using the power that they have in an unethical way. An example of an organizational explanation or defiance is employees using company vehicles for
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Abortion has been growing as a social problem for years now. The act of pursuing an abortion is not a real issue today. Individuals who decide to seek an abortion may be unaware of how they get the abortion; that is whether they are having the procedure performed safely or unsafely. Private issues of fear of discovery‚ regret and guilt would add to future relationships of the person. Being the general public‚ we have observed abortion rates decrease then significantly increase right after the introduction
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We live in a free society where people have the right to show their interest in government policy. Peaceful protesting has a positive impact on society because it shows the government that the people are in-charge not the other way around and these protest result in the fixing of many problems. We have the right and obligation to protest against any transgression that violates our rights or that endangers our well being. When the government of a free society starts to add restrictions to free
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There is controversy of doctors overprescribing opioids to patients with chronic pain‚ which results in to patients becoming addicted and dependent on the drug. In 2012‚ Eric L Garland conducted a study in which where he researched the correlation between an opioid-dependent group and how a non-dependent group. He supported his study by including many statistics‚ significant information‚ and how accurate the data was. However‚ this study does not provide a valid argument that opioids are detrimental
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