SCS 3720 Lecture Notes - Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams, Herbert Blumer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 3720
• Professor: Serge Nadeau

Document Summary

C. wright mills: laid foundations for modern conflict theory. Conducted research on american politics and class structure. Power is highly concentrated in american society and is less democratic than we think. Weber argued that early capitalist development was caused not just by favourable economic circumstances but that certain religious beliefs also facilitated robust capitalist growth. Believed it had an unintended effect: people who adhered to it saved and invested more money than others. Idea that subjective meanings and motives must be analyzed to gain clear sense of significance of people"s actions. His and his colleagues work gave rise to symbolic interactionism. Herbert mead: driving force behind the study of how the individual"s sense of self is formed in the course of interaction w/ other people. Functionalists and conflict theorists assume that people"s group memberships influence their behaviour. However, people are not like that and often make choices interpersonal communication it from both in microlevel social settings distinguishes.