SOC 705 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Minority Group, Symbolic Interactionism, Talcott Parsons

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 705
• Professor: Terry Roswell

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Mores are more serious in nature than folkways. These norms tend to be formalized and tend to appear as laws (eg. stealing, murder: violations of mores are more likely to carry serious sanctions. Each group is assigned topic number 1 or 2, if number one, then your reading is the first supplementary reading, group 2 is a debate group with a reading assigned. Link back to course content, this is the most important part. Any material we discuss can be linked back to the topic. Structural functionalism uses an organic or biological analogy for society; operates at macro-level: identifies the various structures of society and describes the functions the structure performs to maintain the entire social system. Important sociologists: talcott parsons argued that different institutions must work together to ensure the functioning of the social system: family socializes, schools educate, military defends, religion bounds society together by moral codes.