SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Solidarity, Social Fact, Symbolic Interactionism
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Sociology emerged as a discipline in the 19th century. Conflict theory: a sociological school of thought that focuses on how large social structures produce social stability at times as well as social change in others. Helps us to see class tensions underlying the apparently stable social arrangements of the fashion industry. Symbolic interactionism: school of thought that examines how various aspects of social life convey meaning and thereby assist or impede communication. Explains how fashion assists communication and the drawing of boundaries between different population categories. Feminism: school of thought that claims that male domination and female subordination are determined not by biological necessity but by structures of power and social convention. 4 levels of social structures (levels of analysis: micro face to face (relationships, meso- organizational level (school system, policies in work place) Don"t interact face to face: macro- bigger structures that shape society (social class, patriarchy, economic class, global- patterns related to globalization (international travel/trade)
