Essays about: "Theories of deviance"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Theories of deviance.
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1. Breaking the Stereotypes: Exploring Control and Self-Expression of Modern-Day Freak Show Performers
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : Abstract Author: Dana Štěpánková Title: Breaking the Stereotypes: Exploring Control and Self-Expression of ModernDay Freak Show Performers Supervisor: Sébastien Tutenges Master’s Thesis SOCM04, Cultural Criminology, 30 credits Department of Sociology, Spring 2023 Freak shows have been historically depicted as dehumanizing spectacles exhibiting individuals with physical anomalies. Over time, these shows faded away, but human curiosity and fascination with difference and deviance have brought them back in a new form. READ MORE
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2. A critical discourse analysis of the construction of knowledge of gender in sociology at upper-secondary school
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)Abstract : This thesis presents a critical discourse analysis of how the sociology of gender is constructed in the sociology syllabus and two textbooks aimed for use at upper secondary school level. I use Bernstein’s theory of framing and classification to understand how power over knowledge is distributed through this construction. READ MORE
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3. Reasons behind children drop out of primary schools with unequal socio-economic preconditions : A comparative case study of three primary schools in Babati Town Council, Tanzania
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Utveckling och internationellt samarbeteAbstract : One of the countries where the basic academic education is problematic to achieve is Tanzania. Despite the multiple attempts to increase enrolments and decrease dropouts through new partnerships and organizations, high level of drop out still occur in the country. READ MORE
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4. Reshaping Relations : A study on the increasing reports regarding violence against women in the rural and urban areas of Samoa
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : This is a sociological essay, named Reshaping Samoan Relations – a study on the increasing reports and regarding violence against women in Samoa, written by Shahab Mirbabaei. The aim of this study was to explain the reason, or reasons, for the increasing reports of violence against women to the police and help-organizations in Samoa. READ MORE
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5. Tolerating Deviance: Drug Tourism and Normalization of Cannabis
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : Aim of this study is to explore the term normalization as a social process that shifts the level of tolerance in societies through examination of the association between cannabis usage as daily life leisure activity and the growing tolerance of this substance use. Contemporary studies suggest that consumption and usage of cannabis should be examined as any other social processes, which are unavoidable and widespread activities that are continuously changing, rather than the more traditional approach to the topic where scholars have generally categorized it as a deviant or pathological behaviour, which has been seen as socially condemned and subsisted at the margins of society. READ MORE
