Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) is the founding text of the dramaturgical approach in sociology. […]
The New Right created an education market in the United Kingdom from 1988 through introducing league tables and formula funding, among other education policies.
the norm of the traditional, privatised nuclear family can disadvantage women who would be more free in women only households.
The Personal Life Perspective: dogs and dead relatives are part of the family too!
women do housework and childcare for free and this benefits capitalism.
We need more equal working relationships to have more equal domestic relationships!
Is Marxism still relevant today? While some argue it’s outdated, Marxist ideas remain highly influential in analysing power, inequality, and
Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, ideological control, false consciousness, revolution and communism.
Dependency Theorists argue that rich countries accumulated their wealth through exploiting poorer countries. Initially this was through colonialism and slavery, later on through neo-colonialism. To develop, poorer countries need to break free from these exploitative relations.
Modernity, Postmodernity and The Family is one of the most difficult topics for students to get their heads around –