SOCL 3101 : Sociology Final Review Fall 2012
Document Summary
Primitive vs. modern societies: modern, emphasis on the individual, high specialization and stratification, primitive, emphasis on collectivity, low specialization and stratification. Industrial society constantly change and so do norms: weber, bureaucracy, no room for creativity or control. Structural functionalism: basic viewpoint, society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. Spencer: what organic analogy does he use to describe societies, primitive, cell organism, simply reproducing by dividing into 2 identical cells, modern industrial, different specialized organisms providing a specialized function to keep animal alive(organs) Durkheim: solidarity, mechanical, same skill set and low division of labor, primitive societies, organic, specialized functions and high division of labor, modern industrial. Parsons: pattern variables, choices we have for any given behavior, categorizing others, primitive, need intimate information (particularism, modern industrial, everyone treated the same (universally, making decisions, primitive, activities (collectivity, modern industrial.
