The sociology of education is a heart of the discipline of sociology as well as being a part of education discipline. ... Despite its popularity nowadays, the sociology of education was not recognised as a other sub-disciplines of sociology because its represents two different topics sociology and education. ... What is the Sociology of Education? ... Furthermore, the sociology of education is the study of educational structures, processes and practices from a sociological perspective, meaning that methods, theories and the appropriate sociological questions are used to better understanding th...

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Sociological perspectives need to be added to the dialogue that is beginning to form around this vital issue. This paper will attempt to examine the definition, scope and urgency of the problem, and demonstrate the need for more sociological attention and research in this area. ... He observed, "In a broader development perspective, environmental degradation appears as a proximate cause of migration, while the underlying factors are population pressures and patterns of resource use" (Surkhe, 1994). ... These groups would also include "some sociological characteristics of refugee movements: in...

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The different institutionalisms, as described by the authors are historical institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism, and sociological institutionalism.1 It is thought that these institutionalisms were created in response to the mid-20th century shift in perspective of the sociopolitical outcomes that each institutionalism is involved with. ... Lastly, The next institutionalism is referred to as Sociological Institutionalism, which is concerned with the ways in which the institutions can be impactful for individuals through meaning and substance in the context of political science. S...

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The entry into the social world has presented the contemporary sociologist to expand and examined sociological approaches with wide array of changes occupied by individuals in a society. This in turn articulate the contemporary sociologist to define the discipline of sociology and developed models and methods, combining ideas and update classical approaches, due to negative aspects in the social world. Thus, Parsonian theory of structural functionalism is the dominant theoretical perspectives in 1960s in sociology; which motivates the basic powers that shape human performance and the responsiv...

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(World Society of Victimology, cited in Goodey 2005, pp.10) Various perspectives of victimology have been put forward since the mid-twentieth century when it first emerged. The main perspectives include; feminist victimology, positivist victimology, radical victimology, and critical victimology. Each of these perspectives offer different theories of victims and crime, some more controversial than others. ... This perspective therefore supports the positivist notion, that like criminality, the cause of victimisation could be beyond victims' control, due to psychological and sociological f...

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The family unit has been a socially constructed factor of society for a long period of time, vastly changing throughout generations; which has been noticed by all schools of thought founded in Sociology. ... Functionalism gives a rose-tinted perspective on the family, as with views such as the 'warm bath theory', it creates a perfect picture of monogamous, love-filled relationships and reproduction, creating a cycle in which forms society. ...

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Gordon concludes: - "Most crimes in this country share a single important similarity - they represent rational responses to the competitiveness and inequality of life in a capitalist society" Milton Mankoff follows the same line of rationing as Gordon does, but draws comparison on the USA and Western Europe, he shows how different economic perspectives (USA-Monetarist, Western Europe-Keynesian) can through giving more to the working classes can stem the flow of crime, since a Keynesian economy advocates a minimum wage, and makes room for a fair we...

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Harms' (2010) acknowledges the notion that an individual can occupy more than one dimension at any time which corroborate with the plethora of theorists who share similar perspectives on this approach. ... Erikson redeveloped Freud's theory with a new sociological view so to include a life-span psychosocial dimension and introduced an eight stage model of psychosocial development. ... As Mooney (2013) explains, Erikson's theory has seriously examined the social and historical variables in regards to the development of children which offered a much broader perspective when consid...

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Differential Association Theory is one of several theories in criminology (Sociological Theories of Crime), it has the view that crime arises from society's social structure or organization. ... This theory became instrumental in integrating the view of sociology in the context of criminology[Bur66]. ... This is because they provide an explanation of both lawful and unlawful behavior using the same perspective[Ake77]. ...

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The aim is to analyse the sociological definition and functions of cyber communities and to explore the make-up, means of membership, issues of inequality, and the possibility that real communities will become a secondary means of social functioning. ...

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In sociological perspective, "tourism consists of the of phenomena of space movement connected with voluntarily temporal change of place in space, change of life rhythm and environment accompanied by making personal contact with the visited environment Mpofu (2009)Both tourism and globalization can have positive and negative impact on socio-cultural, economic, political and environmental aspects of indigenous (local) peoples. ...

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The influence of mass media as an agent of socialization was discussed by Kendall, Linden and Murray in their book Sociology in Our Times, as they pointed out that the subliminal brainwashing of the masses perpetrated by the media could be traced back to the imprinting of young children. ...

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