SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Max Gluckman, Endogamy, Google Hangouts
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Focused on macro-functionalism(macro-structuralism: durheimian tradition, organic solidarity. Famous for its interest in conflict: conflict normally seen as problematic, wrong, destroyer of social solidarity, gluckman(and his students) thought conflict to be functional, essential part of the social system. Helping to create and maintain boundaries between groups. Play a role in social structure: important insight: conflict can be part of the social structure. Considered radical, some took it very far(especially after the holocaust) Not necessarily saying that violence = good, but saying that it serves a role/purpose in society. Interested in how the miners adapted to life in the towns. How miners formed social relations and social groupings in this new environment. Often men, taken away and required to adapt to new environment. Men would be most logical and available to take up mining jobs. Overcommunication: when the men arrived in the new towns, they would engage in overcommunication".
