SOCI 1001 Study Guide - Symbolic Interactionism, White Supremacy, Class Conflict
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A population distinguished by shared norms, values, institutions, and culture. Personal problems become public problems. institutions of society. Major theories: conflict theory, marx focused on economics and class struggle. While the working class produces almost everything, the capitalist class gains most of the rewards and institutions exist to serve the powerful and continue exploitation: applied today, find contemporary social phenomena that have dominant and subordinate groups. Sexism, classism, white supremacy, heteronormativity, etc: functionalism. Society is an organism and everything serves a function. Thus individuals depend on society and each other (division of labor). Labor fosters solidarity as there is mutual dependence (rather than class struggle and exploitation: symbolic interactionism, micro-level theory. We study how we make meanings from interactions with others. We act towards ideas, concepts, and values behind the meanings. How do we do sociology: goal of sampling is to resemble the sampled society, get a representative sample, different types of sampling.
