functionalists:

• durkhiem

• parsons

• davis & moore

Marxists:

• althusser

• Bourdieu

• bowles &gintis

• willis

Postmodernists:

• usher

Gender

• mitosis and browne

• wilkinson

• sharpe

• sewell

• epstein

• mcrobbie

External/social class:

• bernstien

• bourdieu

• sugarman

• Hyman

• douglas

• halsey, heath, & ridge

• rutter

internal/social class:

• rosenthal & jacobson

• woods

• hargreaves

• fuller

• benyon

• becker

• ball

• keddie

Ethnicity:

• jenson & eysneck

• piklington

• swann report

• driver & ballard

• murray

• pryce

• coard

• wright

• gilborn & youdell

• sewell

Social policies:

• 1944 butler act

• 1965 labour - Wilson

• 1979 conservatives - thatcher

• 1997 - labour - Blair

• 2010 - coalition - consxlib