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Parekh

Three types of diversity; accept the norm, reject dominant values and dominate ways of life

Barker

Multicultural differences should be created

Brown

Rejects the view that people's behaviours is the product of external forces over which they have little control

Goffman

Argues that interaction is essentially about successful role playing. He suggests that we are all social actors engaged in the drama of everyday life

Becker

Pointed out that labels often have the power of 'master statuses'

Reay (1998)

Showed that working class mothers are less likely to influence their children's schooling due to full time jobs and negative experiences with school

Power et al (2003)

Showed a close bond and encouragement with schooling and middle class children

Mac n' Ghaill (2004)

Describes different 'masculinities' in schools e.g. macho lads or real englishmen

Savage (1992)

Identified a link between occupation and class identity

Brah (1999)

Research showed how working class identity was crucial for a group of males who worked hard of construct a culture of whiteness

Medhurst (1999)

Showed how a group of middle class students watching The Royal Family believed that it an accurate portrayal of working class life

Bourdieu (1990)

Suggested that university for the middle class comes easier than for the working class

Carter and Coleman (2006)

Research showed that teenage pregnancies were ten times more likely to occur in the working class

Marxism

Power=control, money, access, prestige, privilage, authority and respect

Functionalism

We all have a role/function to contribute to society

Feminism

Women are primarily at a disadvantage to men in a patriarchal society

Interactionism

Study society through interactions within individual and small groups

Parsons

Gender reflects biological differences

Stanley and Wise

Gender identities reflect the way we are brought up and the influences of the agencies

O'Connell (2002)

Male roles: head of house hold, bread winner, doesn't show emotions, positive characteristics i.e. aggression, rationality and toughness



Female role: occupy maternal role, responsible for house work, expected to show emotion and affection, acceptable to show emotion

Seidler (2006)

Many girls do not want to dishonour their families and so take on a double life

Blackman (1995)

Found that lower and middle class in a secondary school were a highly visible group. Membership have them strength and confidence to use their sexuality to challenge the school's make culture and the sexism of male teachers as well as their peers

Osler and Vincent (2003)

Girls were less willing to pose direct challenges to authority because they didn't want to get into trouble. Boys in trouble was bored positively by their peers

Social action theory

Reject the view that people behave based on a product of external forces. They suggest that identity has three components:


1. Personal identity


2. Social identity


3. Individual subjective sense of their own uniqueness or the self

Postmodernism

Do not believe it is possible to have one general overriding theory about how things are in society. They focus, in particular, on the impact of the media-saturated society of today. Maintain that people are no longer restricted by their class positions, their gender or their ethnicity

Back (1996)

Researched New hybrid identities and found that they were not fixed

Curtice and Heath (2000)

Termed 'little englanders' with their narrow mindedness and desire to exclude others from the notion of being English on the grounds of something such a skin colour

Modood (2006)

Describes ethnicty as involving a number of factors, including culture, descent and a sense of identity