Sociology Inequality Feminism

Question 1

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P - Men control Women in society
E - ONS - “35% of the working class pupils obtained 5 or more GCSEs”
E - Feminists - Walby - Patriarchal Control
New Right - Saunders - Trickle Down Theory
L - Feminism offers a better explanation than New Right

Question 2

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P - the family leads to ineqaulity
E - West - “66% correlation between free school meals and low attainment”
E - Feminist - Gavron - Family Roles
Functionalism - Durkeim - Organic Analogy
L - Feminism offers a better explanation than Functionalism

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P - Trapped in traditional roles
E - Maguire - “40%” male prisoners left school before the age of 16”
E - Feminist - Greer - female culture
Weberianism - Weber - importance a person has
L - Feminism offers a better explanation than Weberianism

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P - Men are violent towards women
E - Clarke - “5% of police manpower was allocated to fraud squads”
E - Feminist - Kelly and Radford - Societal power and violence
Marxism - Althusser - trained for capitalism
L - Feminism offers a better explanation than Marxism

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P - There is an asumption of superiority
E - HESA 2007 - “the gender gap still stands at around 7%”
E - Feminist - Bordieu - introduced symbolic power
Funtionalist - Davies and Moore - best people, Meritocracy
L - Feminism offers a better explanation than Functionalism