Part 1 Explain and illustrate the broad nature of the post-war welfare settlements and their reconstruction in the 1980s and 1990s. ... The influence of Keynesianism on economic theory and political policy in the post-war period was dominant. ... The demographics of the immediate post-war period suggested a specific picture of the UK population. ... This reforming of the balance of political power led to the deconstruction of the post-war political settlement. ... Words: 1000 References: Hughes, G. (1998) "Picking over the Remains": the Welfare State Settlements of the Post-S...

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Suicide Suicide is a sociological phenomenon that plagues societies all over the world. ... These validity claims, which are also known as the three worlds, are the objective and external world, the social world, and the subjective experience (Layder 2000:190-191). ... The social world of interpersonal relations is based on the idea of social norms in society. ... It is these three worlds and the back rounds of each person that make up the lifeworld. ... Self interest behavior would best be illustrated by the fact that the terrorists chose to crash the airliners into the World Trade Center (...

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1. ... Debunking: Looking behind the facades of everyday life People: 1. ... Max Weber: 1864-1920 off of Marxism added that society had three basic dimensions: economical, political, and cultural (multidimensional) and that wars are fought because of all three dimensions in conflict 6. ... Emile Durkheim: 1858-1917 public degradation of Jews and believes that people in society are glued together by a belief system/bonds that link people together on the basis of functionalism and believes war promotes group and national identity 8. George Herbert Meade: 1863-1931 developed symbolic interactio...

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Content Book 1 - Extra Social Factors Suicide and Psychopathic States Durkheim, as mentioned in the introduction, conducted the study of suicide to prove that it was social, rather than extra social factors that influenced suicide. ... Let us look at these in detail: 1) Egoistic Suicide: Egoism means, the process by which individuals detach themselves from the wider society by turning their activity inward and by retreating into themselves. ...

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Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971. ... He goes on the record for saying that "The high homicide rates that characterize the United States really have a geographical origin in the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). ... Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population the...

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CAPITALISM: Although the system of capitalism has been both blessed and cursed, capitalism has brought the United States one of the world's highest standards of living. The capitalist believes in three broad principles: 1. ... For the parts of the world that experienced this transformation, nothing in society, politics or ideology, would ever be the same. The middle class became the leading force of change in the industrialized world. ... No portion of the world is unaffected today by a process of industrial change. ...

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The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one. 1 In Africa, it is not rare for members of the lower caste to refuse to enter into conjugal relations with those of the higher caste, even though the reverse would seem more normal. ... One can easily imagine the state of mind of a warrior or any freeman who...

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Task 1 The first task is about volunteering at a health and social care setting which is a day care for older individuals helping carrying out arts and crafts activities whilst demonstrating the following care values: Dignity After the activity room has been set up, I welcomed all the service users, some were still able to walk themselves in the room and some needed support when walking and some were in wheelchairs. ... During the activity, some service users told me about their past, most of the man talked about the World War and how proud they were about serving for their country which...

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Recently newspaper reports indicate that gender violence in Bangladesh is on the increase.1 a phenomena which has brought forth preventive legislative measures from the government, as well as growing concern from the general public. ... The population explosion related as it is with the gradual shrinking of the world's resources, is a global phenomena which affects rich as well as poor countries. ...

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