SOCI 1001H Study Guide - Final Guide: Thorstein Veblen, Victimless Crime, Ascribed Status
9 Apr 2016
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Sociology exam review: mode of production: the varied ways that human beings collective produce the means of subsistence in order to survive and enhance social being. Friday, december 18, 2015: alternative vision for society, opposite is false consciousness". Structural functionalist approach: durkheim: society works better when individuals share common belief. Feminist explanations: their husbands/fathers decided where they were economically, webers view: added to marx"s theory, he adds the idea of status group . A theory based on non-economic factors such as; political af liation, prestige, religion and honour. Race/ethnic strati cation: the ordering of ethnic groups into a hierarchy of inequality. Where some groups are dominate and hold greater power over the subordinate ethnic groups. Race: associated more with biology than physical traits. Not rooted in bio-physics, but in social culture: race refers to the social construction of a categories of difference between populations of people. !2: 2 main problems with de ning race by physical features.
