SOC103H1 Lecture : SOC103H Entire Compilation of Lecture Notes PDF
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Institution: a relatively stable, shared pattern of behavior based on relatively stable values. It meets people"s most important needs. Very slow to change: no institutions exist without social interaction. Industrial revolution (economic), and 2) the french revolution (political). They convinced people that new social and political arrangements were needed: today, sociology incorporates multiple narratives and perspectives. Native adolescents in germany, j. We may not realize why we support certain institutions, which are failing in some respect but succeeding in other respects. Social institutions perform both manifest and latent functions (schools can both train for job market and serve as baby- sitting service). Compare to durkheim"s suicide anomie *: conflict (critical) theories are always about the unequal distribution of power. This approach emerged as a reaction against functionalism in the mid- twentieth century. Conflict theorists pointed out that structural functionalists paid too little attention to social conflict and social change. Conflict is everywhere, suggesting that conflict usually has social functions.
