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A social policy that was designed to protect the traditional nuclear family was carried out by the coalition government. They changed child benefits so that families which only have one parents with a tax...

The realist approach to research is a hybrid of both the positivist and interpretivist approach to research, as the majority of social researchers engage in methodological pluralism whereby they utilize m...

Item: ' Human societies establish cultures which govern the conduct of the members to such an extent that in many instances, individuals are prepared to supress their biological drives because they believ...

Emile Durkheim of the functionalist perspective argued that deviance is a universal and normative aspect of all societies, adding that a small amount of crime is functional as it reaffirms societal bounda...

The functionalists believe that the family is one of the most important aspects of a society. They see the "nuclear family" as the ideal type - a father who works (the breadwinner) and a mother ...