Social Perspectives Flashcards
A mindset that can connect individual experiences and societal relationships.
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
The lens that an individual chooses to view the scope of society from
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Goes beyond the obvious and question that is accepted as true or common sense.
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Focuses on big picture analysis that drives changes in the whole of society
MACROSOCIOLOGY
Large-scale forces in the society that affects the course of human society and the lives of individuals
MACROSOCIOLOGY
Analyzes social interactions that forms of human societal development
MICROSOCIOLOGY
Understand social meanings that shape realities in society and different social settings
MICROSOCIOLOGY
The three social paradigms are:
- Structural Functionalism
- Conflict Theory
- Symbolic Interactionism
Grew from the French and Industrial revolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
There is a need to have a strong society and this can be achieved by strong social bonds and rules for social cohesion
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
____________ felt that human beings have desires that result in chaos unless society limits them.
Emile Durkheim
Who said,
“To achieve any other result, the passions first must be limited… But since the individual has no way of limiting them, this must be done by some force exterior to him”
Emile Durkheim
Structural Functionalism’s major assumption is that ___________ is necessary to have a strong society, and adequate socialization and social integration are necessary to achieve social stability.
social stability
In Structural Functionalism, ____________ perform important functions to help ensure social stability.
society’s social institutions
In Structural Functionalism, slow social change is desirable, but __________ threatens social order.
rapid social change
Functionalism is a ____________.
macro theory.
Grew from the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century
CONFLICT THEORY
Instead of fearing the disintegration of society, it is best to explore the conditions that were responsible for the violence and social upheavals in society.
CONFLICT THEORY
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels analyzed that the _____________ was responsible for the breakdown of social order because of its own contradiction which leads to its own inevitable demise.
capitalist system
Assumes that society is characterized by pervasive inequality based on social class and other factors.
CONFLICT THEORY
Assumes that far-reaching social change is needed to reduce or eliminate social inequality and to create an egalitarian society.
CONFLICT THEORY
In Symbolic Interactionism, people construct their ______ as they interact; they do not merely learn the roles that society has set out for them.
roles
Symbolic Interactionism states that is this interaction occurs, individuals negotiate their definitions of the situations in which they find themselves and socially construct the reality of these situations. In doing so, they rely heavily on _________ such as words and gestures to reach a shared understanding of their interaction.
symbols
Symbolic Interactionism is a __________.
micro theory.
