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.??
- The way our families bring us up regarding gender
- Social policy
- still some laws that discriminate against women
- expected to take maternity leave as this can have an impact on their career prospects.?
- still some laws that discriminate against women
- Gender socialisation
- 2 barriers to equality
- They don’t blame men for inequality however they do believe that gender inequality does still exist.
- 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
- 'rule by fathers'
- Patriarchy
- Rich
- men push women into ‘compulsory heterosexuality’
- narrow and unsatisfying to women
- beneficial to men as it fulfils only their desires.
- narrow and unsatisfying to women
- men push women into ‘compulsory heterosexuality’
- Men are the main enemy of all women and patriarchy is the main form of social inequality.
- Marxist
- Marxist feminists focus on the additional exploitation women experience in capitalist systems in comparison to men
- inter sectionalism
- depends on race, religion etc
- Liberal
- 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
- Politics
- Family
- Education
- Religion
- 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
- Economic
- 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.
- Alternative way of live to the capitalist state
- Proletariat would produce a counter-hegemony
- proletariat can influence social change through developing their own ‘hegemony’ rather than waiting for economic changes that Marx referred to.
- Humanistic Marxist
- Karl Marx
- Feminism
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