SOC 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nobel Peace Prize, Auguste Comte, Hull House
Document Summary
Sociology-systematic study of social groups, interactions and society. Sociological imagination-ability to recognize how apparently personal issues reflect broader social structures. Core perspectives in sociology: structural functionalism- addresses the question of social organization and how it is maintained functions consequences of social structures that have positive effects on the stability of society. Consequences of social structures that have negative effects on the stability of society. Stability the primary evaluative criterion of a social pattern is whether it contributes to the maintenance of society 2. Harmony the parts of a society work harmoniously for the good of the whole. 3. Evolution social structures evolve and adapt to new needs and demands. Conflict theory-addresses the points of stress and conflict in society and the ways in which they contribute to social change. Competition over scarce resources is at the heart of all social relationships 2. Structural inequality is built into all social structures 3.
