Ch 1 Flashcards
Societal expectations for how we are to act, think and look
Norms
Individual experiences and choices
Micro level analysis
Broader social forces
Macro level analysis
People’s capacity to make choices
Agency
Systematic and methodological study of society
Sociology
Ability to perceive interconnections between individual experiences and larger social forces
Sociological imagination
Set of propositions intended to explain a fact or phenomenon
Theory
Intended function of a societal structure/institution
Manifest function
Unintended function of a societal structure/institution
Latent function
State of normlessness
Anomie
Owners of means of production
Bourgeoisie
Owners of their own labour, not means of production
Proletariat
Legal and social power vested in males
Patriarchy
Ways of understanding a subject or social phenomenon
Discourse
- The components parts of society (institutions) and see how they relate to each other, the structure of a society to see how it functions
- Stability, units, consensus, conservative, agreement, solidarity, harmony
- positivist, macro
Functionalist perspective
Assumes that social behaviour is best understood in terms of tension b/w groups over power and wealth, including housing, money access to services and political representation
- competition over resources
- Powerful vs. powerless
Conflict perspective
- The view that individuals through their interactions, produce the social world around them
- communications can be direct or indirect
- context → sender/encoder → message → medium → receiver/decoder → feedback
Interactionist perspective
Fact on the taken for granted as “normal” roles and rules former and women in society
- critical, multital
Feminist perspective
“We can only effectively change the nature of society… If we know what the nature is”
Fletcher 1971
The intersections of biography (Micro) and history (macro)”
C. Wright Mills
Individual experiences and personal choices
Micro level
Broader social forces → e.g., life chances, norms, social institutions
Macro level
