Examples of Market-Oriented Approach in the following topics:
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- Occupy Wall Street protesters approach inequality from a social justice perspective that holds that all Americans deserve equal life chances and have been denied them by market-oriented approaches to economic regulation (or lack thereof).
- Occupy Wall Street protesters approach inequality from a social justice perspective that holds that all Americans deserve equal life chances and have been denied them by market-oriented approaches to economic regulation (or lack thereof).
- Functionalists are likely to embrace market-oriented approaches to inequality, on the basis that a free market will result in prices that benefit the smooth-functioning and growth of economies.
- These thinkers are likely to support state-oriented approaches to regulating inequality, with governments instating policies to equally distribute opportunities and resources.
- By protesting the financial institutions that provide capital to economic enterprises, "occupiers" suggest that the market-driven approach to inequality, embraced by financiers, has not resulted in a fair and equitable economic order.
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- Market-oriented theories of inequality argue that supply and demand will regulate prices and wages and stabilize inequality.
- Market-oriented theories of inequality are focused on the laws of the free market.
- Considering inequality, market-oriented theories claim that if left to the free-market, all products and services will reach equilibrium, and price stability will reduce inequality.
- According to market-oriented theories, over time the low wages earned by agricultural laborers will induce more people to learn other skills, thus reducing the pool of agricultural laborers.
- Generally, market-oriented theories hold that when supply of labor and goods meets demand, the economic order will reach equilibrium, and inequality will either be non-existent or will be stable.
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- Advocates also point to the remarkable advances in medical technology that have accompanied the private insurance/free-market approach to health care.
- Most experts believe that significant market failure occurs in health markets, thereby leading free market insurance models to operate inefficiently.
- The private insurance or free-market approach also fails to provide an efficient delivery for health care because prevention is such an essential component, but one that most people misjudge.
- An alternative to private health insurance and the free-market approach to health care is publicly funded health care.
- Proponents of publicly funded medicine cite several advantages over private insurance or free-market approaches to health care:
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- The field of urban sociology had been dominated by the idea that cities were basically containers for human action, in which actors competed among themselves for the most strategic parcels of land, and the real estate market reflected the state of that competition.
- Smart growth programs often incorporate transit-oriented development goals to encourage effective public transit systems and make bicyclers and pedestrians more comfortable.
- As an approach to urban planning, it encompasses principles such as traditional neighborhood design and transit-oriented development.
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- Urban anthropology is an anthropological subfield primarily concerned with urbanization, poverty, and the consequences of neoliberalism, or the contemporary political movement that advocates economic liberalization, free trade, free movement, and open markets.
- There are four central approaches to an anthropological study of cities.
- This changes one's orientation to the urban community.
- Design a research question using one of the four central approaches to the anthropological study of cities
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- Arriving at a verstehen-like understanding of society thus involves not only quantitative approaches, but more interpretive, qualitative approaches.
- The contrast between positivist sociology and the verstehen approach has been reformulated in modern sociology as a distinction between quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches, respectively.
- Quantitative sociology is generally a numerical approach to understanding human behavior.
- While there are some individuals who begin analyzing data without a theoretical orientation to guide their analysis, most begin with a theoretical idea or question and gather data to test that theory.
- The second step is the collection of data, and this is really where the two approaches differ.
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- Many veterans return from war with insufficient training to successfully navigate the job market or with skills that are not in demand in the civilian world.
- When markets crash, even families that appeared to be middle class may suddenly become homeless.
- Teenagers who become homeless have often run away from home or been thrown out by their parents, frequently because of their sexual orientation.
- Rather than stigmatizing or criminalizing homeless individuals, a long-term approach to combat homelessness must focus on meeting the needs of the homeless.
- The most promising solutions are holistic approaches that combine housing, health care, and education, but such programs are limited.
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- This approach looks at society through a macro-level orientation, which is a broad focus on the social structures that shape society as a whole.
- This approach looks at both social structure and social functions.
- By the 1980s, its place was taken in Europe by more conflict-oriented approaches, and more recently by "structuralism".
- While some of the critical approaches also gained popularity in the United States, the mainstream of the discipline has instead shifted to a myriad of empirically-oriented middle-range theories with no overarching theoretical orientation.
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- This approach was notably in evidence in respect to the sociology of race" (Coulhan 2007, Sociology in America, p.559).
- It also allows for the micro-analyses that much of modern sociology is oriented around, such as identity formation and the socially constructed nature of race.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a functionalist approach to race
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- Quantitative methods of sociological research approach social phenomena from the perspective that they can be measured and/or quantified.
- Qualitative methods of sociological research tend to approach social phenomena from the Verstehen perspective.
- Qualitatively oriented sociologists tend to employ different methods of data collection and analysis, including: participant observation, interviews, focus groups, content analysis, visual sociology, and historical comparison.
- They view quantitative and qualitative approaches as complementary.
- Results from one approach can fill gaps in the other approach.