SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Steam Engine, Symbolic Interactionism, Industrial Revolution

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Amie Mc Lean

Document Summary

How the different social theories approach and understand social change. Structural functionalism: long slow change so that society can adjust in terms of norms beliefs and assumptions. social cohesion and stability. Social conflict: focuses on change that happens rapidly between people with power and without. Symbolic interactionism: how change comes about as a result of small group and one on one interactions. interested in social meanings and how individuals behaviour changes. Modernization/industrialization: industrial revolution was one of the 3 revolutions that were really tied to the economy (agricultural and information revolution as well). Industrial revolution brought about new sources of energy (steam engine, etc), increased specialization in workforce (factories). people working for wages rather then working for themselves and on farms. With the industrial revolution you see manufacturing and mass production increasingly spread. Collectively, social patterns that are associated with modernism is modernity.