SOC-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Harriet Martineau, Double Consciousness, Functional Analysis
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{tested only on the sociologists mentioned in the lecture notes} Double consciousness black but had to adjust to white behavior. Functional analysis: structural functionism, main principles, society represents a kind of well integrated system, one big community of people who are norms and values, etc. Every element of social structure has a function. Manifest functions are the recognized and intended functions. Latent functions are the unrecognized and unintended functions: society = economy, education, media, health care. All needed: examples of latent functions , under education: social skills, time management, etc. Society is a complex system characterized by inequality and conflict. The basis of conflict if scarce resources. Social change is brought about by the conflict between groups with differential power. Social conflict is normal it is social order that must be explained. Society is a web of human interaction. Humans respond to each other based on the meaning they attach to symbols. Humans formulate and change meaning through interaction.
