SOCI 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Urban Studies, Social Relation, Protestantism
13 Jan 2018
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Parsons before functionalism: the theory of social action. The fundamental propositions of functionalism: durable social actions/relations contribute to maintenance of social order, their functionality constitutes their rationality, social order supposes a limited number of functional pre requisites. The action of frame of reference + individual freedom. One speaks of the chicago school, here there is a man by the name of george herbert. It only becomes noteworthy at the beginning of the 20th century, at the 1920s. Though he is more social psychology, he turns out to be important for the development of a later school of symbolic interactionism. What is more significant, at least at the time was the development within chicago and at the university of chicago of urban studies and community studies lead first of all by. Because they tend to be community and urban studies, they are not really studied in theory courses, though they produced a number of works which are still worth reading.
