SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Talcott Parsons, Canadian International Development Agency, Body Piercing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Race: specify groups of people distinguished by physical characteristics like skin colour. Ethnicity: cultural heritage or identity of a group and is based on factors such as language or country of origin. Class: the relative location of a person or group within a larger society, based on wealth, power, prestige, or other valued resources. Sex: refers to the biological and anatomical differences between females and males. Gender: meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with sex differences. Theory : from the greek theorein, to see . Theoretical perspective: an overall approach or viewpoint toward some subject(textbook); a basic image of society that guides thinking and research (road map ), paradigm, each perspective directs our attention to: And how we should ask them : each perspective interprets reality and explains data in a different way. Major classical paradigms or perspectives in sociology: functionalist perspective, conflict perspective, symbolic interactionist perspective, feminist perspective.