SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Talcott Parsons, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Gospel
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Organized religion used to be the main purveyor of formal knowledge and the most important agent of socialization aside from the family. Who or what is increasingly performing the socialization role today: education system, peer group, criminal justice system, economic system, winning the stanley cup is an event that makes people feel part of something larger than themselves. While he will be able to graduate with the classes, they are not sufficient to get him into university. What educational process is robert engaged in: sorting, slotting, funnelling, classifying, twenty-two-year-old jack does not study much for his sociology midterm and writes a mediocre term paper. They began dating and were engaged by the end of the program. While her job is safe because she is unionized, she notices that all new applicants for the same job are required to have a bachelor of science in nursing (bsn) degree.
