SOCY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Talcott Parsons, Shared Belief, Impression Management
16 Sep 2015
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Socy 100h - lecture 5 - sociological theories (cont. ) Solidarity built around extended families and clans linked into tribes, with minimal division of labor dependence among people. Solidarity built around extensive division of labor and mutual. Characterized by specialization of function, with everyone carrying out different tasks that are all essential to the function of society. Shared belief in freedom and individualism holds this together. Sacred objects/places/beliefs/behaviors are also important to solidarity. Developed by talcott parsons out of durkheim"s work. Society has social structures made up of roles, norms, values, and institutions which serve different functions and produce social order. We all have social circles/social networks which overlap and produce society. We have certain amounts of freedom in choosing the members of our networks. Expectations/obligations associated with these networks can conflict. Groups and individuals can vary in their closeness to each other. Personal feelings/evaluations of social distance can be measured in individuals.
