[SOAN 2120] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (39 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: D Walters

Document Summary

Soan 2120 week 2 interrelation between theory and methods. Institutions: can be things like the family and religion. The idea is that groups compete for wealth, research and social power: there is a class struggle for resources. There is class inequality as a result. The rich get richer the poor get poorer: the idea is that people should be equal. Is something exists in society, it must exist for a reason: it must be functional. Inequality is arguably functional: it created productivity. The important thing is not equality of result, but it is equality of opportunity. Conflict theorists argue: that there must be equality of result in all aspects of society. This is not possible, therefor the functionalists argue there should rather be an equality of opportunity: conflict theorists do not believe equality of opportunity is not possible, therefore we are back to equality of result.