Section One - Theories Flashcards

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Criticisms of Marxism?

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  • portrays people as being puppets of the social system

- communism is disregarded, as it’s already failed in the Soviet Union

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Definition of Marxism?

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A conflict theory based on the conflicts of the 2 classes, the bourgeoise exploiting the proletariates. In the end the proletariates with over throw capitalism which will end in a communism

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Key Marxist concepts?

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  • social order is forced on us by the more powerful in society
  • believe in ideology rather than consensus
  • infrastructure shapes the superstructure
  • bourgeoisie control the proletariate
  • workers revolution will happen with the proletariate are aware that they are being exploited
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Name a key Marxist

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Karl Marx

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Definition of ideology?

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Set of beliefs and values which disguise the truth and distort reality

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Definition of feminism?

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The political perspective of the oppression of women and the difficulty to end it. Feminist argue that the world is male dominated and that it exploits women

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4 types of feminism?

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  • Marxist
  • radical
  • liberal
  • difference
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Who is a key feminist?

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Anne Oakley

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Key concepts of feminism?

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  • they believe that society is patriarchal, that men exploit women
  • they believe in equality of the sexes
  • believe that men control women through physical domination
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Criticisms of feminism?

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  • can be considered as men hating (radical feminists)
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Key Post Modernists?

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  • Anthony Giddens
  • Zygmunt Bauman
  • Jean Baudrillard
  • Gellner
  • Foucault
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Key post modernist concepts?

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  • we are becoming a global society
  • decline in the belief that science is good
  • people are questioning and rejecting old moral value (religion)
  • more personal concern over politics rather than national
  • people focus on the negative side of progress
  • we are influenced by other cultures
  • taking less traditional gender roles
  • people can chose their identity from wide sources
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Criticisms of post modernism?

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  • they see the world as more changing than it actually is

- ignores continuing social equality

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Definition of functionalism

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The belief that society is based on consensus, shared values and norms, sees society as a body each part working together to form a functioning being

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Key functionalist concepts?

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  • society is based on consensus
  • consensus is the base of social unity
  • social order is critical to a functional society
  • we are all controlled by either external or internal enforcers
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Criticisms of functionalism?

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  • ignore that people have free will
  • people chose to behave and it’s not determined
  • take a deterministic view
  • describes people as puppets to the social system
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What is the new right?

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A conservative political perspective whose followers believe in self -reliance - and individual choice rather than state dependence

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Key new right thinkers?

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Milton Freidman

Peter Bauher

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Key new right concepts?

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  • people should have the freedom to make themselves successful
  • government shouldn’t interfere
  • tax people less
  • reduce benefits
  • have conservative values
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Which political parties are new wing?

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Conservatives
UKIP
BNP

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Criticisms of the new right?

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Creates greater inequality between classes

Create large scale social issues

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Key functionalist thinker?

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Emile Durkheim