DISS Flashcards
views society as a complex unit composed of many parts
structural functionalism
3 macro level approach
social structure, institution, functions
patterns in society that are relatively stable
social structure
groups that influence norms in society
social institution
consequences of each social structure
social function
6 social institution
family
school
economy
religion
culture
government
2 social institution w specific function
1.Interrelated and interdependence of social institution
2. promoting stability and survival
he compared society to the human body
herbert spencer
he is related to the survival of the fittest
herbert spencer
2 types of function
- Manifest function
- Latent function
recognized and intended consequences, readily attributed
manifest function
unrecognized/unintended, hidden purpose
latent function
elements/processes within society, detrimental to society, may vary from 1 person to another
social dysfunction
sees society as struggle between segmebts of society
marxism
social classes is also known as what
social segment
3 types of social class
upper, middle, lower class
2 primary types of social class
bourgeoisie, proletariat
struggles of social classes
social conflict
conflict between entire class, means of production, brought upon by capitalism
class conflict
economic system where natural resources and means of producing goods are privately owned, pruvate ownership, profit making
capitalism
economic and political system, opposite of capitalism
communism
foundation to all institution
economic base
family, law, government, school, religion
superstructure
Emphasizes the importance of subjective meaning, and it proved to be influential to symbolic interactionism as a general approach in sociology.
action theory
subscribes to the idea that each of us has an unconscious
part that contains ideas, memories, desires
psychoanalysis
which is defined as a repository of feelings and urges of which we have no awareness
unconscious mind
refers to how we know and see ourselves
self concept
are composed of wishes, thoughts, and
desires that we [individuals] are aware of
conscious thoughts
the influence of repressed
thoughts, desires, or impulses on conscious thoughts and behavior.
unconscious motivation
is defined as the free-flowing, uncensored talking that will provide clues to
unconscious forces.
free association
was also utilized because Freud believed
dreams are the purest forms of free association.
dream interpretation
unintentionally
reveal unconscious thoughts or desires
freudian slips
3 techniques to unlock the unconscious mind
- free association
- dream interpretetion
- freudian slips
theory assumes that there
exists an ongoing conflict within an individual’s
mind
—
between the conscious and the unconscious
theory of personality
contains anything that an individual could readily
pull into his or her conscious awareness
preconscious mind
to
pursue pleasure and satisfy an individual’s biological drives
id
The id operates based on the
pleasure principle
which emphasizes logic and rationality and operates under the
reality principle. This means that it has contact with external reality
ego
represents the internalization of moral codes or the
“conscience”
superego
3 components of individual’s personality
id, superego, ego
most prominent figure of sociology
emile durkheim
emile durkheim contribution
- collective conscience
- intergration