SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Symbolic Interactionism, Harriet Martineau
16 Oct 2011
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Functionalism: started work in early 1900s, argue that societies work the way we design them to work, argue that institutions do what we believe they do, macrosociologists. The 70"s: equal rights for women, vietnam war, cold war, changed the way people thought. Began questioning civil rights, people started to fight for civil right: sociologists saw the society doesn"t work the way we believe it to work (functionalist). Only works for people who had power: began to question how things worked, became critical of how things worked, functionalist argument was that everything worked properly, did not believe in social change. Conflict: macrosociologists, argue that society is not operating the way we think they should and the way we"ve designed. Institutions work for certain class groups; education provides a way for those who are advantaged to maintain their advanced position: all in competition. How people create their own social reality. How do people work things out together.
