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Nature Vs Nurture Flashcards

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What are naturalistic explanations

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That various kind of human behaviour is natural and based on innate biological explanations

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What would be the case of naturalistic explanations were true

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One would expect human behaviour to be the same all thought society

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What does sociological explanations recognise

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That most human behaviour is learnt as members of society

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What is promiscuity

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Having sex with a lot of different people

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What is monogamy

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A normal relationship being committed to one person

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What is serial monomagy

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Over the course of your life you have more than one partner

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What is polygamy

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Relationships with more than 2 people

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What is bigimy

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Marrying more than one person at the same time

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What is celibate

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Abstain from sex

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10
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What is nature

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Biological, genetic, pre programmed

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What is nurture

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Learning, environmental

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What is society

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People
Religion
Business
School
Hospitals
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What is functionalism

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An optimistic theory, they seek order and stability within society

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Who was the founding father or functionalism

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Emile Durkheim

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15
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When was functionalism founded

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1893

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What does the theory of functionalism rest on

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That society is based of social order and stability

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What did durkheim and parsons use to explain social order

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An organic anology

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18
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What is an anology

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Links to compare

Linked between society and the human body

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What is social solidarity

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When a group/community is solid members feel a sense of belonging

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What is value consensus

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Shared agreement between norms and values between a group of society

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What is equilibrium

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Balance and stability is achieved between a group or society

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According to Durkheim is what three conditions are in place so will social order

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Solidarity
Value consensus
Equilibrium

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How can families contribute to solidarity

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  • can work together to assure all their needs are met
  • families can interact with other families
  • families can rely on each other
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How can families contribute to value consensus

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  • They can agree on rules
  • Parents teach their children how to behave
  • They value the same things
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How do families contribute to equilibrium

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  • organise groups in society families have support systems to help them
  • If one partner is struggling the other can offer emotional support
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What are the functions of the family

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Sexual 
Reproduction
Socialisation 
Economic
Emotional
27
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What does Murdock argue

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That families perform 5 essential functions to meet the needs of society and its members

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What does Murdock also suggest

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That the nuclear family has a way of meeting these functional needs as he explains its universal

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What was parsons theory

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Families will alter their functions in order to fit in with society

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What are parsons views about structural changes

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He says that when Britain became industrialised the extended family began to give way to the nuclear

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What did parsons say was the two essential needs for industrial society

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A geographical mobile workforce

A socially mobile workforce

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What is a geographical mobile workforce

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Parsons argues that its easier for a compact two generational nuclear family to be mobile around the country for work

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What is a socially mobile workforce

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Tensions and conflicts will emerge if a socially mobile younger generation is achieving higher than their parents

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What is functional changes

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Society differentiates, new institutions develop for example the nhs so families don’t have to care for their every need

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What is the primary socialisation of children

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Children are moulded in terms of the values of society they will promote value consensus and construct it

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What is the stabilisation of adult personalities

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Adults need emotional security this can be seen as best achieved through marital and parental roles

37
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How does a marital role keep adults stable

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Gender roles are defined and complimentary the male is the instrumental role(provides) and the women is the expressive role

38
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How does a parenting role keep adults stable

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This can be cathartic(emotional release) from stresses and strains of adult relationships

39
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What is Marxism

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The way a family works to protect capitalism, he observed that capitalism led to two class system

40
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Name a class of non owners

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The working class
Lack of power and wealth
41
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What is capitalism

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A society based of individual and private ownership of wealth

42
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A class of owners

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The capitalists - the owners of industry 
Dominant - ruling class but a minority
43
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What does he say capitalism is

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An extremely hierarchy and in egalitarian society

44
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What is hierarchy

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Recognising inequality

Different levels of power and class

45
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What is in egalitarian

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Inequality

46
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How do the two classes depend on each other

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The class of owners depend on the skills that the non owners

47
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What can the class of owners depending on the non class owners lead to

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Exploitation where workers are not paid equally

48
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What did Marx argue about inequality

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That although workers suffered because of this they endure them as the suffer from false class conciousness

49
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What is false class conciousness

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The real nature of the problem being discussed they’re deluded and blind to the real native of their problems

50
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What are ruling class ideas

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Ruling class are dominant

51
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What is in the infrastructure

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Capitalists

52
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What is In the super structure

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The rest of society
Media
Families
Culture

53
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What did Marx say would lead to the downfall of capitalism

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If the proletariat would gain full class conciousness

54
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What does subordinate mean

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The person under the authority of someone higher than them

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