Important People

Question 1

Who coined Conflict Theory?
Who are the fathers?

Answer 1

Karl Marx
Karl Marx & Weber

Question 2

Karl Marx (1818-1883) & Major Works

Answer 2

• Prussia Germany 1818
• Abandoned uni gig to publish for opposing newspaper
• The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (aka the Paris Manuscripts)
• The German Ideology
• The Communist Manisfesto

Question 3

Who coined functionalism?
Who is the father of functionalism?

Answer 3

William James coined it
Durkheim is the father

Question 4

Durkheim - Sociology looks at social facts

Answer 4

France 1958
Father of Sociology itself
Forefather of functionalism

Works
- The Division of Labor in Society (1893)
- The Rules of Sociological Method (1895)
- Suicide (1897)

Question 5

Durkheim feelings toward division of labour

Answer 5

Good! Reduces Anomie!

Question 6

Interactionism
Who coined it?
Who wrote about it before official?
Who is father?

Answer 6

Blumer coined it

Mead wrote about the “self”

Weber is the father

Question 7

1997 Connell’s Critiques of the Big Three

Answer 7

1. Focus on global difference, not social action
2. Sociology formed in imperialistic culture
3. Race, gender, and sexuality were rarely analyzed, but when they were, it was through imperialist and colonialist frameworks

Question 8

1959 Mills - Sociological Imagination

Problem

Solution

3 Questions to think with Sociological Imagination

Answer 8

Problem: People understand the world through personal, limited perspective

Solution: an awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society

Questions:
1. what is the structure of our society?
2. where is our society in human history?
3. who prevails in this society/time period?

Question 9

Weber on sociology (Interactionism POV) (2)

Answer 9

(a) The interpretive understanding of social action (verstehen) &thereby with
(b) A causal explanation of its course and consequences

Question 10

Randall Collins

Answer 10

Strongest Contemporary advocate of conflict theory

Question 11

Du Bois mentioned by Morus

Answer 11

Morus points to work of Du Bois as being able to offer explenations for people of colors experiences in a modernized society
* How do people of color experience modernization, capitalism, etc
* A lot of work erased
* Du Bois mentioned 45 times, first in 1976, not again until 2000

Question 12

Du Bois

Answer 12

• First black American to get PHD from Harvard
• The souls of black folk
• How does it feel to be painted as the problem?
• Wanted to address this
• Emphasized marginalized standpoints
• Concepts such as whiteness vs otherness
• Conduct research on community of color
  Structural inequality - agency & resistance