SOC 100 Lecture 2: Soc 100 Lecture 2
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Face to face interactions build into the structures of your social world. Integrated or detached from the social hole: there is an implicit model of society/that social hole when asking are you integrated or detached? . Models : consensus model : thinking of society like an organism, functioning together as a stable whole with each part playing a function in the overall functioning of the whole. There is conflict, but it plays a role. Harmony is the normal state of affair. Sees the conflict model as pessimistic: conflict model : sees society as an overall, bounded unit, but does not see all parts as functioning for the whole. In a given society, there is never enough resources to go around, so conflict is ubiquitous. Conflict is the normal state of affair. Sees the consensus model as too utopian and idealistic: multi-institutional model : most widespread in sociology. Questions the idea that you can talk about society as a bounded whole.
