Sociology

Question 0

Karl Marx

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Concerned for poverty, didn’t consider himself a sociologist but effected the field greatly.

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Auguste Comte

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Father of sociology

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C. Wright Mills

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“Know your social forces so they don’t im prison you”

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Max Weber

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“Humans act on he basis of their own understanding of a situation”

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Herbert Blumer

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“Learn the meaning of a symbol by how others react to it”

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Jane Adams

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Nobel prize winner, didn’t teach at a university so she wasn’t considered a sociologist.

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W.E.B. DuBois

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First black to receive a diploma, Harvard University.

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Herbert Spencer

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Compared society to the human body; heart, lungs, etc is societies, economies, religions, governments and families.

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Emile Durkheim

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Social behavior must be explained by social factors not psychological.

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Sociology

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Scientific study of human behavior

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Sociological Imagination

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When people came tell the difference between events in their real life and events in society

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Bourgeoise; who created it?

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KARL MARX

People who own production of wealth

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Capitalist; who created it?

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KARL MARX

People who produce wealth

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Class conflict; who created it?

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KARL MARX

Clash between bourgeois (production of wealth) and the proletariat (labor).

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Conflict perception (perspective)

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Conflict, competition, change and constraint within a society.

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Dramaturgy; who created it?

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GOFFMAN

Human action as theatrical performance

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Dysfunction

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Negative inefficiency

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Functionalism

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Functions of each part of society

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Latent function; who created it?

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ROBERT MERTON

Un intended & unrecognized

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Manifest function; who created it?

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ROBERT MERTON

Intended and recognized

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Mechanical solidarity; who created?

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EMILE DURKHEIM

Widespread belief of value, strong social pressures, and dependence on tradition/family

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Organic solidarity

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Social independence based on specialized roles in society

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Perspective

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Point of view

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Positivism; who created it?

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AUGUSTE COMTE

Observation in social behavior

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Power

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Ability to control behavior of others

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Proletariate

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Working class

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Rationalization

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Mind sets focusing on knowledge, reason and planning

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Social Darwinism

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Theory that societies evolve naturally into the fittest form

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Social dynamics

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Study of social change

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Sociological perspective

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View that looks at behavior of groups, not people

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Social statics

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Study if social stability and order

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Symbol

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Anything that stands for something else and is universally known

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Symbolic interactionism

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Approach focusing on interactions between people based on mutually understood symbols

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Theoretical perspective

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A set of assumptions accepted as true

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Verstehen

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Understanding social behavior by putting yourself in the place of others

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Conventional (social) wisdom

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Common beliefs or ideas that most people hold true