MACRO THEORIES

• sees the bigger picture

• believes that society creates and controls people

• sees society as a whole

• see society as made up of structures that control behaviour though norms and values

STRUCTURAL APPROACHES

•  Are sometimes called social systems or structuralist

  approaches

•  Emphasise the power of society over the individual

•  Believe the individual is largely controlled by society

•  Think that society is in us, moulding our thoughts and

   directing our actions

•   Argue that we are socialised in terms of the culture of

   society

•   Say that our behaviour is shaped by the social structure,

•   we are kept…