What is sociology?
The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from generation to generation in a society.
Lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire self identity and social/mental skills.
Systematic study of human society and social interaction.
What is the sociological imagination?
It is essential for survival and communication with other people.
Ability to see relationships between individual experiences and the larger society.
It shapes our attitudes, values, and beliefs.
How might one view a personal trouble as a social issue?
Personal troubles can lead to social issues if they are reoccurring or prominent in society.
Personal troubles aren't linked to social issues.
Personal troubles are the same thing as social issues.
Summarize the views of Comte.
Priority of social over the individual. Societies are built on social facts such as rules and norms.
Social class conflict produced social change and a better society. Clash of conflicting ideas and forces.
Father of sociology. Knowledge come from science and not religion, the world can be understood by scientific inquiry.
Summarize the views of Durkheim.
Father of sociology. Knowledge comes from science and not religion, world can be understood by scientific inquiry.
priority of social over the individual. Societies are built on social facts such as, rules and norms.
Social class conflict produced social change and a better society. Clash between conflicting ideas and forces.
Summarize the views of Marx.
Conflict theory. Groups are engaged in a continuous power. Struggle for resources. Major institutions protect the rich instead of the poor.
Summarize the views of Weber.
Functionalism. Society is a stable and orderly system.
Verstehen: ability to understand social phenomena. Study of how religion produces social change.
Groups are engaged in a continuous power, struggle for resources, and major institutions protect the rich instead of the poor.
What is the difference between macro-sociology and micro-sociology?
Macro: focuses on broad features of the social structure. (looks at forrest) (functionalism & conflict) Micro: focuses on small groups and interpersonal interactions. (looks at trees) (symbolic interaction & exchange)
Micro: focuses on broad features of the social structure. (looks at forrest) (functionalism & conflict) Macro: focuses on small groups and interpersonal interactions. (looks at trees) (symbolic interaction & exchange)
What are the claims of the functionalist theory?
Major institutions and the arrangement of society is the most efficient way of satisfying societies basic needs.
Groups are engaged in a continuous power.
Focus on small groups and interpersonal interactions.
What are the claims of the conflict theory?
Affect a large group of people.
Groups are engaged in a continuous power, major institutions protect the rich instead of the poor.
Priority of social over the individual.
What are the claims of the symbolic-interactionist theory?
Allows rich to exercise power over poor, exploit poor and grow richer.
Orderliness of society, society contributes to stability.
Society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups.
What are the claims of social exchange theory?
Pursue interactions from which profit is derived, social order emerges from individuals actors pursuing interactions.
Held together by norms, values, and common morality.
