Through a sociological perspective, this essay will seek to explore how education influences the decision to abort or carry a pregnancy to term. An effective method of understanding how the decision on whether to abort or not can be done by utilizing the sociological method of seeing the general in the particular. Peter Berger, in his Invitation to Sociology, put the sociological perspective of seeing the general in the particular forward. ...

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"Sociologically, sexism and gender inequality are produced by social systems organized in patriarchal ways, systems in which we participate as women and men. ... Let's look at this issue from sociological perspectives. The Functionalist Perspective: From a functionalist perspective, gender inequality has a positive function for the society as a whole. ... The Conflict Perspective: From the conflict perspective, the gender inequality is a form of social stratification. ... The Symbolic Interactions Perspective: From an interactionist perspective, gender inequality is sustained through...

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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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I propose a review of the evidence that Historical, Economic, Sociological, Political, Cultural and Gender based and Geographic factors explain why many films of the gritty-realist tradition being set in northern landscapes. ... This sociological difference is a massive contributing factor to many gritty realist films being set in the North. ... Simply stated the sociological environment of northern landscapes provided both the necessary realism and drama for documentary- realist films explaining the predominance of these films set in the North. ... From a cultural perspective the North...

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Coming from a different culture and perspective than the American culture and being able to live in America as a women, helped me view the major difference in the roles of women. ... From a sociological perspective, I narrowed down exactly to why these women's roles have been modified due to societal changes and historical events. ... "Women nowadays are so Americanised, it's a shame," said a fellow student in this sociology course. ...

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Changes in women's conditions over the 19th & 20th centuries from the perspective of the French Declarations of the rights of man & citizen (1989). ... The focus is on the sociological conception of gender differences & inequalities with & special reference to their occurrence in contemporary Britain, to understand the major differences between socio-biological, psychological & sociological perspectives on gender. ...

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Before the beginning of this sociological research there had been risen a big question of what means the absence of women in a governmental hierarchy of Kazakhstan. ... As sociology defines the roots of gender stereotypes, as people strongly define their gender identity (Ibraeva 2003:12). ... For more understanding the routine of the gender stratification there is an explanation in sociology of how we are got to the level of high gender identity. ...

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The Symbolic Internationalist Perspective integrates in all of these inequalities and then symbolically labels women. ... Two of the possibilities that Summers touched on are fairly well accepted in sociological circles: (1) women often desire to focus on family instead of work and (2) the continuing presence of discrimination in academia. ...

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