A2 Sociology Theory Basics
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- Sociology A2: Theory
- Functionalism (consensus theory)
- Society = system with interconnected parts
- Durkheim: people are constrained by social facts. Society needs a collective consceience to function
- Parsons: ALL societies need a value consensus based upon shared goals
- 4 basics needs.. 1)Adaptation 2) Goal Attainment 3) Integration 4) Pattern maintenance
- A02: Confuses cause and effect (teleological) & Ignores diversity & too deterministic
- Marxism (conflict theory)
- Capitalism would increase human misery eventually leading to a classless society - communism
- Tools of capitalism include: materialism, competition, alienation
- Proletariat (working classes) and the bourgeoisie (elite) are diametrically opposed
- ie. P wants wages while B wants profit
- the working class suffer from a false class conscienceness
- Religion and family are social opium to dull the pain of opression
- A02: Most communist regime collapsed in 1990s & too economically deterministc & ignores gender and ethnicity
- Capitalism would increase human misery eventually leading to a classless society - communism
- Feminism (conflict)
- Liberal
- Huge achievements include: right to vote, Divorce Act 1969, Abortion Act, iinspired all other strands of feminism
- Radical
- Male heating
- 3 claims: 1)Patriarchy is universal 2)Men are the enem 3)All men benefit from women's opression
- 3 solutions: 1)separation 2)conscience raising 3)political lesbianism
- Concept of "personal is political"
- 3 claims: 1)Patriarchy is universal 2)Men are the enem 3)All men benefit from women's opression
- Black/Marxist
- women and dually opresed
- Marxism: Patriarchy is a product of capitalism (Engles)
- Brewer: class, race and gender combine to create multiple sources of deprivation
- women and dually opresed
- Male heating
- Radical
- Male heating
- 3 claims: 1)Patriarchy is universal 2)Men are the enem 3)All men benefit from women's opression
- 3 solutions: 1)separation 2)conscience raising 3)political lesbianism
- Concept of "personal is political"
- 3 claims: 1)Patriarchy is universal 2)Men are the enem 3)All men benefit from women's opression
- Black/Marxist
- women and dually opresed
- Marxism: Patriarchy is a product of capitalism (Engles)
- Brewer: class, race and gender combine to create multiple sources of deprivation
- women and dually opresed
- Male heating
- A02: Post-modernists claims that women are a hegemonous group ie every situation is different and cannot be explained through one meta-narrative
- Liberal
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Rejects notion that the social systems determine our behaviour
- WE ARENT PUPPETS ON A STRING
- Individuals create society through day to day acrions
- Our response to stimuli is person and subjective
- George Mead: stressed importance of role taking
- roles are only guidelines that can be changed and modified
- Herbert Blumer's 3 assumptions: 1) Humans act on basis of meaning 2)Meaning aren't fixed but created an developed 3) Meanings are a result of our interpretive procedures
- Labelling Theory = gestures can often lead to labels due to stereotypes.
- Individuals may choose to internalise labels = self fulfilling phrophecy
- Rejects notion that the social systems determine our behaviour
- Functionalism (consensus theory)
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