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- Define Sociology
- scientific study of human society and social interactions
- sociological imagination
- awareness of relationship between individual and wider society. C Wright Mills
- August Comte
- founder of sociology. developed positivism
- Emile Durkheim
- produced first true sociological study. more socially integrated less suicide.
- 4 types suicide
- altruistic. egoistic. anomic. fatalistic.
- altruistic
- moral obligation, kill yourself instead of giving info
- egoistic
- lonely, little connection
- anomic
- confusion. disorder. stock market crash
- fatalistic
- powerless. life overly regulated. death row
- WEB DuBois
- founded NAACP
- Harriett Martineau
- hid writings under sewing
- Max Weber
- Vershem. impathetic insight (understanding)Max WeberThe notion that social reality can be discovered only by seeing the world empathetically through the lived experiences of people.
- survival of the fittest
- Herbert Spencer
- Jane Adams
- hull house. place for poor sick old. won Nobel Peace Prize
- Karl Marx
- capitalists Bourgeoise (rich)vs. proletariats (poor)
- conflict theory
- always struggle for power. macro. unfair
- functionalism
- everything balanced, serves purpose. created by Rober Merton. manifest-intended. latend-unintended. dysfunctional-bad
- Symbolic Interaction
- use symbols in society. George Herbert Mead