SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Feminist Sociology, Symbolic Interactionism
21 Dec 2015
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From the greek theorein, to see. " a conceptual overview of the way something works. A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to describe, explain, and (occasionally) predict social events ( textbook) An overall approach or viewpoint toward some subject ( textbook); a basic image of society that guides thinking and research (;road map", paradign) Society as a system made up of interrelated parts, each of which performs one or several important social functions or meets vital social needs. Parts/subsystems: social institution: economy, family, education, religion. Institutions provide the rules governing behaviors, and a set of common values that bind people together. Manifest functions: recognized and intended consequences of. Latent functions: consequences that are largely unrecognized and unintended. Dysfunctions: undesirable consequences of any social pattern for the operation of society. By emphasizing social intergration, tends to gloss over inequality based on social class, race, ethnicity, and gender-division that may generalize considerable tension and conflict.
