First Test Flashcards
C Wright Mills
Said sociologists need to develop a sociological imagination to study how society affects individuals
What best describes sociology as a subject?
The study of society and social interaction
Society
A group of people who reside in the same area, share the same culture, and interact
Seeing patterns
Identify similarities in how social groups respond to social pressure
Karl Marx
Societies change due to class struggle
positivism
Study of social patterns
Weber
Believed humans couldn’t be studied objectively because they’re influenced by their culture
How do symbolic interactionists look at the world?
Micro view
Who coined ‘symbolic interactionism?’
Herbert Blumer
What do symbolic interactionists compare?
Social interactions to behaviors
Emile Durkheim
People rise to their proper level in society based on merit. Society could be ‘healthy or pathological’.
Healthy society
Stable.
Social solidarity
Social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, or religion
Grand theories. Macro- level
attempts to explain large scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change
Micro levels
Cover specific relationships between individuals or small groups. More testable
