Notes: Sociological Perspective: the process of understanding and explaining how individuals and groups interact within society.
Social Structures: the distinctive and stable arrangements of social patterns that form the society as a whole.
Social Change: the forces that change society’s organization and social structures.
The proletariat: The poor people who were the majority during the industrial revolution in western Europe.
Bourgeois: the land and business owners. (small minority wealthy class)
conflict theory: a sociological perspective emphasizing the role of political and economic power and oppression as contributing to the existing social order.
functionalist theory: a macro view of how the parts of society serve to maintain stability.