chapter 1
Terms
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- symbolic-interaction paradigm?
- micro-level orientation, views society as the product of everyday interactions of individuals
- theory?
- statement of how and why facts are related
- WEB Du Bois?
- race (social-conflict)
- what is sociology?
- the systematic study of human society
- what is anomie?
- term that signifies in individuals an erosion, diminution or absence of personal norms, standards or values, and increased states of psychological normlessness. It is a social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent.[1] When applied to a government or society, anomie implies a social unrest.
- Karl Marx?
- social class in inequality and social conflict
- Structural- Functional paradigm?
- macro-level, broad patterns that shape society, views society as a complex system that work together
- what is the sociological perspective?
- seeing the general in the particular
- theoretical paradigm
- a set of fundamental assumptions that guides thinking
- Auguste Compte?
- social integration during times of change
- Herbert Spencer?
- compared society to the human body
- Social-conflict paradigm?
- macro-oriented paradigm, views society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and social change, benefit a few at the expense of the majority
- Emile Durkheim?
- established sociology