Chapter 1

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sociology

the scientific study of human society

it is showing the function of sociology to reveal that which is hidden

what are the times that commercials air doing when bail bond commercials come on during judge judy?

a social force

what are we driven by?

primarily the conflicts between classes is what drove social change throughout history

what did carl marx believe about historical materialism

wrote the first sociology methods book, 1st to translate comte's work to english, authored How to Observe Morals and Manners

what did harriet martineau do?

conflict

what drives social change throughout history; this is part of historical materialism

connecting biography and history

what is historical context?

vestehen

what means "understanding" in german

private troubles vs. public issues

what part of the sociological imagination is an example of your dad smoking weed when he was younger and now is protesting against it, or an example of the aids epidemic coming out

a social identity

when people who have been in trouble with the cops now associate every cop with being bad and not liking them what are they giving cops?

sociological imagination

when you think about a family being a man woman and child and leave out the gays and single parents, what are you forgetting to use?

c. wright mills

who came up with the sociological imagination

Auguste Comte

who invented social physics or positivism?

carl marx

who is associated with historical materialism

they are being driven by a social force

why do people go to work every morning; in new york people drive taxis and serve bagels everyday to make the city keep going; what is making them do this?

sympathy

you know what someones going through because you've been there too

empathy

you understand what someones going through but not completely because you haven't actually gone through it before

micro sociology

face-to-face encounters

vestehen

the concept of ______ forms the object of inquiry for interpretive sociology- to study how social actors understand their actions and the social world through experience

1. theological stage 2. metaphysical stage 3. scientific stage

Comte's 3 historical epistemological stages

positive sociology

a strain within sociology that believes the social word can be described and predicted by certain describable relationships (akin to a social physics)

historical materialism

a theory of what drives history

positivism or social physics

as religious authority declined we needed to make moral sense of society. Comte did this through?

scientific stage

believing you can plug any person into the same equation and get the same result every time

emile durkheim

considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology

the connection between functionalism and crime

crime is a disfunction, there is a disconnect in society

micro sociology

data comes from in depth interviews or observations

interpretive sociology

emphasis on subjectivity became a foundation of?

symbolic interactionism

individuals act based on symbolic meanings attached to objects and people

symbolic interactionism

focuses on how face-to-face interactions create the social world

division of labor (it is divided by income)

helps to determine how social cohesion is or is not maintained

social identity

how individuals define themselves in relation to groups they are a part of

conflict theory

identifies power relationships that create different phenomena in society

functionalism

identifies the roles phenomena play in keeping society working

symbolic interactionism

knowing what a stop sign means even if its in another language

macro sociology

large scale dynamics, whole societies or large parts of them

micro sociology

local interactional contexts

sociological imagination

make the familiar strange, look at social issues from multiple perspectives

social institutions

networks of structures in society that socialize groups of people within them

theological stage

of Comte's three historical epistemological stages, which one says society is the result of divine will

metaphysical stage

of comte's three historical epistemological stages, which one says human behavior is governed by natural, biological instincts

scientific stage

of comte's three historical epistemological stages, which one says we would develop a social physics to understand human behavior

macro sociology

often use statistical analysis to get data

conflict theory

saying that social inequality results from power struggles between groups is an example of

functionalism

society is a living organism and institutions are like vital organs, emphasizes the role consensus in maintaining order

sociological imagination

the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces

to reveal that which is hidden

the function of sociology?

social identity

the group you are associated with becomes part of your?

positivism or social physics

the idea that society can be studied scientifically and logically

conflict theory

thinking that all custodian workers are black is an example of


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