ESSAY ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF FEMINIST ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Feminist theory, it should be mentioned from the beginning of the paper, is not a unified theory. As women experience the social world differently (according to class, age or "race"), there exist different feminist standpoints within the feminist tradition - i.e. Marxist or Postmodernist feminists (and this explains the need to talk of Feminisms - in plural). In general though, feminist theorists in order to explain the marginal position women's issues hold in the social sciences - and why they are mere...

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(eds) 1998 Unsettling Welfare: The Reconstruction of Social Policy London: Routledge/The Open University. ... (eds) 1998 Unsettling Welfare: The Reconstruction of Social Policy London: Routledge/ The Open University. ...

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The study adopted a focus group methodology with fifteen groups of 7-9 participants, all university students (n=133). ... A typical example of this, is dealt with in a University of Arizona study which considered the negative effect on performance of gender stereotyping when applied to female maths students (Schmader, 2002). ... Participants Using a convenience sampling method, more than 130 Ulster University students were recruited from the PSY307 Undergraduate Social Psychology module and divided into 15 groups, each holding one relaxed and unfettered collective discussion. ... Each group co...

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Intelligent and gifted, Merton was awarded a scholarship to Temple University, which was his ticket out of the environment he had grown up in. Once admitted to Temple University, Merton chose to keep his new name. ... Simpson later introduced Merton to Pitirim Sorokin, the founding chair of the Harvard University sociology department. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Temple University, he received a fellowship to attend Harvard University for graduate work. ... While attending Harvard University, Merton took a course in theory, which was taught by the young Talcott Parsons, st...

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Abstract Solomon Asch was a social psychologist that worked on issue of conformity. He worked in a lab and tested nine participants having one being a confederate, knowing when to say the wrong answer. They were shown multiple images of lines and were asked which one was different. Depending on the ...

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After his teaching stint he enrolled in the University of Chicago where he received his doctorate in sociology (Williams and Mcshane, 2004). Sutherland originally came to the University of Chicago as a history major, but soon changed his major to sociology due to the University of Chicago's influence on social environment's factors on a person's behavior (Williams and Mcshane, 2004). ... Thomas was also a sociologist from the University of Chicago and believed that "all human beings are a direct product of their environment" (Sutherland, 1924). ... When trying to devis...

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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 ! Introduction School was engineered to serve the economy and social order. It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions, it lasts. ...

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It is obvious that in the United States, education plays an integral role in an individual's life and role in society as a whole. Sociologists, however, view this role from many different points of view and ultimately come to different conclusions about what education truly achieves. One of these conclusions, which comes from a functionalist point of view, is the idea that the primary function of education is to help socialize children and prepare them for their eventual entrance into society as adults. Another one of these conclusions, which comes from a conflict theory point of view, ...

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In today's society organizational functions are used by businesses in order to perform and provide services to meet their consumers " needs. The way that organizations are conducted shape the customers " expectations and how they behave within the organization. Restaurants and service establishments...

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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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Fox Butterfield was born in 1939 in Lancaster PA, graduating from Harvard University, Fox Butterfield became a famous journalist and author working with Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York. ... When he was released back to the outside world he maintained two jobs working in an aerospace company as a computer programmer, as well as teaching at the University of Wisconsin for computer science. ...

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Marxism can never be catogorized as just a philosophy because it is actually a combination of three developed traditions, German philosophy, French political theory, and British Economics. The philosophical side came mainly from Hegelianism. Marx takes many theories from Hegelianism such as that r...

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In the case study, the assignment will be looking at the notion of equality and diversity in contemporary society. The study will focus on the topic of poverty and how it affects the emotional, social and educational experiences of a child, positively and negatively. Relevant literature, as well as up to date legislation and policy involving equality and human rights will be used to look at the issue critically, by identifying the inequalities related to class and how it can have an impact upon the social, personal and educational experience of the child within school as well as parent and tea...

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Marketers must exercise care in analyzing consumer behaviour. Consumers often turn down what appears to be a winning offer. As soon as managers believe that they understand their consumers, buyer decisions are made that appear to be irrational. But what looks like irrational behaviour to a manager i...

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Title: An Investigation into Sexist Language. Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is language. While it is has been widely accepted that some aspects of language are clearly sexist, for example the use of "he" as a genderless pronoun (Cameron 1998, Wardaugh 1992, Pauwels 1998), there is still argument as to whether or n...

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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 ...

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Social Work Term Paper: This is a term paper on how a social worker is used within several types of schools. Social Work is classified under the topic of Social Welfare. Social Welfare are various institutions and services whose primary purpose is to maintain and enhance the physical, social, in...

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Merton was a very accomplished sociologist at the Columbia University known best for his theories and publications regarding social structures as well as becoming the first sociologist ever to win the National Medal of Science in 1994. ...

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There is a misrepresentation of what diversity means and its implication on the Public Education in the United States. United States public schools have become a battleground for contending educational and social philosophies. Some school rejects the emerging multicultural curriculum while others argues for greater recognition of the diverse cultures that are increasingly represented in our rapidly expanding population; specially Hispanics. Despite the facts that some public schools served all students (not students let behind Act), Mexican American children during the first four decades of ...

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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 Curriculum 7 Content of The Formal Curriculum 8 Part B: The Informal Curriculum 9 Process of The Informal Curriculum 9 Structure of The Informal Curriculum 9 Chapter 1: Theoretical Paradigm of Conflict Theory 10 Chapter 2: Historical Background of Education 13 Chapt...

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