• Write a Sociological Essay with Regards to Crime and Deviance with a Functionalist Perspective then Critique it with a Marxist View

     

    Essays2 Sociology

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Published: 26.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Write a Sociological Essay with Regards to Crime and Deviance with a Functionali', 1.
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The Marxist approach views society as a whole system that is in conflict. This conflict is between two opposing groups and steams from the contradictions in capitalism. These are the owners wanting to maximise profit whilst the workers want to increase wages. The infrastructure is industry and the most important part of society, therefore controlling the superstructure, everything that isn't industry. The ruling class own and control industry and therefore manipulate the superstructure for their benefit. They do this through false class-consciousness of the proletariat. …

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