SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consumerism, Microsociology, Highgate Cemetery

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Nathan Young

Document Summary

Mills, the important decisions are made in secrecy by these power elite people. Con ict perspective: brief critical evaluation: by highlighting inequality and division, glosses over how shared values or interdependence generates unity among members of a society for example, quebec and the rest of canada, they forget their differences when. Canada wins the cup: by pursuing political goals, relinquishes any claim to scienti c objectivity according to the prof, he doesn"t think that this critical evaluation is not legit because a lot of social con icts include political goals. Functionalist and con ict perspectives envision society in very broad and abstract terms: large-scale social structures and social systems. The most well known and in uential female sociologist in canada. It is not enough to just add female in the picture we have to include them; sociology basically embodied male vision of things; she then argues that we need female vision to build our societies.