SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Forces, Social System, Symbolic Interactionism
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Provide a lens to help us understand our social work. View the world as objectively real- observable with surveys and interview. Positivistic view-- value free: investigator"s values don"t interfere in research. Homeostatic nature of social systems to make an equilibrium and balance social. Manifest and latent functions-- recognized and intended by actors in the social system. Teleological- reversing the usual order of cause and effect by explaining things in terms of what happens afterward not what went before institutions. Base theories on images of humans, rather than on their image of society. Pragmatic actors:continually must adjust their behavior to the actions of other actors** Economic exploitation leads to political oppressions to gain power. Economy structure molds social institutions class, educations, family, religion. White middle class women-- neglect the concerns of working women and women of color. Allows us to check up on eachother. ** be mindful to the extent we can by asking ourselves how we know what we know.
