SOCI 3820 Study Guide - Final Guide: Symbolic Interactionism, Social Inequality, Structural Functionalism

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3820
• Professor: Eric Mykhalovskiy

Document Summary

It shows how various parts of society functions to maintain societal order. Shows how many equal distribution of scarce resources in the capital society is based on class division and highlights who benefits in who is disadvantaged. Combined primary focus on agency with structuralist tendencies looks at how the increasing regulation of social life takes place and how this may stifle human creativity considered going to social inequality in conflict. Emphasizes how individuals and small group interaction constructs social meanings to everyday settings to reproduce and change social patterns of behavior. Consists a rain check stands better either structuralist or agency focused. Concerned with gender inequality seeks to explain and change the unequal position of women in society. Critiques theories based on universal truth and structuralist assumptions. A new form of power associated with 18th-century western you"re concerned with regulating the health and welfare of the population. Emphasis on power as productive rather than negative.