SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Visible Minority, American Sociological Review, Alternative Media

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: David Young

Document Summary

Part ii of course begins thursday october 24, 2013. Is a sociological theory and was developed in the usa in the early 20th century. Focuses on analyzing two things the structures of society and the functions of these structures. Sf owes a lot to emile durkheim (ed). We cannot call durkheim a structural functionalist because he was dead when sf emerged, but his ideas did help to pave the way for sf. We can illustrate this in a few different ways, ed was interested in the issue of social order. We can see ed"s influence in another way to, he theorized the interdependence of organic solidarity: the work of talcott parsons and robert k. merton. Sf is most closely identified with the work of these two men. In the 1940"s and 50"s the work of these two american sociologists laid the foundation for sf.