SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Elite, Dishwashing Liquid, Post-Capitalism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: David Young

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1-the influence of emile durkheim: cannot call emile a structural functionalist, b/c he was dead by the time it emerged (but his ideas helped to pave the way for structural functionalism, e. g. Durkheim was very interested in the issue of social order, and theorized the interdependence of organic solidarity (people become interdependent between all the people and the parts, all have to play their role in society) 2-the work of talcott parsons & robert k. merton: these 2 american sociologists developed many of the main ideas of structural functionalism, however, while they both played an important role, parsons and merton disagreed. 2-neo-functionalism 1980s resurgence of structural functionalism = neo-functionalism (cid:396)efe(cid:396)s to the app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h take(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) so(cid:272)iologists (cid:449)ho e(cid:373)(cid:271)(cid:396)a(cid:272)ed pa(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s theo(cid:396)eti(cid:272)al pe(cid:396)spe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e while altering some of its claims. Marriage & family in 1927, parsons married helen walker, had 3 children. Durkheim and weber - book very imp. in bringing the work of these 2 classical theorists to.