Chapter 1-3 Flashcards
Mead’s theory stages
- Imitation (3 and under) no sense of self imitate to others
- Play (3-6) they play pretend or roles like Spider-Man or a princess
- Team games (after 6) learn to take on roles cop and robbers for example
Piaget’s theory
The development of a child’s brain.
1. Sensorimotor state (B-2) direct contact by sucking touching etc. are not able to “think”.
2. Peroperational stage (2-7) develop the use of symbols an have no understandment on speed or size. Learning to count but don’t understand what numbers are
3. Concrete operational stage (7-12) understands number and play team games
4. Formal operational stage (12 and up) thinkin about concepts and solve absact problems
3.
Mead’s theory
He believe in how important it was for child to play. They played to develop a self. We take on roles of other first. First it a significant others (parents).
Stages
1. Imitations
2. Play
3. Team games
“I” is self subject and “me” is object subject.
In sum: both our self and our minds are social products
2.
Cooley
Developed looking glass self
1. We imagine how we appear to those around us
2. We interpret other’s reactions
3. We develop a self concept
Begins in childhood uses other people’s reactions.
Cultural lag
Ogburn’s term for behavior lagging behind technological innovations
Harlow exp.
The use of monkeys to study deprived animal. They also study the amount of time of isolated to became “norm” with others. The longer the time of isolation the longer it took. They missed a critical learning stage
Taboos
Things out of the norm so much that when thought of is not allowed. Examples. Eating human flesh and having sex with your children
Mores
Rules that are strictly enforced
Rape
Murder
Folkways
Rules that aren’t strictly enforced
Values in the us
Top 3:
- Eduation
- Religionsity
- Romantic love
What where the factors that led to sociology
Mid 1800s
Industrial revolution
They study where people lived where they worked their relationships with each other and how they view life
Documents
Written sources
Secondary analysis
Analyzing someone’s else data
Case study
One single case
Fieldwork
Researching while observing
Rapport
A feeling of trust
Respondents
The people who answer your questions
Stratified random sample
Limiting your random sample
Random sample
Randoming picking
Sample
Individuals from among your targeted population
Population
The target group that you are going to study
Research model
- Selecting topic
- Defining the problem
- Reviewing the literature
- Form hypothesis
- Research method
- Collect data
7 analyzing data - Share results
Social interaction
What people do when around one another
Micro level
An analysis a small scale pattern of society
Marco level
They examine large scale patterns of society
Conflict theory
The idea that two control systems inner control and outer controls work against our tendencies to deviate
Functionalism
Society is a functioning unit as a whole with parts that work together. We examine the smaller parts and how it’s related to the larger ones
Functional analysis
The central idea is that society is a whole unit made of parts that work together
Mead
Worked I. Symbolic interaction with Cooley
Symbolic interaction
The central idea of using symbols
Theory
General statement about how some parts of the world for together and how they work
Public sociology
Promoting a middle ground between research and reform
Applied sociology
Sociology that is applied to social groups
Basic sociology
Purpose of making discoveries about life in human groups not for making changes in these groups
Jane Addams
Creator of the hull house American civil liberties union Labor laws Child laws Co winner of the Nobel prize
Max weber
(1864-1920) German origin of capitalism. Weber researched the Roman Catholic religion where they believed in holding traditions and compared them to Protestants where the embrace change. Catholics believed that god sent them signs in money etc. they began saving and intercepting. The begins of capitalism. Protestants believed you have to believe and don’t known if you go to heaven until judgement day. Capitalism is more common in Protestant counties because it is okay
Results of suicide study’s
- Guns
- Hanging
White unmarried Protestant males
Patterns of behavior
Recurring characteristics or events
Social integrations
The degree in which people are tied to their social groups
Communism
Not the same a Marxism- workers gain control of the society
Proletariat
Marx’s term for workers
Bourgeoisie
Marx’s terms for the people who own land and factories
Class conflict
Marx’s term for the struggle between capitalists and the workers
Sociology
The new science that study the way of social life
Positivism
To apply the scientific method to social life in hopes of reforming it.
Augusta Comte
(1798-1857) applied the scientific method to social life called positivism and created a new science of sociology the purpose was to discover social principles but also apply them to social reform.
The scientific method
Using objective to tset theories
Science
Requires theories that can be tested by research
External influences
Our experiences
Social location
The group memberships that people have because of their location in history
Society
A group of people who share a culture and a territory
Sociological perspective
Understanding human behavior by placing it witching border social control
