Chapter 1
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
