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Functionalists - culture and identity
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Emile Durkheim - founder of sociology. Society made up of institutions that had a function
Talcott Parsons - AGIL model, Functional prerequisites |
Durkheim, Parsons |
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Marxists - culture and identity |
Marx - founder, anti capitalist, class conflict, false class conscienceness
Frankfurt school - working class are oppressed by capitalism via culture, tricked into thinking everything is just fine, mass culture destroyed individuality, no social solidarity = no revolution, used media to create mass culture e.g. Films (distraction), horoscopes (life is based on luck, can't change), advertising (reinforce capitalism)
Adorno - false needs (shoes, iPod), commodity fetishism - desires for "must have" items (iPhone), capitalism creates needs only capitalism can satisfy
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Marx, Frankfurt school, Adorno |
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Class and identity |
Barry Sugarman - middle and working have different norms and values (immediate gratification vs deferred gratification)
Charles Murray - working class values keep WC poor (accepting living on benefits). Values passed on through socialisation
Bourdieu - upper class maintain cultural capital (knife and fork, speaking correctly), WC have no cultural capital |
Sugarman, Murray, Bourdieu |
