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- 1should sociology contribute in social policy--------
- 2social policyhome office government - laws - direct impact
- 3influences on policygovernment makes the decision - wether it should be used
e.g. Black report 1980
ignored it
thatcher - 4factors that influencesociological
money *
electorial support*
media
political ideology
what government have to consider
e.g. marijuana
prostitution - 5persepctives--------
- 6feministsyes - liberal , equal pay, education materials, refugees
no - radical - 7marxismx - capitalism/government - seeing needs m/c
- 8positivists/ functionalistsyes - quantitive research - help government - give evidence
- 9new rightsociological research should match -new right thinking - Murray and thatcher
- 10social democratyes - makes recommendations - black report
- 11new labouryes - hidden 'new ways'
blair
child benefit ema
employment benefit EZA - 12Are we living in a postmodernist world-----
- 13modernism nomodernists - Marxist/ functionalists
-25 years ago
believed in science
class was important
traditional
one job
life will get better - EP
nation-states - important
religion
ev - outdated no revelant - 14postmodernism yespresent day
identity
individuals
choice
flexibility
risk
change
class isnt important
NRM's
media saturated
science - sceptical
EP is over - 15postmodern argumentfundamental break - new society, a new theory
simulacra - fictional world -cant tell real from myth - made up e.g. towie
Baudrillard hyperreality -
cant tell the difference between real and image
-cant improve society - made up a world
- change identity
-change identity
changed improve society
criticism
-ignores ruling class control media
-choice poverty - poor have no choice
-self - defeating - loss of faith in science - cant get better - 16Theories of late modernitya mixture of modernism and positivism - yes and no
no break/line so we ain't living in a postmodernism world
giddens: reflexivity
- thoughtful - rapid change- risk
- monitor our behaviour
-disembedded from traditional
can improve society - better - EP
beck - risk society
- manufacter risk - man made, GM crops, Global warming
-globalisation - EP still there improve
ev - poor cant improve life - capitalism is the problem but useful - offers alternative to postmodernism
view
- offers hope and improvement - 17Marxist theories of postmodernismyes and no
late capitalism
marx - class environment, gay rights, LGBT - rainbow alliance - cause revolution
-still going to happen
flexible accumulation
- capitalism - flexible
-globalisation 27/7 - revolutions
EP can still happen
evaluation - good - offers an alternative view
-allows modernism theories
-offers hope - 18should sociology have values------
- 19no - postivistsbe scientific, objective, rational
science will find out true answers
Marx - communist society - scientific approach - 20webervalues are important -stages of research
1 - decide idea = values
2- collect data - no values is open-mided
3- intrpretation
4 - responsbility - research - 21yes committed sociologyvalues are important - desirable
always going to have an opinion, havent thinking ideas reflection - values
Gouldner - criticises positivists - spiritless technician - paid to produce - government - paymasters - HTS
research + make - funding of chat they wanted
responsible for own actions
mydral - takes sides - values - 'free sociology' - impossible
becker - underdogs -voice - quanlatitive
criticism
gouldner to becker - too romantic
becker - disadvantaged - sentimental
- gouldner fighting back to end oppression - 22relativism/ Postmodernism-no absolute truth just another metanarrative
- values assumption
ev) self-defeating - nothing is true - 23perspectivesfeminists - patriarchy
functionalists - values - best
Marxists - change - class - 24is sociology a science----
- 25yes - positivistssociology - causes patterns, quantative - logical - social facts
induction - accumulating data
verificationism - develop a theory - material/ cultural dep
sociology is scientific
e.g. Durkheim stats - 26no - intepretivits-human being
- thought feeling
-qualitative methods
suicide - Atkinson - statistics false - coroners interpretation - 27postmodernismnot a science - just another metanarrative
- 28feministscience - distorted- patriarchy
- 29marxistspromotes capitalism - promtotes scientific consumer goods
- 30what is scienceall views above see science as closed
- 31popperscience is open - falsified - argue in certain places it should be seen as a science but it is seen it as unscientific
- 32kuhnsociology s not scientific/ open - paradigms
- 33relaismscience should be scientific
black hole - unobservable patterns
- no answer open - challenging
sociology - class
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