Section 1.2 Flashcards
How did the Catholic Church lose favor in Europe?
The bubonic plague ravaged Europe, killing up to 35% of population. The Events once held to be the product of the divine hand could be analyzed by human reason and observation and could be explained by scientific, testable, and re-testable hypotheses.
What is Enlightenment?
General principles that could be used to explain social life.
What does August Comte think about positivism?
Revealing the laws by which societies and individuals interact **would usher in a new “positivist” age of history.
What did Harriet Martineau analyze?
She analysied economics, social class, religion, suicide, government, and women’s rights.
What did Karl Marx think about how societies grew and changed?
He believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production.
How did Weber describe Sociology?
Striving to “… interpret the meaning of social action and thereby give a causal explanation of the way in which action proceeds and the effects it produces.”
What did W.E.B. Dubois study?
His groundbreaking 1896-1897 study of the African American community in Philadelphia incorporated hundreds of interviews Du Bois conducted in order to document the familial and employment structures and assess the chief challenges of the community.
What did George Herbert Mead think about significant others while generalized others?
Mead felt that an individual’s reaction to a positive or negative reflection depended on who the ‘other’ was.
