paper 2

• chivalry thesis


  the crime system is less harsh on woman because they are seen as less bad.
• peter saunders - new right

  can't live without stratification. social needs unequal rewards to have people work harder and have the clever people at the harder jobs.
• melvin tumin


  functionalists are wrong because not everyone has equal life chances and not alljobs have equal rewards
• lockwood - changing class

  they found that wc weren't disappearing but were actually changing
• owen jones - interactionalist

  media present wc badly. creating prejudice and discrimination
• peter saunders - new right - social class


  mc will work harder and are more talented because it's passed down form their parents.
• role allocation


  top roles are given to those who deserve it
• marxists say stratification


  is bad. based on ascribed status which top roles are filled by bourgeoise and creates equality.
• feminists say stratifcation


  bad. top roles fit by men and woman are at the bottom,promotes inequality
• functionalist says classes are different now

  meritocracy, embourgeoisement more wc are becoming more middle class.
• does gender affect life chances

  feminists - woman less likely to be ceos, pay gap and glass celling.

  functionalists - pay gap decreased, woman have higher life expectancies, meritocracy and more likely to go to uni
• does ethnicity affect life chances

  yes, some groups have lower life chances, glass celling and pooer gcse results

  no, laws have reduced inequality, more ethnicities are more likely to go to uni
• devine


  found wc were still seperate and still had working class values, disproves embourgeoisement
• murray


  growing underclass resulted in overgenerous benefits, causes welface dependency, delinquency an dloss of traditional values
• sylvia walby


  patriarchy is seen in employment, home, sexuality and male violent in the state. MOre public patriarchy is seen rather than private patriarchy
• culture of poverty 


  socialised into accepting poverty and less likely to try escape. cycle of poverty
• cultural deprivation


  don't have right norms and values to pull themselves out of poverty and seek immediate gratification - spending money
• class is responsible for poverty.


  globalisation- higher cost of living and lower wages