Consensus Vs Conflict; Structure Vs Action

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Created on: 20-07-22 09:50

what is meant by consensus?
what is meant by conflict?

a general agreement about what kind of structure society has
a disagreement about what structure society has

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what do functionalists think on it and which sociologist spoke on it?

Durkheim say society is held together by a shared culture where all people are socialised harmoniously

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what ideologies do they propose that ties into this?

-the social control and cohesion theories
-organic analogy
(refer back to functionalism)

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name the evaluations of this

+social integration is enabled through this
-its too idealistic to what experiences ppl actually go through irl

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what do marxists argue?

-see society based off conflict and argue it's divided into;
-minority, mc who own means of production
-majority, wc who sell their labour
so they believe theres conflict against these classes

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what do feminists argue?

conflict theory; liberal f- legality process, radical f- removing patriarchy, marxist f- capitalism and patriarchy, difference f- different perspectives of women ie ethnicity, post modernist f- embrace femininity and the idea of pick n mix for women (new

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what do new right argue and which sociologists are associated with it?

consensus, they believed there used to be a consensus until ti crashed until the 20th century, so there is no consensus anymore by ie letting state pay for families expenses
Murray and Thatcher

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name the evaluations for consensus theories

+social integration
-too idealistic
-cutting state funding supports marxists view
-post modernists and interpretivists think this is a structural theory and doesn't look at individuals

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name the evaluations for conflict theories

-not all aspects of society are based on conflict/ exploitation
-society is too complexto section into classes
-communism isn't a stable placement in society
-post modernists say f causes crisis of masculinity

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