SOC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions, Émile Durkheim, Symbolic Interactionism
15 Jul 2016
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Week 2 day 1 monday may 11, 2015 (class cancelled) Week 2 day 2 wednesday may 13, 2015. Structural functionalism: society functions like a human body, every part serves a particular function, we need all of these parts for society as a whole to function, social order, emile durkheim. Rural societies imagine a family waking up at 4am who live on a farm. Urban societies millions of people who live in a city o. Social division of labor everyone is specialized to do a specific thing. 1 person makes bread, shoes, and last person makes books. We are interdependent and we need each other to survive. o. The way we see things, some things have latent function, and some have manifest function. Manifest function of coming to university = to eventually get a job (aware of) that which you intend and are conscious of.
