SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: International Monetary Fund, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Inequality
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Sy 101 - d: lecture: monday, september 18th: Social structures: the most basic, enduring, relative, stable, and determinative patterns of social relations. Examples: patriarchy, kinship, economy, politics, culture, sexuality and racism. Understanding relationships between society and social structures or between social structures. Deterministic approach: social structures define individual behaviours and define social relationship. No social structure operates the same way in every individual. Symbolic interactionists are on the agency side. Microstructures: patterns of social relations on the small scale (one-on-one interactions, intimacy, local etc. Macrostructures: patterns of social relations on a large scale, above and beyond individual relations, ex. patriarchy, socio-economic class, racism, gender and sexuality. Important to understand position in the world. Sometimes too much emphasize on the macrostructures. Functionalists place too much pressure on how social structures determine people"s behaviours. Global structures: structures that encompass, crisscross and permeate all societies, ex. international economic organizations, global communications, international political organizations.
