SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dominant Ideology, False Consciousness, Talcott Parsons

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1010
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

Document Summary

Lecture 4: sociology and its classical theoretical foundations. Describe the early contributions of social philosophers and their relevance to classical sociological theory. Review and critique functionalism and the contributions of its. Review and critique conflict theory and the contributions of its principal theories. founding theorists. Review and critique symbolic interactionism and the contributions of its founding theorists. Describe how marginalized voices contributed to sociological theory. Lecture: the social and historical context for theories. At its most basic, theory tries to explain how ideas, facts or. Theories generate hypotheses that make certain claims. Specific theories may be proven" (at least provisionally), disproves, or fail to be proven or disproved. Theories are subject to testing by weighting them against alternative theories and empirical evidence. Each theory has both strengths and weaknesses. They can help to understand some things and not others. * we want to be able to see how each theory or theorist have their strengths or weaknesses.