SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Talcott Parsons, Social Class, Visible Minority
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A theory is a statement that tries to explain how certain facts or variables are related in order to predict future events. Thomas hobbes: natural state is conception of the human condition before the emergence of formal social structures. Charles de montesquieu: ideal types are classic or pure forms of a given social phenomenon. The enlightenment: philosophes is french philosophers during the enlightenment period who advocated critical thinking and practical knowledge. Organic analogy is the belief that society is like an organism with interdependent and interrelated parts. Robert k. merton: manifest functions are the intended consequences of an action or social pattern, latent functions are the unintended consequences of an action or social pattern. Natural or physical inequality is based on physical differences established by nature. Moral or political inequality is based on human classification of valuable things. Thomas theorem is assertion that things people define as real are real in their consequences.
