Intro To Soc Unit

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Conflict Theory

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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

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Functionalism theory

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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

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Symbolic Interactionist Theory

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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.

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Macrolevel

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Functionalism and conflict theory look at society as a whole

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Microlevel

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Interactionist theory looks at society through the individual experience.

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Emile Durkheim

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Social integration, patterns of behavior, social facts. Public sociology because he saw how suicide rates are related to loneliness (Protestants, makes, unmarried)

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C. Wright Mills

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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.

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August Comte

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Positivism. Coined term sociology. Applied sociology. Founder of sociology.

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Herbert spencer

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Social Darwinism. Survival of the fittest. Didn’t want to help the poor because they were not the fittest. Public sociology.

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Karl Marx

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Class conflict is the wealthy versus working class. Bourgeoisie. Proletariat. Conflict theory found her that they would unite and break chains. Applied sociologist

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Max Weber

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Verstehen. Protestant ethic. Value free.

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Harriet Martineau

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Focused on role of women in society

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Jane Addams

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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

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WEB du Bois

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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

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Talcott Parsons

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Pure sociologist. Objective analysis of society

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Bourgeoisie

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Capitalists

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Proletariat

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Exploited workers

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Social facts

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A groups pattern of behavior

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Sociological imagination

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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.

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Verstehen

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Understanding of what it means to be human. Use this to understand social facts

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Social Darwinism

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Societies evolve over time as they adapt to their environment

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Value free

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The view that a sociologists personal values or beliefs should not influence social research

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Social integration

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The degree to which people are tied to their social group

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Positivism

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Applying the scientific method to the social world

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Social location

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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

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Industrialization

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Transformation from an agricultural society to one based on manufacturing goods and services

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Urbanization

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Becoming more like a city