Sociology 120 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Sociology
The study of humans social life, groups, and societies
Personal Troubles
Issues located in individuals lives
Public Issues
Issues linked to social structures
Sociological Imagination
The ability to “think yourself away” in order to ask sociological questions
Structuration
The two way process by which we shape our social world through individual actions and by which we are shaped by society
Auguste Comte
Late 1700s early 1800s
Crazy
Gave sociology its name
Social dynamics-change vs social statics-staying the same
Émile Durkheim
Late 1800s early 1900s
Order is key under disorder–stability
Society as a set of individual parts–which can be studied separately
Like organs in a body
Karl Marx
Jewish German outsider like durkheim Conflict Theory Materialist conception of history- material or economic factors have a prime role in determining historical change Beliefs: Haves vs have nots Economic system as a prime factor Rich control the poor Saw history as a conflict between classes Ideas reflect $/power, class domination Communism
Durkheim
Late 1800s early 1900
Jewish outsider (like marx)
Functionalism
Organic Solidarity- Division of labor- organs in body
Mechanical Solidarity- Similar beliefs- religion/ patriotism-ritual is the basis for passion
Weber
Late 1800s early 1900s
Conflict theory like marx, but more cynical
Power- Ability to get, against resistance
Harriet Martineau
First woman sociologist
Functionalism
Durkheim
Human body metaphor
Every piece of culture is a part in a society like the organs in human body
Loss of culture is harmful
Conflict Theory
Marx/Weber
People looking out for themselves
War metaphor
“good conflict” (debatable)
Interactionism
Mead
Looking at the individual and how he affects society
Really close to psychology
Labels more important than reality
Spenser
1800s Sees dickensian poverty in streets Solution: do nothing Laissez-faire Survival of the fittest (applies darwin)
