A slideshow to give any sociology student help in remebering the key sociologists which either have Marxosts or Functionalist views.

1. Key sociologists
Functionalists, Marxists and Femininsts

2. Talcott Parsons
Functionalist

3. Talcott Parsons
• 1902-1979
• He was a key functionalist thinker
• He argued that socialisation is the key to understanding human
behaviour patterns
• He proposed the role of social institutions, such as the family,
media, education and others.
• Parsons also proposed the bridge theory. Which is what parsons
explai was the bridge between family life and society.

4. Emile Durkheim
Functionalist

5. Emile Durkheim
• 1858-1917
• Founder of functionalism
• Believes that society and culture were more important than the
individual.
• Argued that societies members were united by value consensus.
• Concerned that education should emphasise the moral
responsibilities that members of society had towards each other.

6. George Murdock
Functionalist

7. George Murdock
• 1949
• Compared over 250 societies and claimed that nuclear family was universal.
• He noticied that it is always performed in four functions essential to the
continued existence of those societies:
• Reproductive- society requires new members to survive.
• Sexual- serves both society and the individual.
• Educational- transmission of culture to the next generation
• Economic- adult members show their commitment to the care, protection and
maintenance of their dependants.

8. Davis and Moore
Functionalists

9. Davis and Moore
• 1945
• They believed that stratification serves and important function in
society.
• They also said that in any society a number of tasks should be
accomplished such as cleaning streets and serving coffee.
• Agreed that those people who perform more difficult tasks
should gain more power.
• Founders of the role allocation theory.

10. Karl Marx
Marxists

11. Karl Marx
• 1818-1883
• Famous German sociologist and the founder of Marxists
views.
• Thought up of the two classes: Bourgeoisie and
Proletariat.
• He believed that socialism would eventually be replaced
by a stateless, classless society called pure communism.

12. Louis Althusser
Marxist

13. Louis Althusser
• 1918-1990
• argued that economic relations structure education so as
to reproduce these same economic relations.
• 'ideological state apparatus‘
• Schools work to ensure that those who are to do the work
will do so co-operatively, out of a belief that the situation
is just and reasonable.

14. Max Weber
Marxist

15. Max Weber
• 1864-1920
• A famous founding figure in the Marxists views.
• He published a lot of famous articles and books which widened
views amongst soldiers in WW1.
• He argues for a broader base of power i.e. as derived from both
economic/political/social bases in the form of
class/bureaucratic/status divides and that he's arguing that the
former ideological base of religious control in feudalism is overtaken
by the ideology of rationalism and thus the ways that this shift
affects the relative importance of religion and ideology towards an
increasingly key role for education but very much in terms of
'rationalisation' which can become restrictive in terms of what
education should be about.

16. Pierre Bourdieu
Marxist

17. Pierre Bourdieu
• 1930-2002
• Pierre Bourdieu developed theories of social stratification
based on aesthetic taste.
• Bourdieu hypothesizes that children internalize these
dispositions at an early age and that such dispositions
guide the young towards their appropriate social
positions, towards the behaviours that are suitable for
them, and foster an aversion towards other behaviours.