SOC100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Symbolic Interactionism, Real Change, Labeling Theory

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Rachel La Touche

Document Summary

You can have functionalist with society working properly and then you have conflict. Marx: real change can only happen through revolution. Looking at patterns between a smaller group of people. A problem becomes a problem only because influential people call it a problem. A label is given by influential people--> reality. Becker: nothing wrong with marijuana, only people who are moral entrepreneurs convince everyone that it"s wrong. All four in common: stress on gender inequality. Cause of inequality--> patriarchy: about men being the boss. Family structured in such a way that the man is the patriarchal figure. A reaction to modernism (suggested that with proper scientific investigation we can discover truth) Only way to find the truth it is to pull it apart (deconstruct) and analyze parts separately. Each society can be functionalist and other times go into conflict. Stigma (social patterns): sometimes a person is labelled and stigmatized.