Sociology Midterm Hard Terms

The “Classical” Founders

Transitions to modernity: capitalism, rationality, solidarity

Forgotten Founders

Transition to modernity: gender, racism, activism

Functionalism

Society is a functional system of consensus

Conflict Theory

Society is structured by conflict

The Cultural Turn or Symbolic Interactionism

Society is structured by meaningful interaction

Theories of Inequality/Difference

Society is structured by inequality

Erving Goffman

Supported “The Cultural Turn or Symbolic Interactionism”

Robert Bellah

Supported “The Cultural Turn or Symbolic Interactionism”

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Supported “The Cultural Turn or Symbolic Interactionism”

Ann Swidler

Supported “The Cultural Turn or Symbolic Interactionism”

Harriet Martineau

Supported “The Forgotten Founders”

Anna Julia Cooper

Supported “The Forgotten Founders”

W.E.B Du Bois

Supported “The Forgotten Founders”

Jane Addams (Hull House)

Supported “The Forgotten Founders”

The “Classical” Founders

Transitions to modernity: capitalism, rationality, solidarit

Karl Marx

Supported “The ‘Classical’ Founders”

Max Weber

Supported “The ‘Classical’ Founders”

Emile Durkheim

Supported “The ‘Classical’ Founders”

Categorical

Sorting people into different buckets, with no natural order or ranking

Ordinal

Sorting people into categories that do have a clear rank, but the exact distance between them isn’t measured or equal

Continuous

True numbers on a smooth scale