Chapter 1 Flashcards
Sociology
Is the scientific study of social behavior
Focus on social relationships how those relationship influence people’s behavior and how societies develop and change
Sociology
A science guided by the by the basic understanding that “ the social matters” our lives are affected not only by our individual characteristics but by our place in the social world
Sociology
Social location - corners in life
Job Income Education Gender Age Race/Ethnicity
Sociological Imagination
The ability to look beyond ones own everyday life
Ability to look beyond limiting understanding of human behavior to see the world and its people in a new way
Sociological Imagination
Father of sociology , and founder of sociology
Auguste Comte
Theoretical Paradigm
Sets of assumptions that guides thinking and research
What are the three theoretical paradigm
The Structural Function Paradigm
The Social Conflict Paradigm
The Symbolic-Interaction Paradigm
The Structural Functional
Functionalists focus on the macro level and view society as set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social situation
Social Structure
Stable patterns of social behavior ( family, workplace , education)
Social Function
A consequence for the operation of society as whole(job)
What are the three social Function components
Manifest
Latent
Dysfunction
Manifest
Recongnized
Latent
Unrecognized
