SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Erik Olin Wright, Social Stratification, Institutional Racism
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Anomic suicide durkheim says that anomic suicide occurs in settings that show low levels of social solidarity and that have norms that vaguely define how people should behave. Egoistic suicide results from a lack of integration of the individual into society because of weak social ties to others. Democratic revolution 1750 people are responsible for organizing society and can therefore solve social problems. Dysfunctional consequences effects of social structures that create social instability. Ethnomethodology the study of how people make sense of what others do and say in terms of norms that exist independently of individual social actors. Functionalist theory human behaviour is governed by relatively stable social structures social structures maintain or undermine social stability social structures based on mainly shared values re-establishing equilibrium can best solve most social problems. Global structures social relations that lie outside and above the national level international organizations patterns of worldwide travel and communication economic relations between and among countries.
