SOC 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Resource Mobilization, Feminist Theory, Conflict Theories

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Altruistic suicide: occurs in settings that exhibit high levels of social solidarity, according to. Altruistic suicide results from norms very tightly governing behavior. Anomic suicide: occurs in settings that exhibit low levels of social solidarity according to. Anomic suicide results from vaguely defined norms governing behaviour. Conflict theory: generally focuses on large, macrolevel structures, such as the relations between or among classes. It shows how major patterns of inequality in society produce social stability in some circumstances and social change in others. It stresses how members of privileged groups try to maintain their advantages while subordinate groups struggle to increase theirs. It typically leads to the suggestion that eliminating privilege will lower the level of conflict and increase human welfare. It suggested that people are responsible for organizing society and that human intervention can therefore solve social problems. Dysfunctional consequences: effects of social structures that create social instability.