Sociology 1/17/06
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- Theoretical perspective influenced by Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim
- Functionalist Perspective
- Discipline that studies some aspect of society
- social science
- German Sociologist that introduced the concept of Verstehen
- Max Weber
- Element of society that can be manifest or latent
- Function
- Factor that influenced the development of sociology as a filed of study
- Industrial revolution
- Sociologist who developed the concept of sociological imagination
- C. Wright Mills
- Theoretical Perspective that emphasizes the use of symbols
- Interactionist perspective
- How people relate to one another and influence each other's behavior
- Social Interaction
- Theoretical perspective that focuses on forces that promtes competition and change
- Conflict perspective
- General set of assumptions about the nature of phenomena
- Theoretical Perspective
- Sociologist who believed that the economy influneces the social structure
- Karl Marx
- Theoretical perspective that was influenced by the work of Max Weber
- Interactionist
- Positive consequence an element has for the stability of society
- Function
- First sociologist to apply the systematic methods of science to the study of society
- Durkheim
- Interaction between people that takes place thorught the use of symbols
- Symbolic interaction
- Empathetic understanding of the meanings that others attach to their actions
- Verstehen
- Systematic explantion of the relationship among phenomona
- theory
- sociologist influenced by charles darwin
- Herbert Spencer
- Sociologist who develped the concept of ideal type
- Weber
- Negative consequence an element has for the stability of society
- dysfunction