theories

• enlightenment project


  an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
• gramsci - humanistic marxist

  believed the proletariat can influence social change through developing their own 'hegemony' rather than waiting for economic changes

  proletariat could create a 'counter-hegemony' to provide people with an alternative way of life to capitalism
• similarities between functionalists and marxists

  • both share the view that society is a structure or system that shapes individuals behaviour
  • both say that society can be studied scientifically