Sociology Flashcards
It’s being referred to as the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal and public issues
Social imagination
Socius
Companionship
The term sociology was coined by
Auguste Comte (1803)
Logos
Study
It’s allows the individual to detached hemselves form their common understanding
Social imagination
It provides the wider perspective of society
Social imagination
the means or ways to interact.
Social Interaction
Elements of social interaction
Space is not an issue.
- There can be multiple and simultaneous interactions.
- A dialog can have an active and inactive end.
- Subject Positionality
- The meanings we ascribe are informed by the values and
norms that are upheld in our society.
it is the interrelationships in the society.
- it constitutes positions, statuses, and roles (accepted and
expected behavior of the statuses).
Social organization
it also consist of institutions, which are considered as
building blocks of the society such as Religion, School,
Family, and Government
Sociological Concepts
HOW DID SOCIOLOGY EMERGE?
Industrial Revolution
It led to societal change such as growth of cities, working class
movements, and emergence of new patterns of authority
- New machines led to evolution and organization of labor and
markets.
Industrial revolution
Positive approach - relies on empirical scientific evidence
(experiments and stats). A belief that we should not go
beyond the boundary of what can be observed.
• The society works according to certain laws – physical world
operates according to gravity and other laws of nature.
• Gives emphasis on systematic observation and social order
Auguste comte
He wrote Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels –
it focuses on Misery of classes, and the conflict between
bourgeoisie (wealthy and owner) and proletariat (factory
workers)
Karl Marx
there is a struggle because of limited
resources and unlimited utilities of resources.
Conflict Theory
there is a struggle because of limited
resources and unlimited utilities of resources.
Conflict Theory
vital to achieve social conditions
Political revolution
as proletariats can no longer
contain their frustration over the treatment of
bourgeoisie.
Proletarian Revolution
“Survival of the fittest”
• He believed that non-interference in human affairs in
the society should be applied. And doing something to
help the weak and poor would interfere natural
selection process (survival of the fittest).
• The belief of Spencer is considered as inhumane.
Herbert Spencer
“Individuals are more products and creators of the
society
• Suicide (book) which explains that social forces has
strong impact to a person’s life.
• Suicide seems like a personal event but not personal
at all.
Emile Durkheim
(sympathetic understanding of the behavior
of others) – understanding it based on its own
perspective, rather, outside perspective
Vestehen
Verstehen (sympathetic understanding of the behavior
of others) – understanding it based on its own
perspective, rather, outside perspective
• It is considered as vital to understand the behavior of
others.
Max Weber
groups, institutions, ethnic group
Social Organization
impact of group life to a person’s
personality
Social psychology
