UK education policy has allowed private education to continue.

Marxists argue that governments mainly ignore research done from a Marxist Agenda because governments typically consist of the upper middle classes.

THE UK GOVERNMENT DOES NOT LISTEN TO MARXISTS.

Research on the harms ‘Corporate elites’ do (Corporate Crimes and Tombs and Whyte).

Research into the unfair criminal justice system.

Research includes looking at the relationship between social class and inequality in education.Sociology should target research to highlight a) the exploitation by the Bourgeois and b) the oppression of the working classes.Governments use this data to make decisions about how many school places will be needed, how many prison places etc.The UK national census is also a good example (from 2011).Office for National Statistics employs over 4000 people to collect and analyse data on everything from family trends (births/ marriages/ deaths are recorded) to crime statistics Governments claim to collect data about the social world in a ‘value free’.Help to governments to formulate policies to improve society gradually.

Sociologists should work with governments to uncover objective ‘causes’ of social problems such as crime/ suicide etc.

What is the purpose of Sociology/ What kind of things do they research? How has the government/ political parties used data from this type of research? This posts consists of a summary of Sociological Perspectives on the relationship between Sociology and Social Policy – covering Positivism, Marxist, Feminist and New Right Perspectives. Social Policy may be defined as actions the government carries out, or actions political parties propose to do, in order to exert an influence over a specific area of social life, such as education, the family, or society more generally – such as policies concerning taxation and wealth distribution.

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