Key theories

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Feminism
It is the movement of women who want equal rights with men. There are 5 waves.
Radical feminism-kill all men and the sufregets.
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Marxism
The movement which targets social class inequality. They feel that the rich use the lower class to gain their own profit. Karl Marx wanted to get the workers to uproar and fight for their rights.
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Functionalism
The idea that everybody has a part to play in society. We are like the body and if something doesn't work, it affects all the other parts. They find that disabled people are burdens to society.
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Postmodernism
We have evolved from science and religion into a society where everybody has their own identities.
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Pluralist
You have what control over what the media shows you. If you don't like something you don't interact with it, like-wise if you were interested in a product you'd look into it.
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New Right
They believe that the welfare has made people dependent once again. In 1987 it was illegal to talk about homosexuality and to promote the nuclear family- they were against postmodernism and the change of social norms and values.
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The movement which targets social class inequality. They feel that the rich use the lower class to gain their own profit. Karl Marx wanted to get the workers to uproar and fight for their rights.

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Marxism

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The idea that everybody has a part to play in society. We are like the body and if something doesn't work, it affects all the other parts. They find that disabled people are burdens to society.

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We have evolved from science and religion into a society where everybody has their own identities.

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You have what control over what the media shows you. If you don't like something you don't interact with it, like-wise if you were interested in a product you'd look into it.

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