Sociology Answers

a)    What is the difference between a substantive definition of family and a functionalist definition of family? Which one would be most useful in understanding the first families at the research station? Explain your answer.

Tacit knowledge is not codified and transferable through written or oral language, for example personal experience. It is the opposite of explicit knowledge which is learned and can be repeated. Tacit knowledge is held by human beings; It is more difficult to obtain than explicit knowledge but has more value.

Use your own ideas and advice the Namibia University of Science and Technology how this type of knowledge management is applied in learning. Use practical examples to substantiate your ideas.

Impact of online Education on mental health of students.

What best practices can be adopted to coup the deteriorating

mental health of students?

1. Think about and design your own example of changing the indicators of quality of life in time and space?

Name of indicator, Change in time and

Different reliability depending on the location:

2. Think about and suggest what could be considered as high standard of quality of life?

3. Think about and propose a nominal and operational definition for quality of life – don´t use definiton of wealth.

Nominal definition and Operational definition

The new ideas that emerged in the Enlightenment were methods or natural science should be user in everyday life, scientific method, and progress. Elaborate further…

1.Explain the Age of the Enlightment period.

The Enlightenment – the great 'Age of Reason' – is defined as the period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society during the 'long' 18th century. Elaborate further on this….

What is Enlightment:

Reason

Reform

Progress

2.What were the main ideas of the age of enlightenment

The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centred on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the senses, and ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state. Elaborate further…

In your arguments engage in discussion with what new ideas about society and human relations emerged in the Enlightment.

The new ideas that emerged in the Enlightenment were methods or natural science should be user in everyday life, scientific method, and progress. Elaborate further…

Propose few suggestions on how mass media as social problem can be managed and its impact minimised

Reflect 4 implications mass media poses for community life

Use 4 elements of social problem to motivate why you believe mass media can be viewed as a social problem

What is Mass media ? and its prevalence in a community