SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Consumerism, Talcott Parsons

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

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A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to describe, explain, works and (occasionally) predict social events social theorizing: the task of weaving isolated observations or facts into an understanding of human society and behaviour. An overall approach or viewpoint toward some subject; a basic image of society that guides thinking and research (cid:523)(cid:498)road map(cid:499), paradigm(cid:524) Each perspective directs our attention to; what to study, what questions to ask, and how we should ask them. Each perspective interprets reality and explains data in a different way. 4 major classical paradigms or perspectives in sociology: functionalist perspective. Symbolic interactionist perspective feminist perspective social behaviour. Functionalist perspective: (known also as the structural-functionalism perspective) Stresses that our lives are guided by social structures relatively stable patterns of. Centered around the premise that society operates around a system a system made up of interrelated parts, each of which performs one or several important social functions or meets vital social needs.