Lesson 2 Sociology

Question 1

Study of human social relationships
and institutions.

Answer 1

Sociology

Question 2

• Historic founder of French Socialism.
• Reconstruction of Society
• Believes in Reorganization of Society
• Call for “society of science”
• Leaders must organize the people.

Answer 2

Henri de Saint-Simon

Question 3

• Social Darwinism - survival of the fittest
Social Statics - older to new generation
• Principles of Psychology - human mind
however complex, are still subjected to
natural laws
• System of Synthetic Philosophy - the
evolution starts biological,
psychology, sociological, moral

Answer 3

Herbert Spencer

Question 4

• French sociologist, cited as the principal
architect of modern social sciences
• Established academic discipline with
Marx and Weber
• The division of Labour in the Society
• The elementary forms of Religious Life -
is a book that analyzes religion as a
social phenomenon.

Answer 4

David Emile Durkheim

Question 5

• Theory of Self-Estrangement or Self
Alienation
• A person may feel alienated by his work
by not feeling like he has meaning to his
work, therefore losing their sense of self
at the workplace

Answer 5

Karl Marx

Question 6

• German sociologist and political
economist
• Capitalism developed out of a Protestant
ethic, a religious calling
• The “iron cage” traps individuals in
systems based purely on teleological
efficiency, rational calculation and
control.

Answer 6

Max Weber

Question 7

Father or Modern Anthropology
• The Grand Order of the Iroquois
• This presented the complexity of Iroquois
society in a path-breaking ethnography
that was a model for future
anthropologists
• He wanted to provide evidence for
monogenesis - we are all from the same
ancestors
• The structure of the family and social
institutions develops and change
according to a specific sequence

Answer 7

Lewis Morgan