Functionalism, Marxism and Feminism are common theories. Using the family and education system as examples, evaluate their effectiveness in explaining the social system. In this assignment, I am going to explain the theories of Functionalism, Marxism and Feminism. I will give examples that expand the definitions and show that such ideologies still have an impact on the society we live in. Functionalism is a macro theory, which looks at society as a whole rather than focuses on each individual.
In this essay I will be discussing the sociological approaches to ill health& health whilst assessing the biomedical & socio-medical issues and linking them to the given scenario. There are four particular approaches that I will be focussing on these are: Functionalism, Marxism, Interactionism and Feminism. The functionalist approach to health & ill health is a statement which was inspired by the work of Talcott Parsons. He concluded that in order for a society to function correctly & effectively all the members within the society must be healthy. Those within the society that were sick would be seen as a barrier that stops society from progressing.
In Praise of Margins ESSAY As we reach adulthood and have a professional career, there are far greater demands and responsibilities we need to commit in order to “function” right in our economical society today. With the stress that goes along with those responsibilities, we just can’t help but to sometimes take time off from everything we do in our society and spend it on things that are “marginal”. In Ian Frazier’s article “In Praise of Margins”, he reveals the value of marginal things and defines it as an un-purpose, free-form aimless activity that don’t quite work out, and though it doesn’t account for themselves in the economic world, it is important and necessary for our lives. For young Ian Frazier and his friends, their marginal place were in the woods. It was a place where they “can try out odd ideas” (Frazier p54) and do whatever they feel like doing, without having to worry about what others may think.
What specific strategies would you recommend, and how would you promote them at Premier? I think that the primary issue with work/life balance at Premier Publishing is the ability to have a more flexible work schedule and to work from home. Every former Cybooks employee that we have heard from has had the same concern. This gives them a negative image of Premier because they think that the company does not trust its employees. Premier needs to realize that by moving into the technology segment, they are acquiring a new breed of employees, how crave the ability to have creative freedom, which means that they need to be able to work at the times that are most suitable for them.
Talcott parsons (1902-1979) played a vital role in the development of functionalism as a sociological approach. He saw society as a system made up of interrelated institutions, which contributed to its smooth running and continuity. Criticisms of functionalism Criticisms of functionalism focus on its acceptance and rationalization of social inequality and societal evils. Since functionalism holds that all aspects of society are necessary, human rights issues like poverty, hunger, slavery, and genocide must be accounted for. Critics suggest that functionalism can be used as a rationalization of such issues.
There are different approaches to health and ill health in sociology that include Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism and Interactionism. There are three main ways that sociology views health meaning negative and positive factors and the holistic way. Marxism and positive concept of Health: A positive concept towards health and illness could be defined as believing that being healthy is a state which is achieved through continual effort. People with this approach believe that by taking regular exercise, through their choice of food and by looking after their bodies will keep them well. Generally people with a positive approach to health believe that they are responsible for their own health.
For an individual to suddenly not be able to complete task that they do on a daily basis has an major impact on their living. They need support from family, friends and community. 1.2) Analyse how societal attitudes and beliefs impact on individuals with sensory loss People in society treat individuals with sensory loss different, making them feel different or isolated from society. Some people might speak louder or use more hand gestures to try and communicate with the individual and in turn might confuse the individual with the sensory loss. Society has now provided more support for those with sensory loss down to adding titles in cinemas, braille on bank pads and food packaging.
Germov (p. 12) makes mention of the model’s “reductionism”, which operates by reducing its focus to the biological, cellular, and genetic levels, and Doyal (p. 245) also draws attention to the limited “conceptual schema” that doctors and some other health care providers use to understand “complex human phenomena”, her implication being that human health has a significant non-physical dimension. The recognition that social factors can physically affect and otherwise serve to shape and inform notions of health and illness has over time given rise to an explicitly social model of health. Engels (in Germov, p. 8) posited a causal link between poor working conditions in mines and the “black lung” disease in the nineteenth-century, and McKeown (in Germov, pp. 13-14) and Marmot (2005, p. 1101) have more recently argued that even ostensibly individual causal health factors to large extent have a social basis. Turner (p. 235) writes that the basic position in the present sociological approach to illness is to see it as fundamentally a social state of affairs, which amounts to not narrowly defining it as a biological and individual phenomenon, and Germov (p. 4) importantly adds that the social model of health does not
According to chapter 1 in the Essentials of Sociology textbook, the main idea of symbolic interactionism is that symbols are the way we can understand how we view the world and interact with one another. “George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is one of the founders of symbolic interactionism” (Henslin, 2013, p. 57). Mead believed that society depends on symbols. It is said that symbols define our relationships. For example, without symbols we would not have moms or dads, aunts or uncles, teachers, bosses, or even siblings.
Growing up in a small family size and not many family friends, I would have to get used to living with a bigger community of close friends. I feel that American mainstream culture has influenced the sub-culture of the Mole people in a unique way. I almost sense that the communities beneath the ground want to separate and make themselves uniquely different than those above ground. Its as if they embrace the fact that it’s so different from communities above ground. I also think that the sub-culture of the Mole people takes even longer to evolve than the culture above the streets, thus making it hard for a small change in the culture above ground to influence that of the mole people.