Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Culture and Identity
- Theories
- Functionalist
- Society is a system
- Made up of different parts
- E.g. religion, family, government
- Every society has basic needs/requirements that must be met
for society to survive
- Social institutions are needed for needs to be met
- E.g. family, education
- E.g. socialisation, production of food
- Order and balance comes from socialisation into norms and values
- Shared norms and values: value consensus
- Prevents conflict
- Marxist
- Economy
- Most important social instition
- Controls distribution of resources needed for society/individuals to survive
- Social class
- Ruling class (bourgeoisie)
- Owns means of production
- Exploit workers
- Workers paid less than value of their work
- Working class (proletariat)
- Minumum wage
- Labour work
- Behaviour of individuals moulded by social institutions
- Social institutions maintain the interests of the ruling class
- Karl Marx
- Media
- Owned by bourgeoisie
- We see what they want us to see
- Working class do not have their own interests: false conciousness
- Feminists