Pre-Midterm One

Question 1

Sociological imagination

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Developed by C wright mills in 1959 distinguishes sociology from other social sciences and sees connections between personal experiences and leisure forces of society personal troubles versus public issues

Question 2

Sociological perspective

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Peter Elberger created all about seeing the general in particular and seeing patterns and behaviours of people as well as seeing the strange in the familiar

Question 3

Seeing the strange in the familiar

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Alfred schütz

Question 4

Auguste comte

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1798-1857
Scientist, Quinta name sociology, originally wanted to name in social physics. Use the scientific method in soci and focussed on social order

Question 5

Karl Marx

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1818-1883
Economist and philosopher, analyze social aspects of economics and wrote in a very specific time address of the conditions that no longer exist. Founder of communism

Question 6

Emile Durkheim

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1858-1917
Sociologist at the University of Bordeaux established associate a sociological department at the university there. Focussed on social dissociation organization and cohesion tried to figure out why we have social boundaries. Created structural functionalism

Question 7

Georg Simmel

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1858-1918

Small groups and micro soci

Question 8

George Herbert Mead

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1963 to 1931

founder of symbolic interaction Which is a form of micro sociology

Question 9

Robert park

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1864-1944
First prominent American sociologist advance the field. He was probably because the United States was becoming the place for sociology

Question 10

Harriet Martineau

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1802-1876
First woman psychologist translated Auguste comtes work from French to English. Spread sociology as a discipline outside of France and added the woman’s perspective to it. She’s the first woman to publish under her own name and she spent time in the US to study slavery

Question 11

Jane Adams

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1869-1935
Put theories into practice did lots of social work and focussed on the relevancy of work. Believe that her work must have benefits associated with it she created social institutions for example homeless shelters

Question 12

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Fought woman’s inequality in and out of the home, and man’s perspective which was everyone’s at the time. Wrote about gender and family rules

Question 13

Marianne Weber

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Max Weaver‘s wife, but made her own work as well. Focussed on woman labour in the patriarchy and how to approach gender inequality. Her relationship was very modern. Work was suppressed by Hitler and she had to go underground to avoid prosecution

Question 14

Anna Julia Cooper

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Born from a slave mother raped by a white male honour her intersects an interracial experience is very unique. She’s the first woman to obtain a PhD and she taught and contributed to her field. Her theory informed male black sociologist how was she was discriminated and she never was excepted by any community

Question 15

WEB Du Bois

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1868-1963
Obtained PhD at Harvard, focussed on social class. Used Anna Julia Cooper’s work to fight against racism, and was voicing for civil rights

Question 16

Charles S Johnson

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1893-1956
Focussed on social conditions in black communities in the US particularly, social riots and how urban rights are concerned. What happens when the riots are controlled

Question 17

E Franklin Frazier

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1894-1962
Focussed on families and adjusting to urban living in Post slavery times. People moving from south to north or from rural to urban areas. He focussed on the middle class professional work and social education which is his success. As well as systematic exclusion and study black families who previously stated by white men at the university of Chicago

Question 18

Symbolic interactionism

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Micro. Focusses on individual small groups and interactions with them in between them. Individuals create society through their behaviour and people

Question 19

Structural functionalism

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Top down approach. Inspired by the body to describe societies muscles bones and organs etc. through socialization, we learn roles and execute them diligently rooted in consensus harmony unity and social stability

Emile Durkheim Talcott Parsons and Robert K Menton

Question 20

Critical/conflict/critical theory

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Compared to War and characterized by conflict often puts dominant versus Subordinate groups

Characterized by Karl Marx George simmel and Louis a coser

Engel

Question 21

Symbolic interactionism

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Understanding someone by putting yourself into their shoes., Shifts away from institutions and studies interactions instead. Verstehen

Max Weber, George Herbert Mead, Herbert Plumer, Irving Goffman