Chapter 1 Flashcards
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Disciplines that study human social behavior or institutions and functions of human society in a science manner
Social Science
Studies human society and human behavior
Sociology
How people relate to one another and influence each other’s behavior
Social Interection
Observable facts or events that involve human society
Social Phenomenon
Comparative study of past and present cultures
Anthropology
Study of behavior and mental process
Psychology
Study of how the social environment affect an individual’s behavior and personality
Social psychology
Analyzes the choices people make to satisfy their needs and wants
Economics
Examination of the principle, organization and operation of government
Political science
Studies the people and events of the past
History
Impact of the internet?
Helped create new form of isolation
Broadens horizons and access to more info
Looking st social life in scientific, systematic way rather than depending on common-sense
Look at hidden meanings behind human actions
Behavior is influence by social factors
Viewing the world from other’s eyes
Sociological Perspective
Ability ro see the connection between the larger world and your personal life
The sociological imagination
Factors leading to creation of sociology?
Rural economy gave way to large-scale production
Factory replaced home
Growth of cities
Founder of sociology
Focus areas of study:social order and social change
Auguste Comte
Certain processes that hold society together
Social statics
Definite processes that cause societal change
Social dynamics
Marriage, family, race relations, education, religion
Harriet Martineau
Focused on Social Darwinism : only the fittest societies would survive
Herbert Spencer
Society divided into two classes
Have and the Have Nots
Karl Marx
Function: consequences that climate of society produces
Suicide: first sociological study
Emile Durkheim
Separate groups of society
Government, school
Max Weber
Group of interection of society in individual department
Chicago School
Welfare, educational and recreational for poor
Jane Addams