SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mcdonaldization, Feminist Theory, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
4 Dec 2017
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Globalization: political interconnectedness (i. e. un, economic interconnectedness (i. e. eu, free trade, travel and navigation, communication (made possible by technology, work/occupations: ritzer: the mcdonaldization of society, modern bureaucracies (interactions wit the government): uniform, standardized, no discretion or. Inspired by max weber"s idea of rationalization latitude permitted for clients or workers: workers are also suppose to follow protocol and cannot help or try to problem solve which can make these bureaucracies problematic. Postmodernism: postmodernism has impacted sociology and many other academic disciplines. Structural functionalism is premised on the idea of social order an shared values. Symbolic interactionalism is premised on the idea of micro-level interactions creating society. Feminist theory is premised on the idea of gender- based inequalities: postmodernist theory rejects the idea of a singular explanatory framework as suggested by these. Postmodern music: mix of elements from different times/places, examples; music, architecture, religion, mixing of different styles and often means breaking past rules about how music songs should be organized.
