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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Explain and Assess the Marxist explanation of Crime and Deviance According to Wickham (1991)‚ deviance is behaviour that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society. Karl Marx says that deviance is due to unequal power relationships and is a function of class struggle. Crime‚ however‚ is an act of deviance prohibited by law. The conflict theory of crime states that those in the higher social classes will benefit more from the government‚ compared to those in the lower
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ideals and in turn are ridiculed by others. Paragraph 1 Introduction on how the Frankfurt school was founded and also background on Marxism‚ as that is the basis for their theory. The school followed the teachings of Karl Marx and were studying why capitalist societies were succeeding while communist regimes were floundering. Karl Marx was the founder of Marxism‚ which is the system of economic‚ social‚ and political philosophy that views social change in
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Capitalism is the most justified economic system because it allows for competition and experimentation to further improve the standard of living for the public‚ and under the capitalist system individuals can work for their own rational self-interest while at the same time working for the greater good. In a capitalist system individuals create wealth by producing goods and services of value and do not use arbitrary force. Have great industrialists in history earned their wealth by theft and robbery
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Explain why did‚ the Menshevik and Bolshevik split happened in 1903? Until 1903 the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were a single party called the Social democrats. They wanted a communist Russia‚ following the ideas of Marxism. However with in the party of the social democrats there were two men‚ Lenin and Plekhanov whom of which had two completely different ideas on how the party was going to be successful in achieving the revolution‚ causing a split in the social democrats. Both parties’
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3. William Blake‚ "London" The population of London grew from 575‚000 in 1700 to around 1‚500‚000 in 1830 despite the fact that the death rate in the city surpassed its birth rate. This is because hordes of people relocated to the city from the countryside in the hope of finding wealth and better living conditions. In his poem "London" Blake addresses this notion of the city with the reality that working class people do not thrive in such an eighteenth century metropolis and are in fact trampled
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Sociology 1.1 Compare and contrast two of the following sociological views on the role of the education system in society The two perspectives which I will be looking at are Functionalism and Marxism The functionalists and the Marxists both believe that the education system benefits everyone‚ but both have different views on society. The Marxist views of the education system are that there are conflicts because there is an inequality between the working class and the higher classes. They
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sexuality by reinforcing and developing the ideologies that rationalize the oppression of women. This paper will examine how Marxist Feminism defines and identifies the source of discrimination‚ oppression and inequality. It is fair to say that Marxism sees the family unit as a result of the economic shape and form of society. The capitalistic system has shaped the structures by which sexual relations‚ as well as other aspects of life‚ are defined in today’s general
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Bibliography: * Robert Kilroy-silk: Socialism since Marx. (Allen Lane The Penguin Press. London.1972) * http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism (accessed on 28/03/13) * Vincent Geoghegan: Utopianism and Marxism. (international academic publishers‚ Switzerland. 2008) * George Lichtheim: A Short History of Socialism: (Fontana Paperbacks * Michael Freeden: Ideologies and Political Theory‚ A Conceptual Approach‚ Oxford University Press. England.1996) * Andrew
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completely communist. With his uniting of the Soviet Union‚ Lenin integrated his communist ideologies into its member countries. Lenin derives many of his beliefs from his time when he was a member of the Bolshevik faction. This is where he accumulated Marxism fundamentals. Unlike in Brave New World‚ Lenin believed in a single class. Brave New World‚ invasions a perfect society with multiple social classes. In these classes‚ all of their members are perfectly fit with where they stand in society. There
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