SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Talcott Parsons, Altruistic Suicide, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions
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Course theme: sociological perspectives vs commonsense perspectives of the social world. Provide unique and enlightening perspectives on social events that differs from commonsense understanding. Learn how to distinguish between a sociological perspective and common sense perspective. Can be used to analyze how people commonly understand the world. Provides alternative ways to look at the world. Four main theoretical traditions in sociology: functionalism. Stresses how human behaviour is governed by social structures that are based mainly on shared values and that contribute to social stability: conflict theory. Focuses on how large social structures, such as the relations among classes, produce social stability in some circumstances and social change in others: symbolic interactionism. Highlights how interpersonal communication in face to face setting s creates subjective meanings that people attach to their social circumstances: feminism. Claiming that male domination and female subordination are determined not by biological necessity but by structures of power and social convention: emile durkheim"s theory of suicide.
