(Functionalists) Stratification necessary. Role allocation/functional importance/scarcity of personnel.
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Saunders
Stratification not inevitable, but socialism is oppressive. Capitalism protects liberty.
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Giddens
(Postmodernist) late modernity=no one solution. Disillusionment with science. Change and Diversity.
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Lyotard
(Postmodernist) Deconstruction of the group. People are individuals. Computers are the force of production. No objective truth - myriad of ideas that are sold.
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Bauman
(Postmodernist) Contemporary socities = inequality based on consumption. Poor are criminalised because they cant compete.
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Philo
How can postmodernists say there is no such thing as an objective truth? **** victim, starving child, Inequalities must be explained by political framework.
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