SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -Post-Structuralism, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Emile durkheim-ways of feeling, thinking, and acting external to and exercising constraint over the individual. Sociology and psychology are independent levels of analysis. Should be treated as things, realties in their own right with their own laws of organization, apart from individual consciousness. Includes phenomena as social institutions and more diffuse phenomena (e. g mass behavior of crowds, collective trends) Objective element, exact determination or identification and measurement. Can study myocardial infarction-weight, body fat, diet, cholesterol, fitness- and social integration. Relevant to social theories viewing society as an objective reality apart from the individual. Karl marx-individuals make history under conditions independent of their individual wills. Social existence conditions consciousness and individuals are primarily personifications of objectives economic forces. Talcott parson- four functional problems of social systems: -adaption. Structural theories of kinship, myth, and culture which emphasizes the centrality of enduring structures of human cognition and organization.