SOC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Structural Functionalism, The Surplus

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 102
• Professor: Mosey Nicholas J

Document Summary

If we take a step to become citizens of life, we should wake up to the invisible life. To not overwhelm people, but in order to make change, a lot of people need to become more compassionate and empathy. It is easy to look at individuals rather than society as a whole. How does the dominant interest become the pubic interest. More and more people are becoming educated but still: cultural institutions decimate the social wrongs in the society. Through the process of ideology we can eradicate. Education and media - transmit our society"s value through curriculum and content. Structural functionalists - as an organism where everything is work together: parsons performed two functions to become orderly socializing and sorting. Socializing - values and skills that are acceptable in society. Sorting - grading and streaming which prepares you a differential market. Gr. 8 you are deciding between academic or applied. To reproduce a compliant workforce to help the capitalism.