SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams
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*based on textbook and lecture notes: sociological theory. Theory a statement of how and why speciic facts are related. The job of the sociological theory is to explain social behaviour in the real world. Theoreical approach a basic image of society that guides thinking and research. A framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work. Macro-level orientaion together to promote solidarity and stability. Key elements: social structure is any relaively stable patern or social behaviour, social funcion refers to the consequences for the operaion of society as a whole. Important sociologists: auguste comte, emile durkheim, herbert spencer, robert k. merton. Criical review: focusing on social stability and unity, ignores inequaliies, such inequaliies cause tension and conlict, the approach ends up being poliically conservaive. Social structure any relaively stable patern of social behaviour. Social funcions the consequences of any social patern for the operaion of society as a whole.
