SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Talcott Parsons, Industrial Revolution, Class Consciousness
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Talcott parsons interested in explaining why people do what they do viewed people as actors, who play roles as either individuals or collectives. Social action theory is a framework which attempts to separate behaviours from actions to explain why people do what they do. Manifest functions: the intended consequences of an action or social pattern latent functions: the untented consequences of an action or social pattern. Criticisms of functionalist approaches: -inability to account for social change - over emphasis on the extent to which harmony and stability actually exist in society. Conflict theory: society is grounded upon inequality and competition.
