Sociology terms Flashcards
(19 cards)
Auguste Comte
Father of Sociology
Emile Durkheim
Social factors and suicide
W.E.B DuBois
Civil rights–founder of the NAACP
Karl Marx
Conflict-3 C’s-Haves vs have nots
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism (Survival of the fittest)
Max Weber
Verstehen-see thru other
Jane Addams
Founded hull house in chicago
Conflict theory
3 C’s-change, conflict, and competition
Verstehen
see thru others–putin yourself in someone’s shoes
Psychology
Study of how we think about, influence, and relate to others
Manifest function
intended use
symbol
anything that represents something else
Dysfunction
unintended use that that disrupts the social order
Latent function
unintended use
social darwinism
survival of the fittest
theoretical perspectives
set of assumptions about the nature of things
sociological imagination
the ability to see the connection between the larger world and ones individual life
interaction theory
symbolic–focuses on individuals and their reaction to things/people
functionalist theory
everything has an intended use
