Structuralists_1

Structuralists_1

1. what do they research?

   • social institutions
     • Family
     • Religion
     • Education
     • Work
     • Mass media

2. What do they study?

   • That society shapes the individual
   • ways in which society influences the behaviour of indiciduals
   • Socialisation process
   • Society as a whole

3. Methods

   • Quantitative
   • Numbers
   • Statistics
   • Reliability
   • Objective
   • Generalisable
   • Representative

4. Perspectives

   • Consensus
     • Functionalist
   • Conflict
     • Marxist
   • New right
   • Feminists
   • Positivists

5. Positivism

   • Social facts
   • Sociology should be science
   • data collected objectively
   • variables can be controlled
   • research should not be influenced by the researcher
   • Large scale

6. Criticisms

   • Too deterministic
   • no technique can be completely unbiased

7. Social Facts

   • Suicide
   • Language
   • Gender