SOC 105 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Structural Functionalism, Canada, Social Class
12 Oct 2018
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SOC 105
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
SOC105
Lecture 1 part 2
Conflict perspective
- Originates with Marx
- Conflict or tension between competing groups over scarce resources
- Macro and micro sociology
- Social change is often brought about through conflict
- Emphasis on activism and social change
- Conflict not necessarily violent (labor negotiations, party politics)
Functionalism
- Socialization imagination deals with the individual as well as the public society (gives
awareness of individual and broader society)
- Links personal setting as well as impersonal setting
- View problems as how an outsider would rather than yourself
- Conflict perspective- groups fighting for power questioning the status quo of society to
give equal chances at success)
- Feminist- status quo of males, questions why society gives males priority over female
- Symbolic interaction
- Role of socialization: process where people learn attitudes, values, and behaviors
appropriate for members of a particular culture
- Socialization shapes and effects our self-image- sets standards and expectations in
society that needs to be met
3 theoritics of framework
Functionalist perspective
- functions of society in socialism is the different ways society functions to meet a
common goal/norm
- Raised to buy into values of society because society works for the good of society
- Functionalism is based on stability
Conflict perspective
- Society is always in conflict and trying to change, socialism encourages moving up and
succeeding
- Questions status quo
- Question inherit (lower class vs. upper class)
Feminist perspective
- Men and women are socialized differently and will have different roles in society which
leads to inequality within genders
Agents of socialization
- Family
- Media/technology
- Religion
- State
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Major theoretical perspectives
Conflict perspective (critical)
- Originates with Marx
- Conflict or tension between competing groups over scarce resources
- Conflict over money, power, wealth
- Resources macrosociology and microsociology
- Social change is often brought through conflict
- Emphasis on activism and social change
- Conflict not necessarily violent
- From conflict theory came feminism
The sociological imagination
C.W. Wright Mills (1916-1962)
- awareness of relationship between an individual and the wider society
- awareness allows all of us to comprehend the links between our immediate, personal
social settings and the remote, impersonal social world that surrounds us and helps
shape us
- ability to view our own society as an outsider would, rather than from perspective of
our limited experiences and cultural biases
- allows us to go beyond personal experiences and observations to understand broader
public issues
- biography vs. history
- personal problems vs. social issues
- Tupac video clip example
- if 1% is unemployed that’s a personal problem but if 25% are unemployed that’s a
structural/society problem
- sociological imagination- opening a space and comparing own biography and history
- thinks about the world and place in it a sociological perspective
- one of the first professors of sociology in France
- behavior must be understood within a larger social context, not just in individualistic
terms
Major theoretical perspective
Feminist perspective
- there is no one feminist perspective
- can be macro or micro
- these theories view inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization
- can be allied with other schools
- there are numerous viewpoints and faci within feminism that will be explored in the sex
and gender topic
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Document Summary
Climate change, oil companies discredit crisis and try to confuse people. Can convince people of untruths or confuse them into not knowing what to believe. Idea that popular culture in society produces resistance. Where is his world we are seeing thousands of images per day. Publicity creates glamour- images photo shopped to us are not real, we are excepted to want to look like ads. Dreams and desires- we can all be rich and famous. Selling inspiration- depicting everyday man doing something extraordinary. Selling transformation- man will have success, fame, status. Aims to allow dominant groups to build leadership, consensus or cooperation. Process of attempting to absorb and transform challenges of alternative and oppositional voices. Ongoing sites where contestation and negotiation occur- we are not robots. Always an active process in repair because society is always throwing up challenges: hegemony must be adaptable.
