SOCIOGICAL THEORIES

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  • Created on: 12-08-20 12:03
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  • Sociological theories
    • Feminism
      • Liberal
        • They don’t blame men   for inequality however they do believe that gender inequality does still exist.
          • 2 barriers to equality
            • Gender socialisation
              • The way our families bring us up regarding gender
                • Gender stereotypes are maintained and reproduced through generations which lead boys to believe they are dominant over women.??
            • Social policy
              • still some laws  that discriminate against women
                • expected to take maternity leave as this can have an impact on their career prospects.?
      • Radical
        • Men are the main enemy of all women and patriarchy is the main form of social inequality.
          • Patriarchy
            • 'rule by fathers'
              • Male dominated society
            • Main form of social inequality
            • all men oppress women therefore there is sexual politics
        • Rich
          • men push women into ‘compulsory heterosexuality’
            • narrow and unsatisfying to women
              • beneficial to men as it fulfils only their desires.
      • Marxist
        • Marxist feminists focus on the additional exploitation women experience in capitalist systems in comparison to men
      • inter sectionalism
        • depends on race, religion etc
    • Marxism
      • Karl Marx
        • Social institutions fool the working class
        • False class consciousness
          • working class people suffer from false class consciousness; unaware of the exploitation they experience
          • Superstructure
            • Religion
              • Education
                • Family
                  • Politics
                    • Mass media
          • ruling class are seen to be acting for the benefit of society and the working class accept and share this view
      • Althusser
        • structural view to society (similar to?Marx)
        • 3 interlocking systems (driving capitalism forward)
          • Economic
            • Produce all material goods
          • Political
            • Organises society, passes laws and provides leadership
          • Ideological
            • Provides all of the beliefs systems that are followed by the population
      • Gramsci
        • Humanistic Marxist
          • proletariat can influence social change through developing their own ‘hegemony’ rather than waiting for economic changes that Marx referred to.
            • Proletariat would produce a counter-hegemony
              • Alternative way of live to the capitalist state
                • only way to influence a revolution is by winning the hearts and minds of the proletariat and give them something to believe in.
                • well-educated working class individuals who could show the proletariat an alternative to capitalism.

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