Soc1 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Who is the founder of sociology?
Auguste Comte
Who established what sociologists would study?
Emile Durkheim
Who is the father of the conflict perspective?
Karl Marx
What is Class Conflict?
The competition between social classes over the distribution of wealth, power, and other valued resources in society.
Who believed that an adequate explanation of the social world takes into account the meaning of what people do and say and predicted world would organize itself into bureaucracies, creating an iron cage
Max Weber
Who introduced the study of class, race, and identity to sociology ?
W.E.B. DuBois
Define double consciousness
Being aware of norms and values of two cultures in which you belong
Define socialization
The process by which people learn the culture of their society
Define presentation of the self
People play different roles to manage the impressions of others
Define Bureaucracies
a type of formal organization based on written procedural rules, arranged into a clear hierarchy of authority, staffed by full-time staff.
Define structure
Patterned social arrangements that effects an individuals’ ability to exercise free will
Define agency
The ability of individuals and groups to exercise free will and to influence social change
Define sociological imagination
The ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and the larger social forces that help to shape them
Define functionalism
Society is made up of distinct, interrelated parts, each which serve a function in the overall society
Define subculture
Cultures that exist together with a dominant culture but differ in some important respects.
Define sociology
Society is made up of distinct, interrelated parts, each which serve a function in the overall society
What are norms?
Accepted social behavior and beliefs
Define symbolic interactionism
The view of social behavior that emphasizes linguistic or gestural communication and its subjective understanding
Define globalization
The process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and mutual sharing, and other aspects of culture
What is the iron cage?
A prison of rules and regulations associated with bureaucracies leads people to treat others less humanely and lose sight of the original
What is a primary group?
A small social group whose members share close, personal, enduring relationships in which one exchanges implicit items, such as love, caring, concern, support, etc
Define secondary groups
Groups of people who are not related or emotionally connected, yet work together to achieve a common interest, purpose or goal
Define secondary groups
Groups of people who are not related or emotionally connected, yet work together to achieve a common interest, purpose or goal
Define reference groups
A group to which an individual or another group is compared
