SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Forces, Gender Trouble, Patricia Hill Collins
23 Sep 2018
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Two ways of thinking about the relationship between the individual and society. Individual-first: societies are composed of individuals who choose to act in concert to avoid chaos, thomas hobbs was one of these, problem: too much credit to individual choices. Schooling: explicit, national anthem, holidays, content: whether history or health or computers or math. Implicit: to be respectful (sit down, listen to what others are saying, repercussions for lateness, for absence, national an them-stand up straight, be quiet, etc, hierarchies of authority. The view that structures are so important of a cause of fundamental social processes, that hardly anything else counts, lease of all individual actions (147) Limits of structuralism and socialization theories: structuralism alone can"t account for the complexities of social life. In other words, humans are not determined : socialization has limits when it comes to explaining how it happens that some people usually are instructed to play a great many roles in life, some all at once.
