Obtaining this quality of mind will help us make interconnections with various structures in society that will then allow us to make valid assumptions during our analysis of "American History X." ... The process of theorizing is very important because it forces one to look beyond theories that are already published, and make use to them to craft a deeper analysis. ... The usage of such questions to help start the process of analysis is what the best social analysts have used. ... His analysis is a good example of the usage of this quality of mind that lets us view the different aspects of a pa...

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The particular episode used for this analysis is the series Pilot episode. The pilot episode ran for 45-minutes focused on introducing the audience members to the shows main characters. ... Charlie introduces each character by sharing a brief summary of each of their lives before entering the hospital. ... Charlie does this by switching between introducing each character and narrating the events of the current day. ... This message is portrayed clearly through two of the main characters; Nurse Jackson and Kara Sounders. ...

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Issues: problems that affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional arrangements and history of a society 14. applied sociology: any use of sociological perspective and/or its tools in the understanding of, intervention in, and/or enhancement of human social life 15. diversity: the variety of group experiences that result from the social structure of society 16. sociological perspective: 17. symbolic interaction theory: a theoretical perspective claiming that people act toward things because of the meaning things have for them 18. social work: a profession that p...

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This took the form of assigning a gender classification to various character traits from "nurturing" to "aggressive". ... Data Analysis For this study, we adopted the framework developed by Miles and Huberman (1994) to distil and analyse the data from the transcripts of three of the most productive focus group discussions. The Miles and Huberman framework can be divided into three major phases of data analysis: data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing and verification (Miles, Huberman, & Saldaña, 2014). ...

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Deviance, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. There is nothing inherently deviant in any human act, something is deviant only because some people have been successful in labelling it so. J. L Simmons The definition of the situation implies that if you define a situation as real, it is real only in its consequences. INTRODUCTION Labelling theory, stemming from the influences of Cooley, Mead, Tannenbaum, and Lemert, has its origins somewhere within the context of the twentieth century. ...

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Experiments such as this do not only show that aggression is learnt (as Bandura found out), but also that the observation of symbols and objects are memorised by young children, and at a later time period these memories are put into place and used again; 'for example, a child may learn to shoot a gun by imitating television characters. ...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...

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Gender Inequality and Injustice in the Educational System TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 5 Thesis and its Purpose 6 Statement of the Major Hypotheses: 7 Part A: The Formal Curriculum 7 Organization of The Formal Curriculu...

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Sociology Essay How useful is the concept of elite' for understanding the distribution of power in either Britain or the United States? Introduction In America perhaps only race is a more sensitive subject than the way we sort ourselves out in the struggle for success. The eminent sociologist Rob...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. ...

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