class conflict is associated with early stages of industrialisation and the transition from a traditional to a modern society
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Parsons (functionalist)
it is inevitable to have winners + losers in society and the division of labour requires discipline and authority so thereâs a greater tendency for the powerful to exploit the weak
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Davis + Moore (functionalist)
society has to ensure that their most important role goes to the most talented people, therefore society is meritocratic and class position is a fair reflection of talents
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Marx + Engels (marxists)
the bourgeoisie own the means of production and pay workers less to create a surplus value, eventually the workers will realise their position in society and overthrow the bourgeoisie
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Gramsci (neo-marxist)
the communist rev wasnât inevitable as it required human agency in the form of educating, but the w/c have accepted the ideas of the capitalists
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Ohlin Wright (neo-marxist)
looks at the way capitalist maintain inequality through excluding poorer, low skill people from access to resources and buying the loyalty of high skill workers with higher wages
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Althusser (neo-marxist)
looked at the way capitalists kept control through the structure of society, with the ISA and the RSA
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Poulantzas (neo-marxist)
the structure of society was biassed towards the needs of capitalism against the interests of the w/c
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Miliband (neo-marxist)
majority of the w/c arenât socialists and donât understand how socialism or marxism will protect them from capitalism
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Betty Friedan (liberal feminist)
âthe problem without a nameâ - the widespread unhappiness of American housewives in the 1950s/60s
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Sue Sharpe (liberal feminist)
womenâs changing ambitions mean education and careers are now a priority for young women in the 1990s
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Kate Millett (radical feminist)
patriarchy was a belief system, on the basis of womenâs reproductive function, with ideas about womenâs ânatural roleâ which served to keep women subordinated
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Firestone (radical feminist)
men and women occupied separate classes, a âsex class systemâ imposed on women because of their biological role
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Wallaby
six patriarchal structures = the area of paid work, the household, the state, cultural institutions (eg mass media), sexuality, and violence against women
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Hazel Corby (black feminism)
black men could be victims of racism by white women AND agents of male dominance, leaving black women with divided loyalty
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Kimberle Crenshaw (black feminist)
intersectionality of racism and sexism
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Lorber (postmodern feminist)
postmodernism feminism is âgender rebellion feminismâ = the problem is the very notion of gender and progress for women and men required a rebellion against the âtyranny of gender categories'â
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Judith Butler (postmodern feminist)
claims earlier feminists made the mistake of trying to assert that âwomenâ and âmenâ were a group with common characteristics / interests (gender isnât something we are but rather what we do)
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Weber
believes class conflict is possible but not inevitable, and believe in power, class, status, and party
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Goldthorpe (neo-weberian)
used Weberâs ideas to devise ways of measuring social class, and introduced variables such as employment relationships, conditions of work, and life chances
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Barron + Norris (neo-weberian)
describes the concept of âdual labourâ, with the primary market for the m/c and the secondary market for the w/c
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Giddens (neo-weberian)
develops the dual labour concept, and points out the m/c have skills based that put them at an advantage in the workforce whereas the w/c can only sell their labour
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Rex + Tomlinson (neo-weberian)
applied weberian ideas to a consideration of race relations in Britain, where ethnic minorities experience low class and low status, compounded by racism so that they also lacked party
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Bauman (postmodernist)
in consumer societies like the UK, peopleâs identity is based more on what they buy vs their job, and the relevance of class has declined (majority who can partake in consumption vs the minority who cannot)
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Pakulski + Waters (postmodernist)
consumerism has become the dominant feature of post-industrial societies, and classes have been replaced by status groups linked to consumption (status conventionalism)
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Beck (postmodernist)
critical of postmodernists because he felt they should look at where society is heading, and class in now redundant as we have moved into a risk society
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Lyotard (postmodernist)
the terms social class and gender arenât meaningful anymore because no groups/societies share common values as society is diffused and fragmented
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Polhemus (postmodernist)
there is greater individuality in modern society so the old categories of class, gender, ethnicity, and age have become meaningless (inequalities have blurred and people donât act the way they are supposed to eg older people behave in a youthful way)
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Blaikie (postmodernist)
consumerism / consumer culture is responsible for social change and this began when Thatcher was prime minister in the 1980s, and increasing wealth amongst the elderly meant they have a whole new lifestyle and their political influence has increased
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Trickle down theory (new right)
belief is that the wealthy pay less and make more profit, the money they will spend will stimulate the economy, create more jobs and everyone will benefit
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Herbert Spencer (new right)
poverty was good for society because it encouraged people to work harder - they deserved poverty as they had no morality
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Murray (new right)
\- claimed that within the UK a culture of welfare dependency has developed and the underclass were unwilling to work because they had become dependant on state benefits to support them
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Saunders (new right)
social inequality is a small price to pay for society as a whole becoming more prosperous, and if incentives didnât exist, then many consumer goods that we take for granted todays (cars, ipods) would not exist because talented people would not be motivated to make them