SOCI 1001 Study Guide - Symbolic Interactionism, Labeling Theory, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
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Individuals depend on society for social integration. Individuals depend on society for social regulation. Manifest functions: the primary reason a given institution or structure. Latent functions: unintended, positive consequences of the given. Dysfunction: unintended, negative consequences of the given institution exists institution or structure or structure. A micro-level theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people"s actions. We create, filter, and modify meanings from social interactions. We establish meanings by responding to them. An approach to the study of deviance, suggests that people become deviant because certain labels are attached to their behavior by political authorities and others. Understand the differences between education and schooling. Education: any method through which societies pass down knowledge from older. Schooling: patterned norms, values, statuses, and norms bundled into formal to younger generations structure known as schools. Democratic equality, the function of education to prepare good citizens. Idealizes equal treatment through a common learning experience.
