Sociology A100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Class
28 Dec 2020
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Durkheim"s mechanical solidarity: social groups held together by shared language and culture are more durable and stable. Explains cohesion of ethnic groups such as cuban americans. Racism cannot be positively functional for a community or society because it marginalizes some members of the group. May be functional for some, but dysfunctional for others. Racism: idea that one racial or ethnic group is inherently superior to another. Used to justify slavery on basis that blacks were less than human three-fifths compromise. U. s. capitalism and economic development dependent on slave labor. Whites benefited from lack of competition in schools and workplace due to segregation. Treated as members of a group, regardless of individual merits. Stigma: attribute that is discrediting to an individual or group because it overshadows other attributes and merits the individual or group may possess. Prejudice: belief about an individual or a group that is not subject to change on the basis of evidence.
