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The ethnic differences in educational achievement are clearly visible. Sociological theories take into account both the factors within the educational system and external from it, that may have caused the af...

Break it down into different strands to show nuance: liberal - Sharpe, WilkinsonRadical - Greer, FirestoneMarxist - Ansley, BenstonPost modern - Staceyetc.

Bourdieu identified three types of capital: economic, social and cultural. Each can be seen as a sort of currency for succeeding or progressing in the social world and although he distinguished between them,...

Social control is a really interesting concept that is the fundamental principle for explaining why most people like us will tend to follow orders in society and avoid committing crime and deviant or abnorma...

The first paragraph focuses on the theme of role allocation in a specialised economy: School is known to select and sift people for different levels of jobs meaning it's a major method of role allocating. Th...