PHL101 Alison Jaggar Alison M. Jaggar (PHD, 1970--) is a feminist philosopher and a professor who works for University of Colorado at Boulder. Jaggar was born in Sheffield, England. Jaggar’s early work was in England. Jaggar got her Bachelor’s degree in 1964 from University of London (Bedford College) and her Ph D from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970. In 1990, she joined the faculty at University of Colorado Boulder, and she was awarded Gold Teaching Award by CU boulder.
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Although Marxists are believed to be more cynical, whereas functionalists believe that everyone benefits from them. Last are the 2 types of feminism, Radical and Socialist. Social feminists focus mainly on how the roles are played by women to help preserve capitalism. Whereas radical feminists show how men create state institutions to create and maintain the patriarchal system – Institutions that are designed to make woman fail to see that they are all the same-. Functionalists, Marxist
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religion and feminism is that feminist’s believe religion exists to serve patriarchy as opposed to capitalism. The key feminist thinkers of religion are, Mary Daly, Simone de Beauvoir, Karen Armstrong, Jean Holme and Nawal El Sadawi. They all think that the church has and continues to support inequalities between men and women, this is due to the fact that the teachings benefit men more than women, the main concerns of feminists are religious organisations, place of worship, sacred texts and religious
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The subject of social problems is one discipline of ever- increasing need for social inquiry. Conventional theories have just but only justified the existence of these conditions and have remained in their normative school. Critical theories have tried to push their historical materialist approach but could not bring any formidable solutions to avert social problems. By definition a social problem is an elusive concept to define and it takes forms that are the subjective and objective understanding
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power of certain social groups to define deviance and create the laws which secured social conformity. Marxists see crime and deviance as not coming from moral or biological defects but defects within social order. Crime is an inevitable part of capitalism as it stems from social inequalities. Working-class crime is caused by labour exploitation and material misery. Therefore theft is an expression of that exploitation and is a political act of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. As anything
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The main role of the family IS to serve the interest of Capitalism NOT everyone The main role of the family is NOT to just serve the interest of Capitalism- it serves everyone Pester Power- children will see things on television/ in the media that will indoctrinate them into thinking they want/ need something- be it sweets, a certain kind of trainers, or a haircut. Functionalists believe that the family serves to ‘give back’ to the economy, keeping the money and economy FLOWING, through shared
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Poverty and Social Inequality ‘Inequality remains a significant part of life in contemporary Britain’ Some argue that Britain is the most unequal society in Western Europe, Research conducted by Sutton Trust from 2010 suggests that poverty affects children’s ability to do well in schools, the study indicates that just 45 per cent of children from poorest fifth of families were ready to read daily by the age of three compared to 78 per cent of children from richest fifth of families. This proves
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The Gilded Age The purpose of this essay is to show how the Industrial Revolution of the Gilded Age contributed to increased problems in gender, race and class in the latter half of 19th century America. Mark Twain coined the term "The Gilded Age" between the years 1870 and 1900 America in reference to the gold gilding that became popular in the era, but also masked very serious social conflicts that arose across the country (Twain, 1996). Ultimately, with economic growth came wider income gaps
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not something that people have or don’t have; crime is not something some people do and others don’t. Crime is a matter of who can pin the label on whom and underlying this socio-political process is the structure of social relations determined by capitalism. Using material from item A and elsewhere asses the usefulness of the Marxist approaches to an understanding of crime and deviance (21 marks) Marxists essentially see crime and deviance as defined by the ruling class and used as a means of social
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social class conflict. It looks at the conflict between the working class and capitalists. Marxists argue that the economy is the most important social institution and they believe that the family’s main role is to support and contribute towards capitalism. The economy is known as the infrastructure and other social institutions such as the family are seen as the superstructure. The family delivers norms and values that imply that the power held by the capitalists is normal and shouldn’t be questioned
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