SOC 101 Lecture : Classical Social Theories Notes + Ch.3 & 4 Book Notes from "Introduction to Sociology"

• School: Bishop's University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Barry Mc Clinchey

Document Summary

Believe that institutions created together as society basically work; created through consensus. Education does what we set out to do, educate people, and prepare future, gives equal opportunity for success. Society works because all systems work together to produce functionalist harmonious society. Social structures helps us fulfill our wants and desires. Human society is similar to an organism, when it fails to work together the system will fail . Society must meet the needs of the majority. Survival of the fittest justifies why only the strong should survive. Social darwinism draws upon darwin"s idea of natural selection; society is changing for the better. Laissez-faire approach (opposes regulation of or interference with natural processes). Human action originates in the collective action. Behavior is driven by the collective conscience (how society ought to work). Social facts are general social features that exist on their own and are independent of the individual; define, measure and study them in society.