Sociology Inequality Weberianism

Question 1

Paragraph 1

Answer 1

P - theory of class
E - ONS - “35% of the working class pupils obtained 5 or more GCSEs”
E - Weberianism - Weber - economic differences in society
Funtionalist - Davies and Moore - best people, Meritocracy
L - Weberianism offers a better explanation than Functionalism

Question 2

Paragraph 2

Answer 2

P - Theory of status
E - West - “66% correlation between free school meals and low attainment”
E - Weberianism - Weber - importance a person has
Funtionalist - Parsons - bridge , ascribed roles
L - Weberianism offers a better explanation than Functionalism

Question 3

Paragraph 3

Answer 3

P - Theory of party
E - Maguire - “40%” male prisoners left school before the age of 16”
E - Weberianism - Weber - political power or influence
Marxism - Althusser - trained for capitalism
L - Weberianism offers a better explanation than Marxism

Question 4

Paragraph 4

Answer 4

P - Ineqaulity is caused by the economy
E - Clarke - “5% of police manpower was allocated to fraud squads”
E - Neo Weberianism - Barron and Norris - primary, secondary labour Market
Feminists - Walby - Patriarchal Control
L - Weberianism offers a better explanation than feminism

Question 5

Paragraph 5

Answer 5

P - Working class is undervalued
E - HESA 2007 - “the gender gap still stands at around 7%”
E - Neo Weberianism - Giddens - Recognised skills
Postmodernism - Paulinski - Class no longer exists
L - Weberianism offers a better explanation than Postmodernism