SOSC 1930 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Moodle, Ideal Type, Protestant Work Ethic
9 Dec 2016
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Weber class and the politics of closure. Functionalism - methalogical science, any approach that tries to assess an action or social process regarding its consequences for its social unit deemed relevant. Derkhiem - born in france, part of the jewish community, 1879 studies classics and early social theorists like spencer and carl, finishes his disitation in 1886. Social sciences - how does society hold itself together. Social facts - social patterns and behaviour, way of acting. Functional analysis - focuses on the inderdependencies of social situations and in necessary to look into social structures. Mechanical solidarity - societies tend to be small with a high degree of religious commitment, often have the same jobs and responsibilities, low division of labour. It is not a complex society, based on. Organic solidarity - more secular, individualistic, more complex and specialized we higher division of labour. People are no longer tied to one another and social bounds are impersonal.
