01:920:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Glass Ceiling, Scientific Writing, Broken Windows Theory
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Compared to marx, weber saw struggle for political/admin control equally as important as economic class struggle. We can"t understand operation of society unless we examine neglected members of society. Reduces social influence the most of any major theory. Social order is a product, often unintended and not always good, of individually rational decisions. Specific enough to be tested by empirical research, but still cover a lot of phenomena. Relative deprivation theory (not absolute poverty but poverty relative to a key reference group, shapes peoples" feelings) like a person feeling poor because they are surrounding people make . 5 million instead of ,000. Broken window theory (do signs of neglect in a neighborhood increase crime rates?) But sometimes there are uncommon responses to macro pressures. Not simply describing a phenomena, but searching for mechanisms to explain outcomes. We try to link what we observe to other phenomena - that seem to obey similar laws.
