Marxist sociologists utilise Marxist concepts in order to provide a framework for understanding the cause and effects of crime and deviance in a capitalist society. These sociologists see power as being controlled by those who own and maintain the means of production. The superstructure of a capitalist society the agencies of social control‚ the law‚ politics as well as crime all reflect and serve ruling-class interests. According to Marxists‚ laws are patented in as a direct reflection of ruling-class
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Education is the process for learning basic life skills‚ to get children to socially interact with others and to enable people to get good qualifications so they can gain better careers. Functionalists offer an optimistic analysis of the role of education and they maintain that education and training performs a positive function. However Marxist theorists offer a pessimistic analysis of the role of education. They argue that schools do not serve the interests of everyone in society‚ but a ruling
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Religion Functionalist‚ Marxism‚ Feminism Functionalists believe society is a system of integrated parts of social institutions .i.e. religion‚ family and economy. To see religion from a fuctionalists perspective you have to look at it through society as a hole. Keeping this in mind they emphasise the social nature of religion and the positive functions it serves. They also neglect negative aspects such as religion as a source of oppression of the poor or women which are both the feminist and
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For the Love of Sports Frederick L. Webster Ashford University Sociology in Sports SOC318 Eric Dybvig December 13‚ 2009 For the Love of Sports In this paper‚ I will apply the functionalist theory to answer the question: “Why are people fanatically interested in playing and watching sports?” Culture‚ social structure‚ and social interaction play major roles in contributing to the reasons why people are fanatically interested in sports. Sport fans have a personal connection to their
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Marxist theory of class and ideology suggests that society is driven by money and economy. All the social‚ historical changes that take place in a society are guided by changes in modes of production and class struggle. Marx also stated that the ruling class not only dominates the material sources of society‚ but also controls the intellectual modes of production. The ruling class circulates its ideas as the only rational‚ ideal‚ universal ideas‚ to maintain their hegemony. Jane Austen’s Pride and
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Critically evaluate the Marxist perspective of the family According to Marx’s perspective‚ family is seen as an obstruction to achieve the communist goals‚ as it is crucial to passing the established order such as cultural ideals on to the next generation. However‚ Marx was focused on social class rather than the role of family‚ it was his friend Engels trace the evolution of the family in “The Origin of the Family‚ Private Property and the State” (1884 ‚ Zurich) In this context‚ this essay will
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Outline and assess the view that the role of education system is to justify and reproduce social inequalities (50) The view that the role of educations system is to justify and reproduce social inequalities is one from a Marxist perspective. They believe that capitalism creates inequality and allows those with wealth to keep theirs. Bowles and Gintis argue that there is a very close relationship between education and work. This is called the correspondence principle. Bowles and Gintis argue that
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Racial and Gender Inequality Functionalist Theory Racial inequality evaluated through the functionalist theory would be looked at to provide a function to the working system of a society. One function for racial inequality could be that the inferior race‚ prefers or needs direction by the dominant race. This was a common view in the enslavement of blacks in the south before the civil war. Another functionalist view might try to explain that the inferior race is in fact dangerous to mix with the
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Modern Marxists and the Continuing Relevance of Marxism However modern Marxists reject the above arguments and argue instead that the Marxist critique of capitalism is still relevant in the C21st . Thus modern Marxists and others have challenged all of the above theories of post-capitalism and continue to argue that despite theories of the managerial revolution‚ democratic pluralism significant changes in class structure that even nowadays that the rich continue to exercise massive economic and
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The Marxist literary criticism according to the Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary theory describes that a novel should unmask or accentuate a more whole understanding of a community. Marxist criticism analyzes ways in which a human is formed and socialized through manufactured views of reality and truth. (Fish‚ Tom) The novel A Prayer for Owen Meany is a good example of underlying patterns and manufactured views of reality and truth. If we examine John Irving’s novel A Prayer for
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