sociology
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- Created on: 11-09-15 14:45
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- Functionalism
- Durkheim
- interested in how social order is possible
- wanted to understand the problem of social solidarity
- positivism
- Society is viewed as a set of interrelated parts (family, education, work, mass media, religion) which contributes to the maintenance of society
- Talcott parsons
- Developed Durkheim's ideas
- build mutual cooperation, unity and social goals
- how the maintenance of social order is possible
- Pattern variables - a cultural choice of action
- Affectivity vs Affective neutrality
- based on emotions, or is it neutral with regards to emotion
- Specificity vs Diffuseness
- A person has many role or one role
- Universalistic vs particularistic
- person is judged as an individual, personality, or judged in terms of achievement in society
- Achievement vs performance
- based on ascribed or achieved status
- Self orientation vs Collective orientation
- focus on self or group as a whole
- Affectivity vs Affective neutrality
- 4 functional prerequisites - a basic need for society
- Latency
- pattern maintenance - keeping order, and tension management - managing conflict
- Goal attainment
- to establish clear aims
- legitimate use of power
- Adaption
- need to change to changing circumstances in terms of resources
- Economic production and manipulation of the environment
- Integration
- Refer to regulating and coordinating the people and the system
- formal and informal control
- Latency
- Socialisation - mechanism through which society’s values are transmitted from one generation to the next
- primary and secondary socialisation are agents of social control
- Developed Durkheim's ideas
- Durkheim
- family - parents and children, each role putting values and goals into action
- establish norms
- roles and goals establish a value consensus, which in turn provides the foundation for social order.
- Being committed to sharing the same values helps establish a common identity.
- Developed Durkheim's ideas
- build mutual cooperation, unity and social goals
- how the maintenance of social order is possible
- Pattern variables - a cultural choice of action
- Affectivity vs Affective neutrality
- based on emotions, or is it neutral with regards to emotion
- Specificity vs Diffuseness
- A person has many role or one role
- Universalistic vs particularistic
- person is judged as an individual, personality, or judged in terms of achievement in society
- Achievement vs performance
- based on ascribed or achieved status
- Self orientation vs Collective orientation
- focus on self or group as a whole
- Affectivity vs Affective neutrality
- Developed Durkheim's ideas
- institution of the family provides children with the correct value consensus to attend school helping the social system to continue functioning.
- establish norms
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