SOC 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Class Stratification, Centrality, Social Stratification

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3306
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Social structures and relations between the sexes: comparative analysis. Evolutionary approach (we are looking at the evolution of society. We look at the past to understand the present. Once society changes from one stage to the next, the relationships change. Shift/rearrangement of society and changing of structure to reflect the stage of development). Means of livelihood and changes in the social structure (ex, relationships become complex). (social structures are the glue that keeps society together. First, its an arrangement, it"s a pattern we are looking at for how society is arranged/organized. Regulated and patterned interactions and connections (we are constrained. Our actions are determined by forces outside us. Social structure influences the way we interact, our relationships are regulated - durkheim) Historical materialism: relationship between history and material being. Marxist explanation: tools land, factories, and money that are invested. The structure e have in society is determined by the means of production.