SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deskilling, Plebs, Primitive Communism
23 Sep 2016
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Lecture 3 the great debate (sept 15) Abbreviations: ppl people, w. with, pov point of view, ind individual, b/w between, diff different, smth something, beh - behaviour. Conservative thesis vs radical thesis (page 37/39 5th ed table 2. 1) Functionalist pov of inequality reflects the american conservative inequality stating that inequality is necessary for society & ppl fall into places where they are supposed to be, where they belong. Begin the weberian concept of class (will return to this again in chapter 4) They tend to be conservative to keep things the way they are. Hammurai (king of ancient babylon around 1750 bc) One of the earliest to set down codes of conduct/laws that detailed the rights & duties of ppl that were below him. He didn"t consider all his subjects to be created equally. That noble man was diff from the common man, who didn"t obtain/have manhood.
