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Essay Instructions: Using the three major theoretical perspectives and the theory to the sociology of sports. analyze HEALTH CLUBS in the US. Each theoretical perspective, include a brief summary of the theory overall and include the following-- Manifest and Latent functions of health clubs using the Functionalist perspective-- Gender, race and social class implications using the Conflict theory perspectives-- Issues of self-concept, identity and interactions using the Interactionist perspective. 4 pages double space MLA form. If using internet or on-site research, be sure to include source citation in the paper. This is a term paper. Include Name, Date and class section on the top of the paper. you can include types, cost or anyother information on health clubs. I had brain surgery last week and its a little hard to focus on trying to write a paper so thank you for your help. This is a Sociology term paper.. On Health Clubs each area needs to have the three major theoretical perspectives as mentioned above.

Essay Instructions: The Essay Topics

1. The "functionalist perspective on religion", or good aspects of religion.

2. The "conflict perspective on religion", or negative aspects of religion.

Essay Guideline

1. Please write up the concepts, following the steps suggested bellow
(Please write up each concepts based on textbook).
a. Write 2 concepts (or 2 sets of concepts) from the ?gessay topics?h to discuss in your essay (whole length is 1 page and only 5or6 sentences for each topic), the essay topics which will be given in class;
b. Make one paragraph for each concept,
1) Define the concept (referring to the textbook (Curry, Tim; Jiobu, Robert; and Schwirian, Kent (2002), Sociology for the Twenty-first Century, Third Edition. New Jersy: Prentice Hall) or any other books on sociology);
2) Clarify the meaning of the definition (not ?grepetition?h of the definition):
3) Give at least one tangible example of your own; and
4) Restate the definition (again not the same as ?grepetition?h).

2. You can and should use published materials, such as textbook (Curry, Tim; Jiobu, Robert; and Schwirian, Kent (2002), Sociology for the Twenty-first Century, Third Edition. New Jersy: Prentice Hall) But do not put the whole thing into your essay as is. Do mostly two things if you use published materials.
a. Summarize the ideas without loosing their meanings;
b. Cite the sources of information property like this: (Lewis 1965, p. 186) with footnote.

An Example Paragraph (Please write like this)

Secularization can be seen as ?gthe declining influence of religion combined with an increasing influence of Science?h (see Curry et al.2002, p.353). This tells us that to the
extent our contemporary society relies on science, religious ideas tend to be undermined, and that the extent to which it is so is straightforwardly increasing. When we have health problems, for example, most of us today rely on a medical doctor rather than, say, a shaman. Or when we plan to take SAT, CPE, and the like, most of us will consult materials published and or endorsed by academic institution rather than fortunetellers. ?gSecularization?h is, thus, a competition between science and religion going on in our modern society in which science is winning.

Tips (read the following carefully):
* Do NOT give "your opinions" (or common sense
beliefs) but report the "ideas according to
sociologists" (theories).
* Read the questions carefully and address them; the
questions are big hints.
* Follow PRECISELY the format given in the "Essay
Guideline."
* The way you cite is given in the "Essay Guideline"
which you should follow exactly.
* As a basic rule, the shorter--or the more
succinct--the better, as long as it suffices the
format and as long as it addresses the questions.
* Your paper should look like the sample paragraph
given in the "Essay Guideline."

Essay Instructions: The United States currently has the highest incarceration rate in the world with over 2.2 million people behind bars.
Another way to look at it is the United States has 5% of the worlds incarcerations population. How would the conflict and functionalist perspective explain the reasons for this?

Essay Instructions: Essay Title: Critically discuss functionalist Sociology?s concern with Social Order and Stability


INTRODUCTION: (200 words)
- A contextual framework of functionalism and functionalist traditions.
- How functionalists view society as a kind of biological organism made up of many interdependent elements.
- The key functions functionalists believe social institutes perform, two of which are to maintain social order and stability.
- What Talcott Parsons contributed to the understanding of social order and stability.


PARAGRAPH 1: (1400 words)
- What functionalists say about social order and stability in society. What is social order/what is stability (what Thomas Hobbs says about it)? In the point of view of functionalists.
- How social order and stability, according to factionalists, is maintained in society
- How certain institutes (family, education, religion) play certain roles to ensure social order and stability is maintained.
- Why this social order and stability is important in society.
- The analogy of society as the human body. Just like the human body, society has institutes that perform important functions. Neither can function without the other. This is commonly known as a SYSTEM.
- How do modern sociologists associate a healthy society with social order and stability
- Social roles (everyone has an expected role to perform in society, these are commonly shared) and how these are related to the maintenance of social order and stability.
- What would happen without social order and stability in society, as accordance to functionalists?
- Value consensus. What brings this consensus? How is it maintained? This is through Conformity, norms and values, institutionalisation. Explain of these and how they ensure a value consensus.
- The key to social order and stability is the socialisation of individuals. Explain.


PARAGRAPH 2: (700 WORDS)
- 10 detailed and in-depth criticisms put forward by writers and theorists of the functionalists concern with social order and stability.
- Why is the functionalists concern with social order and stability flawed
BE AS Critical AS POSSIBLE IN THIS SECTION! Go over the word limit in order to do so.
- What are the good aspects of the functionalist?s perspective on accounting for social order and stability?
- Contrast these to the negative aspects and assess which is stronger.
- Is the functionalist?s concern with social order and stability dated? Is it still applicable in modern sociology? Be as critical as possible


PARAGRAPH 4: (CONCLUSION, 200 words)
- The contribution the functionalists concern with social order and stability has bought to sociology
- How although it helps us understand society, it has its flaws
- Are there better explanations/theories that give a better account of how social order and stability is maintained.
- Can a society have stability in a state of social disorder? If not then functionalists have an idealistic account of society.
- Is social order a must for stability?