BA 324 Business Communication Master Syllabus Applies to All BA 324 Sections Spring 2012 Instructor Info JJ Riekenberg (JJ.Riekenberg@mccombs.utexas.edu) Office: GSB 4.126J / Phone: 471-8051 Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:00 p.m. T 10:00-11:30 a.m. Th 2:00-3:30 p.m. Graders: Prerequisites Required classes: Lillian Niakan TBA Sections 01780/ MWF 08:00 / CBA 4.322 01800/ MWF 10:00 / CBA 4.322 01805/ MWF 11:00 / CBA 4.322 English 603A‚ Rhetoric and Writing 306‚ 306Q‚ 309K‚ or Tutorial Course
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Discuss the functionalist perspective on religion. (20 marks) The functionalist perspective is a consensus theory; it believes that society has a set of shared values and beliefs. Durkheim was the 1st functionalist to develop the idea that religious institutions play a central part in creating and maintaining value consensus‚ order and solidarity. The anthropologist‚ Malinowski‚ built on Durkheim’s idea and expanded with his own ideas. The functionalists‚ Parsons and Bellah later added their own
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This period in history reflected the principles of functionalist theory‚ which believed that each part of society served a place and contributed to the stability of society as a whole. The post WWII generation was predisposed to resonate with the theories of Robert K Merton‚ a sociologist who emphasized middle range theory‚ criticized grand theorists in sociology‚ and exemplified functionalist theory. The “organic” metaphor in functionalist theory looked at society as a giant organism that could
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Privity essay Privity of Contract is the relation that exists between contracting parties . Privity of contract applies mainly to HYPERLINK "http /www .wordiq .com /definition /Contract_of_sale " \o "Contract of sale " contracts of sale of goods or services and is restricted to the parties to a contract . Thus ‚ a third party is precluded from initiating legal action against the parties to the contract for entitlement in excess of its benefits as provided in the contract . Moreover ‚ a third party
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Functionalism is a predominant perspective.The functionalists see education as a miniature society‚ where the individual develops a sense of commitment to the social group; it is a place to learn rules where the individual learns to conform to societies cultural norms and values. The functionalist perspectives of Emile Durkheim are‚ he believed that the major function of education was the transmission of societies norms and values. This would allow an advanced division of labour‚ which contributes
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Unemployment Problem in Australia Introduction According to the Labor government and the mainstream media‚ Australia has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world. In reality‚ joblessness has risen to serious levels‚ and is worsening‚ in working class suburbs across Australia. Officially‚ the unemployment rate in Australia increased to 5.70 percent in October of 2013 from 5.60 percent in September of 2013(Trading Economics‚ 2013). Unemployment is troubling for the unemployed people and
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Criticisms of the functionalist view of the family Functionalism is the theory that all aspects of society serve a function‚ and these functions are necessary for society. Functionalists believe that the survival of society depends on all of the different aspects which is a like the human body. The human body has all different aspects of it working together to make it function (organs) and without one of these the body wouldn’t work‚ this is what functionalists believe society is like. Marxists
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Assess the usefulness of functionalist theory to an understanding of society as a functional unit ? (33 Marks) As a structural theory‚ Functionalism sees social structure or the organisation of society as more important than the individual. Functionalism is a top down theory. Individuals are born into society and become the product of all the social influences around them as they are socialised by various institutions such as the family‚ education‚ media and religion. Theory of Talcott Parsons
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Referring to Herbert J. Gans’ use of social functionalist theory in his essay titled “Uses of the Underclass in America”‚ four of the thirteen manifest and latent functions Gans applied to the problem of poverty could also be applied to the issue of Islamophobia in America. The first (manifest) function of Islamophobia emphasizes that the existence of Islamophobia supplies popular culture villains. Because many within American society oftentimes associate real-world terrorism with Muslims (at a
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criteria may pose some effects by following certain laid guidelines when analyzing the relationship between the employer and the employee. Structural functionalist paradigm has a unique way to familiarize with the various discriminatory practices that may be present in the workplace. According to Owoseni (2013)‚ the first step the structural functionalist paradigm takes is looking at the rationale of the organizational structure that is found in the workplace. The rationale in most cases usually consists
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