sociology lesson 1

Albion Smith

Albion Smith

________: founded first sociology department in US, 1869, expressed that sociology is obligated to lead to action (dont sit around and do nothing guy)

Randal Collins

________ determined 2 main obligations of sociology in the spirit of Small and WEB Du Bois.

Good generalizations

________ are the basis for theories.

Sociological eye

________: ability to notice things in society that others might not be able to.

Fallacy of individualistic perspective

________: whether we fail or "make it "depends solely on the efforts we put in, aka not taking into account environmental factors.

August Comte

________: french philosopher who named sociology, called it the queen science.

Du Bois

________= one of the founders of sociology, used sociological tools to show how society works and to fight racism, first big US research on fighting racism, helped to found the NAACP.

Sociological imagination

________: ability to connect occurrences in your life to patterns in society.

sociological eye

The ________ gives us the ability to recognize the impact society has on us and how the individualistic perspective works to prevent people from noticing that impact.

-August Comte

french philosopher who named sociology, called it the queen science

-sociological eye

ability to notice things in society that others might not be able to

-sociological imagination

ability to connect occurrences in your life to patterns in society

-fallacy of individualistic perspective

whether we fail or "make it" depends solely on the efforts we put in, aka not taking into account environmental factors

-good generalizations

ones backed up by data/evidence

-Albion Smith

founded first sociology department in US, 1869, expressed that sociology is obligated to lead to action (dont sit around and do nothing guy)

-1

use sociological eye to detect societal patterns

-2

notice patterns of injustice and take action to fight them