SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Jane Addams, Class Consciousness, Ibm Officevision

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: Michael Graydon

Document Summary

Human behaviour is governed by stable social structures (expectant; routine becomes regular) Functionalist theories have four theories: human behaviour is governed by stable patterns of social relations/structures. Durkheim said, suicide rates were due to patterns of social solidarity. Social structures analyzed by functionalists are macrostructures: show how social structures maintain/undermine social stability. Durkheim showed how growth of industries lowered social solidarity, and increased suicide rates: social structures based on shared values/preferences. Durkheim thought of social solidarity as moral cement binding people together, or frequency and intensity of social interaction: re-establishing equilibrium can best solve social problems. Durkheim said social stability could be restored by employing new employers that would lower worker s expectations of what to get out of life. More people would agree on wanting less and thus regain social solidarity. *functionalism; conservative response to social unrest in late 19th c.