Major Theorists Flashcards
From Each of the Sociological Perspectives (13 cards)
Herbert Spencer
Functionalist - Social Darwinism
Emile Durkheim
Functionalist - Collective Conscience, Social Facts, Anomie
Talcott Parsons
Functionalist - Social Action Theory
Robert Merton
Functionalist - Manifest and Latent functions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Conflict Theorist - Natural or Physical inequality, Moral or Political inequality
George Herbert Mead
Symbolic Interactionist - the I and Me
Charles H. Cooley
Symbolic Interactionist - Sympathetic Introspection, Looking-glass self, self-fulfilling prophecy
Dorothy Smith
Feminist - Not all women face the patriarchy the same way, shed light on androcentrism in research
Bell Hooks
Feminist - Black Women’s lives matter
Edward W. Said
Post-Colonial Theorist - Concept of Orientalism (academic, imaginative, and institutional
Michael Foucault
Post-Structuralist - looked at the relationship between power and knowledge
Cloward and Ohlin
Functionalist - Illegitimate Opportinity Theory
Jean Baudrillard
Post-Structuralist - Differences in what past and post-modern societies focus on
