SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Inequality, Determinative, Class Consciousness
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Sociological structures: social structure: the most basic, enduring, relative, stable and determinative patterns of social relations, e. g. Patriarchy, kinship, economy, politics, culture, sexuality, and racism: core problematic: structure vs agency. 3 levels of social structure: microstructures: patterns of social relations on the small scale (one-on-one interactions, intimacy, local, etc, e. g. Status and social roles: macrostructures: patterns of social relations on a large scale, above and beyond individual relations, e. g. Patriarchy, socio-economic class, racism, gender, & sexuality: global structures: structures that encompass, crisscross, and permeate all societies, e. g. International economic organizations, global communications & international political organizations. Con ict theory: carl marx: capitalist societies de ned con ict between the owning class (bourgeoisie) & the working class (proletarians, the bourgeoisie use social structures to maintain their power, while the proletarians struggles for equality. Real social changes only happen through con ict: if the working class can become conscious of their common exploitations (class consciousness) they will form a social movement that:
