SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Symbolic Interactionism, Social Inequality, Structural Functionalism
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Explains how two or more concepts (or facts) are related, such as age and suicide. Provides a framework for thinking about a social issue from a perspective that we might otherwise neglect. Sees society as a system of many interrelated parts, parts being social institutions that are major spheres of social life, or societal subsystems, organized to meet a basic human need. Sees society as divided by inequality and conflict. Sees society as the product of individuals interacting with one another. Society is a system of interrelated parts, all of which contribute to its operation (or dysfunction) Society is basically good; problems are the result of deficient people, too rapid change, or dysfunctional consequences. Society is a system of social inequality in which some categories of people benefit at the expense of others. Problems result from inequality in terms of class (marxism), race (multiculturalism), or gender (feminism) Through social interaction, we construct the variable and changing reality we experience.
