Unit 1-Intro To Soc Flashcards
Latent function
Unintended and unconscious
Robert Merton
Key functionalist: latent and manifest
Manifest function
Open stated & conscious
Auguste Comte
Founder of Sociology
Social statics and social dynamics
Social statics
What holds the society together?
Social dynamics
What causes the society to change?
Sociology
Systematic study of social behavior & human groups
Sociological perspective
A way of regarding situations, the way you ‘see’ things
Social location
The corners of life that people occupy because of where they are located in a society
Emile Durkheim
- developed sociological perspective
- suicide passion
Social structure
Patterned interactions of people in social relationships
Conformity
Occurs because members of a group have been taught to value the group’s ways
C. Wright Mills
Sociological imagination
Sociological imagination
Ability of individuals to see the relationships between events in their personal lives and events in their society
3 factors that led to the development of sociology
- industrial revolution
- imperialism
- scientific success
Herbert Spencer
“2nd founder of sociology”
Social Darwinism
Society operated under some fixed laws
Compared body to society
Karl Marx
Key to human history is class conflict Conflict perspective Viewed struggle between social classes as inevitable
Max Weber
How social groups affect peoples orientations to life
Harriet Martineau
Feminist theorist
Jane Addams
Social reform
W.E.B DuBois
Attacked the “negro problem”
Functionalist perspective
Sees Society as a living organism in which each part of the organism contributes to its survival
Conflict Perspective
Sees the world and continual struggle
Emphasizes conflict, competition, change
Symbolic interactionism
examines how people react in order to understand society as a whole
George Herbert Mead
Founder of interactionalist perspective
Focused on human interactions w/in one to one situations
Herbert Blumer
Coined term symbolic interactionism & outlined 3 assumptions to this perspective
Symbols
- we learn the meaning from the way we see others react to it
- once we learn the meaning we base our behavior on them
- we use the meanings to imagine how others will respond to our behaviors
