Module 2 Flashcards
This is among the disciplines contributory to the understanding of who we are in relation to ourselves, others, and to social systems.
Sociology
This is the scientific study of social behavior and
human groups. It argues that socially formed norms, beliefs, and values come to exist within the person to a degree where these become neutral and normal
Sociology
The focus of this sociological paradigm is how each part of the society functions together to contribute to the whole.
Structural Functionalism
The focus of this sociological paradigm is how inequalities contribute to social differences and perpetuate differences in power.
Conflict Theory
The focus of this sociological paradigm is one-to-one interactions and communications.
Symbolic Interactionism
He emphasized social integration and moral individuation.
Emile Durkheim
He said “to love society is to love something beyond us and something in ourselves.”
Emile Durkheim
He emphasized the before we were born, there are already societal influences that shape our life and personalities and these influences continue to have an impact on us, and even beyond our lifetime.
Emile Durkheim
His works include Division of Labor, Social Integration, and Moral Individualism.
Emile Durkheim
Durkheim proposed that the task of sociology is to?
Analyze social facts
These are conditions and circumstances external to the individual that, nevertheless, determine the individual’s course of action.
Social facts
Durkheim argued that social facts can be ascertained by using ___________ data.
Collective
This means that through __________ collection of data, the patterns behind and within an individual behavior can be uncovered.
systematic
He emphasized that the society is not a result or an aftereffect of individual conduct; rather, it (society) exists prior to, and thus, shapes individual action. In other words, individual lines of conduct are the outgrowth of social arrangements.
Emile Durkheim
This is the degree to which an individual is connected to the society. It results from a collective consciousness or a shared way of understanding and behaving in the world in terms of norms, beliefs, and values. It is synonymous with social solidarity.
Social Integration
This described the social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, or religion.
Social Solidarity
This is the doctrine that rationality leaves room for the individualities of personalities of subjects to express themselves in the moral realm in an autonomous choice between idealism and fulfilment-maximization. It involves a morality of cooperation and a profound respect for humanity. It is not the glorification of the self, “but of the individual in general.”
Moral Individualism
This is a religion in which man is at once the worshiper and the god.
Moral Individualism
Durkheim is optimistic that moral individualism will become the “___________________” and the source of a new morality.
Moral Catechism
Durkheim claims that the “___________________” has become one of the most distinctive characteristic of modernity, and that it is replacing all other religions.
Cult of the individual
Other scholars noted that this refers to humanity in general, rather than to individuals of any particular nation-state. It stresses freedom and dignity, not happiness, as highest social ends.
Moral Individualism
He made the concept of the looking glass self.
Charles Horton Cooley
He believed that self-concept is formed through our impressions on how other people see us.
Charles Horton Cooley
He proposed that one’s self grows out of one’s social interactions with others. The degree of personal insecurity displayed in social situations is determined by what one believes other people think of him/her. Simply put, the “Self” is how we believe others see us.
Charles Horton Cooley
