Structural and Interpretive Paradigms
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Structural
Determinist
Objective/Objectivity
You can tell the structure underneath by patterns of behaviour
Structural Consensus
Agreement with the Status Quo
Structural Conflict
Conflict between established structures
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Interpretive
Subjective
Putting yourself in their shoes
We create and reproduce what we call society
1. Symbolic Interaction
Shared symbols we learn through social interaction
2. Labelling Theory
Those with power make the labels
3. Ethonomethodology
The study of how people make sense of what others say and do in day to day
social interaction.
Understanding that people will behave in a particular way in certain social
situations.