SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kai T. Erikson, Anomie, Social Disorganization Theory
19 Mar 2013
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Functionalism uses a biological kind of analogy to explain how society operates. Society as an organism (each have working parts) thinking of how your whole body works. The family, educational system, economy are parts of the social system and the well being of its members contribute to how society runs. If change occurs in one part of the social system, from a funcitionalispov other things have to change as well. Durkheim acknowledge tremenduous variation across societies, but that all societies label some form ofbehaviors as deviant and no society is crime free. He argued that crime is a social fact (exists everywhere) Crimes and sanctions are universal nad durkheim argued that they are functional for society. It creates a clarification of what is okay behaviour. A clarification of the reactions of some behaviour is what we define sexual harassment. Clarify between what is okay and hwat is not okay behaviour.
