C273 Sociology - Sociologists

Symbolic Interactionist

Weber (religious), Cooley (perception, self image), George Mead (added to Cooley, identity)

Functionalist (saw as organism)

Comte (positivism, founder), Spencer (Darwinism), Durkheim (roles/cohesion), Melton

Conflict

Marx (classes), DuBois (race)

Feminist

Martineau (social reform), Margaret Mead (gender roles)

Auguste Comte

Positivism, Comte = creator/Come to Jesus

Emile Durkheim

Suicide rates higher with bad group ties. Role of deviance (reinforces cultural values and norms). Society like an organism

Harriet Martineau

1^st female sociologist. Feminism, equal rights

Jane Addams

Activist, reform. Hull House.

Karl Marx

Proletariat/Bourgeoisie. Rich get richer. Cared about workers. Social class determined by people’s relationship to means of production. Capitalism will always have class struggle, eventually turning into socialism.

Max Weber

Bureaucracies, rationalization, bottom line. Protestant. Daily interactions/symbolism. Modern capitalism. Verstehen. Capitalism will not always turn into socialism. Conflict can be between any two groups where one has more power.

George Mead

Self-development. I (doing whatever you want) and me (right thing to do). Generalized other (perception of norms, values, attitudes, expectations of others in general). Stages of development (prep (imitate), play (roleplay), game (actual role)).

Margaret Mead

Gender roles

Herbert Spencer

Darwinism

Du Bois

Race

Charles Cooley

Looking-glass, perception, self image

George Simmel

Group dynamics: more stable, intimacy decreases.

Laud Humphry

Misleading research subjects

Robert Michels

Elites, Iron Law of Oligarchy

George Ritzer

McDonald's as a metaphor for the over-rationalization of society. Four main principles: predictability, calculability, efficiency, and control.

Immanuel Wallerstein

Conflict theory. Poorest countries (Africa, central America, Asia) are in periphery countries