SOC 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Inequality, Ethnocentrism, False Consciousness
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Sociological perspective sociology: the systematic study of human society. What we commonly think of as personal choice seeing general patterns of society in the lives of particular people. C. wright mills: sociological imagination transforms personal troubles into public issues. Helps is see opportunities and limits in our lives. Macro-level rapid social change including: industrialization weakened traditions, growth of cities created crime/homelessness, political change encouraged questioning society structural functional: society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability (emile. Micro-level: manifest functions: intended vs. latent functions: unintended social-conflict: arena of inequality that generates conflict and change (karl marx) symbolic-interaction: society= the product of the everyday interactions of individuals (max weber, beliefs and values. Critical of modernism, with a mistrust of grand theories and ideologies, that can have either a micro or macro orientation. Conflict: men benefit more, racial discrimination, accessibility interaction: teammates.
