SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Elective Affinities, Moral Relativism, Karla Homolka

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

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This document contains notes on the following: unit 03 (courselink, chapter 3 (textbook) Ask the questions of how individuals create society and how society creates individuals. There is a considerable diversity of opinion to what extent it is the case or how it happens. There are two basic variants: the more subjective and the more structural. o: the subjective. If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. People do different things often because they are labeled differently. Example: if an school teacher labeled you as stupid, you might start to think you were stupid and your classmates would pick on you: the structural o. Explain individual behaviour and thoughts by the actions of large groups and institutions. The individual is created by society, rather than the other way around: conflict theorists maintain that social order is imposed on the powerless by the powerful for their own interests.