SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Structural Functionalism, Deinstitutionalisation, Plant Ecology
5 Feb 2020
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Seeks to explain why people act in particular ways. Are understood as threats to society & the social order. Goal is a utopian society, to make society better. Part philosophical tradition in response to chaos of french and american revolutions. How society organized, its manifest & latent functions. How social order is maintained a core concern. Understand how whole social systems operate in unified way. Identify & analyze unintended consequences, hidden processes, deep structures & latent functions of society. Employs biological analogy to explain how society operates. To meet goals of social order, solidarity & survival. Changes in one part of system affects all other parts. Norm violations are signs of disruptions of natural order & equilibrium of society. Deviance is normal and functional to continuation of society. Function of deviance is to integrate people into society. 19th c. major social changes taking place in society. Changes result of more deviance that exceed functional levels.
