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Flashcards by Natasha Hewer, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Natasha Hewer
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| should sociology contribute in social policy | -------- |
| social policy | home office government - laws - direct impact |
| influences on policy | government makes the decision - wether it should be used e.g. Black report 1980 ignored it thatcher |
| factors that influence | sociological money * electorial support* media political ideology what government have to consider e.g. marijuana prostitution |
| persepctives | -------- |
| feminists | yes - liberal , equal pay, education materials, refugees no - radical |
| marxism | x - capitalism/government - seeing needs m/c |
| positivists/ functionalists | yes - quantitive research - help government - give evidence |
| new right | sociological research should match -new right thinking - Murray and thatcher |
| social democrat | yes - makes recommendations - black report |
| new labour | yes - hidden 'new ways' blair child benefit ema employment benefit EZA |
| Are we living in a postmodernist world | ----- |
| modernism no | modernists - Marxist/ functionalists -25 years ago believed in science class was important traditional one job life will get better - EP nation-states - important religion ev - outdated no revelant |
| postmodernism yes | present day identity individuals choice flexibility risk change class isnt important NRM's media saturated science - sceptical EP is over |
| postmodern argument | fundamental break - new society, a new theory simulacra - fictional world -cant tell real from myth - made up e.g. towie Baudrillard hyperreality - cant tell the difference between real and image -cant improve society - made up a world - change identity -change identity changed improve society criticism -ignores ruling class control media -choice poverty - poor have no choice -self - defeating - loss of faith in science - cant get better |
| Theories of late modernity | a mixture of modernism and positivism - yes and no no break/line so we ain't living in a postmodernism world giddens: reflexivity - thoughtful - rapid change- risk - monitor our behaviour -disembedded from traditional can improve society - better - EP beck - risk society - manufacter risk - man made, GM crops, Global warming -globalisation - EP still there improve ev - poor cant improve life - capitalism is the problem but useful - offers alternative to postmodernism view - offers hope and improvement |
| Marxist theories of postmodernism | yes and no late capitalism marx - class environment, gay rights, LGBT - rainbow alliance - cause revolution -still going to happen flexible accumulation - capitalism - flexible -globalisation 27/7 - revolutions EP can still happen evaluation - good - offers an alternative view -allows modernism theories -offers hope |
| should sociology have values | ------ |
| no - postivists | be scientific, objective, rational science will find out true answers Marx - communist society - scientific approach |
| weber | values are important -stages of research 1 - decide idea = values 2- collect data - no values is open-mided 3- intrpretation 4 - responsbility - research |
| yes committed sociology | values are important - desirable always going to have an opinion, havent thinking ideas reflection - values Gouldner - criticises positivists - spiritless technician - paid to produce - government - paymasters - HTS research + make - funding of chat they wanted responsible for own actions mydral - takes sides - values - 'free sociology' - impossible becker - underdogs -voice - quanlatitive criticism gouldner to becker - too romantic becker - disadvantaged - sentimental - gouldner fighting back to end oppression |
| relativism/ Postmodernism | -no absolute truth just another metanarrative - values assumption ev) self-defeating - nothing is true |
| perspectives | feminists - patriarchy functionalists - values - best Marxists - change - class |
| is sociology a science | ---- |
| yes - positivists | sociology - causes patterns, quantative - logical - social facts induction - accumulating data verificationism - develop a theory - material/ cultural dep sociology is scientific e.g. Durkheim stats |
| no - intepretivits | -human being - thought feeling -qualitative methods suicide - Atkinson - statistics false - coroners interpretation |
| postmodernism | not a science - just another metanarrative |
| feminist | science - distorted- patriarchy |
| marxists | promotes capitalism - promtotes scientific consumer goods |
| what is science | all views above see science as closed |
| popper | science is open - falsified - argue in certain places it should be seen as a science but it is seen it as unscientific |
| kuhn | sociology s not scientific/ open - paradigms |
| relaism | science should be scientific black hole - unobservable patterns - no answer open - challenging sociology - class |
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