SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Feminist Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Seeing the general in the particular: warrior culture the airborne regiments, being part of the warrior culture affects the incidence of family violence within military families, this study illustrates the machinery that is society. While society shapes or patterns our lives, we construct and create society! We therefore do have the freedom of clearer visions and this may provide us with the will to envision change. How society is organized or put/held together (ie institutions such as family) Theoretical perspectives (structural functional theory, symbolic interactionism, social conflict theory: developed during a period of industrialization and urbanization and increasing individualism, diverse responses to these changes. As a consequence, the different understandings, derived from applying the theoretical paradigms. Feminist theory was also a response to social change- a call for change. Theoretical paradigms are meant to be useful: used to explain our observations of human life. Theoretical accounts are lenses: clarify our vision, highlighters- used to focus our attention.