SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Intro to Sociology: Talcott Parsons, Harriet Martineau, Class Consciousness
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Conflict theory social phenomena persist if they contribute to social stability and die off if. Highlights the tensions underlying existing social arrangements and the capacity of those tensions to burst into the open and cause social change. E. g conflict theorists believe that fashion helps to maintain a precarious social equilibrium that could be disrupted by the underlying tensions between consumers and big players in fashion related industries symbolic interactionism. Highlights how interpersonal communication in face-to-face settings creates subjective meanings that people attach to their social circumstances. How people convey meaning and impede communication. Develop patterns of behaviour and belief associated with each of these. One"s sense of being masculine or feminine as conventionally defined by western societies sociological imagination the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures. Microstructures: patterns of social relations formed during face-to-face interaction families and friendship.
