Exam 1 Flashcards
Auguste Comte
Social Physics
- 3 epistemological stages of human history
- Theological Stage
- Metaphysical Stage
- Scientific Stage
Harriet Martineau
- Translated Comte’s work into English
- Example of earliest feminist social scientist
- Authored first sociology book
Karl Marx
- Historical materialism and economy
- Capitalism; conflict between capitalists and workers
Max Weber
- Importance of ideas, culture, and religion
- Verstehen and interpretive sociology
- Famous study; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Emile Durkheim
How does society hold together?
Famous study: Suicide
Anomie; normlessness
Positivist Sociology: social world can be described and predicted by certain describable relationships
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Formal Sociology; sociology of pure numbers
Fundamental difference between a group of two vs. a group of three or more
web Dubois
Pioneering black sociologist
Double consciousness: two behavioral scripts maintained by African Americans for moving through the world and incorporating the external opinions of prejudice onlookers
Jane ADDAMS
ful house
functionalism
Functionalism
Various social institutions and processes in society exist to serve important or necessary function to keep society running
Manifest and Latent Function
Organicism: society is like a living organism
Durkeheim
Critique: Reinforces status quo
conflict theory
Conflict Theory
Conflict between competing interests is the basic animated force of social change and society in general
Competition not consensus
Inequality exists as result of political struggles among different groups
Inequality is unfair
Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism
Micro-level theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivation behind people’s actions
Erving Goffman
Dramaturgical Theory- look at life like a play
Feminist Theory
Feminist Theory
Emphasis on women’s experiences and belief that sociology and society in general subordinate women
Focus inequalities based on gender categories
How power relationships are defined, shaped, and reproduced on the basis on gender differences
Factors Needed to establish causation:
Factors Needed to establish causation:
Correlation
Time Order
Rule out alternative explanations
Hegemony- Antonio Gramsci
Condition by which a dominant group uses its power to elicit the voluntary “consent” of the masses
Contrasts with domination
is Sample size dependent on population size?
No