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Social inequality Flashcards

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Parsons (Functionalists)

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  • agrees that capitalist societies are stratified according to class inequalities. However, he argues it is a product of value consensus.
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Davis and Moore (Functionalists)

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  • Inequality performs a positive function for society. It gives those who are talented the necessary motivations to educate and train themselves.
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Saunders (New Right)

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  • agrees with functionalists that a degree of inequality is desirable as long as everyone has an equal opportunity to take part in the competition.
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Marx (Marxism)

Gramsachi (Neo- marxist)

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  • Meritocracy Is a myth.
  • Looked at the concept of hegemony: the ruling class rarely needed to force to exert power they did this through persuasion. ( ISA)
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Weber (Weberianism)

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  • three dimensions to social stratification: social class, status and party.
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Abott (Feminism)

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  • Looks at the social mobility of women. Women take on the triple shift role, and so they lack social mobility. This gives men the opportunity to reach the top jobs, making them upwardly socially mobile.
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Aber, Dale and Gilbert (Feminism)

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  • SOCC- they constructed this gender neutral classification, that reflected women’s commitment to their work.
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Roberts (Feminism)

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we should not assume that women share the same class position with their male partners, since within today’s society women are choosing to remain single.

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Cumming and Henry (Functionalists)

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  • “social disengagement theory”- where the elderly step down from their functions through legal compulsion or choice to allow the younger people within society take their occupational role.
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Parsons (Functionalists)

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  • Age groups within societies know function to provide a link between kinship and the wider society.
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Plitcher (Functionalists)

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  • suggests that youth is a transitional stage that connects the dependency of “childhood” with “adulthood”
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Philipson (Marxists)

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  • The elderly are ignored and neglegted by capitalist societies. “reserve army of cheap labour”
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Weber (Weberanism)

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  • recognised age as an important source of status.
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Arber and Ginn ( Feminism)

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  • Older women may face inequalities created by patriarchy compared to older men.
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Itzin (Feminism)

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  • women face double standards. Men’s status (weber) is directly linked to their employment, whilst for women it is linked to their reproductive cycle. For older women there, status is often devaluated by society, after their menopause, as they no longer take care of children or take on the mother role.
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Havinghurst (Interactionalists)

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  • Goes against the disengagement theory.

- argues that inequality is more about social interactions than just age such as looking after grandchildren.

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Ray et al (Interactionalist)

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  • Negative stereotypes or labelling about old age, can result in elderly people internalising the idea that they are “useless”.
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Parkin (Weberinaism)

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  • argues that ethnic minority elderly members are doubly negatively privileged, as they lack more status in society
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Turner (Weberinaism)

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  • both the young and the elderly have Lowe status because they lack the material resources.
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Victor (Interactionalist)

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  • Public attitudes towards the elderly may lead to a “self fulfilling prophecy” - since the elderly feel forced to act out an elderly role.
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Blaikie (POMO)- CID

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  • Age inequality is know less likely to shape a person’s life choices, as we are know much more individualised .
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Powles and Biggs (POMO)

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  • new technology and cosmetic surgery allows the elderly to renovate themselves.
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Polemus ( POMO)

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  • youth is not a homogenous group, young people know shop in a supermarket of styles and construct their identities from a range of resources
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Vincent (functionalism)

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Global capitalism is the major determining factor of age experience and inequality.

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Murdock (functionalism)

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studied gender roles within 200 societies and found that women were located in the home.

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Chapman (functionalism)

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Gender stereotypical chores encourage a housewife role

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Williams (functionlaism)

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Gender stereotypical toys

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Parsons and Bales(functionalism)

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  • Men and Women naturally serve different roles. Women have the expressive role and men
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Parsons (functionalism)

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  • argued that gender inequalities, are primarily due to biological differences between the sexes e.g women are naturally suited to domestic work.
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Rastogi

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sees human capital as “knowledge, competency, attitude and behaviour embedded in an individual.

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