SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Nuclear Proliferation, Arms Race

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Martin Hand

Document Summary

Dystopic fiction: orwell and huxley: exploration of social control (animal farm, brave new world) Nuclear arms race: thing hanging over the culture, people were genuinely scared, push people into thinking about the here and now and the benefit of social order. The context for american sociology in the 1950s is the cold war: imagined as stable, and a consensual society, seemed to offer the democratic, capitalist alternative to totalitarianism, social thought to accept the political and economic systems uncritically. What does socialization do: accept the social interest of the group, keep social order and regulate society. Pattern variables within structural functionalism: the process of acting involves an actors statuses, roles, and the institutionalized vale patterns of a culture. Cultures have value orientations (moral standards) that define a satisfactory solution to meet an actors needs though socially appropriate means, constructing choice dilemmas: gratification vs.