SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unintended Consequences, Class Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism
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Define: interconnected set of ideas (colloquial terms: a guess or opinion) Statements about how or why particular facts about the social world are related. Unit theory: emphasizes particular problems and makes testable assertions about those problems. Metatheory: not testable, a way of looking at interpreting reality. Functionalism: how to social structures maintain or undermine social stability. Conflict: how is social inequality maintained and challenged. Symbolic interactionism: how do people create meaning through interaction. Human behaviour is governed by stable patterns of social relations: macro level. Shows how structures maintain or undermine social stability. Social structures are based mainly on shared values. Re-establishing equilibrium is the best way to solve social problems. Function: consequence of a social pattern for the operation of society. Manifest function: intended consequence of a social pattern. Latent function: unintended consequence of a social pattern. Dysfunction: social pattern that disrupts the operation of society.
