SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Economic System, Social Inequality, George Herbert Mead
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A general way of "seeing the world" Always partial (sees functions rather than consequences) Definition: a perspective = a method + a theory + some values, applied to an object of study (i. e. suicide, families, etc. ) Qualitative vs. quantitative: quantitative generates statistics, qualitative generates an understanding without numbers (i. e. through observation, interviews, etc. ) Macro: how the state relates to the economy. Values: why you explain them this way. A statement of how & why specific facts are related. A set of fundamental assumptions that guides thinking and research. How do institutions function: society = an orange. Has many different sections (institutions) and how they function to maintain the society. Politically conservative (right wing: this is because it tends to want to reproduce the society the way it is with all of it"s different social systems. Function: consequences of the pattern for society as a whole: e. g. religious practices --> social integration. Norms and values shape shared moral codes.
