SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Demographic Transition, Conflict Theories, Class Conflict
30 Nov 2018
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How it is that social structures resist change. Class boundaries, gender essentialism, racialization, economic inequality, socialization (the assumptions/norms gets reinforced again and again, resisting any efforts to shift it. All focus on ways that dominate power structures, ideologies + norms reinforce themselves: social change. Starts from the idea that society today looks different than society 10 years ago. Understanding the inertial forces of social structures helps understand how it is subverted: modernity. Huge cultural shift over the past several centuries. Very slow change but studied in depth. How they emerged in modern society rather than pre-modern society: technological change. Because all these things happened, it caused a fundamental shift in the way people understand society + themselves. Technology can change the way people relate to each other, culture, material conditions + themselves. Conflict + functional theories argue that shift toward mechanized/industrialized production caused changes of modernization: population changes. Demographic transition theory: explains shift toward modernity as result of improved health.
