Assess the relationship between sociology and social policy (33 marks) Social policy is generally thought of as tackling ‘social problems’, especially the welfare of the population. In order to understand this relationship, sociologists distinguish between social problems and sociological problems. According to Worsley, a social problem is some piece of social behaviour that causes public friction and/or private misery and calls for collective action to solve it. For example, poverty, educational under-achievement, juvenile delinquency and divorce may all be seen as social problems by members of society, and governments may be called upon to produce policies to tackle them. Worsley also said that a sociological problem id and pattern of relationships that calls for explanation.
Law enforcement does not do enough to enforce the laws that should keep these individuals off the street corners. If the families of these people had the proper social support structure, they would have
Peyton Rainey English Comp 1 Professor Cox September 30, 2010 Scholarly Discourse Paper The relationship between education and students is an unequal balance when it comes to aspects such as race and social class. Jean Anyon, Jonathan Kozol, and Gregory Mansios address the main problems of this issue with details backed up with empirical evidence and support. All three authors bring something important to an analysis of the relationship; therefore, taking from each author helps best in understanding the relationship between students and education and the unfortunate truth that race and social class define particular roles in the futures of students across America. Jean Anyon’s main purpose in her article, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” is to identify the distinct differences in educational methods between the working-class, middle-class, affluent professional, and executive elite schools and bring to light the unequal structure of the academic community. Mansios and Anyon both agree that the higher ones social class is, the better education they receive.
In the past, services have been accused of not letting service users know about some of the facilities that could be available to them: this is because practitioners knew there was no funding available to support the provision of the service. This can be seen as an infringement of the individual’s rights. Disempowerment People who are discriminated against (especially by powerful groups in society such as health care professionals) are often totally disempowered. This means they are not able to take action for themselves, have no way of fighting the discrimination and, sadly, lose the will to do something about it. In a case of disempowerment the service user may feel completely vulnerable and useless as they may feel that they cannot stand up for themselves.
The sociocultural explanation of autism is not considered valid and is not supported by research. The theory is based on the idea that autism is a result of parents who reject and are cold toward their child; studies are unable to prove this to be true. 3. What forms of treatment are helpful for a person with autism? Treatments are geared towards helping children with autism to behave and communicate in a positive way.
One was the restricted code, this consists of a limited vocabulary with short unfinished grammar, and speech would be predicable they may even gesture instead (slang, street language.) The other code is the elaborate code this is typically used by middle class people; it has a wider vocabulary and is based on longer structured sentences. This would lead to under achievement because the language used in schools and in test papers tend to be in the elaborate code, so middle class people are again at an advantage. Finally, attitudes and values, Feinstein (1998) found that working class parents “lack of interest” was the main reason for their children’s under achievement
External factors are factors outside the education system, e.g. influence of home and family background and wider society. Some sociologists would argue that it is the factors outside the school that are the main cause of differences in the educational achievement of different social groups. One theory for this is material depravation. Material depravation is the lack of money and resources in the home.
What is Social Disorganization? Social disorganization is a criminology theory that suggests the reason for crime and delinquency is due to the lack of resources in communities. When resources like churches and programs for the youth are not present in the community it can lead to a lack of morals that can cause criminal activity and delinquency. Another reason for crime and delinquency is believed to be the lack of presents of law enforcement. When law enforcement is not present in a community it gives the people in the community the thought that law enforcement does not care what happens to the people in their community.
This is a major problem that we need to solve. The Bliss type of homeless should not be incorporated into the statistics we as a nation gather this is because they are not the true homeless people, they are the lazy and unmotivated people of society. They can choose to be houseless if they want to, but they should be excluded from any sort of statistic that we
A number of explanations for this data has been put forward by sociologists and they can be divided into ‘internal’ and ‘external’ factors, although in reality they do intertwine with each other. External factors are factors that occur outside the education system which possibly have an effect on the educational achievement of pupils. The first main external factor is cultural deprivation. Cultural deprivation argue that many working class families fail to perform one of their main functions- primary socialisation of children- and therefore their children are unable to acquire the basic values, attitudes and skills that are needed for educational success. They grow up ‘culturally deprived’, lacking the cultural equipment needed to do well at school, thus underachieving.