Marxists see crime as a natural side affect of the capitalist system, they see it as inevitable, and unavoidable. ... Therefore if you put a liberal-capitalist society into practise according to Marxists you will inevitably inherit a system where self-promotion and self-gain outweighs the need for collective well-being. ... Also things become more unfair when you take on board the wider Marxist argument put forward by such Marxist sociologists as Paul Willis and Pierre Bourdieu whom claim that the existing working classes are kept in place by an unfair education system (which counters the func...

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There are two forms of labeling within the education system, positive and negative, these labels can have an effect on children's education success and in turn their economic success which creates an unequal class divide as the majority of the negative labels are usually attached to working class and minority groups, however others argue that labels don't always affect a child's educational success as some children may use it as motivation and work hard to prove the labels wrong. ... Mary Fuller (1984) criticizes Becker as she found that the labeling theories are too determi...

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A number of different theories have been made to bring together an explanation on the ways in which social class is viewed and how society notices this effect. ... In correspondence to this, the "labeling theory" developed by (Becker, 1963), theory states that "deviance is not a quality of the act, since results from personality factors associated with committing deviance. ... Evidently to the theory, self identity as well as behaviors of individuals can be influenced by the terms used to describe them. ...

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