SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Emily Stowe, Proletariat, Social Inequality
12 Apr 2016
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Conflict perspective competition over resources powerful vs. powerless: marx: bourgeoisie vs. proletariat. Social life is a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources: 3. Social arrangements benefit some at the expense of others. Interactionist perspective interactions starts from micro and progresses to macro focuses on individual (ex. student-teacher conflict) individual experience and environment interpretation relative to social context assumes: 1. All behaviors are learned socialization: there is no such thing as human nature, there is only human behavior and all human behaviors are learned, 2. Emily stowe, first female doctor and mp of canada. It introduces moral component: to social analyses. Uses theory and research to critique social inequality. Feminists pushed back on the learned behaviors (ex. Their societal role of taking care of the household) in order to challenge inequality. Don"t think about feminism as a horrible thing, sociology"s foundations are built on feminism.
