Sociology Inequality Marxism

Question 1

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P - Bourgeosie controls the Proletariat
E - ONS - “35% of the working class pupils obtained 5 or more GCSEs”
E - Marxist - Marx - direct control and indirect control
Postmodernist - Jamerson - your own culture
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Postmodernism

Question 2

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P - Proletariat is controlled by the Beogeosie
E - West - “66% correlation between free school meals and low attainment”
E - Marxism - Gramsci - Hedgemony
Functionalism - Durkheim - Organic Analogy
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Functionalism

Question 3

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P - Inequality is not a Choice
E - Maguire - “40%” male prisoners left school before the age of 16”
E - Marxism - Althusser - trained for capitalism
Funtionalist - Parsons - bridge , ascribed roles
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Funtionalism

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P - Society is Divided into Classes
E - Clarke - “5% of police manpower was allocated to fraud squads”
E - Neo Marxist - Ohlin Whight - Two Polar Classes
New Right - Murray - Underclass
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than New Right

Question 5

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P - Government controls people lives
E - HESA 2007 - “the gender gap still stands at around 7%”
E - Neo Marxist - Miliband - powerful group of people
Feminists - Walby - Patriarchal Control
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Feminism