Social Theory

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  • Social Theory
    • Induction
      • Socialisation
        • internalising societies norms and ideologies
        • Agent - Institutions that socialise
        • Social Control
          • Formal - designed to socialise
          • Informal - reward or punish behaviour
      • Norms and Values
        • Norms - specific rules to govern behaviour
          • e.g. wear clothes in public
        • Values -General principles
          • e.g. honesty, tolerance
        • Differ in/ created by cultures
      • Roles and Staus
        • Roles - a part a person plays
          • learnt through socialisation to fit culture
        • Status
          • Attached to Roles
          • Ascribed - status given to you
          • achieved - worked for
    • Theory and Methods
      • Approaches to research
        • Positivism
          • Scientific
          • Quantitive
          • Puppets
        • Interpretivism
          • why?
          • Qualititive
          • architects
      • Evaluation
        • Validity - accuracy + truth
        • Reliability - replicability + consistency
        • Represent - typicality
        • General - making claims
      • Research methods
        • Primary
          • Lab/ Field
          • Questions/ Interviews
          • Surveys/ Focus Groups
        • Secondary
          • Observations/Statistics
          • Documents / Ethnographie
    • Social Theory
      • Origins
        • Industrial Revolution (1800)
        • Marxism + Functionalism (1800)
        • Feminism (1900)
        • Interactional -ism (1960)
        • Postmodern (1980)
      • Sociological Theory
        • Structural - shaped by society
          • Macro, Marx, Func, Fem
          • Conflict - Marx, Fem
          • Consensus - Functionalist
        • Social Action - we shape society
          • micro, Interaction

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