DISS 4TH QUARTER

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  • Also called structural-functional theory
    Functionalism
  • He adopted a concept of dysfunction
    Sociologists R. Merton
  • This refers to the effects of any institution, which detracts from the conservation of society
    Dysfunction
  • Sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social media of the individuals in that society
    Functionalism
  • It's function is to ensure the continuity of society by reproducing and socializing new members
    Family
  • serves several function to the society. These include, giving meaning and purpose to life, reinforcing social unity and stability, serving as an agent of social control behavior, promoting physical and psychological well-being, and motivating people to work for positive social change.
    Religion
  • Responsible for setting rules and enforcing them to define how individuals Integrate into society. Legal institutions help us to regulate policy and prevent crime they enforce law and policy
    Government
  • Through which a society's children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills and cultural norms
    Education
  • Is the social institution that organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of a society's good and services
    Economics
  • Functionalist believe that without collective conscience /shared values and beliefs achieving social order is crucial for the well-being of society
    Collective and Conscience and Values consensus
  • Functionalist believe that there are four main basic needs that an individual requires in order to exist in society. They also believe that these four basic needs are essential for maintaining social order. They are food, shelter, money, and clothing
    Social Order
  • Education also allows people to train for their future roles in society. Schools instill the value of achievement and the value of achievement and the value of equality and opportunity

    Functionalism and Education
  • He believes that the family provides four vital functions for society: sexual reproductive, economic, and educational
    George Peter Murdock
  • Is the primary point of socialization in that it provides children with values and norms. It also stabilizes adult personalities
    Family
  • Provides emotional security for each person in the relationship
    Family Unit
  • is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx, which examines the effect of capitalism on labor, productivity, and economic development and argues for a worker revolution to overturn capitalism in favor of communism.
    Marxism
  • is a macro theory that looks at how all structures or institutions in society work together. Examples of structures or institutions of society include: education, health care, family, legal system, economy, and religion.
    Structural Functionalism
  • In sociology and other social sciences, a school of thought according to which each of the institutions, relationships, roles, and norms that together constitute a society serves a purpose, and each is indispensable for the continued existence of the others and of society as a whole
    Structural Functionalism
  • Structural Functionalism Theory
    Government uses taxes to fund school system
    School educate people so people can get jobs
    Jobs allow people to spend money at local business
    Business pay taxes to the government
  • He claimed that certain political functions existed in all political systems. On the input side he listed these functions as political socialization political interest articulation, political interest aggregation, and political communication. Listed as outputs were rule-making, rule implementation, and rule adjudication.
    Almond
  • Occurs when an individual continues to do things as prescribed by society but porfeits the achievement of goals
    Ritualism
  • Involves the rejection of both the culturally prescribed goal as well as the conventional means of attaining them
    Retreatism
  • Occurs when an individual has the means and desire to achieve the cultural goals socialised into him
    Conformity
  • A combination of the rejection of societal goals and means and a substitution of other goals and means
    Rebellion
  • was an American Sociologist and functionalist who attempted to develop and perfect a general analytic model suitable for analyzing all types of collectivities. His five pattern variables are considered as five dichotomies to draw out the constracting values to which individual orient themselves in social interaction.
    Talcott Parson ( 1902 - 1979 )
  • Social behaviors according to quexbook
    Ritualism
    Retreatism
    Conformity
    Rebellion
  • Talcott Parson Five Patterns of Variable
    affectivity - affective neutrality
    diffuseness - specificity
    particularism - universalism
    ascription - achievement
    collectivity orientation - self orientation
  • Dillema; Deciding whether to express one's own orientation in terms of immediate gratification (affectivity) or whether to renounce immediate gratification in favor of moral interests (affective neutrality)
    Affectivity vs Affective Neutrality
  • Ones role orientation is either in terms of his/her own interest or in terms of the interest of a group.
    Self Orientation vs Collectivity Orientation
  • Dillema: There is an issue on whether to react to a certain social interaction "on the basis of a general norm" or reacting "on the basis of someone's particular relationship to you"
    Universalism vs Particularism
  • Places an importante on the performance and emphasizes individual achievement
    Achievement Orientation
  • Refers to the innate qualities of individuals
    Ascription Orientation
  • This refers to the nature of social contracts and how extensive or how narrow are the obligations in any interaction. Specificity, is when the definition of a role is in specific terms while diffuseness is when role obligations are extended outside the defined role expectations
    Specificity vs Diffuseness
  • Specific Conceptual Diagram by Durk et. Al.
    Crime
    Public Outrage and Punishment
    Majority of people adhere to and accept Moral Guidelines and rules
    Public Outrage and Punishment
  • Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes, specifically between the bourgeoisie, or capitalists, and the proletariat, or workers, defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will inevitably lead to revolutionary communism.
    MARXISM THEORY ACCORDING TO QUEXBOOK, 2018
  • is a group of people who share similar characteristics specifically with regard to their socioeconomic status.
    Class
  • refers to a person’s standing with regard to his/her access to resources, monetary capability, income status, occupation, and living situation.
    Socio-economic Status
  • refers to the conflict between different classes in a community that is composed of different social or economic positions and opposing interests.
    Class conflict (class warfare or class struggle)
  • Elements in Mark's view of class conflict according to Quexbook, 2018
    • Classes are authority relationships based on property ownership
    • A class defines groupings of individuals with shared life situations and interests
    • Classes are naturally antagonistic by virtue of their interests
    • Imminent within modern society is the growth of two antagonistic classes and their struggle, which eventually absorbs all social relations
    • Political organization and Power are an instrumentality of class struggle and reigning ideas are its reflection
    • Structural change is a consequence of the class struggle
  • Factors leading to class conflict
    • Conflicts over the distribution of economic rewards between the classes
    • Easy communication between the individuals in the same class positions so that ideas and action programs are readily disseminated
    • Growth of class-consciousness in the sense that members of the class have a feeling of solidarity and understanding of their historic role
    • Profound dissatisfaction of the lower class over its inability to control the economic structure of which it feels itself to be exploited victim
    • Establishment of a political organization resulting from the economic structure, the historical situation, and maturation of class-consciousness