SOC theory

ethnocentrism

claims universality and validity of one culture

comte focus

laws that govern social establishment/order

Sociology goal according to seidman

to educate and alert public

Wright Mills on the Sociological Imagination

is a concept that emphasizes understanding the connection between personal experiences and larger social forces, encouraging critical thinking about societal structures. Ability to understand one’s experience in the context of what came before and others lives.

Troubles vs issues

T: within an individual. I: Due to larger institutions and social organization (requires social change to solve)

issues with sociology

Insular culture (professionals only), loss of moral purpose,

Early American Sociological Association

Albion Small as central figure, believed men and women different. As women slowly become integrated its only in women’s roles (ie social work)

thou-orientation

men didn’t see women as the same as them

erasure vs invisibility

Early female sociologist were known in their time but slowly removed from history

Adams tribute poem

remembered as motherly not smart

Theses on Feuerbach

Marx critiques contemplative materialism (no action). Critiques on religion: illusionary happiness, crutch

Marx

1818-1883, came from Prussia, became stateless,ethnically Jewish, “political economist”

Engels

1820-1895, funded much of Marx’s work, lessor known

inspiration to Marx

Georg Hegel. Marx took dialectic from hegel but applied to materialism over idealism

Dialectic

Thinks in motion, instead of a static way, come from back and forth, focus on social change. Thesis + Antithesis = synthesis + antithesis = synthesis

Hegel

world is made from dialectic ideas. Reality driven through communication. World as ungeneralizable

idealism

mind over matter, world is what we make it

Materialism

material world drives social change, builds social reality

young left Hegelians

idk

marx critical materialism

must refocus on inspiring change, lose insular culture

standpoint

material interests lead change. social position shapes understanding

marx dialectical materialism

every economic order develops internal contradictions and weaknesses that contribute to social decay

feudalism

a medieval political and social system where people traded land and protection for loyalty and labor. (nobility vs workers)

socialism

major means of production are owned or controlled collectively by society, the state, or workers rather than private individuals or corporations(government vs people)

feudalism giving rise to capitalism

accumulation of wealthl

lumpenproletariat

below proletariat

immiseration

“nothing to lose” as a proletariat. Unity in common misery

cause of loss of ‘value’

outsourcing labor, global market, company front (separates the production and consumption

estranged labour

separation of worker from labor.

forced labor

not satisfying a need but rather a means to satisfaction

private property

commodities owned by someone else, ie worker is “owned” by someone else

estranged labor as alienation from…

other workers, products of labor, labor process, species being

emotional labor

job requires emotional involvement (ie therapist) “sell” emotions, lose value

ontology

investigation of being

Marxism vs Anarchism

different ideas about role of the state