SOC 3340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Marxist Sociology, Class Conflict, Social Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3340
• Professor: Victor Ujimoto

Document Summary

Attempt to understand vast horizons across entire societies. Widest focus, centuries of time and large chunks of geographic world. Chapter 2 classical sociological approaches to education. Theories are conceptual tools that provide perspective or illumination. Sociology doesn"t posses a unified theory that explains everything. Offers competing perspectives, each having different emphases and starting points. Most abstract theories are called macro" theories. Macro sociologists interested in describing and explaining the casual transitions from pre-modern to modern societies, broad shifts in economic cultures and demographics. Would approach schooling by linking it to broad modernizing forces that have transformed the world ie. rise in science in past 2 centuries. Middle-range" theorists: more circumscribed, offering propositions that are geared to specific times and places particular nation in a time period. Schooling attempt to explain why canadian higher education system greatly expanded in the immediate post-second world war era.