methods Flashcards
what do functionalists believe in?
functional pre requisites
-goal attainment
adaptation
integration
who are neo functionalists?
chester
fletcher
who are neo marxists?
willis
gramsci
althusser
Who is Gramsci?
humanist
Who is Althusser?
scientific
what is ethnomethodology?
Garfinkle
methods creating social order
-study being visitors in their own home
-link to suicide
what is phenomenology?
schemas and how we store info and events
link to cicourell typifications
who are social action theorists?
weber
becker
goffman
what is structuration?
evaluation
giddens
influence eachother
football and rules
what does Weber say?
traditional and affectual action
methodological individualism
verstehen
what was modern society like?
enlightenment project
stable
industrial revolution
national identity
nuclear family
ascribed status
what are modernist theories?
functionalism
marxism
what is a postmodern society
globalisation
transnational identities
two way media
risk
post fordist
why has social changes/ a postmodernist society occurred
technological changes
economic changes
political changes
culture and identity
what does Baydrillard say about postmodernism?
hyper reality
blur
what does Lyotard say about postmodernism?
shift from large meta narratives to small local narratives
what word describes postmodernism?
nihilistic
don’t believe in anything
development of functionalism?
early sociologists comte and durkheim
refined by parsons and merton
what is Merton internal critique of functionalism?
not all indispensable- functions can be replaced and don’t all rely on eachother parsons
religion
latent functions- unintended disfunction
universal functionalism not true
plan for functionalism?
1= as a science= positivists, social facts, durkheim suicide, objectivity
2=parsons, value consensus, stability, education
3= merton internal critique
4- methods, large scale trends in crime
