SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Sampling Distribution, Data Set, Internal Validity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Environment shapes us to the people we later become. Conflict theory-: society is organized into conflict, conflict among competing groups. These classes struggle with one another for resources power prestige and income that conflict is problematic to resolve the conflict we need equality of result, equality outcomes, everyone is equal in the end. If something exists in society it serves a purpose, its functions. When things in society things longer become dysfunctional there"s an agreement that it should be removed society then becomes a state of equilibrium. Equality of opportunity conflict theorists argue 90% of university professors in the natural sciences are male and 50% of the population is female in the end the gender should be distributed equally. 90% of the prison population is male. Theoretical perspectives ways of viewing the world: Conflict theories conspiracy theories the rich are out to exploited the poor.