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Explain different sociological approaches to health and ill health There are many sociological approaches that explain health and ill health. In this assignment I will be focusing on Marxism‚ feminism‚ interactionaist and functionalism perspectives. The Marxist perspective believe that the bourgeoisie (middle class) exploit the proletariat (working class) as we live in a capitalist system and that if we lived in an communist society that would be our ideal society because there would be equality
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Amatrudo-3866-Ch-01:Amatrudo-3866-Ch-01 3/5/2009 4:54 PM Page 1 1 THE NATURE OF THE STATE Political power is‚ of course‚ always coercive power backed by the state’s machinery for enforcing its laws. But in a constitutional regime political power is also power of equal citizens as a collective body: it is regularly imposed on citizens as individuals‚ some of whom may not accept the reasons widely believed to justify the general structure of political authority (the constitution);
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will look at are social class and gender. I am going to look into how these affect health; I will also explain the pattern and trends. I am using gender because it fits in with the sociological perspective feminism and social class fits in with Marxism. Social class is how people are ranked based on their occupation‚ education‚ income and surroundings (where they live). People claim that the higher their social class the wealthier they are and if they are in a lower social class then they aren’t
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would agree that there are many roles in education but one of the main roles is to transmit a ruling class ideology‚ one perspective would be Marxism that see’s education based on class division and capitalist exploitation. However‚ functionalists would argue that education is seen as performing a beneficial role for both society and individuals. Marxism is a class conflict perspective based on class division and capitalist exploitation. Marxists argue that education functions to reproduce a labour
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Marxism: An economic‚ social‚ and political philosophy based on ideas that view social change in terms of economic factors. Developed in the 19th century by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Marxism says that people in the world are organized into different classes based on their relationship to how things are made. Most people are called "workers" because they work in factories or offices or farms for money. They belong to the "working class" (or "proletariat"). Another group‚ who are not as big as the working
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How far were the divisions among its opponents responsible for the survival of Tsarist rule in the years 1881-1905? Tsarism thrived for hundreds of years but as Russians became more educated they decided that communism and a dictatorship was too harsh and after a few revolutions Tsarism was a thing from the past. In the years 1881 to 1905 many things changed in Russia for the better and for the worse. Firstly‚ the repressive policies of the Tsar was partly responsible for the survival of Tsarist
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With the industrialization and urbanization of the nineteenth century‚ the nuclear family‚ consisting of only parents and their children‚ took the ascendancy of the extended family of more than two generations (and often several alternative lines). Simultaneously‚ the number of children per couple has been declining. The evolutions of the economic functions of the family were characterized by significant changes in the organization of production. Indeed in traditional societies (even in the early
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this period through his publication in 1937 of such essays as "On Contradiction" and "On Practice‚" he was the military thinker he is acknowledged as an important Marxist thinker. "On New Democracy" (1940) outlined a exceptional national form of Marxism appropriate to China; his "Talks at the Yen-ad Forum on Literature and Art" (1942) provided a basis for party control over cultural associations (Chen‚ 2001). The Japanese invasion during W.W.11‚ forced the CCP and the Kuomintang to form a united
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worked them. Karl Marx a sociologist in this time period developed a theory to explain the problems that would soon arise. Marx created one of the three sociologist perspectives‚ conflict perspective better known as the Marxist view. The theory of Marxism begins by focusing on how societies cooperate in order to meet the demand of essential necessities‚ and how industries are managed. Conflict perspective was seen as a part of everyday life‚ the idea Dialectics and Materialism help the theory unravel
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