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Firstly, functionalism has been deemed useful for understanding society on the grounds that it successfully demonstrates that social institutions are connected to, and dependent on one another. Functional...

Cultural capital is the concept developed by the Marxist socioloigst Bourdieu and refers to the attitudes, thought processes, knowledge and language skills learned in middle class homes that give middle c...

Gender is what's in your mind and how you feel wherass sex is about your physical sexual organs.

Capitalism is an economic system characterised by private ownership of key resources such as the means of production. The Marxist perspective argues that the family is a key social institution which meets...

As stated in Item B, Marxism views capitalist society as being divided predominantly by the possession (or lack thereof) of means of production. That is also to say that as a conflict, structuralist theor...