SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Class Conflict, Conflict Theories

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: David Walters

Document Summary

We research how the environment influences us as individuals. Karl marx, max weber, emile durkeim are considered to be the founders of the following. Conflict b/w competing groups, the competing groups are the haves and the have nots. Class struggle, all of history has been class struggle. Equality of result, in the end everyone should be equal. Functional, if something exists in society its for a reason, it serves a purpose. Consensus, there is a consensus amongst everybody as to what is functional. Equality of opportunity, equality of result does not make society functional, and this is why we have equality of opportunity that way at the beginning everyone is equal and then they sort themselves. 90 percent of university professors in the natural sciences are male. 50 percent of the population is female. In the end gender distribution should be equal functionalists response. But 90 percent of prison population is male.