SOCI 2040 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Essentialism, Elite, Symbolic Interactionism
30 Jul 2015
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Soci2040 review midterm 2: structural functionalism, parsons: When one breaks, the others will too: adaptation to the environment: economic system, goal attainment: political system, integration: legal system, latency or pattern maintenance: the family, education. Regulation of social action: social action is regulated by the society. You are free to do whatever you want and you need to obey the law. Modern society: achievement: social status is achieved, universalistic: more equal in term of citizenship, you treat everyone the same, specific: specialized skills or social role, emotional neutrality, self-oriented. Traditional society: ascription: social status is inherited, particularistic: depends on ethnic, tribal, social class, religion, diffuse: diffuse obligation, affectivity: affective and emotional ties, altruism. Modernization theory: all societies will be like the state with all the five criterias mentioning above. Modernization equals industrialization, urbanization and democracy: merton: parson had a broad range and generalized theory.
