Sociology chapter 1

Auguste Comte

Father of sociology, positive laws, human behavior

C. Wright Mills

Social inequality, power of elites, shriking middle class, Sociological Immigration

Charles Horton Cooley

Lookers glass self, interactionist

Conflict perspective

A Macro perspective, emphasizes the role of conflict, contrast, connections in society.

Conflict Theory

Coerced with power and asks who benefits and who was been exploited, connected to capitalism.

Emile Durkheim

Social Morphology, suicide mortality and religion

Functional approach

focuses on the structures that create the society and on how the society is able to remain stable.

Functionalism

the theory that all aspects of a society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of that society.

Karl Marx

communist man, Anti capitalist, father of conflict theory

Latent Function

unintended, unrecognized

Manifest function

intended and recognized

Max weber

Outside observers learning and relating to to other cultures, protestant work ethic, vertimhan

Bourgeoisie

The owning class

Proletariat

the working class

Robert Merton

A big theory man, focus groups

Sociological Imagination

An awareness of the relationship between the individual and wider society.

Sociology

The scientific study of social structure patterned interactions of people in social relationships.

Symbolic interactionism

the view of social behavior that __emphasizes__ __linguistic__ or gestural communication and its subjective understanding, especially the role of language in the formation of the child as a social being.

suicide studies (Durkheim)

Durkheim study on what kind of people get to the mental state of committing suicide

Verstehen

understanding

Herbert spencer

A functionalist who appealed to the rich through his study that we shouldnt be going for change all the time

Harriet Martineau

Studied society in new nations through religion and children. Also focused on womens rights and domestic issues.

Pierre Bordiue

Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields

Jane addams

Hull house woman and a figure head for progressive ideas

WEB DuBois

Wanted a racially egalitarian society, was a main founder of the a Niagara movement and held the first sociology study on African americans.

Cultural capital

non economic goods reflected in knowledge of language and arts.

Macro sociology

Big study of civilization

Micro sociology

small study groups

Applied sociology

the use of discipline for sociology with the intent of yielding practical and applications for human behavior.

Clinical sociology

Changing sociology by altering social relationships

Pure sociology

a more profound knowledge of fundamental aspects