Sociology Due date: June 10 – June 13‚ 2013 Q. Deviant social behaviour is best explained by changes in the society’s value system and not failures of the primary agents of socialization. Evaluate this statement. Due Date: July 2 – July 5‚ 2013 Q. Globalization has rendered irrelevant the Caribbean social theories of creolization and plantation society. Evaluate this statement. Assignment 1 to be uploaded June 21 – 24‚ 2013 (20%) Five (5) marks will be deducted from assignments posted
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Summary: According to Macionis ‚ J.J and Plummer‚K in their article “ Social forces that shape our lives” in Sociology‚ there are four significant effects that form children’s lives : family ‚schooling‚ peer group and the mass media. Family has core role to shape social behavior of children because they teach their children about customs‚ beliefs‚ values and way of thinking and behavior. In addition‚ Schooling expose children a wide range of information‚ abilities‚ cultural differences such as
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Do the voting systems for the House of Representatives and the Senate accurately reflect the will of the people? Introduction The purpose of an electoral system is to translate the will of the electorate‚ as expressed through the ballot box into members of a legislative body. Australia is one of the oldest continuous democracies in the world‚ the Commonwealth of Australia was created in 1901 when the former British colonies‚ now the six states agreed to federate. The Australian colonies had
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Bibliography: • Ritzer‚ G. 2008. The McDonaldization of Society. London: Pine Forge. • Back‚ L. 1997. ’Local/Global ’ In Jenks‚ C. (ed.) Core Sociological Dichotomies. London: SAGE. • Klein‚ N. 2005. No Logo. London. Harper Perennial. • Macionis and Plummer. 2005. Sociology: a global introduction. Dublin. Pearson Education. • Watson. L. 2007. Golden Arches East: McDonalds in East Asia. California. Stanford Press.
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categories… using gender to refer to social or cultural categories.” This is the basic description of how the term gender is approached in terms of this question rather than one referring to the actual sex of a person. This is also stated by Macionis and Plummer (2008‚ p.367) explaining that: “sex refers to the biological distinction between males and females” it is also states that a “gender role refers to learning and performing the socially accepted characteristics for a given sex.” This clearly
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The self is constructed through social interaction I was not born a woman. Rather‚ I have become one. As the result of history‚ social forces‚ conditioning or ideology. Gender- the womanhood and my role in it is not inevitable or fixed‚ it is not‚ necessarily‚ determined by my biological characteristics and human nature. Contrary‚ it is an addition to the physiology and the product of the social world. Society has created certain rules and ideas of how the womanhood is supposed to look and expects
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Bibliography: • Baines‚ P. & Fill‚ C. & Page‚ K. (2008): Marketing. Oxford University Press. New York. • Foucault‚ M. (1975): Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Penguin Books LTD. London‚ England. • Macionis‚ J.J. & Plummer‚ K. (2008): Sociology: A Global Introduction. Fourth Edition. Pearson Education Limited‚ England. • Passer‚ M.W.& Smith‚ R.E. (2007): Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour. McGraw-Hill Companies Inc‚ New York. • http://www.comm.umn
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21/10/2012] http://www.simplypsychology.org/social-roles.html Donohoe and Gaynor 1999 Gender Roles of the 21st Century." 123HelpMe.com. 23 Oct 2012 Abbott 1998:10 Bernadette McDonald‚ 2006. An Introduction to Sociology in Ireland‚ Dublin‚ Type IT Macionis and Plummer 2002
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own culture (Macionis & Plummer‚ 2010). When a person evaluates another culture‚ that culture’s traditions‚ customs‚ language‚ and other racial practices are compared to his or her own‚ and finds those people to be inferior
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to be one of the main factors that determine whether a child is successful at school or not‚ as there are major differences between the levels of achievement of those that are part of the working social class and those apart of the middle class. (Macionis. J‚ Plummer.K‚ 2008) One of the main explanations for this is material deprivation. Working class families are financially in a worse position than those of the middle class and therefore are not able to make the most of their educational opportunities
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