ECON 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions, Social Inequality, Historical Sociology
3 Apr 2018
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Exam details: chapters: 1 (1. 2 1. 5), 2,3,4,5 (5. 1 and 5. 2),6,7,8,914,16, lecture notes / documentaries, all the chapters (from s&h and massey), topics, films (watched in class) from. The big picture of our micro every day the macro social context systemic issues, actors and stakeholders, intended and unintended consequences of social action: ex. When you come to study at school the manifest is you want to get the degree; the latent function is u might develop friends or life partner. Different patterns of social inequality who gets what (recourses and opportunities) how and why: ex. Normative (common sense; single isolated incidence); given, common sense/ norms: ex. Contra empirical (backed by facts / data qualitative and quantitative thus a pattern will emerge) Essay from massey book; mela; in-depth interviews / mass rail transit; forced to disappear by large corporations; The sociological bi-focal lenses: micro and macro aspects of society: c-wright mills. Individual biographies and social structural forces how are they connected: ex.
