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    refers to all the norms‚ values‚ beliefs‚ knowledge that a society or a group regards as important. This is transmitted through generations. | Basil BERSTEIN | This Sociologist distinguishes between two Speech Codes | Elaborated Code | This code is used by the Middle Class. Its more analytic‚ uses a wide use of vocabulary and complex sentences. | Restricted Code | This code is used by Working Class. It’s less analytic and more descriptive‚ with limited vocabulary and simple sentences. | Immediate

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    Theoretical perspective of Local government By Adnan ul Haq Introduction: In the process of decision making‚ the intensification by the participation of masses and democratization’s process are two essential aspects that defend the local government’s existence. Without local government’s system it is not possible to consider any political system to be complete and entirely democratic. The two-fold essentialities (purposes) that local government serves are (a) supplying goods and services

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    Abstract Theoretical perspectives try to explain to us how our society works. In fact‚ gender roles are an essential part of society. Even times have changed the gender inequality still affecting men and women. People can see every day how a man still getting more opportunities than women even they have demonstrated how capable and able they are to perform any “men’s” activity. But this is a result of all those stereotypes that have passed from generations and is too difficult to eradicate them completely

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    Spinoza states‚ “there cannot be more than one substance of the same nature”. I want you to realize that we would repudiate the meaning of substance if there were more than one with a similar trait. Since if there were more than one with a similar quality‚ at that point one would impart a trademark to another‚ which implies that reasoning one includes pondering another‚ which repudiates the meaning of substance as self-caused. We realize that substance must exist‚ since it is characterized as self-caused

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    Working Experience is More Important than Education It’s been a question that society has debated for a long time. Does education or work experience provide the most benefits and therefore hold more importance for children and society as a whole? Many people believe that it’s the most important for children to spend time becoming highly educated so that they can obtain great jobs. Others believe that children and adults should gain work experience instead because this will lead to better jobs. Both

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    Outline and Evaluate one or more explanations of why people obey It has been found by Milgram that people obey for four main reasons these are; legitimate authority‚ the momentum of compliance‚ the agentic shift and passivity. The first reason that Milgram found that people obey is because people feel like they have to obey someone if they have a high social status or a highly respected job‚ this is called legitimate authority. Bickman (1974) supported this theory by doing an experiment on the

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    Relationship Between Sociology and Other Social Sciences Sociology can be defined as the science that deals with human relationship. It is the study of how human beings relate with each other‚ how each individual relationship has been influenced by other people and the patterns which are formed out of their interactive relationships. Sociology emphasizes group relationships and total social environment. Sociology studies human behaviour in a different way from other academic approaches

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    AS Sociology For AQA [2nd Edition] Unit 2: Education Chris. Livesey and Tony Lawson Unit 2: Education Contents 1. The role and purpose of education‚ including vocational education and training‚ in contemporary society. 2. Differential educational achievement of social groups by social class‚ gender and ethnicity in contemporary society. 3. The significance of educational policies‚ including selection‚ comprehensivisation and marketisation‚ for an understanding of the structure‚ role

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    Using economic theory explain why some countries are richer than others. Abstract This paper tries to analyze why some countries are richer than others. Economic theory is used to identify the different factors affecting countries to be richer or poorer. Introduction One of the fundamental questions regarding the world during all the time is why some counties are richer than others. How is it possible that there are some countries in 21st century‚ where families cannot feed their children

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    INTRODUCTION Sociology of Education deals with the study of how social institutions and forces affect educational process and outcomes‚ and vice versa. But by many education is understood to be a means of over coming handicaps‚ achieving greater quality and acquiring wealth and status for all (sergeant 1994) learners may be motivated by aspirations for progress and betterment. DEFINITION OF TERMS SOCIOLOGY: it is a Latin word Socius meaning “Companion” and Ology a Greek word meaning “Knowledge”

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