Intro To Soc Unit Flashcards
Conflict Theory
Karl Marx. Emphasis: competition, esp. Over resources and power. Society is maintained through domination. Focus on class, gender, race, age, issues as evidence of inequality
Functionalism theory
aka functional analysis. Emile Durkheim. Emphasis: stability, while holds groups together. Each part of society is its own organ. When one part doesn’t work the whole society is affected. 5 social institutions=family, govt. religion, economy, education
Symbolic Interactionist Theory
George Mead (chicago school). Emphasis: importance of symbols. Use to establish meaning and to communicate. People create society through face-to-face interactions with each other.
Macrolevel
Functionalism and conflict theory look at society as a whole
Microlevel
Interactionist theory looks at society through the individual experience.
Emile Durkheim
Social integration, patterns of behavior, social facts. Public sociology because he saw how suicide rates are related to loneliness (Protestants, makes, unmarried)
C. Wright Mills
The society we grow up in and our location in that society lies at the center of what we do and how we think. Sociological imagination. Applied sociologist. Social reform.
August Comte
Positivism. Coined term sociology. Applied sociology. Founder of sociology.
Herbert spencer
Social Darwinism. Survival of the fittest. Didn’t want to help the poor because they were not the fittest. Public sociology.
Karl Marx
Class conflict is the wealthy versus working class. Bourgeoisie. Proletariat. Conflict theory found her that they would unite and break chains. Applied sociologist
Max Weber
Verstehen. Protestant ethic. Value free.
Harriet Martineau
Focused on role of women in society
Jane Addams
Cofounder of Hull house which is in Chicago for poor, immigrants, poor, sick. Women’s rights. Applied sociologist. Noble prize for peace winner. Efforts at reform
WEB du Bois
Cofounder of NAACP. National Association for the advancement of colored people. Study of racism in the United States; black-and-white’s. Applied sociology/public sociology
Talcott Parsons
Pure sociologist. Objective analysis of society
Bourgeoisie
Capitalists
Proletariat
Exploited workers
Social facts
A groups pattern of behavior
Sociological imagination
Enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography by history mills meant that each society is located in Broadstream of events this gives each society specific characteristics such as its ideas about what roles are proper for men and women.
Verstehen
Understanding of what it means to be human. Use this to understand social facts
Social Darwinism
Societies evolve over time as they adapt to their environment
Value free
The view that a sociologists personal values or beliefs should not influence social research
Social integration
The degree to which people are tied to their social group
Positivism
Applying the scientific method to the social world
Social location
The corners in life that people occupied because of their place in society such as jobs, income, education, gender, race, and age affect people’s ideas and behavior
Industrialization
Transformation from an agricultural society to one based on manufacturing goods and services
Urbanization
Becoming more like a city
