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what is organic solidarity?

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model where people are bound together based on their dependence on each other

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what is mechanical solidarity?

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model where people are similar in terms of status

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what is Anomie?

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normlessness

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what are the 2 parts the structure of society is devided into according to Marxism?

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the economic base (means of production),
the superstructure (institutions)

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what is the surplus value?

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when the workers who produce goods do not get the full value of their work

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what is ISA and who created this definition?

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institutions that spread doinant ideology. Made by Althusser

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who created definition false needs?

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Marcuse

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who argues family insists capitalist values?

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Zaretsky

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what is hegemony?

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dominant ideology

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who argues that society can no longer be understood through the grand theories?

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michael foucault

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who argues that society is changing rapidly, there’s uncertainity and risk?

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Pakulski and Waters

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who argues that class is dead?

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Pakulski and Waters

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who argues there are pick ‘n’ mix identities?

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pakulski and waters

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14
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who argues that identities are influenced by pop culture?

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Dominic Strinati

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who created the concept ‘interaction order?’

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goffman

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what are the 2 types of classifiation?

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individual, categoric

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17
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what does ‘impression management” mean?

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interaction is a form of role playing

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18
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what is civil inattention?

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everyday situations are governed by the set of informal rules

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who introduced the proccess of labelling?

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Becker

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20
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who argues we attach meanings to symbols?

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Mead

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21
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“The Self”consists of 2 parts:

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I - what i feel about myself
Me - how others see me

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who argues that we develop the sense of ourselves by interpreting the messages we recieve from others?

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Charles Cooley

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what is the first wave feminism focused on?

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  • social and legal reform
  • better education, right to vote
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what is the second wave feminism focused on?

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  • civil rigts, gay rights
  • personal and public life is patriarchal
  • raising awareness on opression
    -equal pay, access to contraception
  • free childcare
  • anti-domestic violence
  • reduce discrimination against lesbianism
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what is third wave feminism focused on?

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  • individual desires
  • ability to express your identity in the unique way
  • aboishing gender roles
  • challeging ideas about sexuality and gender
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what are the main features of liberal feminism?

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  • equaity legislation
  • slow social change
  • believe the progress have been already made
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27
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who makes a key distinction between sex and gender?

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Ann Oakley

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28
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who believes women now have more choice?

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jennifer somerville

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what are the key features of radical feminism?

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  • patriarchal opression is universal. it’s direct and personal
  • men exploit women with free domestic labour
  • patriarchy controles women’s bodies
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who argues domestic violence is central to the male supermacy. Rape and harrasment are part of systematic opression?

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Brownmiller

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31
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who argues that the roots of women’s opression lie in their biologicalability to have children?

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Firestone

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32
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who argues women should live separately from men?

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Germaine Greer

33
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what are the key features of marxist feminism?

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-women’s subordination because of capitalism
-results from their unpaid housewife role as it puts them in an economically dependent position
- believe women are reserved army of labour

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who argues women’s roles also suport the capitalist ideology to maintain positive feelings for the capitalist system to continue?

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Barrett

35
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who argues women are takers of shit?

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Fran Ansley

36
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what are the key features of difference feminism?

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  • takes class into consideration
  • takes black women into consideration
  • takes sexuality into consideration
  • they all experience patriarchy differently
37
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who argues feminism is guilty of false universality?

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bell hooks

38
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who examines family diversity from a lesbian perspective?

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Calhoun

39
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who argues thatt family provides a child with an identity through the imitative play?

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Baumeister

40
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who argues that children are able to define their gender by 2-3 y.o.?

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Durkin

41
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who argues that family is a personality factory?

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parsons

42
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who introduces the concept of hidden curriculum?

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Althusser

43
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who argues that socialisation is active?

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giddens

44
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who argues humanity subjects like history connect individual to society through the sense of pride?

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durkeim

45
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who argues we need to create counter hegemonic bloc?

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Antonio Gramsci

46
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who argues old people have less status as they are less useful for capitalism

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marx

47
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who argues that factors like gender, ethnicity, sexuality and consumption are more important indicators of identity rather than social class?

