Emile Durkheim & Structural Functionalism

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Symbolic interactionism Denying society

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individual action is shaped by the agent’s own motive and understanding of the motives of the other person

Question 2

Critical Theory denying society

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Different groups struggle for domination over one another in constant conflict

Question 3

Collecting consciousness

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the shared “taken-for-granted” moral beliefs or values that almost all members of a society agree on without really questioning them

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Sui Generis

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Means of its own kind

- treating society this way means they can’t explain it in terms of something else

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Social Facts

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Both a fact that is true about society as a whole but not about individual

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Positivism

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Philosophical/theoretical assumption that only observable, measurable and empirically-verifiable facts count as knowledge

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Auguste Comte

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argued for positive study of society

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Function

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The role of maintaining society as a whole that is played by any one particular part of it

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Structural Functionalism

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Theoretical paradigm that analyses society asa complete system, in which every structure serves a function

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what is staying A.G.I.L.(e)

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Adaptation
Goal Attainment
Integration
Latency

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what is the AGIL system and who developed it

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The AGIL system describes the basic kinds of function Andy society must met in order to continue existing. Talcott Parson

Question 12

maifest functions

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an ‘obvious’ purpose- what a society institution explicitly for

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Latent Function

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the ‘hidden’ purpose of an institution- a useful side effect of the institution

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totemism

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type of religion focused around the veneration of sacred totems or symbols

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solidarity

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the social force that holds all members of society together, keeping us united with one another

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Mechanical solidarity

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solidarity by similarities: all held together by the things they have in common

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organic solidarity

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solidarity by difference: all held together by the fact they rely on other people for things lacked

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egoistic suicide

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lack of social integration

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altruistic suicide

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excess of social integration

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anomic suicide

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lack of social regulation of our impulses and desires

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fatalistic suicide

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excess of social regulation of our impulses and desires

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socialisation

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social process by which individuals are ‘trained’ to be members of society