AHSS*1130 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Structural Functionalism, Postmodernism, Canada
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Patterned (predictable and recurring) relations among people, and of the social institutions and societies people create through such relations. The regular ways that people interact and what those interactions produce e. g. the republic (plato 5th bce) 18th-19th cent. industrialization, urbanization, and political upheaval in europe: shift from rural to urban living for factory work, crowded, social problems (poverty, homelessness, child labour, dangerous working conditions, prostitution, industrial pollution, and a general scarcity of resources. Disparity: new political systems (traditional rulers overthrown, enlightenment - Five key approaches (structural) functionalism: conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, feminism, postmodernism. What was the social climate of the time: fusion approach. There is a core of sociological knowledge that underlies all of these particular emphasizes. Shows links between people"s personal troubles and larger-scale public issues (sociological imagination - c. wright mills: teaches us to question common sense , think critically. Threatening to existing authorities (power relations: contextualizes individual activity in social terms rather than individual (psychology)
