SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Talcott Parsons, Auguste Comte, Unintended Consequences

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Suzanne Casimiro

Document Summary

Definition: a theory is a statement of how and why specific facts are related two basic questions asked by sociologists: what issues should we study, how should we connect the facts together to answer the questions: paradigms/approaches/roadmaps. A basic image of society that guides thinking and research structural-functional social conflict o feminism. Auguste comte, emile durkhiem (suicide), herbert spencer (think of society as a human body), talcott parsons, robert k merton. Want to reduce the inequalities change and improve society is structured in ways to benefit a few at the expense of the majority factors such as race, sex, class, and age are linked to social inequality. Critical review ignores how shared values and mutual interdependence unify society if it pursues political goals, it cannot be scientific. Feminism and the gender-conflict approach a point of view that focuses on inequality and conflict between women and men closely linked to feminism, the advocacy of social equality for women and men.