SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Class Consciousness, Endogamy, Social Conflict

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Karen M.Kampen

Document Summary

Symbolic interactionism: max weber (micro theorist, he said it helps give life meaning, and helps people cope with things. Primarily is a system of beliefs and ideas. It provides an answer to these questions. It performs various functions for society religions beliefs: he has collective consciousness makes people think that they are a part of something bigger than themselves. Divide right of kings loyalty in the past would justify unequal treatment to some and not to others justified slavery, war etc. They all had different takes on enlightenment but they had some things in common: they all saw religion as a social construct, and thought it was shaped, made by people and influenced by people. Once the world was filled with the sacred- in thought, practice and institutional form. After the reformation and the renaissance, the forces of modernization swept across the globe and secularization, a corollary historical process, loosened the dominance o the sacred.