explanations of gender inequality, for example, functionalist views contrast hugely with Marxists. * For hundreds of years, women have been seen as unequal, however in the late 19th and 20th century up until today, there has been a huge increase in the belief of gender inequality and numerous feminist movements to try and conquer gender inequality. Functionalists: * Different, not unequal * Men and women serve different social roles in society, fam & workplace. * Parsons: women =
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approach to sociology and is best understood using biological anatomy. Functionalism can be traced back to August Comte (1798-1857). An Individual is born into society and will become the character of all the social influences such as the family, education, media and religion. The body is a complex mechanism and is understood by being studied. The body is studied by considering the basic parts for example the liver, kidneys, heart and lungs; society is just like the body as a society can be studied
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which consists of two parts: the ‘I’ is the reflective part that plans actions and evaluates our actions; the ‘Me’ is part of the self that exists for others in interactions such as roles. For people to engage in interaction, they must understand symbols and reflect on their own performance, but must also take on role of others. This is where an individual places themselves in the position of
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Assess the view that, in today’s society, the family is loosing its functions. (24 marks) The family in most societies traditionally had a number of responsibilities to take care of, such as reproduction, socialisation, education and a unit of production. These are the functions they needed to perform in order to make sure they prepare children to fit into adult society. This essay will examine different sociologist views on whether the family has lost its traditional functions or has not
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society and an organism. System organisms such as the human body and society are both self-regulating and inter-related, independent parts fit together in fixed ways. In the body these are organs; in society they are institutions, such as family and education. Both organisms have system needs for example an organism needs nutrition without which it would die. Social systems have basic needs for example members of society need to be socialized. Both society and organisms function to contribute to meeting
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working class (the proletariat) unlike the consensus view who believe in meritocracy. (Everyone gets equal opportunities) Althusser (a Marxist) claims that the state consists of two elements to help them keep in control; the ideological state apparatus that controls people's ideas and values. The ISA includes religion, mass media and the education that means that the education system is used by the ruling class as a tool to control people's views and ideas. The second element is the repressive state
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argue about whether this is a bad thing for society. Functionalists and the New Right argue that without pre-set roles in families, for example the male breadwinner and female homemaker, society would fall apart. These groups argue that the family that best serves society is the nuclear family consisting of a father, mother and dependent children. Opposed to this, feminists and postmodernists argue that the shift from the traditional family to the family today is a good thing because it provides individuals
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working of the education system is such one, that each stage leads/prepares you for the next one e.g. nursery – primary school – comp school – college – work. They have a structuralist theory. “The functionalist view is that illness has a social consequence and must be swiftly dealt with, where possible, for the smooth running of society” (Billingham, 2007, p.350) Marxist; The approach of these people is biased on the social class of society, they believe that there are two roles of people, the
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theory. It focuses on the needs of the social system as a whole and how these needs shape all the main features of society - from the form that social institutions such as the family take, right down to the behaviour patterns of individuals and the roles they perform. • Functionalism is a consensus theory. It sees society as based on a basic consensus or agreement among its members about values, goals and rules. • Functionalism is very much a modernist theory of society and shares the goals of the
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Durkheim and Parsons, is a structural theory focusing on the needs of the whole social system and how these shape society’s main features, for example social institutions and humans’ behavioural patterns. The theory is a consensus theory in which views society as based on value consensus (agreement) between its inhabitants about their values, goals and rules. Durkheim saw modern industrial society as based on a complex division of labour which promotes differences between groups, weakening social
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