Sociology 100
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- C. Wright Mills
- coined the phrase sociological imagination, father of sociology, rebel, wanted sociology used in daily lives
- Sociology
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the scientific study of human behavior in social groups
- Interactionist perspective
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generalize about everyday forms of social interaction in order to explain society as a whole (unlike functionalists and conflict they do not analyze large-scale, society wide patterns of behavior).
- Macro sociology
- large scale phenomenon (housing on ALL college campuses)
- Micro sociology
- large scale phenomenon (housing on ALL college campuses)
- Functionalist perspective
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think of society as a living organism in which each part of the organism contributes to its survival. This approach emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain
- Manifest functions
- : of institutions are open, stated, conscious functions.
- Latent functions
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are unconscious or unintended functions that may reflect hidden purposes of an institution (a latent function of a university is to hold down unemployment, another is to serve as a meeting ground or people seekin
- Conflict perspective
- see the social world in continuous struggle. They assume that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing
- Marx’s contribution to conflict perspective
- conflict is not merely a class phenomenon but as a part of everyday life in all societies (conflict between men and women, whites and blacks, parents and children).<
- Nonverbal communication
- Symbols have a shared social meaning that is understood by all members of a society. In the US, a salute symbolizes respect, while a clenched fist
- Goffman’s Dramaturgical approach to interactionist perspective
- Where people are seen as theatrical performers. The dramaturgist compares everyday life to the setting of the theater and stage.
- Auguste comte
- inventor/founder of sociology, French philosopher, refereed to sociology as the “queen” and sociologists as “priests”- he studied human behav
- Harriet martineu
- thought that sociology needed to have social impact, she wrote the first book on the sociological method, translated comte’s work from French to English.
- Herbert spencer
- study of evolution to human behavior/society. Scientific study of sociology “functionalist group”
- Emile Durkheim
- human action leads to crime, religion. Famous for studying workplace
- Anomie
- refers to loss of direction in society when social control over behavior has become ineffective.
- Max Weber
- studied bureaucracy
- Versteagn
- the use of insight into the interactions within organizations