SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, Contemporary Sociology, Class Conflict

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: David Walters

Document Summary

Chapter 1, 2 and 3 of the textbook (second custom edition) dwalters@uoguelph. ca - don"t call prof, mister, or sir call him david . Spss software old copies (last years textbook), library, computer lab, free 14 day trial (spss. com), buy it from ccs (mac/pc) (50 bucks for one year) Equality of result vs. equality of opportunity: conflict theorists argues. 90% of university professors of natural sciences male. Theoretical perspectives ways of viewing the world: at the extreme. Functionalists na ve we live in a world without discrimination and social class does not matter. These theoretical perspectives are important: influence what they study and how they study iti. Contemporary sociology is about research: quantitative methods functionalism (conflict also use, just not quite as extensively as functionalists, qualitative methods symbolic interaction (conflict also to use, just less than symbolic) Sociologists use research methods to determine how the environment influences people (evaluate theories: types of theories.