SOC 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Meritocracy, Social Order

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 303
• Professor: Wilson George

Document Summary

We assume a role in our lives that are socially constructed values which. We make decisions and we agree that they are good decision which allows us. Why do we not have a situation in society of war against one another. The perspective does not take society for granted. Concerned with the role of a student or of a professor. Social order: when the light turns red you know to stop, you know to walk on. Lecture 4: paradigms of social stratification - trying to explain the distribution of rewards. Paradigm: theory composed of logical tenets that make sense. Social order - functionalist paradigm (minority point of view) Rooted in the hobbism problem of social order constantly? the right side of the sidewalk created expectation in our immediate environment. We take society for granted in our daily lives to live together peacefully in society. Unit of analysis -- society as a whole.