SOCIOL 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Intersectionality, Anomie, Mary Wollstonecraft

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Dr. Samuel

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This reinforces the principle that healthy competition between individuals is a good thing. Functionalism: social world is a dynamic system of interrelated and interdependent parts, social structures exist to help people fulfill their wants and desires, human society is similar to an organism, when it fails to work together the. System will fail: society must meet the needs of the majority, dominant theoretical paradigm between the late 1920s and the early 1960s, key theorists: herbert spencer (1820-1903, emile durkheim 1858-1917, talcott. Parsons 1902-1979, robert merton 1910-2003: organic analogy the belief that society is like an organism with interdependent and interrelated parts. It is rooted in everyone doing/feeling the same thing. Type of solidarity is characteristic of small, traditional societies (small farming villages): organic solidarity refers to a type of solidarity in which each person is interdependent with others, forming a complex web of cooperative associations.