SOC307H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ritualism In The Church Of England, Social Disorganization Theory, Talcott Parsons
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Study of organisms relations with their environment and each other. Reflects degree scarcity of resources (food, mate ) Keeps numbers of each specie in check. What to do with the new specie. These ideas were applied to cities (human ecology) Competition for scarce resources: housing, jobs, food . How is social order achieved in such ethnic diversityassimilation. Groups pursue their own interests without paying attention to other individuals or groups: conflict. Groups consciously try to eliminate other individuals or groups: accommodation. Adjustment in order to reduce conflict and achieve mutual security: assimilation. Separate groups acquire each other"s culture, or become part of a common culture. Emerges in the late thirties, early forties when american society was beginning to recover from the depression. Shows us something about our system which ultimately is a good system. Combined activity of all of them keeps the organ alive. Adaptation: to situational exigency (environmental change, war, famine )
