SOC 2106 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Structural Functionalism, Quebec, Economic Inequality
20 Nov 2018
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In society it is what we don"t want, same for deviance. Ever since we were born we were trained in the rules and expectations of society, i is expected that we get a job, consume/ buy goods. Society expects you to be well behaved, which most of us are. What we realize now is that there are behaviours and actions that we do not want. Social problem - alcoholism, drug abuse, delinquency, all of these inhibit what society wants. We need to minimize the amount of people that don"t buy into this social contract. We usually lose 10% of society at one point or another. Then came the enlightenment: 200-300 years and people started disagreeing with this idea of god being absolute. Principles that came out of the enlightenment: liberty, equality, fraternity. All thing that we still live by in society today. Reason: everything should be explained using experimentation and observation.
