Sociology chapter one Flashcards
What is Sociology?
The study of society
How to Think Like a Sociologist
Develop sociological perspective, take sociological approach.
Bernard McGrane suggested begginers mind, this is how you approach something ans understand it.
-group dynamics and that influences us and around us
-looking at a different point besides our point of view and what we believe.
Inteerconnection between us and society.
Empathy and let us understand
Levels of Analysis
Micro sociology- studies face to face, small group interactions that gatherto understand how they affect larger structures, patterns, institutions of a society.
Macrosociology- studies large scale social structures in order to determine how they affect the lives of groups and individuals.
Macro-Micro Continuum
Society
Culture
Social institutions
(Econ,politics,education,religion)
Groups
Roles
Socialization
Interaction
Self
Auguste comte
-sociology as a scientific disipline
-laid the groundwork and helped build the discipline
Herbert spencer
-“survival of the fittest”
-social Darwinism
-Socieities evolve by adapting to their changing environment.
Structural functionalism
Emile is the founder
-society is a unified whole
- compromised of social institutions
- family,education,politics,economy,etc.
-each strucuture meets the needs of society.
-Dysfunction
Emile Durkheim
-structural functionalist
-3 contributions:
-Mechanical and organic solidarity
-sociological explanations for individual actions.
-Anomie
-Religion
-Sacred
-Profane -religion is holy,sacred,
Organic is industrial
Mechanical
Manifest vs. Latent functions
Manifest functions: Those that were intended on purpose, or goal
Latent functions – unintended, consequences after
Karl marx
-conflict theory
-central
-change
-capitalism
He said the central thing the conflct was central to all socities, nation, town or 1510 level
Conflict is the driver of all change
Awful person
Spencer is across his tomb
They were rivals
Wrote Das Kapital
Max weber
-Bureaucracy
Modern societies are b and charcstitrze by efficiency and bureaucracy should make things easier and routine tasks more efficient and good rule making
B exisit to do many things
His concern was b will spill out to everything and our life will be givenr by b and would not escape it
In the coflict tradition
Had ideas about respect
Idea of prestige
Everyone loved him
Geroge herbert mead
Founding father of third theorical perpective
-Symbolic interactionism
-connection between thought and action
-between the individual and society
-meaning derived from social processes
-Society is produced and reproduced through interaction.
-laguage
-face-to-face interaction
Macro-sociological Theory
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Microsociological Theory
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