MARX VIEW ON SOCIAL CONTROL

Question 1

what would marxists say about formal social control?

Answer 1

targets the working class

Question 2

how do police target WC?

Answer 2

police have selective sentencing

Question 3

how do court target WC?

Answer 3

stereotypes of WC mean more likely to be sentenced

Question 4

how does school control WC?

Answer 4

learning to labour [ willis ]

WC boys underachieve, go into manual jobs

Question 5

what do schools control the WC through?

Answer 5

informal social control, where they accept their lower class position

Question 6

how does CJS target WC?

Answer 6

there are weaker laws protecting the WC, more target them as they commit visible crime
can be bribery or connections in CJS than mean UC get away with crime

Question 7

family reinforces and helps capitalism by…

Answer 7

showing unpaid labour by the mother

socialising them to work

Question 8

how does the family support capitalism?

Answer 8

through buying food and clothes that help the economy