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Christian Centeno
Angie Kim
Colin Nguyen
Swayam Pandey
Aminah Roberts
Emily Torng

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What is the exploited group?
What is the group in power?
What social differences help form these groups?

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The conflict theory believes that society is in a constant state of conflict because of the struggle for scarce resources. Struggles arise through differences between social classes, ethnicity, race, gender, and social class. The conflict theory assumes that social change is needed to address the inequalities seen in society.

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Symbolic interactionism
theory assumes that people respond to elements of their environments according to the subjective meanings they attach to those elements, such as meanings being created and modified through social interaction involving symbolic communication with other people.

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Language
Meaning
Symbols
Thinking

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How does social
interactions change
across situations and
between people?
How do social interactions
change across situations
and between people?
Why does our behavior
change because of our
beliefs, attitudes, values,
and roles?
What is each member's role?
How are roles learned and maintained?
What occurs when the roles are conflicting with each other?

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Contributor: Herbert Blumer
Date: 1937

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Contributor: Max Weber
Date: 1864-1920

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Contributor: George Herbert Mead
Date: 1863-1931

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- People act on the basis of the
meaning they attribute to others.
Meaning grows out of the social
interaction that we have with
others.
- People continuously reinterpret
and reevaluate their knowledge
and information in their everybody
encounters.

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Micro: small scale patterns of society

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Functionalism examines how the social institutions that make up society, such as the economy, education, family, religion, and media, all perform a useful purpose, and also influence members of society.

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Value Consensus
Social Solidarity
Role Allocation

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What is the system (marriage, work, education, politics, etc.)?
How is the order maintained?
What parts contribute to the social order (communication, rules, money, roles)?
What patterns exist outside the individual's control (lack of power-real or imagined catastrophes, lack of resources)?
What are the group's norms (passivity, involvement, group conformity, individuality)?
What values (integrity, solidarity, freedom, communication) are lost if the system changes) ?

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Haves vs. Have Nots
Competition
Hierarchy
Inequalities

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Contributor: Karl Marx
Date: 1818

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Contributor: W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: 1868-1963

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Macro (large scale patterns of society)

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- Viewed capitalism as a social change
- Engine of human history is conflict between classes
- Society is based on inequality in terms of ethnicity, race, gender, and social class
- People compete for limited resources that are controlled by a small number of powerful groups

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Emile Durkheim 1893

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Robert Merton 1938

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-Society is composed of interrelated , mutually dependent parts.
-Structures and functions maintain a society’s or group’s stability, cohesion, and continuity.
-Dysfunctional activitie’s that threaten a society’s or group’s survival are controlled or eliminated.

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Macro ( Large scale patterns of society )