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Analyse the usefulness of functionalism for understanding society.

Firstly, functionalism has been deemed useful for understanding society on the grounds that it successfully demonstrates that social institutions are connected to, and dependent on one another. Functionalist...
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Define the concept of 'cultural capital'

Cultural capital is the concept developed by the Marxist socioloigst Bourdieu and refers to the attitudes, thought processes, knowledge and language skills learned in middle class homes that give middle clas...
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How is gender different from sex? (2 marks)

Gender is what's in your mind and how you feel wherass sex is about your physical sexual organs.
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Evaluate the View that the Main Aim of the Family is to Meet the Needs of Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system characterised by private ownership of key resources such as the means of production. The Marxist perspective argues that the family is a key social institution which meets th...
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Applying material from Item B and your knowledge, evaluate the contribution of Marxist views to our understanding of education.

As stated in Item B, Marxism views capitalist society as being divided predominantly by the possession (or lack thereof) of means of production. That is also to say that as a conflict, structuralist theory M...
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