In my opinion the best Sociology theory is the Marxist one. This is because the Marxists mainly base their ideology and theories on how the powerful people control the society, which influences how society works today. ... Thus, will lead to a materialistic capitalist system, which may force working class to commit crime as they have a lower income and may not be able to afford to buy things like the rest of the society. ... Law creation is another one of Marxists theories that suggested that most laws are passed by members of parliament whom are mainly from the Bourgeoisie. ...

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Caste systems are a closed system where you can not move between classes. In England you were born into a closed system. ... Status consistency is when positions on the three dimension systems match up. ... In Sociology there is Conflict Theory, which most find it the most important in social change. Conflict Theory has seven factors which are as followes: 1. ...

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In his theory, each class must change in a specific and historically identifiable way. ... To become a communist society, Moore's theory states that the bourgeois class must become very weak or disappear. ... He argues, however, that it does not become a communist society because there is still a free market system allowing the bourgeois to prosper. ...

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To evaluate the above statement I am going to concentrate on the Marxist theories. ... Marxists criminologists believe that the legal system is not equal, it works against the subordinate classes and supporting the upper classes. ... Richard Quinney agrees with the above theory that poor housing and low income may force people to turn to crime for economic reasons. ... Also that crime committed by the working class is an attack on the capitalist system either subconsciously or consciously, and that this will lead to greater police surveillance. ... The law that makes murder illegal - this i...

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The Communist Manifesto reflects an attempt to explain the goals of Communism, as well as the theory underlying this movement. ... In the first section, it discusses the Communists' theory of history and the relationship between proletarians and bourgeoisie. ... Marx argues that each approach fails because it misses out on a key component of Communist theory. ... A well-balanced system wherein currency is exchanged for service, or intellectual property opens the door to a laborers '"'personal'"' advancement. It is well known that this system is also far from perfection...

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Critically discuss the concept of class and its relation to social stratification theories, in the current Australian context. ... In this essay I shall examine the concept of class, and its relation to social stratification theories by a number of theorists. ... Many theorists have attempted to explain their theories as to why social stratification and class exist. ... From this he distinguished a two-class system which comprised of the bourgeoisie (capitalist) class, and the proletariat (working) class. Weber criticised Marxs theory, and used economic differences of market capacity to ...

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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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For example, the functionalists' theory of socialization is that society is structured by a value consensus, which is an agreement of shared beliefs and values. ... Marxist theorist Karl Marx (1971) devised the conflict theory which suggests there is inequality between two main social classes, the bourgeoisie, who are the upper ruling class, and the proletariat who are the working class. ... The Turkish working class have to work long hours for a very low wage resulting in a lot of poverty and there is a bigger class divide between upper and lower class whereas Britain now has a broader m...

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Workers would be able to seize the state most probably through revolution, but possibly through political action, in order to change the system of government to reflect their needs. Marx's theory was that capitalism and democracy cannot coexist for long if most of the population continues to live in poverty. Either democracy will prevail as people vote out a system that has left them in poverty, or the capitalists will postpone the workings of democracy in order to preserve capitalism. ...

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The extract also attempts to address the origins of capitalism and that the evolution of capitalism and any development or change from one form of society to another has as its direct cause conflict over the system of production. ... This statement can be viewed as being a simple and obvious historical observation of social systems. ... A criticism of Marx and Engels theory of the history of social change is that they see each stage of history as having a conflict between classes and through this conflict there is an ascension to the next social order, however, this pattern does not fit the hi...

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The Poor Amendment Act of 1834 (promoting both individualism and capitalism within 19th century Britain society) withheld a heavy impact to the country's poverty relief system. ... Although propitious in theory, the law contained many flaws within its structure, and in return, its detriment towards the British working class inspired many forms of social criticism. ...

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The Communist Manifesto begins with Marx's generalization that " history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." (Howard: 10) Marx describes the classes in terms of binary oppositions, with one party as oppressor, the other as oppressed. The complex and multi-member clas...

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State Capitalism was introduced as a mediation point by which to transfer the current economic system into a fully fledged westernised productive economy. ... It could be argued that Lenin's consolidation of power was abused in order to enforce a reinterpretation of Marxist theory. ... However the problem with this system was the peasants ended up being exploited by the employers and thus while Lenin survived it did create further problems for him. ...

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