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According to the Functionalist Murdock, the family fulfills 4 key roles which enables society to function adequately. The first function is reproduction, meaning that heterosexual parents reproduce their own...

In general, pupils from a working class background tend to achieve lower grades than those from a middle-class background.This may be because working class children do not have the same resources as middle-c...

Foucault's theory revolves around the rise of the surveillance society. He based his theory on the design of the panopticon, which is a prison that has cells all around and a tower for the guard in the middl...

Functionalist theory, also known as functionalism is a major perspective on sociology linking the society to the human body using organic analogy. It focuses on how the society and its institutions work toge...

Social class is a way of categorising people according to certain qualities they may have, or conditions in their life. In the United Kingdom this can be things like your parents' jobs, what kind of educatio...