CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY According to Wernet et al‚ (2000) Information Technology-enhanced education is becoming an increasingly important part of higher and professional education‚ Lam & Lawrence (2002) also state that information technology does not only give learners the opportunity to control their own learning processes‚ but also provides them with ready access to a vast amount of information
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the usefulness of subcultural theories in explaining ‘subcultural crime and deviance’ in society today (21 marks) Subcultural theories believe that people who commit a crime share different values to the rest of society. Subculture theories come from two different schools of sociology which are appreciative sociology and strain theory. Appreciative sociology came from the University of Chicago in the early 20th Century; Chicago sociologists were
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Critical assessment of Transaction Cost Economics and Resource Based View theories in terms of their usefulness in explaining firms’ internationalization strategies. Two Nobel Prize winners have extensively contributed to one of the theories that will be discussed in this essay. It is very exciting to access Transaction Cost Economics and Resource Based View theories in terms of their usefulness in explaining firms’ internationalisation strategies. This assessment will be based on two American
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Using the material from item A and elsewhere asses the usefulness of subcultural theories in explaining subcultural crime and deviance in society. Durkheim argued that a certain amount of crime was ‘healthy’ for society and that it is deviant behaviour that provided a catalyst for social change. He said that crime and deviance are functional because the ritual of punishment is an expressive experience that serves to bind together members of a social group and establishment a sense of community;
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Pastoral counselors are clergy who have received graduate training in both religion and behavioral science for a clinical practice that integrates psychological and theological disciplines. Pastoral counselors believe that there is a God in whose image and likeness we are created. They believe that we yearn for a transforming connection with the divine‚ and that psychotherapy can mediate the loving and healing nature of being itself. Pastoral counselors also make therapeutic use of traditional
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Summarise two theories of identity and compare their usefulness for explaining the real-world issues discussed in chapter 1‚ ‘Identities and diversities’ Identity can be understood as our interpretation of ourselves made up from many different factors‚ made up of social‚ personal and physical factors. Erik Erikson was the first psychologist to view identity as “psychosocial” (mapping psychology‚ pg52) recognizing the influence of personal and social factors in the development of identity. Erikson
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Prewriting for your Essay 1 Pick a topic. Descriptive essays generally focus on a person‚ a place‚ an event‚ or a thing. Writers convey an idea about their topic by describing the topic for the reader in a ‘show‚ not tell’ manner.[1] Showing and not telling means that you paint a picture for your reader. For example‚ instead of saying‚ “There were trees near the lake” you could say‚ “The lake stared through the trees‚ a wide grey eye trapped in a perpetual state
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Discuss the usefulness of GDP as a measure of living standards‚ and as a way of comparing living standards i) across countries ii) across time. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total market value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given year. It is equal to the total consumer‚ investment and government spending‚ plus the value of exports‚ minus the value of imports. The GDP report is released on the last day of each quarter and reflects the previous quarter. However‚ GDP
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Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the usefulness of modernization theory as an explanation for differences in the levels of development of different societies. Modernization theory first arose after world war two‚ when western countries like the US‚ Britain and France all believed that capitalism was the only way to modernize countries in Eastern Europe. The different communist and capitalist governments didn’t agree on theories of modernization and so the cold war started. The first
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“Critical Appraisal is the systematic process used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a research article in order to assess the usefulness and validity of research findings.” I am going to attempt to critically appraise the following article‚ Seers et al (2008) “A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a single session of nurse administered massage for short term relief of chronic non-malignant pain”. The aim of this research is to assess the effectiveness of nurse administered
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