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1. The following questions are based on this hypothesis: "College admissions based on affirmative action have increased the number of minority students attending college."
1. Identify the independent and dependent variables.
2. What is the appropriate research method to test the hypothesis?
3. How would you carry out a research study to test your hypothesis?
2. You have been asked by the local school board to investigate why the high school dropout rate has been increasing over the past several years. Explain how the functionalist perspective would analyze and explain the high dropout rate (in other words, consider the contributing factors that the functionalist perspective would focus on in trying to explain the reasons for the increase in the number of students dropping out). Then discuss a solution that a functional theorist might propose to prevent or address the high dropout rate.
3. Schaefer discusses four major systems of social stratification. Discuss the defining characteristics of each major system and provide an example of each one.
4.Discuss the merits and drawbacks of advances in biotechnology, using specific examples to support your points.
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Preview: ... rnment, family, school, police force, medical sector just to name a few that see to its stability. Functionalist perspective tries to show how these various units work in conjunction. When there is violation of the set rules in either one of these institutions, then stability deteriorates.
In determining the factors that lead to an increase in the number of high school dropouts, one has to look at both external and internal factors. Internal factors are those brought about by the individual himself/herself while external factors are those generated by the variables that surround the individual.
Considering internal factors, like poor academic performance, disabilities, age and absenteeism. Consistent poor performance traced from the previous classes in one’s school life contributes a great deal in school dropout. This is so because one values him/herself as worthless and to some extend develop other bad perspective tracing back to the family background terming it as either a curse or a generational pass down. With this in mind the students opts to leave school and find something else to do.
Disabilities have over the years posed a great challenge to the educational sector of the nation. A disabled individual finds it difficult to cope up with other medically fit students especially where they share the same school. Others view them as a curse in the society for example the case of albinism and try to avoid them as much as they can. This socialization gap created leaves these disabled students to suffer from loneliness and low self-esteem. At the end, they find themselves out of school not by choice but by circumstance.
Age is another crucial factor. Most students from remote areas start schooling at a latter age. This adversely affects their performance in school since age and performance go hand in hand. Younger aged students tend to grasp concepts at a higher rate as compared to older ones. Moreover, in most circumstances those students who perform well in class tend to be the younger aged. When one tends to be above his/her class in terms of age, he/she develops a negative attitude towards him/herself. In addition, this is accompanied by nicknames from other students creating inferiority. To avoid this shame most of the students that are faced with this challenge find themselves out of school.
Absenteeism can be attributed to various reasons like distance between school and home for the case of day scholars, sickness, and huge school fees arrears. This leads to missing of classes and skipping of certain concepts during course work that one finds it hard to catch up with the rest. When the gap between the ...
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