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Question: TMA 01 Social worlds, including the airport, are made up of complex mixtures of the social and the material that are so interwoven that they’re difficult to separate. Therefore it’s important to take account of the way humans interact with material objects, and not consider only the extremes of the purely human or the purely material.
Write a 1000 word essay exploring how the material and the social are interwoven, using the “Airports” and the “Passbook” sections of the DVD – ROM Passports: registering the individual to illustrate your answer.
Answer: The term “social world” can be used to describe large social structures...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1015
- Date submitted: May 10, 2014
- Date written: November, 2012
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 5694
Question: TMA 02 What does examining mediation tell us about the nature of security in social worlds?
Illustrate your answer with reference to security in international relations.
Answer: The concept of security is multi faceted and has different meanings to...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1959
- Date submitted: May 10, 2014
- Date written: November, 2012
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 5693
Question: TMA 04 Compare and contrast two accounts of disorderly behaviour.
Answer: In light of the course materials I have studied, I am going...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1497
- Date submitted: November 19, 2012
- Date written: July, 2010
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 4351
Question: TMA 06 Evaluate the claim that life changes lead to changes in personal identity.
Answer: In light of the course materials I have studied, I am going...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1642
- Date submitted: November 19, 2012
- Date written: September, 2010
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 4350
Question: EMA 7 – Option A
Critically examine the claim by states to be the legitimate governing authority in a territory.
Answer: If we think of how all of our lives are then governed,...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1278
- Date submitted: November 19, 2012
- Date written: September, 2010
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 4349
Question: Goffman 'Asylums' - The Moral Career of the Mental Patient
Answer: The Psychiatric tradition of hospitalizing mental patients is often viewed by society...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 60%
- Words: 1924
- Date submitted: October 27, 2010
- Date written: January, 2008
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3381
Question: In what ways can citizenship be seen as a process of mediation? Consider the differences and similarities between the UK and Australia.
Answer: Citizenship can be regarded as a process of mediation. What is meant...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 85%
- Words: 1238
- Date submitted: October 27, 2010
- Date written: May, 2008
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3378
Question: 'Discuss the contention that ‘social policy constructs personal lives.'
Answer: In order to assess whether social policy constructs personal lives this essay...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 79%
- Words: 4329
- Date submitted: October 11, 2010
- Date written: May, 2008
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3380
Question: What role do material tools play in the formation of human conduct?
Answer: Human conduct is an area of sociological interest because it sheds light...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 80%
- Words: 2186
- Date submitted: October 01, 2010
- Date written: August, 2009
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3383
Question: What do we mean by all social worlds are mediated?
DD308 Making social worlds - TMA 01
Answer: The idea that social worlds are mediated may be understood through the...
- Subject: Making Social Worlds
- Course: DD308
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1096
- Date submitted: February 27, 2010
- Date written: February, 2009
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3646
