SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Inequality, Class Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism
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Often confused with a guess but in reality is much more educated. Statements about how or why particular facts about the social world are related. The most common type of theory that we encounter in sociology. A way of looking at and interpreting reality. Examines how structures maintain and undermine social stability. Re-establishing social equilibrium is the best way to solve social problems. Function: consequence of social pattern for operation of society. Manifest function: the intended function of a social pattern. Latent function: the unintended function od a social pattern. Dysfunction: when a social pattern disrupts the operation of society. Focuses on large macro level structures like class. Examines how major patterns in social inequality produce both social stability and social change. Stresses how members of more privileged groups try to maintain their advantages while members of less privileged groups struggle to try to acquire advantages. (the rich get richer and the poor get poorer kind of idea).
