Perspectives
This perspective argues privileged groups seek to maintain their advantages and subordinate groups seek to increase theirs
What is the conflict theory perspective?
This perspective suggests that the social construct of race is manifested in the fact that many people, regardless of race, believe that lighter skinned Blacks and Latin North Americans are smarter than their darker skinned counterparts and treat them according to those beliefs, thus leading to social inequality and self-stigma.
What is symbolic ineractionist perspective?
The belief that capitalism is good for the proletariat class.
What is Conflict Theory?
The opposite of Conflict Theory, this perspective argues that society works together towards a shared goal.
What is a macro focus?
Of the three major theories we explored thus far, this perspective is a micro perspective.
What is symbolic interactionist perspective?
These three concepts form the basis of symbolic interactionism.
What are meaning, language and thought.
Karl Marx viewed ______________ as the source of social inequality.
What is Functionalism?
A founding thinker of sociology, born in France, whose body of work focused on how it is that a society can form and function, or in other words, how can it maintain order and stability?
Who is Emile Durkheim?
A group that has a shared set of beliefs, values and customs?
What is culture?
This perspective asks how do the institutions of society contribute to social stability and instability
What is the functionalist perspective ?
The three prominent theories associated with Symbolic Interactionism
Who are George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer and Erving Goffman?
2008 American Financial Crisis, the Gender Wage Gap, Ethno-racialized discrimination and war are all examples of ________________.
What is Conflict Theory?
Fuctionalism is a sociological theory that views social change as _____________.
The principle and action of treating everyone the same.
What is equality?
This perspective's main focus is on meaning.
What is symbolic interactionist?
____________________ is not fixed and contextual.
What is language?
Social ad economic institutions are tools of the struggle between groups or classes, used to maintain _________ and the ___________ of the ruling class.
What are inequality and dominance?
When a society’s parts work together to maintain stability.
He is regarded as the father of sociology.
Who is Auguste Comte?
This perspective claims that patriarchy is at least as important as class inequality in determining a person's opportunities in life
What is feminist perspective?
The space where people feel they can be themselves - a location of retreat. In this area, people do not have to act.
What is the back stage?
A minority within the population who use their influence to oppress the majority class.
Who are the bourgeoisie?
When a social institution, like a school or hospital, serves a purpose for society.
The three primary motives for why humans succumb to social influence?
What are the hedonic, approval and accuracy motives?