Approaches to Social Studies
Terms
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- Comte
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invented term 'sociology'
positivism - likened to a natural science
blueprint of society
queen of sciences - What is sociology?
- Systematic study of society and its structure
- Early social thinkers?
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Comte
Emile Durkheim
Karl Marx -
Marxism
Conflict Theory -
society constructed from class
most consist of two major class
class conflict
social change occurs as result
- Functionalism 2
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How social order maintained
society shapes what we do
equilibrium maintained
social institutions interdependant
biological analogy - Socialisation
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Family- primary socialisation Education- secondary
Social class- provider place in society
Collective conscience-consensus - Functionalism
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macro view of society as a whole
social order passively taken on
objective followed scientific research methods
- Superstructure
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Education, religion, family, mass media, politics,
everything not to do with production
maintains and legitimises the base - Means of production
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factories, land,capital, labour, machinery, scientific knowledge,
earlier=peasant labour, land,livestock -
Base
shapes the superstructure -
relations of production
bourgeoisie exploits the proletariat
means of production, machinery