Flashcards in Theron is Memeboy69 Deck (28)
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C. Wright Mills
(1959)
- Sociological Imagination:
Imagining what another society is like from an outsider looking in
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Sociological Imagination
Problems are not on a personal level, but more so a social level
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August Comte
(1798-1857)
- Father of Sociology
- Wanted Sociology to improve people's lives
- Saw it as a science
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Emile Durkheim
(1858-1917)
- Studied Comte, viewed it as a science, studied Social Facts
- Viewed society as a body, where all moving parts needed to function
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Karl Marx
(1818-1883)
- Looked at the economy to define social change
- Focused on theills of capitalism and how they lead to the class system
- Predicted that the class division would come from a capitalistic system
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Materialistic conception of history
Only the economy can drive social change
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Max Weber
(1864-1920)
- Similar to Marx
- Believed that personal values also affected the social changes
- Talked a bunch about Christianity, Christianity changed the protestant work ethic
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Harriet Martineau
(1802-1876)
-Introduced Sociology to England
- Wanted to study domestic life.
- Against slavery and child labor, fought for women's rights
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W.E.B. Du Bois
(1868-1963)
- First significant African American Sociologist
- Studied Double consciousness and the color line
- Ph. D from Harvard.
- Denounced his citizenship and became a communist
- Founded the NAACP
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Double consciousness
Viewing society through different categories of your life, such as being an African American and also a American
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Personal Troubles
Largely private issues, only to be experienced by the individual, not by society
(sexuality, depression, etc)
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Public issues
Problems to be experienced by the public and not the individual
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Structuration
Life is not random, but rather, our lives are dynamic, and will constantly be based upon social cause and effect. Structured and patterned. Societies are always changing.
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Global Perspective
Thinking about the world through connections in a worldful piece of mind
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Theory
System of ideas to likely prove something as true
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Social Facts
Aspects of society that shape your life such as economy, politics, religion, etc.
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Organic Solidarity
(Durkheim)
Various parts of society working together as a whole
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Social Constraint
conditioning influenced by our known societies
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Anomie
Places in society where norms are loosely held, where you can be weird
Insane asylum?
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Capitalism
Private ownership of wealth to gain profit
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Dysfunction
Undesirable consequences of a social activity
(Seeing family at a wedding)
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Manifest Function
Desirable consequences of a social activity
(Supporting your family at a wedding)
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Latent Function
Unaware consequences of a social activity to the user
(Spending money and gaining weight from food)
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Robert Merton
Founder of the Three Functions, dysfunction, manifest function, and Latent Function
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Power
Ability of an individual to achieve the aims or further their own interests
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Ideology
Shared ideas or beliefs that serve to justify the means of dominant groups. Connected to power.
Ideologies legitimize power.
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Feminism
Women are equal to men in everything.
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