UCSP Q2 TEST

• Forms and functions of social organization refer to the people who have the chance to interact with others and think of themselves as groups, which are prevalent in our social lives and provide a significant way to understand and define ourselves.
• Social organizations help foster shared value systems and are key to the structure of society as we know it.
• The Functionalist Perspective is based on the idea that society is a well-balanced system with all parts necessary to the whole.
• The perspectives and theories are bound to grow enormously, but, in the end, they aim towards understanding society.
• Sociological perspectives are important as they provide a lens to view society in a way that excludes personal biases and prejudices.
• Postmodern Social Theory allows us to see how our own routines and activities relate to the trends and happenings of society.
• Various societal interactions have varying conceptions of social existence, sociological perspectives enable us to respect and comprehend the perspectives of others.
• Postmodern Social Theory helps us to mentally separate ourselves from our limited experience, allowing us to understand the connection between personal worries and societal problems.
• Postmodern Social Theory tests all the other perspectives and belief systems in society.
• The Functionalist Perspective serves as a thought school in which each institution, relation, position, and convention, that together make up a society, has a purpose and each is essential for the sustained functioning of other members and society in general.
• Karl Marx wrote conflict theory based on capitalist society.
• Kendall (2012) argues that the rapid social change that occurs as societies move from modern to postmodern conditions has a harmful effect on people.
• Conflict Theory argues that when assets, power and social reputations are divided unfairly across sections of society, then disputes develop, and these conflicts form the source of social change.
• Postmodern Social Theory suggests that there has been a decline in the influence of social institutions such as the religion and family on people’s lives due to the pursuit of individual freedom.
• Postmodern Social Theory rejects the other three theoretical perspectives, which are the functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspective.
• The conflict perspective is about those in power wanting to stay in power and those not in powers wanting to gain power.
• Emile Durkheim, a French Social Scientist, is associated with the Functionalist Perspective.
• Examples of the Functionalist Perspective include education contributing to the development of society, the legal systems checking deviations in society, the government governing people and protecting citizens, and criminals motivating people to behave.
• The Symbolic Interactionism Perspective explores symbols and nuances, their meanings, and their influence on the interactive relationships of daily life.
• In the Symbolic Interactionism Perspective, symbols relate to their meanings, and these symbols are perceived in a subjective manner.
• The Symbolic Interactionism Perspective posits that humans have an interpretation of their world and its meaning, and their actions are influenced by such meanings.
• Max Weber, a German Social Scientist, is associated with the Symbolic Interactionism Perspective.
• four 4 primary social perspective

  Functionalist perspective

  symbolic Interactionism

  Conflict Theory

  Postmodern Social Theory
• refers to the people who have the chance to interact with others and think of themselves as belonging together

  GROUP
• Prevalent in our social lives and provide a significant way to understand and define ourselves

  GROUP
• helps foster shared value systems and are key structure of society as we know it

  group
• French Social Scientist

  Emile Durkheim
• social cohesion was brought about by the interrelationship between the various components present in society

  Functionalist Perspective
• 3 types of group

  primary group

  secondary group

  reference group
• we have no control its not our choice, the society makes it.

  secondary group
• you refer something from them


  reference group
• personal connection

  primary group
• we interact through symbols and it is subjective

  max weber
• every meaning of symbol is subjective
• conflict between society that's why it has changes

  Conflict theory
• because of rapid changes of society there's also rapid changes in our perspective