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20 Cards in this Set
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Who is the frontman of Marxism |
Karl Marx |
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What did he argue? |
All societies are based on class divisions between those who do benefit from the economic system and those who don't |
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Examples of capital societies |
The UK and US |
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Who did capitalist societies exploit? |
The lower class (proletariat) |
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Who did capitalist societies exploit? |
The lower class (proletariat) |
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What did Marx say would eventually happen about the class system? |
The working class would become aware that they were being exploited and overthrow capitalism and a communist society would be formed |
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Modern Marxist Louis Althusser argued what? |
That capitalist societies have survived by developing ideological state apparatuses which transmit idea that legitimate or justify the capitalist system and its class inequalities |
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Examples of ideological state apparatuses |
Education system, mass media, families and religious organisations |
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Examples of ideological state apparatuses |
Education system, mass media, families and religious organisations |
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What is a false consciousness? |
The working class cannot see any alternative to the existing system |
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According to Marxism what is the superstructure |
Includes all of the cultural institutions of society (family media religion) |
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What is the infrastructure |
The economic system that provides for people's material needs |
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What did new right supporter Adam smith believe about capitalist societies |
They work best when there is a free market |
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What did Charles Murray say about Britain and the USA alleviating poverty |
It created a dependency culture (unemployed, lone parents got benefits) |
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What did Murray say the dependency culture led to? |
The emergence of an underclass |
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What did new right supporter Adam smith believe about capitalist societies |
They work best when there is a free market |
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What did Charles Murray say about Britain and the USA alleviating poverty |
It created a dependency culture (unemployed, lone parents got benefits) |
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What did Murray say the dependency culture led to? |
The emergence of an underclass |
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What did Murray blame Britain and the USA's rise in crime on |
The underclass as poor children turned to crime as they had no discipline in the home because of lone parent families |
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What did functionalist Durkheim mean by social solidarity |
A feeling of belonging to a larger community and a shared identity |
