Sociology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eating Disorder, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Inequality
7 Dec 2020
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Overall looks at how different institutions work together in society to create a consensus and social cohesion. Socialization is the lifelong process of learning our society"s norms, customs, and ideologies. It provides us with the necessary skills for participating in society; It leads us to develop an identity and self. Has 3 core theoretical perspectives structural functionalism, conflict theory and symbo interactions. Structural functionalism is mainly interested in explaining how society functions effecti. Society"s purpose is to survive and reproduce itself. Structural functionalism is like the human body just, are organs work together so our b can function similarly our society needs to work well together so everything runs smoothly( herbert spencer) So just like our body systems (respiratory, digestive) need to work together to survive, structural functionalist society purpose is to survive and reproduce itsel through subsystems like. Roles are the behaviors, beliefs, and norms performed in social situations. Children learn to internalize social rules and values.
