SY103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Hegemony, Pink-Collar Worker, Formal System
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Social structure: the most basic, enduring, relative, stable, and determinative patterns of social relations: examples: patriarchy, kinship, economy, politics, culture, sexuality, racism, core problematic: structure vs. agency (agents to change who they are, against social structures) Sociology of emotions (symbolic interactionism, feminism, and conflict theory) Stable patterns of social relations or how macrostructures govern human behaviour: looking at the big picture. Ideal stratification of society is meritocracy - best and brightest get best jobs: underlines how social structures maintain or undermine social stability, parsons was a sociologist foremost proponent for functionalism best known for identifying how. Social structures based on shared values and norms. Solve social problems by finding an equilibrium (stability) institutions work to ensure smooth operation of society: merton proposed that social structures may have different consequences for different categories of people, merton suggested dysfunctional consequences. Conflict theory: macrostructures - create division and conflict between dominant and subordinate groups.
