GCSE Sociology Perspectives

The education system does not provide equal opportunities for all. It benefits the more powerful groups of people.

Employers need to keep their workers poor if they are to stay rich, as they need people prepared to work for little money in order to obtain the highest profits.

In every marriage there are two marriages – his marriage and her marriage – and his marriage is better than hers.

Men and women have unequal opportunities in education. Schools reinforce women’s inferior status in society.

Because society is male-dominated, women are often at a disadvantage in many areas of life, including work, and are more likely to be poor than a man because of this.

Women learn from religious stories, beliefs and practices that their place in the world is different from and lesser than man’s place.

Collapsing morals and a crisis in the family leads to other problems such as crime and drug use. We need to go back to traditional family values.

Schools should teach traditional values and not undermine society by presenting things like teen pregnancy as acceptable.

The welfare state has encouraged dependency. It has created an underclass - people who are no longer willing to work or behave like respectable citizens - because they know that the state will look after them.

We need to return to strong religious values if we are to return to a more stable society.

The conventional nuclear family is ideal for modern society because it fits the needs of society so well and makes the best use of men’s and women’s different natural abilities.

Schools are a way of sorting out which people should be able to get which jobs.

Poverty is a necessary evil as it encourages people to work hard in order to avoid it.

Religion gives meaning and purpose to life and provides answers to some of the questions that trouble people.