Sociology is the systematic study of the relationship between individuals and society. We can get interpret the world by making connections of others and environments that surround us everyday. There are three major sociological perspectives which are: structural functionalism, conflict perspective, and symbolic perspective. The perspectives each have their own ways of looking at how the world and individuals work as a whole. Functionalist theorist Emile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, Robert Merton, and Talcott Parsons view society as a cooperative interaction that contribute to its operation. Functionalist view society from a macro-level, which focus on the larger aspects of the social systems.
The functionalist perspective describes society as interconnected parts that work together to create equilibrium. For example, we can look at a cell and their parts. Each individual organelle of a cell has one primary function that they have to do, so that the next organelle can take on its …show more content…
The conflict perspective looks at society as an hierarchy and a CONSTANT struggle between social groups. According to Karl Marx, every group of people whether high, middle, or lower class go through the same stages of economic development. As the world moves from agricultural to industrial, people first incentive which was to meet survival needs alter to making money instead. We can look at how the type of degree affects the unfair system. Certain individuals who have a higher degree have more power because they have better opportunities, career wise. They then can make more money than those who have lower degrees than them.Competition for power and scarce resources create conflict and unfairness which breaks society into two. Privileged classes want to keep their benefits and gain more. While the underprivileged also wants to gain those
The functionalist perspective describes society as interconnected parts that work together to create equilibrium. For example, we can look at a cell and their parts. Each individual organelle of a cell has one primary function that they have to do, so that the next organelle can take on its …show more content…
The conflict perspective looks at society as an hierarchy and a CONSTANT struggle between social groups. According to Karl Marx, every group of people whether high, middle, or lower class go through the same stages of economic development. As the world moves from agricultural to industrial, people first incentive which was to meet survival needs alter to making money instead. We can look at how the type of degree affects the unfair system. Certain individuals who have a higher degree have more power because they have better opportunities, career wise. They then can make more money than those who have lower degrees than them.Competition for power and scarce resources create conflict and unfairness which breaks society into two. Privileged classes want to keep their benefits and gain more. While the underprivileged also wants to gain those