SOSC 1920 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Constructionism, Symbolic Interactionism, Essentialism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1920
• Professor: Cheryl Cowdy- Crawford

Document Summary

Study concepts for mid term: 1920. 6 male female relations 2020. Conflict theorists define ideology as a body of assumptions, ideas, and values the combine into a coherent world view. Marx and engels-ideas are social creations, the appropriating class gives dominance in the ideological as well as the economic sphere. Ideology = ideas legitimized: an ideological framework develops. Legitimacy comes to us from a variety of sources: we accept when we hear from xperts, we should question those with credentials. Structural functionalism- social system comprised of economic, relative, family, education, media, politics. Is the idea of the is ought premise, as in males have certain attributes that conform to there identity and there function, essentialists see things as fixed. Another idea is the quote of boys well be boys this is idea of boys are conformed to this and its natural, idea of destiny. It is the study of the powerful social forces that influence social relations and personal lives.