SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Sociological Theory, Nuclear Family, Structural Functionalism
19 Apr 2013
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Order theory social order balance agreement. Change need for social change problems in society. Macro external social structure, aggregate level looking at social institutions, what happens nationally, cross nationally. Micro everyday interactions between people, online: structural functionalism. Order theory focuses on order, balance and harmony in society. Functions of institutions in society, how things function. Macro level what happen nationally, cross national, countries, big institution, social structure over human agency (eg. soc 2u06 - we meet at this time and this place, we take the course for credit) Roots to this lay in biological/essentialist perpectives. Look at biological diff between men and women and a whole host of things fallow from that. Ex the nuclear family is natural cuz biological reproduction requires man and women, egg and sperm. A lot of sociologist have studied animals at the animal kingdom and saw them mating to draw inferneces about human. Also comparing to animals is wrong as we humans are fundamentally.
