Unit test 1 Flashcards
What social scientist study
Human behaviour
do you understand why people do what they do to make society a better place
How social scientists collect studies
3 ways
- collecting and analyzing statistics
2.
conducting experiments
3.
examining where people have written in created
Why social scientists are important
Focus on improving quality of life by allowing people to move and make informed decisions based on research studies
Anthropology definition
Scientific study of Human Species Various Cultures Sub Cultures Genetic Impact
Sociology definition
Scientific study of human social behaviour including individuals groups and societies
Psychology definition
A systematic study of individuals thoughts mood feelings and behaviours
Three school of thought
Functionalism school
Conflict school (Neo Marxist)
Symbolic interactions school
Functionalism
Believe society best studied as an organic system very much like the human body
like each organ in the body has a function each institution in society has a specific job
example : the government
functionalist believe every part of society is doing it’s job and working together each individual is protected
Functionalism theorists
Auguste Comte
Emilie Durkheim
Talcott Parson
Auguste Comte
FUNCTIONALIST
1798 - 1857
originated scientific method or observation and analysis a study society
First to study society in coined the term sociology
Believe that society had a natural tendency to reach a state of balance
and if when institution failed another institution would fill its gap
and in institution will fail if not supported by others
Emile Durkheim
FUNCTIONALIST
1859 - 1917
founder of modern sociology and also use the scientific method
believed in the rehabilitation of criminals in studies why people commit suicide
Egoistic :
the people that don’t share the values our goals in society
Altruistic:
sacrifice himself to save others
Anomic:
not being able to cope and become overwhelmed with sudden change
Tallcott Parsons
FUNCTIONALIST
1902-1979
recognition of people’s freedom to make choices for example what do you study at school or what to wear
making these choices people find their fit in society
weird adopt the dress language behaviour of the group with watch we are strongly identified with
optimistic view of society and which most people‘s needs are met
Believed everyone had a purpose in society no matter the class
The conflict school
conflict theorists believe that most significant characteristics of a human being is the ability to produce goods to meet their needs and wants
interested in how forces a production such a supply and demand operate in social structures and relationships in that are created from this forces
different group struggle or compete for resources and power
conflict theorist studied the social patterns in structures that develop as class a struggle against one another
Karl Marx
CONFLICT THEORY
1818-1883
An even distribution of wealth causing struggle between the rich and poor
societies problems would not be solved until power was to redistribute among the people
Studies conflict between different classes and society
symbolic interactions
small scale patterns and every day interactions between individuals
Believe some most significant characteristics of human beings is there a billet he do you think symbolically disability enables us to have a sense of self who others are
by using face-to-face interactions we jointly create patterns of connecting and reacting to one another to form a basis of society
Based on others’ we create rules for how to behave on daily basis and we learn from playing rules depending on who we are
