During my sociology 455 class today I realized that I must find a way to coalesce some of the various assorted branches of the humanities (namely history, sociology, and anthropology) through the course of my future scholastic endeavors.
My genius idea about classifying gender and race as socio-cultural technologies seems to fit nicely with a functionalist sociological framework, although I was not consciously aware of that when I came upon the idea in the brambles of my mind.
I’m wondering if and how the ideas of latent and manifest functions, and dysfunctions, might be applied to this idea, but I have a good feeling that this course will point me in the right direction. That is, if it doesn’t outright provide an explanation/answer…
