Lesson 1 Flashcards
What are the social Sciences:
Sociology, Anthropology, and Political science
(study of human society)
sociology
deals with the scientific study of human interactions, social groups, institutions, whole societies, and human world as such..
sociology
it focuses on the ubiquity of social forces in likely forms: sex, gender, religion, class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation.
Sociology
socius means
companion/ally/friend
Logos means
Study
sociology was born in
Europe
sociology was born in Europe during the period of
the Industrial Revolution
-credited to be the father of the discipline for he coined the term sociology.
August comte
Auguste comte’s Sociology has been always associated with
positivism
The school of thought that says that science and its method is the only valid way of knowing things.
Positivism
- the “founding mother” of sociology
Harriet Martineau
contribution of Harriet to comte’s work
translation of Auguste comte’s work from french to English.
other sociologists.
Emile Durkheim
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Pioneer of functionalism in sociology
Emile Durkheim
help define and establish the field of sociology as academic discipline
Contribution of Emile Durkheim
Father scientific socialism
Karl Marx
key concepts in understanding a ruling class system and its sociological effects on individuals and societies.
Contribution of Karl Marx