Essays on Functional Theory

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This writing will through light on Deviance. It will start with defining deviance as a sociological concept. Later on, briefly, David Email Durkheim’s Structural Functional Theory will be discussed. At the end, a contemporary example will be taken and the applicability of theory on the example/issue discussed will be discussed to effectively relevance of the issue with the theory. At the end of this reading, the reader would be able to effectively understand the concept of deviance and its contemporary example and how that can described using David Email Durkheim’s Structural Functional Theory.

Deviance

Any Act that violates ...

Functional theory

The theory sees society as a complex interconnected system, independently functional but working together to ensure effectiveness and wholeness. From the text, the fact that Colorado Springs employees worked together helped them to be chosen as the benchmark for the largest restaurant chain McDonald’s. The employees and the employers are two different systems that are independently useful but have to work together to make sure that the company (in this case, the bigger system) works efficiently and appropriately. The functional theory is explained in this scenario by the art of proper selection for location. From a functionalist theory ...

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Crime has been an important study that has existed for a long duration of time. Yet it remains controversial with theoretical, historical and accounts of male and female involvement often inconclusive. The perpetrators of crime have for long being presumed to be men. Whether by design or by nature men have been the major actors in criminal activities is a matter of contention. This paper adds to the existing literature on gender differences in crime involvement by comparing different researches on crime with special emphasis on gender involvement. There have been several studies that have been carried out focusing ...

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The theory of Functionalism vs. Class conflict theories of Education: An Introduction There is a great ongoing debate over the education system in the USA. With the increasing role of the charter schools’ role in the education field, it becomes vital to have good analysis about how successful they are educating the students. As a result of ongoing progress in the contemporary student achievement test and data, it is now possible to analyze student learning in charter schools in comparison to the traditional public schools the students would otherwise have attended. ...

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Prussian blue was discovered by Diesbach and Dippel between 1704 and 1707 in Berlin and was initially used as a synthetic pigment. The new pigment of Prussian blue was less expensive but readily produced unlike the other blue pigments initially used during the blue color paintings. 1 Evidential document provides that Prussian blue was produced in Berlin between 1708 to 1716 by Frisch and Diesbach. Selling of Prussian blue was initially done by Frisch. Dippel also produced the compound while he was in Netherlands until 1714. Frisch and Diesbach attempted to keep the secrecy of the production of Prussian blue ...

Growing up in a single-parent family, I learned from an early age to collaborate with my mother and my brother in everything we did. Many times, while organizing the household’s choruses, the activities within our family were very well divided. On a higher level, we all knew our functions: while I and my brother were responsible with learning, our mother was the provider of our household. My mother was not quite the prototype of a traditional mother who is dependent on the domestic sphere, taking care of her housewife’s activities. Although she made sure to also organize and coordinate the ...

The contemporary society comprises dynamic cultures as manifested in the urban schools. The increasing level of complication in the cultural aspects in the American urban school results from the increasing levels of immigration rates. Statistics has it that by the year 2020 two-thirds of the population of American schools will be Asian, Hispanics, African Americans, or natives (Grigorenko & Takanishi, 2010). However, several issues face the culturally diverse schools in terms of how to achieve classroom success. Experiences, needs, values, and attitudes related to the minority cultural groups are often ignored based on the socioeconomic status, and this affects the ...

A Judge is one of the chief officials of very high rank who interprets the law and provides judgment based on the evidences. A judge can be a male or a female and the verdicts provided by them affect the society and the lives of people. The judges are appointed in civil courts, high courts and supreme courts. The judge is required to follow the rules and regulations laid by the United States Constitution or the laws of the State Constitution depending on where the judge is posted. The basic duty of the Judge is to listen to the Accused, the ...