GNVQs and NVQs (introduced in 1986) were put into place to counteract the views that many 16 year olds were not ready for the world of work. It was hoped that Vocationalism would bridge the gap between the world of work and educational establishments. ... Education acts as a bridge between family and society, passing on universalistic values; these are the value of achievement and value of equality of opportunity. ... This argument is problematic because Functionalists assume that the norms and values promoted in schools are from society, however Marxists believe that these are actually transm...

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A social relationship can be viewed as an opportunity for social interaction, a history of shared experience, and a means of need-satisfaction. ... Nodes (or actors) can represent a wide variety of entities from individual persons, small groups, formal organizations, to systems of organizations and even states, nations. ... Such relational content can be viewed as mutual or have no direction. ... From the perspective of organizations, the presence or lack of ties can indicate connectivity between persons, teams, functional units, levels of hierarchy, etc. ... Liaisons that bridge subgroups p...

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When considering the definition of a "social group,"" we must look closely at the perspective in which a given group views society. ... In her article, "Fashion and Style,"" Jukka Gonrow talks about fashion in regards to the social aspect of life by using two key lenses: Kant's and Simmel's respective understandings of "universal good taste " (90) and style as a kind of "social bridge " (98). ... The framing of the picture, from the illusion of levitation of the four central figures to the parallelism in the choices of dress and style, which Simmel would say the young people are usin...

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Gender in the sense of viewing the status and role that the male and female sexes play. ... The concept of power differs greatly from culture to culture. ... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view our own culture as superior to others, and relates to all cultures. ... This development of technology was revelational and bridged a gap between the cultures of the world. ... Most if not all cultures were ethnocentric but technology is broadening our stereotypical views. ...

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To help better understand and explain deviancy, it is important to bridge such theories with the accompaniment of a certain quality of mind called the "criminological imagination"." ... Craib (1984) views this engagement with social theory as a verb; as a dynamic process. ... He also states "theory is only a help if we can learn from it, and we can only learn form it if we can use it"" (p. 5). ... It can also be viewed as a coercive relationship between the state and the offender. ... His analysis is a good example of the usage of this quality of mind that lets us view the different aspects of...

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Zimbardo's experiment on the social structures of prison, resulted in unreasonable responses from many of the participants. ... In this view, there is no objective reality, but rather multiple realities that depend on an individual's definition of the situation (Cragun & Cragun, page 46, paragraph 1, Symbolic Interactionism). ... Developed by Karl Marx, it's a theoretical paradigm that views society as a struggle between groups over limited resources (Cragun & Cragun, page 43, paragraph 3, Conflict Theory). ... The guards, who benefited from the social structure, strived to se...

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The @LIS Programme, bridging EU and Latin America on IS issues The cooperation programme @LIS-Alliance for the information society - is the result of the political dialogue between the Heads of State or of Government of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1999 and aims at extending the benefits of the information society to all citizens in Latin America and at reducing the digital divide between those who have access to the new information technologies and those who are excluded from the information society. ... As a main action, @LIS will ...

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He specifies the interests of communists are not different from the proletariats; they only seek to cultivate a consciousness in the proletariat. ... The only way the proletariat can free itself from bourgeoisie corruption is to abolish capitalism. ... (pg. 487) Marx seems to advocate the destruction of the social order coming from the past. ... These laws allowed the American working class to bridge the gap with the upper-class bourgeoisie running government. ... In this way, I view his whole theory being instituted into society as idealistic, but some of his principles a...

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After reading research from multiple psychologists, it is clear that to fully understand humans and the way they act, one must study both idiographic and nomothetic characteristics. ... "The term 'nomothetic' comes from the Greek word 'nomos' meaning 'law'. ... Equipped with the knowledge of universal and timeless laws of nature, we can not only build bridges on earth, but also send robots to the moon and beyond. From the nomothetic point of view, there is no need to single out any specific individual as a special case; each and every one of us is equall...

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FUNCTIONALIST VIEW OF SOCIALISATION: Durkheim saw socialisation as a one way process in which society through social agencies such as family, education, peer group, inculcates (introduce/impress/infuse) individuals into the roles prescribed for them. ... Parsons described school as a focal socialising agency because it acts as a bridge between the home and society at large. ... From birth, children face a number of ready-made roles which they have to apply as they pass through the stages of socialisation. ... The child chooses from the roles of the generalised other, by doing this the self bec...

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The latter of the two was the collective social struggle for equality that aimed to eliminate forms of oppression based on gender and to free women from male supremacy. ... Secondly, the Civil Rights Movement broadened the concept of informal leadership to include women, even though black women had to deal with sexism from both white men and black men. ... Finally, by eventually excluding women from formal movement leadership, the Civil Rights movement spurred women to organize their own movement in order to fight for their rights. ... Women took inspiration from this in the creation of the ...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! ... We teach our children one thing about society and they learn the opposite from experience. ... Pioneering research from Durkheim saw education as an essential socialising agency, maintaining social control and order. Parsons claimed education was a bridge from family to the wider world. ... The cultural origins obtained from primary socialisation can assist or hinder children in educational ...

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