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Session 4

Session 4. Social theory, social institutions and power. Marxism .

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Session 4

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  1. Session 4 Social theory, social institutions and power CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community work and services

  2. Marxism is a socio-political worldview that contains an ideology for how to change and improve society by implementing socialism. Marxism is based on the idea that social change occurs because of the struggle between different classes. Capitalism, the current dominant form of economic management, leads to the oppression of the majority proletariat, who spend their lives working for the benefit of the wealthy minority ruling class, the bourgeoisie. Marxism believes in the inevitability of a proletarian revolution, when the proletariat take control of government and implement reforms to benefit their class, namely the confiscation and nationalisation of private property. CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community work and services

  3. Social institutions • 'Patterned organised ways of doing things in society' e.g. family • ‘Have a relatively stable group of values, norms and roles designed to facilitate the achievement of a specific need or needs through established procedures' • ‘A guide as to what is to be achieved and a pattern for how it is to be conducted' CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community work and services

  4. Functions of the family • Regulation of sexual behaviour • Socialisation of children • Provision of emotional support and affection needs • Provision of consistent social relationships • Protection of the elderly and dependent • Provision of economic support for dependent members • Creation of a unit for economic consumption • Maintenance of existing social relationships and order (social control) CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community work and services

  5. Defining the family • Families are more important than just groups of people related by blood, marriage or adoption. They are more than statistics and categories based on size, number of parents and children, or marital status ..... This is precisely why ‘family’ is a concept that is slippery to grasp, a battleground for competing ideologies and loyalties. From: Foreward by Don Edgar in Funder (1991) Images of Australian Families Longman Cheshire, Melbourne • ‘What is family? The family is a social construct, a set of ideas rather than something ‘out there’, it is constantly changing, and interpreted in many different ways by different people.’ Sargent (1994:105) CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community work and services

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