SOC101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnomethodology, Unintended Consequences, Mother Teresa
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Generic explanation for why, why or how something happens. Maybe when something occurs: how people interact, why there is breakdown. Logically interconnected sets of propositions: diane vaughan interview 103 people (dumpers and dumpers, uncoupling. Focus of trying to explain how and why society is ordered the way it is. Theories that lie between the minor working hypothesis and all incisive grand theories. Society views as a complex system a=of parts that interact to perform various necessary functions. Each institution in society has a function and help society run. Social cohesion - the willingness of members of a society to cooperate with each other in order to survive and prosper. Equilibrium - a state of balance and harmony. Manifest functions the intended consequence of people actions deigned o maintain some part of a social system. So thing people observe and expect to occur.
