Functionalist views are some of the most well known theories on the family and have contributed to our understanding of the family in various ways. It is useful to consider how the family supports wider society. Functionalism considers this by deciding what functions the family must perform and therefore which type would suit society best. Functionalism believes that the nuclear family ‘fits’ and supports society because it is geographically mobile and allows people to move around the country
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Social inequalities have existed in all societies from the simplest to the most complex. Power and prestige are unequally distributed between individuals and social groups within many societies‚ and there are great disparities in the distribution of wealth. Social stratification is a particular form of social inequality that has existed throughout history; for example‚ Egyptian society‚ Feudalism and Modern societies (today). There have been many theories put forward to explain how social stratification
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making it in its essence a medium of the rich and powerful. It is not a place where people can have a two-way conversation; rather‚ it turns people into passive receivers of information‚ unable to respond as they see fit. Worse‚ television is not a meritocracy. One’s ability to participate in the medium is not based on the merit of one’s ideas‚ but rather on how much money one can afford to spend to purchase airtime for
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the family‚ it suggests that they help to maintain and justify capitalism by reinforcing class inequality and exploitation from the rich. Another opinion on this is the functionalist approach in which they think the family performs the essential needs of the society. Both Marxist and functionalist ideas contrast as functionalists see society based on value consensus in which everyone agrees whereas Marxists believes that there is an unequal balance of classes. The family play an important part
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are critical ideas that helped move social work away from seeing Freud as the only theorist of significance and away from seeing long-term transference/countertransference-based psychoanalysis as the only or the best approach. However‚ the functionalists took this one step further‚ a very important additional
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Assess the contribution of the Marxist theory to the sociological understanding of crime and deviance. (21 marks) Marxism is a macro/structural approach to society‚ meaning that it looks at the large-scale societal structure for answers about how society works and operates and explores crime and deviance in relation to classes within a capitalist society. Marxists claim that laws do not reflect a value consensus‚ instead laws and law enforcement benefits the rich (protection of private property)
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between these structures‚ and the manner in which these structures constrain the actions of individuals. According to structural functionalists‚ individuals have little to no control over the ways in which particular structures operate. Indeed‚ structural functionalists understand individuals in terms of social positions. For example‚ when the structural functionalists Kingsley Davis and Wilbur Moore discuss social stratification‚ they do not refer to individuals‚ but to the positions these individuals
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Marxists view of gender and age relating to crime would link them to low-class working backgrounds. Marxists state the law represents the interests of the ruling class. Most people that commit crime are young male juveniles‚ Marxists feel they are trying to compete for wealth and social control which would not benefit the capitalist society. Marxists look at crime statistics as false for e: g young 18-year-old male from a low-class working background who has been convicted doesn’t benefit a capitalist
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Outline and Assess Functionalist Explanations of Crime and Deviance [50 Marks] Pease (1994) said‚ ‘Crime comprises those actions which are deemed so damaging to the interest of the community that the state determines that it must take a direct role in identifying and acting against the criminal.’ Downes and Rock (1998) said ‘Deviance may be considered as banned or controlled behaviour which is likely to attract punishment or disproval.’ In short‚ ‘Deviance’ is a asocial construct that can change
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Compare Marxist and Functionalist Perspectives Compare and Contrast Functionalist and Marxist Perspectives Sociology is a systematic way of studying the social world. It seeks to discover the causes and affects of intercommunication and interaction that arise in social relations. "The science of society" was developed as a discipline in the 19th Century by Auguste Compte‚ a French philosopher. For him‚ common sense and the obvious would not suffice; he wanted to build scientific theories based
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