Sociology Wk 1 Flashcards
Week 1 (25 cards)
Sociology is defined as
Systematic study of society and social interaction
Which of the “Big 3” theorist wrote on conflict theory FIRST?
Karl Marx
Which founder of sociology theorized that society was relatively stable and held together through social solidarity?
Emile Durkeim (Structural Functionalism)
Which theorist described the power and authoritative dynamics in bureaucratic organizations?
Max Weber (conflict theory) Bureaucracy is dehumanizing 1
What influenced the birth of sociology in history?
Industrial revolution, American/French/English revolution, the Enlightenment.
Define C. Wright Mills sociological imagination.
The connection between the individual and the society in a particular historical context.
Karl Marx keyed terms for the owners and the works. What are they?
Bourgeoisie, Proletariat.
Total institution can be defined as?
An organization which participants live a controlled lifestyle. (Military)
Charles Cooley’s concept of looking-glass, hypothesizes what?
People base their self imagine on how others see them.
Qualitative sociology is?
In-depth interviews, focus groups, non-numerical.
Which of the following is a child’s primary agent of socialization?
Family (Ohana)
A judge and her gave, a cop and his gun these are examples of what?
Symbolic Interactionist, (Society emerging through interaction)
Conflict theory and structural functionlism are both examples of _______ theories. While Symbolic interactionism is ______ theory.
Macro, Micro.
Socialization is?
The process by which people learn characteristics of their groups norms, values, and attitudes.
The role of the environment influencing someone is the ______ argument.
Nurture.
The role of biology influencing someone is the ______ argument.
Nature.
Professor Fuller has to teach a class in 5 minutes but her sisters car broke down. What kind of role dilemma is she dealing with?
Role conflict, two different roles.
If she was a mom and had to make food and watch the baby role strain.
The Thomas Theorem states
What we believe is real is real in its consequences.
Mead’s stages of development describe a child can only take the role of significant other at a time?
Play Stage
Then Game stage, then Generalized other.
This refers to the process of evoking, suppressing or otherwise managing feelings to create publicly emotion especially in the context of work.
Emotion work.
Which of the phases of socialization occurs later in childhood, and come under the influence of non family.
Secondary.
A status people are born with and is unlikely to change?
Ascribed status.
Erving Goffman’s theory states we perform varies roles is called?
Dramaturgy (like actors in a play),
What is the general consensus today regarding nature vs nurture.
It’s both.
