Assess functionalist theories of crime and deviance. Functionalism is a social structural and social control theory. It believes that it is society that causes the individual to commit crime. Social control theory looks at why people do not commit crime as it says that people are controlled by the primary and secondary agents of social control, such as the family or religion, and so should not commit crime. Functionalism is also a Right Wing theory, which believes that agents of social control like
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the function and role of education in society. Some look at the positive side of education and others the more negative side due to some pupils only being exploited in the education system. Despite all having different views that can be related to, they also all have their advantages and disadvantages meaning some arguments are stronger than others. One group of sociologists, the functionalists, believe that education has four main functions to help society. One role of education is to create social
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Learning Approach Deviance and Social Control Unit M4: Functionalism Introduction In these Teachers’ Notes we’re going to review a number of theories of crime and deviance from a Structural Functionalist perspective. In case this sociological perspective is not clear to you, the first part of these Notes is given over to a brief overview of this perspective. If you are familiar with this perspective, then this overview will serve as revision
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real cause of problems in society. However there are several variations in Marxist ideas on crime. Neo Marxists have developed critical criminology which has attempted to incorporate labelling theory and Brake has used subcultural theory to explain the attraction of youth groups. Assignment 2 – Using material from Item B and elsewhere assess the usefulness of Marxist approaches in explaining crime The traditional Marxist belief is a structural one as they see society as being based on a structure
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buried in the structure and culture of society. Social groups are established by the development of relationships. Where social structure is concerned and how one unit or group of units relates to another, families are involved. However, linking not just families; churches, schools, businesses and communities are a part of the structure of the society also. Social structure therefore refers to the framework of a society, that is, the patterns around which society is organized and is instrumental in
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Sociology Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States The untied states in undergoing a transition from a pre dominantly white society rooted in western Europe culture to a global society composed of diverse racial and ethnic groups. By the year 2050, today’s minorities will make up nearly half of the US population. HISPANICS/LATINOS- the nations Hispanic population is not a consolidated minority. Latino groups have different histories, distinct concentrations in different areas of
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Marxism is a theory that sees society in a state of 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
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Marxists see capitalist society based on unequal conflict between two classes the capitalist class who own the means of production, and the working class who’s labour the capitalist’s exploit. Marxists see the family fulfilling several functions the inheritance of property, ideological functions, a unit of consumption. Marxists argue the key factor determining the shape of social institutions is the mode of production, which is the capitalist class. In ‘primitive communism’ there was no private
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position of a person in a given social group. Functionalists such as Durkheim believe that class stratification exists because it is functional and beneficial towards social order and noted that societies are often characterized by a specialized occupational division of labour. According to Durkheim, members within a society are happy and comfortable within their position within the division of labour because there is a common agreement about how society should be organized which is referred to as
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individual’s identity and life chances are based more status and cultural factors such as lifestyle, values, intelligence, education and the like, the post-modernists state that class has ceased to be the prime determinant of identity and suggest that societies are now organised around consumption rather than production, consequently people now identify themselves in terms of what they consume rather than in terms of social-class position. Class identity has therefore fragmented into numerous separate and
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