CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS GCE Advanced Level MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2014 series 9699 SOCIOLOGY 9699/32 Paper 3 (Social Inequality and Opportunity)‚ maximum raw mark 75 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates‚ to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before marking began
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There are four distinct phases of labour law in Zimbabwe namely Primitive accumulation‚ colonial state corporatism‚ post colonial state corporatism and neo-liberalism. Primitive accumulation from 1890 to the 1930s. the chief legislation of this period was the 1901 Master and Servant Ordinance Act. This laid the basis of a primitive labour law system designed to fast track the establishment of a racist capitalist system based on cheap and forced black labour. The character of labour law during this
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One strategic HRM debate has focused on the integration or ‘fit’ of business strategy with HR strategy. This shift in managerial thought‚ calling for the HR function to be ‘strategically integrated’‚ is depicted in Beer et al.’s (1984) model of HRM. The authors espoused the need to establish a close two-way relationship or ‘fit’ between the external business strategy and the elements of the internal HR strategy: ‘An organization’s HRM policies and practices must fit with its strategy in its competitive
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Inequality‚ Instability and Voice Author: Amartya Sen The essay ‘Inequality‚ Instability and Voice’ is one of the articles written by Amartya Sen. It figures in the book ‘The Argumentative Indian’ which is a collection of writings on Indian history‚ culture and identity by the Economics Nobel prize winner. In the essay‚ Sen touches upon three issues. They are: • Inequality in the Indian society and the quest for equality; • Unity and diversity in India; and • Need for greater commitment
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Compare and Contrast Marxist‚ Elite and Democratic Pluralist Theories of Power. Classical Elite theories were developed by Pareto and Mosca‚ to some extent as a critical response to Marxism‚ but have also been very significantly modified by theorists such as C.W. Mills. Marx’s theory of the ruling class states that‚ basically‚ the Bourgeoisie are an economically dominant class in that their ownership of the means of production in capitalist society gives them power over decisions affecting production
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Theories that influenced the adoption of separation of powers‚ checks and balances‚ and federalism are the Pluralist Theory‚ the Elite and Class Theory‚ and Hyperpluralism. The Pluralist Theory is the theory in which politics is mainly a competition among groups with the same interest. Each of the groups can compete with one another for control over policy. The Pluralist Theory seems to be saying that it is preferable to have interest groups in competition like that. If interest groups are in competition
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TITLE OF THE THESIS: INTEGRATION OF HUMAN RESOURCE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT PROBLEM OBJECTIVE: DEFINATION \ HYPOTHESIS \ RESEARCH The project is to study the role and the aspects of the human resource department tasks in regards to an implementation of total quality management. Successful Total Quality Management requires both behavioral and cultural change. A successful Total Quality Management system brings two other management systems together with
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Ross‚ cited in Bray‚ Waring & Cooper 2011‚ p. 377). There are two forms of conflicts that will be discussed in the next paragraph. In the context of Singapore‚ the pluralist perspective best describes the state of industrial conflicts in Singapore. On top of this perspective‚ with reference to Petzall’s six theories of a pluralist nature developed‚ the theories that best describe the current state of industrial conflicts in Singapore are industrialization and social factors. Types of Conflicts
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-The Free rider problem is a difficulty faced by interest groups that lobby for a public good -According to the pluralist theory of American democracy‚ politics is a contest among various. Interest groups -Pluralists maintain that the influence of interest groups on government is not undemocratic‚ because Individuals interests are indirectly represented in the policy making process through these groups. -True or false‚ interest groups are often policy specialists? True -The American Civil Liberties
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People are monists‚ dualists or pluralists depending on whether or not they believe that reality is composed of one‚ two or more substances. These positions may be represented as here indicated. Hindus‚ Buddhists and Animists are for the most part monists. They believe that reality is one and that everything that exists is a functioning part of that whole which is spirit. Western man for the most part may be called a monist also as he believes that God is dead and matter is the only substance to
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