Dominant Approaches and Ideas
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- What are the four major theories?
- This is a theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals that make up that society
- Role of Structural - Functionalism Theory:
- A decision-making approach that seeks to secure the support of the whole group for the decision at hand.
- It is an undesirable consequences that result when the structure of a social system is maladapted to the functions it is intended to perform.
- Founder of Structure - Functionalism Theory.
- Two types of Social Solidarity:
- These are laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life.
- Like a social glue; a sense of community and togetherness that binds a community.
- These are based on dissimilarities and interdependence of people in a society. It is bound by the division of labor.
- These are based on the likeness of people in a society; a simple division of labor; is bound by shared values.
- Society is a system of interrelated parts which are:
- It is a social, economic, and political philosophy that analyses the impact of the ruling class on the laborers, leading to uneven distribution of wealth and privileges in the society. It stimulates the workers to protest the injustice.
- Founder of Marxism. He is one of the early giants of Sociology.
- Theory where society is composed as an arena of conflict.
- Three reasons why we tend to have conflict:
- A way to solve societal conflict?
- Two classes in Conflict Theory:
- This consists of the management class; those who own the means of production.
- It consists of the working or labor class.
- Two types of Social Inequality:
- Workers are forced to sell their labor power to capitalists for less than the full value of the commodities they produce with their labor.
- The separation of work or labor from the worker, and separation of the products of labor from the worker.
- A theoretical perspective on how people use symbols to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another.
- An American Sociologist; is regarded as the founder of the interactionist perspective.
- Symbolic interactionists view these things that we attach meaning as the basis of social life. These range from words to languages, from nonverbal gestures to signs.
- Who quoted "People's selves are social products, but these selves are also purposive and creative."?
- It is people who exist and act. All the other "structures" found in society are nothing but human creations.
- Classifications of the Symbolic - Interaction Theory:
- "Life is like a drama" Social life is analyzed in terms of drama or the stage.
- Who pioneered Dramaturgy?
- People's efforts to control the impressions that others receive of them.
- This is where performances are given of what we want others to see.
- Where people rest from their performances, exposing their true selves.
- This is where you try to pretend that everything is okay when something bad that can damage your reputation is happening.
- A face-saving technique in which you ignore the flaws in another person so that you do not cause embarrassment.
- The process wherein individuals base their sense of self on how they believe others view them. Using social interaction as a type of “mirror,” people use the judgments they receive from others to measure their worth, values, and behavior.
- Who is the founder of the Looking Glass Self Theory?
- Social groups create deviance by creating rules and applying them to particular people whom they label as “outsiders.”
- Outsiders or those who don't follow social norms are labeled as?