SOCL 3601 Lecture : SOCL 3601 NOTES
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2/17/2016 8:59:00 am: 3 major theoretical perspectives, 1. **structural functionalism- most important and oldest since 1800"s: focus on different parts of society and how they are connected and serve a function to maintain society as a whole (macro level, 2. I doing, what are people doing around me, what does that mean for what. 1/28/15: constructing self involves many people, like the way we are treated by others that differs from how they treat other people around us. Flyting"- 16/1700s in england and scottland; ritual insult- each tries to outdo the other in insulting each other- more original, more swear words the better; only literate people (aka upper/middle class) could really take part in this: 2. Religion- more well to do people tend to be more liberal protestant denominations (episcopalian, lutheran) more conservative protestant denominations include working and lower class (methodist, baptist, The sapir-whorf hypothesis (linguistic relativity: edward sapir and ben whorf were linguistic anthropologists who studied.
