SOC 202 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Organicism, Productive Forces, Structural Level
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Views society from exactly the opposite perspective than functionalism. Con ict among competing interests in the basic, animating force of any society. Focuses on how face to face interaction create the social world. The idea that people act in response to the meaning that signs and social signals hold for them. Discordance with share meanings, orientations, and assumptions cause confusion and disputes. Reality cannot be created if people are unable to share these things. Human beings act towards ideas, meanings, concepts, and values. Meanings are modi ed and ltered through an interpretive process that each individual uses in dealing with outward signs. Way to analyze society through identifying roles that different aspects or phenomena play. Extension off organicism - the notion that society is like a living organism, each part of which serves an important role in keeping society together. A theory is a conceptual scheme (set of ideas) that: Includes: assumptions, interrelated concepts, and statements about relationships.
