Sociology Flashcards
Paradigm that looks at the relationship and interdependency between all social groups, big and small. When a change occurs to one, other institutions will be affected as well.
An example of this would be the relationship between the economy and recent grads. Back in 2008, when the economy was hit with the financial crash, many new grads weren’t able to find professional employment because companies were trying to cut costs by lowering the number of people working for them.
Functionalism
Functionalism is also broken into three sub-groups:
Manifest Function - The intended result.
Latent Function - The unintended result.
Dysfunction - The harmful result.
paradigm that looks at the inequalities of life/society.
An example would be the narrative of some very wealthy people using their money and status to persuade the government into creating policies that are beneficial for the rich but are (the majority of the time) detrimental to the middle class and the poor.
Conflict Theory
Paradigm that looks at how individuals interact with one another.
believe that society, or people’s social reality, is created as people interact with one another, and not something that has been predetermined.
For example, if we, as a group, were to collectively view immigrants as a negative element of society, then immigrants will be a negative element of society because this is the definition that we have developed for them in our minds. The root of this example is based on the Thomas Theorem.
Symbolic Interaction
perspective looks at the inequality among the genders, due to the dominance of men in major social institutions, such as education and work. It also looks at the efforts of women in overcoming discrimination.
An example of this would be the pay gap between men and women. If one male and one female with the same looking resume and same personality traits were to work at the same job and complete the same amount of work, the man would have higher pay than the woman, according to studies. This is why many women challenge big corporations and fight for equal pay.
Feminist perspective
Five basic institutions
five basic institutions are called the family, government, economy, education and religion.
