1: Kinds of Economic Organization Flashcards
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A scientific study of human society, it’s origin, structure, function, and direction
Sociology
a Latin term which means companion or associate
Socius
a Greek term for study
Logos
is the approach that emphasizes experience and the facts that result from observation and experimentation.
Empiricism
is a stressed reason and the theories that result from logical inference.
Rationalism
refers to the way daily life is organized so as to accommodate large groups of people.
Rationalization
Sociological Perspectives
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Functionalism
- Conflict Theory
The theoretical perspective supports that: People attach meaning to symbols, then they act according to the subject interpretations. Individual, social groups meaning to experience of life: we negotiate meaning. Meanings can change or be modified through interaction and through time.
Symbolic Interaction
This theoretical perspective says that society is stable, ordered system of interrelated part of the structures. Each structure has a function that contributes to the continued stability or equilibrium of the whole.
Structure Functionalism
are explained as social institutions like the family, the educational system, politics, religion, mass media systems, and the economy
Structures
a disturbance to or undesirable consequence of some aspect of the social system
Dysfunction
the obvious intended functions of a social institution (or social system)
Manifest
the less obvious, perhaps unintended functions of a social structure
Latent
usually have conflicting values and agenda causing them to compete against one another.
Unequal groups
All about determining the relationship between your ordinary lives and the wider social forces. It is turning your private troubles into ‘public issues.
Sociological Imagination
The broad study of humankind in all times and all places.
Anthropology
