SOC102H1 Study Guide - Role Theory, Michel Foucault, Femicide
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Everyone has a specific role, explain social problems as an institution"s failure to preform its role. Robert merton- social theory and social structure- manifest functions (school teaching math) and latent function, not directky intended function, (school teaching social skill and dynamics) Emile durkheim- everything helps society (robber may cause disruption of property but unifies the community and sets example of what is shunned) Common conscience - everyone in small communities has very similar if not the same experiances, values, norms, and identity. Mechanical solidarity interdependence of individuals in small communities. Suicide- laid out the foundations for the quantitative methods in modern ociology and established sociology as a distinct and recognized discipline. Social facts must be studied as thing, as realities external to the individual . Visible patterns of why people suicide rather than purely random or biologically inflicted. The division of labour-everyone is interdependent (merchant buyer, writers readers)
