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Marxist and functionalist similarities

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both say w/c cant afford stuff
- func - choice - if they work hard enough its based on merit - harder for w/c though
- Marxist - oppressed through structures don’t have a choice only wither to regret capitalism

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marx + func similarities

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both say media contributes to spreading values
func - consensus values
marxist - dominant ideology

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marxist and functionalist differences

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marxist - cant afford stuff - ideological dominance influencing you into wanting it cant succeed - economical pressures
func- strain theory - choice to work - value consensus goals

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marxist and func differ

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marixst spread ideological bourgeois values
func - consensus values

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positivist like what experimental techniques

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> pre coded questionnaires - macro
secondary data - official statistics, documents
structured interviews _ quantitative data

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interpretivist (interactionalist) like what experimental techniques

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> unstructured interviews
open ended questionnaires
primary data - covert observation, ethnographies
longitudinal studies

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structuralist theories like

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overt non participant

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anti structuralist like

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covert non- participant

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primary data adv

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primary data disadv

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secondary data adv

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secondary data disadv

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Durkheim- natural experiment

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statistics of suicides in Europe - suicide rates vary systematically with other social event

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Rosenthal and Jacobson - field experiment

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Californian primary school specific pupils where told to teachers would ‘spurt’ and high IQ’s and did

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Elton may- field/lab

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Hawthorne effect

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Harvey and slatin - lab experiment

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teachers expectations of students - whether teachers held fixed ideas about pupils of different social classes
m/cstudents were favoured

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labelling theories

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Harvey and slatin interview
Charkins et al
durkheim

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official statics

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> exam results - w/c underachievement

> crime - knife crime in w/c areas

> census - how many people living in one house - w/c underachievement

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demack, sean, drew

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GCSE exam results analysis 65,000 - large sample

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documents public

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Ofsted report - school policies

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unstructured interview adv

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> builds rapport comfortable - able to expand on topic giving more qualitative date

> able to ask follow up questions - valid - interpretivists - interactionist would like this

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unstructured interview disadv

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> hard to quantify and find trends - risk to being subjective

> not reliable - cant be repeated - making it only relevant to that group - not representative can’t be generalise

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Sharpe - unstructured interviews

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girls attitudes to education/ work to find whether they had high aspirations

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hart and Risley - structured interview

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childern from different social classes find out how many words they knew by three

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willis lads - unstructured interview

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w/c ‘LADS’ anti-school subculture talk freely in their own words about their views on school teachers and work

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sullivan- structured interview

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tv shows different groups of students watch correlation to achievement in school

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jolly Amish study - unstructured interview

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power relationships between men and how sex and sexuality is seen in the community - undercover midwife

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Oakley - unstructured interview

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experiment of becoming a mother with newly mothers

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Bowles and Gintis - questionnaires

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measured students personality traits comparing students school grades found concentration between traits and middle class

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Ireson and Hallam- questionnaire

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impact of sets in schools they asked over 6,000 students and their experience of being in the set and lower sets are less postive about school

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lacey - questionnaire

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follow up questions to question the anti and pro school subcultures

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wilkinson

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genderquake how peoples views and expectation of girls have changed over the years

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pre-coded questionnaires adv

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> quantitative date - finds trends - macro - marxist like

> reliable - repeatable - generalisable

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pre coded questionnaires disadv

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> no verstehen - not good when studying subcultures - willis lads

> not qualitative date - doesn’t give an in-depth- unable to expand on their answer could lead to misinterpretation

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covert participant observation adv

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> gains vestehen in depth - qualitative data - interactionist +

> no hawthorne effect unaware they’re being observed - natural behaviour - valid data

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covert observation disadv

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> unethical - did’nt give consent to being observed

> not representative can only be generalised to small samples as can’t exactly replicated - not macro - postivists

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wright
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non participant + overt

race relation in primary school, conflict with teachers and pupils based on race -inner city

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patrick - g
2*

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covert participant
knew a member - Glasgow gangs- studied how the gangs deviant behaviour became law breaking - power structures

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griffin black like me

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cover participant observation
dakened the colour of his skin to look black to experience racism in American 1960s
(looking for jobs)

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punch

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covert non participant
Amsterdam police tried to be accepted, ver identified e.g searching houses and people
(went native)

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overt non-participant adv

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overt non-participant disadv

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gerwitz

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ethnographies adv

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> high validity

> verstehen as builds rapport

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ethnographies disadv

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> unable to identify patterns - macro positivists not like

> not reliable cant be repeated only be applied to that situation

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longitudinal studies adv

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> insight into unique situation that may not be able to be studied in other ways

> gives valid data quantitative able to find trends micro scale - interactionalist

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longitudinal studies disadv

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> micro not macro - positivist dont like
participant tend to drop out over time - less representative harder to generalise

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malinowski - incest study

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incest happened but was not a problem until action of incest was labelled and publicised by island elders consquences the youth committed suicide due to the labels

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