Sociology CLEP flash cards
FATHER OF SOCIOLOGY; POSITIVISM, SOCIAL STATICS, SOCIAL DYNAMICS
August Comte
INSPIRED FEMINISM
CHANGED SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON MARRIAGE, CHILDREN, DOMESTIC LIFE
HARRIET MARTINEAU
“SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST”
THINK OF SOCIETY & CULTURE BELONGING TO THE NATURAL WORLD
HERBERT SPENCER
PEOPLE SHOULD CHANGE THE WORLD RATHER THAN STUDY IT
BOURGEOISIE & PROLETARIAT
KARL MARX
FIRST TO STUDY SUICIDE
MECAHNICAL & ORGANIC SOLIDARITY
EMILE DURKHEIM
VERSTEHEN & RATIONALIZATION
STUDIED PERSONAL MEANINGS, VALUES, AND BELIEFS UNDERLYING HUMAN SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
MAX WEBER
SOUGHT SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR POOR AND SICK IN CHICAGO
ESTABLISHED HULL HOUSE
JANE ADDAMS
BELIEVED SOCIOLOGY COULD PROVIDE ANSWERS TO RACE PROBLEMS
AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL ACTIVIST
W.E.B. DU BOIS.
FUNCTIONALISM
LOOK AT SOCIETY AS A SYSTEM OF INTERRELATED PARTS ACTING TOGETHER
DRAMATURGY
DEPICT HUMAN INTERACTION AS A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE
NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES THAT DISTRUPT SOCIETY
DYSFUNCTION
CONFLICT PERSPECTIVE
AREA OF CONFLICT & POWER STRUGGLES
POSITIVISM
USING THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
PROLETARIAT
WORKING CLASS
VERSTEHEN
UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR BY PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE PLACE OF OTHERS
BOURGEOISIE
OWNERS
FIRST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Ability to see the connection between the larger world and our personal lives.
Sociological imagination
He believed the economy had the strongest influence on social structure.
Karl Marx
He believed the ills of the capitalist system can only be resolved by violent revolutions.
KARL MARX
Based his ideas about society on Charles Darwin’s biological model.
Herbert Spencer
He believed no steps should be taken to correct social ills.
Herbert Spencer
He saw society as a set of interdependent parts.
Emile Durkheim
He developed the idea of the Sociological Imagination.
C. Wright Mills
He introduced the concept of Verstehen.
MAX WEBER
He had a theory of bureaucracy
MAX WEBER
manifest function
Intended consequence of an element of society.
latent function
Unintended consequence of an element of society.
Common customs of everyday life. - Using the right fork, wearing the right clothes
folkways
Norms with great moral significance attached to them.
mores
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Language shapes the way people perceive the world.
Ethnocentrism
To view one’s own culture as superior.
A subculture that represents values that are unacceptable to the dominant culture but are still legal
counterculture
A subculture that represents values that are unacceptable to the dominant culture and are generally considered illegal.
Deviant subculture
Conscious effort to promote or prevent social change.
Social movement
Spread of culture traits from one society to another.
Culture diffusion
Produces the greatest change in a society in the least amount of time.
Wars
Cultural Lag
Some aspects of culture change slower than others.
Sanctions
Rewards or punishments to enforce conformity to norms. (slap on the wrist for misbehaving)
Violation of norms
Deviance
Durkheim found that high suicide rates can be due to either, extreme or inadequate _______.
social integration
Durkheims research indicated that high suicide rates can result from ______.
excessive isolation
personality develops fastest during _________
childhood
Sigmund Freud’s system.
Psychoanalysis
The irrational part of the personality concerned with seeking pleasure. (Freud)
Id
Part of the personality that is rational and deals with the word logically. (Freud)
Ego
The moral part of a personality, the “conscience.” (Freud)
SuperEgo
The referee between the Id and the superego.
Ego
According to Locke we are born without a ______.
personality
John Locke believed he could shape newborns into ______.
anything he wanted
Believed all children go through three levels of moral development.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Developed the idea of the “ looking glass self.”
Charles Cooley
Developed the idea of role-taking.
George Herbert Mead
His perspective is symbolic Interactionist
George Herbert Mead
Internalizing the values of society is taking the role of the____
generalized other
The unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of our personality. (Two related parts of the “self.”)
I
The part of our identity that is aware of society’s expectations.(Two related parts of the “self.”)
Me
Most important agent of socialization.
Family
Three most common rewards on which stratification is based.
Wealth, Power, and Prestige
Functionalists view stratification as
a necessary feature of the social structure
Conflict theorists view stratification as
a result of class exploitation
egalitarian system
Little opportunity to accumulate wealth and much social equality.
U.S. law forbids discrimination based on ____ characteristics
ascribed
Difference between upper-upper class and lower-upper class
Upper-upper: “old money”, inherited it – Lower-upper: “new money”, earned it
Largest segment of American population _______ class
working class
Difference between upper-middle class and lower-middle class
Upper-midde: high income professionals —- Lower-middle: lower income “white collar” jobs
Blue-collar and Pink-collar jobs (class)
working class
Movement from one social class to another ________ mobility (type of social)
vertical mobility
Movement within a social class ___________ mobility (type of social)
horizontal mobility
The mobility that results from changes in society
structural mobility
Likelihood of sharing the opportunities of society
life chances
Individuals who share a common cultural background and sense of identity. ______ group
ethnic group
Share physical characteristics or cultural practices that result in the group being denied equal treatment. _______ group
minority group
The outgrowth of traditional patterns of discrimination. - Type of discrimination most resistant to change.
institutionalized discrimination