Sociology Inequality Postmodernism

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P - inequality is a modern issue
E -ONS - “35% of the working class pupils obtained 5 or more GCSEs”
E - Postmodernism - Lyotard - gender, class and ineqaulity
Funtionalist - Parsons - bridge , ascribed roles
L - Postmodernism offers a better explanation than Functionalism

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P - ineqaulity is a lack of progress
E - West - “66% correlation between free school meals and low attainment”
E - Postmodernist - Blake - Risk Society
Neo Weberianism - Giddens - Recognised skills
L - Postmodernism offers a better explanation than Neo-Weberianism

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P - Society is less individualistic
E - Maguire - “40%” male prisoners left school before the age of 16”
E - Postmodernist - Jamerson - your own culture
Feminist - Greer - female culture
L - Postmodernism offers a better explanation than Feminism

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P - Society is not connected
E - Clarke - “5% of police manpower was allocated to fraud squads”
E - Postmodernism - Baudrilland - Society is fragmented
Funtionalist - Davies and Moore - best people, Meritocracy
L - Postmodernism offers a better explanation than Functionalism

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P - Class is s social construction
E - HESA 2007 - “the gender gap still stands at around 7%”
E - Postmodernism - Paulinski - Class no longer exists
Neo Marxist - Ohlin Whight - Two Polar Classes
L - Postmodernism offers a better explanation than Neo-Marxism