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Clarke and Saunders

48
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who argues there’s a rise of third age?

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Laslett

49
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who argues that high culture provides middle class with cultural capital?

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Bourdieu

50
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who argues individuals are puppets on a string?

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Taylor

51
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what is a metanarrative?

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grand story

52
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3 key areas of marxism

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  • structural conflict theory
  • class conflit and exploitation
  • ideology and socialisation
53
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4 key areas of interactionism

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  • action-based theory
  • interaction over structural inequality
  • labelling theory
  • socialisation into an identity
54
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what is meritocracy?

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the belief that if you work hard, you’ll be rewarded

55
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what is Moral panic?

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when the media scapegoats groups that are seen as a threat to society and then society turns them into folk devils

56
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Which of the following criticisms of the labelling theory was by Akers?

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The labelling theory doesn’t explain why some people get labelled and others do not. Until it can explain this it will remain an incomplete theory.

57
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what values are taught in the family?

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Particularistic values

58
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Is our modern society characterised by homogeneity or heterogeneity?

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heterogenity

59
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What type of solidarity was characteristic of a pre-industrial society?

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mechanical solidarity

60
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Which theory agree with the Functionalist views of the family, emphasising that the role of the father is crucial and that ‘absent fatherism’ can have a detrimental impact on a son’s primary socialisation

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New right

61
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stonewall statistics on sexual identities

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  • 112% rise in hate crimes
  • 50% experience depression
  • 80% experience hate crimes
  • 11.9% of characters are LGBT
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Key dates for sexual identities

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2004 - civil partnerships act
2010 - equality act
2013 - marriage

63
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the proportions of sexual identities stats

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  • 2022 - 93% are straight in UK
  • 2021 - 70% are straight worldwide
  • 46% of 18-24 year olds identify as strictly hetero
64
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disability stats

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  • 23% of disabled in the UK
  • 47% are unemployed
65
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3 ways of stigma management

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  1. try to hide it
  2. admit and relieve interaction tension
  3. protest agains the stigma
66
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2 different models of disability

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  • social model of disability - the attitudes and physical barriers imposed by society affect the individual
  • medical model of the disability - disability itself affects the individual
67
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2 impacts of globalisation on ethnic identities

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  • negative: pop culture makes ethnic groups homogeneus
  • positive: new cultural and hybrid identities emerge
68
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2 types of an identity

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-personal: personal details
- social: us in relation to a group

69
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4 types of masculinity + sociologist

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Connell
1. hegemonic
2. complicit (new man)
3. subordinate (gay men)
4. marginalised (jobless)

70
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4 ways the family reinforce gender identities? + sociologist

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Oakley
1. manipulation
2. canalisation
3. verbal apellations
4. domestic activities

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5 gender codes + sociologist

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Statham
1. colour codes
2. appearance codes
3. toy codes
4. play codes
5. control codes

72
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explaination of the warm bath theory + sociologist

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Parsons
wife and family are a metaphorical warm bath - tensions from work disappear

73
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hidden curriculum in relation to gender identity

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  • school organisation
  • subject choice
  • teacher attitudes
  • language
74
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5 ways that education reinforces gender identities + sociologist

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Francis
- gendered verbal behaviour
- gendered physical behaviour
- gendered classroom behaviour
- gendered pursuits
- role of the teacher

75
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2 ways that the media reinforces gender identities

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  1. stereotypical representations - women’s portrayal in the media
  2. through advertisements
76
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features of the crisis of masculinity

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  • decline in traditional male jobs
  • decline in traditional male role in the family
  • decline of male power in society
  • rise of new man
  • technology - men are less neccessary to have children
  • underachievement in education
  • rise of gay movement
77
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feminisation of economy + sociologist

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Wilkinson
- sexual equality is at its brightest
- feminisation of the workplace allows women to be more ambitious

78
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different social experience in relation to sexuality

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  • LGBTQ people are stigmatised
  • they are a subject to disacrimination
  • subject to verbal or physical abuse
  • different leisure activities
  • low representation in the media
  • experience of heteronormativity

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