Assess the contribution of Marxism to our understanding of society (33 marks) - June'13 A popular group of sociologists , who have conducted various amounts of research in regard to society, are Marxists, who believe that power in society is largely stemmed from wealth, which has created a capitalist society (a society in which people are employed for wages, and businesses are set up with the aim of making profit). In capitalism the working-class employees (proletarian) are exploited by the bourgeoisie
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marriage would be like, and these expectations not being met. Functionalists such as Fletcher believe that over the last few centuries, and idea of ‘romantic love’ has become dominant; when the love dies, people see no reason to stay together. The obsession for finding ‘the one’ can be pursued after divorce. Another reason for divorce rate increasing is that the stigma that used to be attached to it is disappearing. People used to view divorce as shameful, the church condemned it and would refuse
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Social problems have been a part of society for thousands of years. Some have vanished over time while others have uprooted to accommodate with the changing times of the world. Different countries share similar social problems as well as different ones. All countries have tried to find solutions for these problems such as the United States, Britain, Uganda, and China. The United States has a lot of social problems. Since there is a lot of land, a vast majority of different cultures have settled
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Functionalism Sociology is the study of human societies and their patterns of behavior. It focus on the way people form relationships and how these relationships are represent by the concept of a society. Sociologist use three primary theoretical framework to explain different aspects of social interactions in relationship to society. There are functionalist theory, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism theory. Each theories provide broad perspectives that help explain different aspects
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“Assess the view that the growth of family diversity has led to the decline of the traditional nuclear family.” (24 marks) Before 1970, cohabitation was illegal in certain countries. The law changed and now cohabitation is a common pattern among people around the world, as well as having sex before marriage and having a baby. At least 50% to 60% of couple’s cohabitate, starting from the late 1990’s. This results into the amount of traditional nuclear families decreasing as people want to live
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Class of parents, gender, sex, ethnicity, race Achieved Status voluntary status; a status you earn o Student, criminal, doctor, friend Society people who share culture & territory Hunting & Gathering Societies simplest form of society, few social divisions, few people, nomadic, most egalitarian [treat all as equals, no one is rich or poor], society with most leisure time. Role Conflict When what is expected of us in one role is incompatible with what is expected in another role. Role
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Gender Inequality To: Ken Cornwell SOCI 1010 From: Anita Schlicher Fall/2012 Paper III Gender Inequality There have been vast changes in women's rights
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess the view that the main function of the education system is to reproduce and legitimise social inequalities. 20 State education began in 1870 and a significant feature of education in Britain is the difference in achievement between pupils from different social classes. Despite many improvements to the education system, social class differences continue. Social class background has a powerful influence on a child’s success in the education system
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on and more bricks to be added, some credit has to be given to two of the many people who laid the first bricks, Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim. Knowing each one of their point of views is important to understand them and how they are similar and how they differ. Marx focused on class division and how it shapes society. He focused on the business aspects and how children grow up to be like their parents. If a child is born into a family who lives off welfare, then they are most likely going to
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Assess the view that religion is a conservative force Religion is seen as a conservative force which means that some people believe that the role of religion is to maintain things the same or maintaining the status quo. Various groups believe that this is something positive and others believe that is something negative, Marxists regard this as being negative. Marxists believe that society is divided in the working class and the bourgeois class, where the bourgeois oppress the working class
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