SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metatheory, Social Inequality, Class Conflict
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Ideas as to how or why things in the social world are connected: not just a guess, a series of testable connections, can be proved wrong if it is a strong theory. Interprets facts: fits the evidence, allows people to see things they might not otherwise see, applicable to more than one situation. Categorization: unit theory, testable, outlines problems, ex: how do women get promoted in law firms, metatheory, not testable, a way of understanding reality, ex: humans are, by nature, self-interested. Conflict: features, focus is on large, macro level structures like class relations, inequality creates social change because the oppressed fight for their rights that the oppressors are taking from them. Bring about a communist society: conflict and max weber. Observed the growth of service sector economy with many workers. Argues that a large number of this occupational group stabilize society. Conflict is not the only driving force of history: conflict and sports.
